Patents Represented by Attorney George J. Netter

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  • Tent pole hoisting apparatus
    Patent number: 5248157
    Abstract: Tent pole hoisting apparatus (10) includes a skid plate (12) having a tent pole (32) end retainer (30). A pair of wheels (16) are mounted via an axle (34) to the skid plate curved portion (22). In use, the end of a tent pole is placed in retainer (30) and the apparatus (10) is pulled via an eye bolt (24) in such direction as to raise the pole and tent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Inventor: Maury Rice
  • Oil absorbent material
    Patent number: 5248391
    Abstract: An oil absorbent, water non-absorbent material is made by boiling unglazed newsprint for a prescribed period of time, removing the slurry from the excess water, and baking until a dried solid cake remains. The solid dried cake is then saturated with linseed oil following which it is treated with hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol, baked to a dry solid, and reduced to convenient particle size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Assignee: OSA Oil Scavenger Absorbent
    Inventor: Ed V. Lunenschloss
  • Crimpless, solderless, contactless, flexible cable connector
    Patent number: 5246382
    Abstract: An end portion of a multiconductor cable (16, 18) is formed about an edge portion (28) of a sheetlike core (27) with portions of bared cable conductors (26) facing outwardly. The other cable (20, 22) is similarly arranged about an edge of a core (34). On the connector parts- (12, 14) being mated the bared cable conductors of cable (16, 18) are brought into contact with the bared conductors of cable (20, 22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Assignee: G & H Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Leslie Kerek, Stephen K. Kan, Larry Eaton
  • Search coil assembly for electrically conductive object detection
    Patent number: 5245307
    Abstract: A search coil assembly for an inductive search device of the transmitter/receiver type is described having advantages relative to manufacture, repeat accuracy and sensitivity in operation. This is made possible by the utilization of printed-circuit board technology in search coil construction in which electrically conductive windings in the form of a conductor band of circuit tracks are arranged side-by-side at the periphery of partial areas on a carrier layer common to the partial areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Institut Dr. Friedrich Forster Pruferatebau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Auslander Klaus, Fabris Hans-Jurgen, Mock Karl-Heinz, Patzwald Wolfgang, Seichter Helmut
  • Method of making a miniature lens for use with an optical fiber
    Patent number: 5235153
    Abstract: A cylindrical glass blank (10) has one end received within a rotatable fixture (22) supporting the blank with its axis extending vertically. While rotating the fixture and glass blank at a given rate, a laser beam (54) is directed onto the upper blank end face (12) until the glass softens. The combination of the glass softening, glass surface tension and centrifugal force experienced from the rotation, the glass bank is formed into a convex lens (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Assignee: G & H Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudolph Woelfl, Alexander Wassserman, Terrance W. Allsworth
  • Hidden mounting bracket for a venetian blind or window covering headrail
    Patent number: 5230493
    Abstract: A mounting bracket (16) for a window covering (10) headrail (12), the latter having an open top defined by flanged edges with recesses (24, 26). The bracket (16) has a back plate (28), top plate (30), and forwardly/downwardly extending spring arm plates (46,48) joined by a cross bar (50). In assembly, the bracket is mounted to a wall surface and the headrail (12) is locked onto the bracket by interaction of the spring arm plates, the greater part of the bracket being hidden within the headrail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Inventor: Donald W. Luoto
  • Gift container and greeting card holder
    Patent number: 5226532
    Abstract: A gift container and greeting card holder is formed from a cutout blank (10) with three panels (12,14,16). The first and third panels (12,16) have removable central portions (31,76) defined by lines of perforations including strips (34,80,82) which are pulled loose by the aid of pull tabs (33,84,86). Assembly is achieved by folding the first and third panels onto the central second panel (14) after the gift is entered into a containing space via open edge walls after which the panels and edge strips are sealed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Cards `N` Pouches, Inc.
    Inventors: Leon N. Davidson, Ray L. Solari
  • Separable electrodes with electric arc quenching means
    Patent number: 5213517
    Abstract: An electrical connector (10) has first and second separable contacting electrodes (12, 14) which do not generate an arc on making or breaking. A member (44) interrelates one of the electrodes (14) via a spring-loaded drive cap (24) at ground potential, which member 44 is constructed of a material a wide range of electrical resistance (e.g., insulator to substantial short) inversely response to the magnitude of electric field across the member. On electrode preparation, the drive cap (24) establishes a relative movement of the member (44) with respect to the electrode (14) reducing the member material thickness to such a point that the electric field across the intervening member material reduces the electrical resistance to a desired low level (e.g., short to ground).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Assignee: G & H Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Leslie Kerek, Hugh M. Hyatt, Larry L. McCormick
  • Hermetically sealed optical fiber feedthrough
    Patent number: 5210815
    Abstract: An optical fiber feedthrough (20,24) for passing through a panel (10) and maintaining a sealed relationship between different fluid environments existing on opposite sides of the panel. A guide tube (25) secured within an opening (44) in the panel (10) by a glass seal (46). The end portions of two fibers (16, 18) to be interconnected through the panel are secured within individual termini (28,42) with the latter located within the guide tube (25) and sealed by O-rings (50,56) against fluid passage therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1993
    Assignee: G & H Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Wasserman Alexander, Kucherov Yakov
  • File rack
    Patent number: 5199577
    Abstract: A file rack (10) for objects (12) such as video cassettes, CD records, or the like, having two upstanding spaced apart posts (18, 20) forming a front side (14) and two further upstanding posts (22, 24) defining a rear side (16). Wire member dividers (26) are affixed to each of the four posts (18, 20, 22, 24) in spaced relation to each other forming storage bins 25 which slope downwardly from the front side to the rear side. Objects (12) are added to and removed from the bins from the rack front side (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Russ Bassett Company
    Inventor: Steven G. Curtis
  • Ornamental baseball bat and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 5190829
    Abstract: A wooden baseball bat (12) has a portion (14) to be ornamented defined (16) and the portion (14) removed by use of a saw, for example. The removed portion is configured into the desired ornamentation and secured into the baseball bat cavity (18) by an adhesive layer (24). An alternative method is to configure the ornamentation directly on the baseball bat by use of router (28) which may optionally be controlled by a computer (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Inventor: Lance Nybye
  • Non-destructive test apparatus with eddy current transducer rotary head and field homogenizing conductive ring for scanning metal test materials
    Patent number: 5187435
    Abstract: A rotary head for scanning the surface of elongated test materials (62) by eddy current transducers (60) is additionally provided with means for magnetization of the test material (62) over an intended test range making it now possible to achieve sensitive testing of non-bare ferromagnetic bars and wires, testing for "smeared cracks" where surface has closed above the material separation, and testing of welded austenitic pipes. For the magnetization, parts of the housing (10) as well as a rotating hollow shaft (40) are employed in the conduction of magnetic flux, and special measures are taken for the homogenization of the magnetic field in the test range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: Dr. Friedrich Forster Pruferatebau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Werner Geweke
  • Eddy-current defect test instrument with multiple test probes and one distance probe
    Patent number: 5184070
    Abstract: An eddy-current defect test instrument with a rotary head (30) and test probes (32, 34, 36, 38) offset-mounted along a circular track (66) with only one distance probe (40) to achieve compensation for variations in spacing between the probes and the workpiece which only requires one distance signal processing device (60) and only one rotary transmitter (100). This is accomplished by storing the control signals obtained from the distance probe during one revolution of the rotary head (30) and retrieving those control signals associated with the probe position and appropriately modifying a defect signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Institut Dr. Friedrich Forster Pruferatebau
    Inventors: Herman Besendorfer, Gunter Stritzke, Franz Haditsch
  • Automatically positioned needle sheath for a disposable hypodermic syringe
    Patent number: 5176656
    Abstract: A hypodermic syringe has a barrel, a piston with plunger located in the barrel cavity, an elongated body on the barrel forward end and a needle releasably secured to the body end. A sheath slidingly received onto the elongated body has arms with openings on their end portions which can be locked onto pins on the band exterior. The sheath also has shields which normally extend outwardly. A spring-loaded actuator sleeve is slidingly received on the sheath. When the plunger has emptied the barrel cavity, further movement releases the sheath arms from the pins and the spring-loaded actuator moves over the shields closing about the needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Inventor: William B. Bayless
  • High power transmission optical fiber terminus
    Patent number: 5168536
    Abstract: An optical fiber connector part (20) has an outer metal sleeve (22) for sliding receipt within an alignment tube (24) and a spacer (26) constructed of a synthetic plastic wedged within the sleeve (22). An opening (28) within the spacer (26) receives a bare fiber end portion (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1992
    Assignee: G & H Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yakov Kucherov, Mehrdad Ghara
  • Hermetic optical fiber feedthrough arrangement
    Patent number: 5155795
    Abstract: An hermetic optical fiber feedthrough arrangement has a separable two-piece metal ferrule (10) with opposite endwall openings (18, 26) of a size slightly larger than the diameter of an optical fiber (12) which extends therethrough. Preliminarily, that part of the fiber within the ferrule cavity (16) and openings (18, 16) has a metal coating (30). The fiber is hermetically sealed within the ferrule pieces (14, 24) by a quantity of a sealant (32). The ferrule may also include an outer radial flange (22) which is hermetically secured within an opening (48) in wall, bulkhead or plate (44) by a further sealant (54).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Assignee: G&H Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Wasserman, Leslie Kerek
  • Drink container
    Patent number: 5150815
    Abstract: A drink container (10) has spaced apart transparent shells (20,24) with the intervening space (34) containing a liquid and floatable and sinkable objects (36). A cap (14) and cover (16) on the container open top are rotatable between a drinking position where a sipping straw (18) extends upwardly for use and a non-drinking position where the straw is moved within the cover (16) and pinched off to prevent leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Assignee: Selandia Designs
    Inventor: Betty E. Saklad
  • Optical fiber terminus
    Patent number: 5140661
    Abstract: A terminus for an optical fiber cable (10) has a ferrule (22) with an endwall portion (24) including an axial opening (26) for receiving a glass fiber core. A ferrule central portion (28) is larger in cross-section than endwall portion (24) and the opposite end portion (32) is still larger. In assembly, the fiber jacket (16) or strain relief is peeled back over an underlying sleeve (34) and crimped within the opposite end portion (32). The central ferrule portion (28) has an internal sleeve (40) fitted over a section of the optical fiber with buffer tubing (14) and the ferrule is crimped in place. The fiber outer end portion consists of just the bare glass core (12) received within endwall opening (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: G & H Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Leslie Kerek
  • Combination greeting card and gift pouch
    Patent number: 5133496
    Abstract: A combination greeting card and gift pouch is constructed from a single rectangular blank (10) having three panel zones (12, 14, 16) arranged side-by-side and separated by fold lines (18, 20). The first panel zone (12) at one end of blank (10) has a central portion partially enclosed by a set of perforations (22) which on separation enables folding out of the central portion. Third, panel zone (16) at the opposite end of the blank folds onto panel zone (14) and has side flaps (36, 38) that are secured to panel zone (14) forming a gift pouch (40) with access along fold line (18). The first panel zone (12) is folded about fold line (18) onto the gift pouch and for sealing is secured thereto by adhesive on panel edge margin (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1992
    Assignee: Cards and Pouches, Inc.
    Inventors: Leon N. Davidson, Ray L. Solari
  • Selectively cooled or heated seat construction and apparatus for providing temperature conditioned fluid and method therefor
    Patent number: 5117638
    Abstract: A selectively cooled or heated seat has an outer layer (40) of corduroy appearance with perforations (46) between wales through which conditioned air can flow. Alternatively, layers (47,52) are constructed of molded plastic or rubber. The seat construction is made by molding a cushion (64) of foam over the seat outer layer. The conditioning apparatus has a unitary fin structure (74) or, alternatively, a heat pipe (82) for removing or adding heat to the thermoelectric auxiliary heat exchanger (20). In a further modification, heat exchanging coils (34) located within the seat (24) have a fluid circulating through them and the conditioning apparatus auxiliary heat exchanger with ambient air being blown across the coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Inventor: Steve Feher