Patents Represented by Attorney Grace J. Fishel

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  • Body mountable carrier
    Patent number: 5433359
    Abstract: A body mountable carrier for carrying a detachable device such as a portable phone, tool, appliance or the like. The carrier has a firm mounting panel to which is attached an elastic strap. The panel and the strap are joined together with mating interlocking fastening materials and can be mounted on an arm with one hand or on a leg. The panel provides a back plane for attachment of the detachable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Grebler & Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Danny J. Flowers
  • Spring clip for live roller conveyor
    Patent number: 5415272
    Abstract: A spring clip for damping vibration in a live roller conveyor between a pair of spaced apart roller shafts, each of which has a longitudinal axis, relative to a pair of spaced apart, parallel rails with aligned holes through which opposite ends of the roller shafts pass. The clip is a U-shaped fastener with a pair of opposing arms joined by a bight. The arms have notches for receipt of the roller shafts. When installed between the pair of roller shafts, the U-shaped fastener acts as a spring and exerts a force on the roller shafts tending to seat them so that two adjacent flats of each roller shaft are lodged against two flats of each rail hole thereby damping up-and-down and side-to-side vibration of the shafts in the holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Inventors: Raymond T. Boschert, Gary W. Vanzant
  • Stabilizing rice bran and rice bran products
    Patent number: 5376390
    Abstract: A process for stabilizing rice bran containing protein and a naturally occurring lipase enzyme that causes rancidity. The rice bran is treated with an antilipase enzyme, preferably a nonspecific protease of plant or fungal origin. Treatment with the antilipase enzyme stabilizes the rice bran against rancidity without denaturing the protein. Stabilized rice bran has food and industrial utility and can be processed by a sequence of steps including wet milling and microfiltration into a variety of other products also having food and industrial utility. In some instances depending on the product, it is not necessary stabilize the rice bran before wet milling and microfiltration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Bran-Tec, Inc.
    Inventor: Neal A. Hammond
  • Chemical castration
    Patent number: 5372822
    Abstract: A method for chemically castrating male pigs in a manner that modulates the production of testosterone and interferes with the enzymatic conversion of testosterone into androstenone by injecting a mineral acetate solution into both testes or epididymides in an amount effective to reduce the pig's serum testosterone level below that of an intact male.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1994
    Inventor: Mostafa S. Fahim
  • Cassette box holder
    Patent number: 5351824
    Abstract: A cassette box holder for a conventional type cassette box has a unitary body and a closure plate. The unitary body has a chamber with a planar top for the cassette box and an attached tab. The tab has a ridge which rises out of the plane of the tab and is angled towards the planar top of the cassette box. The ridged tab renders the cassette box holder resistant to folding and facilitates proper placement of the cassette box holder in display box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Inventor: D. Sherman Cox
  • Surgical needle
    Patent number: 5336239
    Abstract: A surgical needle for use in narrow, deep incisions in the abdominal wall opening into the abdominal cavity. The needle can be used to suture laparoscopic incisions and to suture an artery, ligament and the like which is reached through the incision. The needle has an elongated shaft with a proximally directed hook at its distal end. At its proximal end, there is a handle or indicia for indicating the direction of the hook. The hook is pointed and has an eye adjacent its point through which a suture can be threaded. The hook is of a size and shape that it can be inserted through the incision and manipulated from the opening of the shaft to place the suture "through and through" a selected portion of the abdominal wall from the base of the incision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1994
    Inventor: Richard J. Gimpelson
  • Construction set
    Patent number: 5330379
    Abstract: A toy that can be stored as a sofa having a bench, a backrest and a headrest and that can be taken apart to build structures large enough for a child to crawl through or play in. The toy is a construction set with a plurality of first, second and third pieces. The first pieces form the bench, the second pieces form the backrest and the third pieces form the headrest. The pieces are solids with planar faces and are rearrangable into a play house having sidewalls, gables and a roof wherein the first pieces form the sidewalls, the second pieces form the roof and the third pieces for-the gables. Pairs of fasteners of opposite gender are arranged on the faces of the first, second and third pieces for joining the pieces into the sofa, the play house and other structures. Even numbers of pairs of fasteners of opposite polarity are provided for joining the pieces in more than one orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Inventors: Douglas L. Roh, Katrina J. Roh
  • Circular saw with dust collector
    Patent number: 5327649
    Abstract: A portable circular saw with a dust collector for use in trapping fine dust raised in cutting cultured marble, concrete, masonry and the like has a deflector positioned above a discharge aperture in the front of an upper blade guard for directing the envelope of air moving in the direction of the circular saw blade out the discharge aperture where it is evacuated before it can spread into the workplace environment. The deflector has a slot through which the cutting tip of the circular blade passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Inventor: Christopher L. Skinner
  • Device for rotating hanging plant and indicating dryness
    Patent number: 5315784
    Abstract: A device for rotating a hanging plant to keep it from growing lopsided. The device has counteracting coaxial tension springs of opposite hand that rotate the plant first in one direction when the plant is watered and then in the opposite direction as the plant goes from wet to dry. A weight change of 10-20% is sufficient to rotate the plant at least 1/2 turn. An indicator is responsive to changes in the length of the springs as the plant dries out and as the springs are axially unloaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Inventor: William M. Henehan
  • Method for stabilizing rice bran and rice bran products
    Patent number: 5292537
    Abstract: A process for stabilizing rice bran containing protein and a naturally occurring lipase enzyme that causes rancidity. The rice bran is treated with an antilipase enzyme, preferably a nonspecific protease of plant or fungal origin. Treatment with the antilipase enzyme stabilizes the rice bran against rancidity without denaturing the protein. Stabilized rice bran has food and industrial utility and can be processed by a sequence of steps including wet milling and microfiltration into a variety of other products also having food and industrial utility. In some instances depending on the product, it is not necessary to stabilize the rice bran before wet milling and microfiltration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: Bran Tec, Inc.
    Inventor: Neal A. Hammond
  • Beverage cooling device
    Patent number: 5282368
    Abstract: A beverage cooling device for quick chilling beverages. The device rotates the beverage in a hollow receptacle such as an ordinary commercially available ice chest while positioning it vertically and at an angle such that it can be used with receptacles having a wide range of sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1994
    Inventor: Raymond D. Ordoukhanian
  • Surgical stitching device and method of use
    Patent number: 5281237
    Abstract: A surgical stitching device allows a surgeon to place a "through and through" suture. The device includes a hollow needle with an inner needle slidingly disposed with the hollow needle. The inner needle has a groove which can be retracted within the hollow needle for grasping a suture. When the groove is filled with a suture and retracted in the hollow needle, the device can be used to make an incision through tissue and to deliver a length of suture to the bottom of the incision. The device can then be withdrawn or a second device with an empty groove used to make an incision through the tissue at a neighboring location. The device at the second incision is then used to regrasp the suture and to pull it through the tissue at the second incision. The ends of the suture at the first and second incisions are then tied in a knot around the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1994
    Inventor: Richard J. Gimpelson
  • Fingerprinting system and method
    Patent number: 5263742
    Abstract: A system and method for taking and developing a fingerprint wherein the subject's fingers are not dirtied or exposed to chemicals. The fingerprint is recorded on a layer of adhesive adhered to a sheet of transparent material. The print is developed by making a copy of it on a sensitized surface by back reflecting radiant energy through the adhesive whereby the print is imaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Inventor: John J. Koch
  • Greensroller
    Patent number: 5261213
    Abstract: A powered lawn mower of the type particularly adapted for mowing greens on golf courses and having a powered vertically adjustable reel cutting unit is converted into a greensroller when a vibratory roller unit is substituted for each reel cutting unit. The vibratory roller unit has a drum, an unbalanced shaft and a framework. The unbalanced shaft is rotatably mounted within the drum and the drum is rotatably mounted in the framework. When the greensroller is powered over a golf green, it provides a fast, smooth, consistent and somewhat firm playing surface without scalping or otherwise compromising the health of the grass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Inventor: John L. Humphrey
  • Roller bumper for chain saw bar
    Patent number: D341309
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Inventor: Eldon Hammond
  • Self contained carpet cleaning machine
    Patent number: D345034
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: Rug Doctor, L.P.
    Inventor: Edwin Fitzwater
  • Sports seat
    Patent number: D346280
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Inventor: Eugene A. Metter
  • Cap
    Patent number: D350846
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Inventor: Delmar E. Cooper
  • Bow harness
    Patent number: D354393
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Inventor: William J. Mocca
  • Helmet
    Patent number: D359145
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Inventors: Eric L. Harrison, Matthew J. Maret