Patents Represented by Attorney Gerry A. Blodgett

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  • Film retriever
    Patent number: 4047653
    Abstract: Device for retrieving the free end of a roll of film from a film cartridge; curved inner and outer jaws are movable with respect to one another. The operation involves inserting the jaw ends into the cartridge, rotating the film within the cartridge until the free end is between the jaw ends, and grasping the film with the jaw ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1977
    Inventor: Michael T. Starr
  • Pressure accumulator
    Patent number: 4043352
    Abstract: Pressure accumulator consisting of an open-ended cylinder containing a tensioned elastic sleeve fastened to the open-end of the cylinder in which lies an open-ended vessel, the vessel being slideably carried on a post whose free end carries a piston which is slideable on the inside of the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Inventor: Alden H. Simpson
  • Separator system
    Patent number: 4041569
    Abstract: A separator system for use in removing liquid from a surface, which surface may be liquid or solid. The system consists of a pickup head, a separator, and an exhaust source which draws air through the pickup head and separator. The pickup head causes liquid to be entrained in the flow of air passing through it. The air and entrained liquid pass to the outer chamber of the separator where the liquid falls out and the air is fed through the inner chamber of the separator to the exhaust source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1977
    Inventor: Arne G. Petersen
  • Artificial lens
    Patent number: 4041552
    Abstract: Artificial lens for replacement of natural lens in the eye, wherein an elongated arm is provided for attaching the lens to the ciliary body and sclera and for locating the lens adjacent the iris without interfering with the operation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1977
    Inventor: Fotios Ganias
  • Automobile warning system
    Patent number: 4038634
    Abstract: A warning system for installation in a vehicle, the system including a transducer located at a selected location in the vehicle to detect conditions existing at the location and to generate a signal containing raw information, a master unit connected to the transducer and an indicator connected to the master unit. The master unit includes means for removing extraneous information from the raw information in the signal generated by the transducer and thereby producing a remaining signal for use by the operator of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Inventor: Frank Caliri
  • Smoking system
    Patent number: 4037610
    Abstract: Smoking system including a tamper with a tubular portion for compressing the tobacco in a pipe around the periphery of the bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Inventor: Philip F. George
  • Ear protector
    Patent number: 4037273
    Abstract: An ear protector for excluding foreign material and noxious noise from the ear. The ear protector includes two units attached to a head strap which encircles the head of the user. Each unit includes a rigid ring which encircles the ear of the user and to which the head strap is attached, a resilient ring coaxially mounted on the rigid ring, and a flexible container into which a rigid ring and resilient ring are hermetically sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Inventor: Wallace F. Labaire
  • Female protective device
    Patent number: 4030490
    Abstract: Female protective device to prevent rape, the device including an elongated slender shaft having a sharp end, a first annular enlargement fixed around the shaft adjacent to but spaced from the sharp end, and a second enlargement connected by a flexible joint to the other end of the shaft. The device is worn internally with the sharp end pointed outwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Inventor: George N. Vogel
  • Machine tool
    Patent number: 4031446
    Abstract: A machine tool having an electrical means for producing a non-cylindrical surface of revolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Assignee: Cincinnati Milacron-Heald Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur Francis St. Andre, Joseph David LeBlanc, Edward George Robillard
  • Tandem trailer system
    Patent number: 4030171
    Abstract: An intermediate semi-trailer unit which is towed by a highway tractor and tows a standard cargo semi-trailer. The standard trailer is attached to the intermediate trailer unit by a fifth wheel mounted on a portion of the chassis which permanently extends rearwardly beyond the cargo container of the intermediate trailer unit. The fifth wheel is positioned over or ahead of the rearmost bogie of the intermediate trailer unit. Means are provided to form, temporarily, a horizontal platform over the fifth wheel for the loading and unloading of the cargo container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Inventor: Gerard A. Arguin
  • Fire fighting nozzle
    Patent number: 4030666
    Abstract: Fire fighting nozzle having a hard grip containing a bottom-actuated pilot valve which admits small amounts of a fluid under pressure to a main fluid valve to control its operation to regulate large flows of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Assignee: Feecon Corporation
    Inventor: John P. Gagliardo
  • Apparatus for scrubbing of hydrocarbons from gas
    Patent number: 4028072
    Abstract: Apparatus for separating hydrocarbons from flue gas and the like, including a gas scrubber, a collecting container supplying the scrubber with wash oil, and a vacuum distillation container receiving wash oil discharged from the scrubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: Aluminium Norf GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Braun, Gunter Hoffmann
  • Plastic ski
    Patent number: 4026575
    Abstract: Plastic ski of compound structure consisting of a running surface with steel edges, a lower strap, an upper strap, and a cover layer, the upper and the lower straps being connected to each other by an injected core of plastic foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Peter Rudolf Hartwig
  • Polyhedral elements with undercut recesses and cylindrical connectors having collars
    Patent number: 4026065
    Abstract: A group of building blocks made from plastic to create area- or volume-shaped designs including cube-shaped basic elements connecting elements by which means a basic element is connected to another basic element. The connecting elements are cylinders with rounded collars which are forced into undercut recesses in the base elements. The base elements may be straight prisms or other polyhedral shapes. Several base elements may be formed in one piece. The connectors may be integral or separate and the connectors and base elements may have communicating bores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Inventor: Walter Dick
  • Fire-resistant resin
    Patent number: 4019922
    Abstract: A liquid polymerizable material which may be used, for instance, for the coating of wood or other substrate, which material, when cured, is fire-resistant and protects the substrate. The material cures without application of heat and is formed from methyl methacrylate monomer, a hydroxy alkylacrylate or diacetone acrylamide monomer, a chlorinated hydrocarbon, an antimony compound, a zinc compound, a filler, and a catalyst-promoter system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: Advance Coatings Company
    Inventors: Howard A. Whittum, Michael J. Hjelm
  • Method of forming an orthopedic cast
    Patent number: 4019505
    Abstract: An orthopedic cast made of a thermoplastic polyester having a melting point between 40.degree. C and 70.degree. C, particularly poly(epsilon-caprolactone) having a weight average molecular weight of over 30,000. The cast is formed of a continuous or foraminous sheet which is either solid polyester or polyester on a substrate which is not melted at the melting point of the polyester. The sheet is made plastic by heating in water of suitable temperature and then wrapping around the subject limb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: Norman S. Blodgett
    Inventor: Lloyd H. Wartman
  • Lug strap
    Patent number: 4019542
    Abstract: Lug strap consisting of a bight joining two parallel elongated legs the bight consisting of a central portion having an inner surface which is substantially at a right angle to the direction of the legs and is joined at its ends to the legs by transition portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: Page Belting Company Incorporated
    Inventor: Joseph A. Arsenault
  • Preparation of synthetic ferrierite
    Patent number: 4017590
    Abstract: Synthetic Na,K-ferrierite, a molecular sieve zeolite capable of intracrystalline adsorption of molecules, is prepared by hydrothermal synthesis in the water, soda, potash, alumina, silica system. Crystallization is best achieved in the temperature range of 230.degree.-310.degree. C and autoclaving times of 2-96 hours with the use of co-precipitated silica-alumina gels and Na and K carbonates and bicarbonates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1977
    Assignee: Zeochem Corporation
    Inventors: William E. Cormier, Leonard B. Sand
  • Gun
    Patent number: 4008538
    Abstract: This invention has to do with a gun and, more particularly, to a firearm having a rifled barrel which can be used effectively with shotgun shells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1977
    Inventor: Warren A. Center
  • Machine tool
    Patent number: 4008631
    Abstract: A machine tool including a hard brittle tool having a cutting edge and a means for heating the tool adjacent the cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1977
    Assignee: Cincinnati Milacron-Heald Corporation
    Inventors: Robert S. Hahn, Bruno A. Holmstrom, Arthur F. St. Andre, David H. Youden