Patents Represented by Attorney Hiram A. Sturges
  • Patent number: 4398767
    Abstract: A patio swing comprising a seat suspended between right and left upright side supports, the right and left side supports being stably supported on feet members and being rigidly interconnected below the seat by a bridging assembly, the side supports inclining inwardly at their upper ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Inventor: Richard M. McGuigan
  • Patent number: 4392599
    Abstract: A building machine, useful for building drawers and other products, having first and second carriages, sub-carriages moveably mounted on the carriages, a work-piece space between the carriages during building, fastening guns, first and second sets of spaced shiftable gun holders carrying the guns and disposed on first and second sides of the work-piece space, gun holder mounting assemblies movably mounting the gun holders on the sub-carriages, all movements being in a manner whereby the guns are positionable by adjustment with respect to the work-piece space in three dimensions, the guns being for driving staples, brads, pins, or nails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1983
    Inventor: B. Carson Russell
  • Patent number: 4387473
    Abstract: A patient handler having three panels hingably attached to each other which can be formed into either a sitting or a prone position, and having support assemblies for use in maintaining the patient handler in a given position, the patient handler being connectable to a carriage assembly which allows the patient handler to be moved to different locations when being in use by a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1983
    Inventor: Donald F. Gettner
  • Patent number: 4336865
    Abstract: A cartridge case lubricator having a table supportable frame, an oil absorbent member supported in a recess in the frame, whereby the cartridge case can be passed downwardly through an opening in the absorbent member for lubricating the cartridge case, the underside of the absorbent member being supported by a support having a passage therethrough and a frame having an open space beneath a hole under the support so that the operator can easily remove the lubricated casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1982
    Inventor: Eugene T. Carkoski
  • Patent number: 4336894
    Abstract: A ticket dispenser having a hollow body receiving a stack of tickets in its upper portion, a ticket pushing head in the body and pressed upward by a spring, the body guiding movement of the head along a vertical axis, a ticket exit slot at the top of the forward side of the body, a ticket manipulation opening on the upper side of the body, the upper side of the body being substantially inclined with respect to the axis so as to make easier the pushing out of tickets, the body having one or more access openings therethrough to assist in manipulating tickets, and a strap on a side of the body to facilitate holding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1982
    Inventors: LeRoy D. Crye, Leonard F. Fischman
  • Patent number: 4329804
    Abstract: A fishing lure comprising at least one fish hook having two retainers on its shank, a piece of flexible material wrapped around the shank between the retainers, the material having first protrusions on one side and second protrusions on the other side, the first and second protrusions being adapted to releasably interlock with each other, a skirt or other visible lure assembly attached to the strip and secured to the shank thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1982
    Inventor: Robert L. Brown
  • Patent number: 4307788
    Abstract: A motorized "stand-up" snow vehicle comprising a frame having a driving means thereon, a forward steering ski controlled by a steering unit which extends to a height above the frame sufficient to be easily grasped by a standing operator. The steering unit is a vertical steering rod causing turning to the right when its upper end is moved to the right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1981
    Inventor: Stuart T. Shelton
  • Patent number: 4299420
    Abstract: A license door holder assembly comprising an automobile having a gasoline spout receiving opening in it's rearward side, covered by a license door hinged thereto and adapted to fold downwardly and rearwardly at it's upper end, a door holder having a lock section pivotable to a position over the door sufficient to maintain the license door in an open position at times when gasoline is being pumped into the automobile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1981
    Inventor: Roy L. Piepho
  • Patent number: 4291908
    Abstract: A safety gate latch system having a gate tongue, first and second rings on opposite sides of the gate tongue and held in a frame in a manner such that when the rings are down, the gate tongue cannot move past either ring, a post-tongue, a second ring frame attached to the gate tongue and supporting primary and secondary safety rings disposed on opposite sides of the post-tongue whereby a gate using said system cannot be opened in a direction without the lifting of one of the first and second rings and also one of the safety rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1981
    Inventor: Marvin W. Gittins, Sr.
  • Patent number: 4288940
    Abstract: A rodent trap guard having a hollow housing receiving a trap, the housing having opposite open ends for rodent access and for trap insertion. The upper side of the housing having a trap viewing opening, the guard being of a strength for substantial protection of the trap from forklift collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1981
    Inventor: Rick A. Ensey
  • Patent number: 4287893
    Abstract: A weight reducing belt comprising an upwardly extending tightening section, preferably composed of elastic material, the side edges of which are connected to a connecting section, having substantially moisture impervious means covering the majority of its area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1981
    Inventor: Maria V. Salazar
  • Patent number: 4283876
    Abstract: A fishing plug having internal flexible attracters, the plug having a hook carrying body with open space therein receiving elongated flexible attracters in an open space and adapted to flex as the plug is moved, the attracters being visible through transparent body portions, the body being incompletely filled with fluid for further causing movement, the attracters each being fixed at one end to the body for maintaining position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Inventor: Donald C. Volenec
  • Patent number: 4280296
    Abstract: A tandem fishhook comprising a forward hook and a rearward hook, the hooks each having two opposite sides connected by a curved portion, one of the sides having a barbed end, the other of the sides of each of the hooks defining an elongated shank extending in a direction opposite to the convex side of the curved portion, the shanks being alongside each other, means rigidly interconnecting the shanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1981
    Inventor: Donald C. Volenec
  • Patent number: 4277069
    Abstract: An arrow for blood tracking comprising an elongated tubular shank having a head at one end and a nock at its other end, the arrow having a plurality of holes extending therethrough from the exterior of the arrow, the inner ends of the holes being in communication with the interior of the shank so that blood can flow into the shank through one or more holes and out of the shank through one or more holes, the walls of the holes being slanted rearwardly toward their outer ends, at least one of the holes being in a mid-portion of the shank and there being at least one hole substantially spaced forwardly of the mid-portion hole and another substantially spaced rearwardly thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1981
    Inventor: Michael F. Rouse
  • Patent number: 4274312
    Abstract: A parallel jaw action toggle wrench comprising a first jaw rigidly fixed to a first handle by means of a track section, a second jaw opposite the first jaw and slidable on the track section, and pivotally connected to a second handle, a toggle link connected to the second handle rearwardly of the first jaw, a connector pivotally attached to the rearward end of the toggle link and moveable along the first handle and a threaded assembly mounted on the first handle and having an adjustment portion, the threaded assembly being so operatively correlated with respect to the connector that operation of said adjustment portion will cause the connector to move lengthwise of the first handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1981
    Inventor: Kenneth F. Finn
  • Patent number: 4270572
    Abstract: A hinging down-spout assembly having a first elongated section to which a second elongated section is attached by a hinge whereby the second section can swing from a position approximately at a right angle to the first section into a position parallel to the first section for storage, a lapping section attached to the first section and extending at approximately a right angle to the first section and extending under and around the sides of the second section for directing water flow between the elongated sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1981
    Inventor: Clifford J. Jarzynka
  • Patent number: 4269429
    Abstract: A tow bar for aircraft having a telescoping collapsible tongue connected to a yoke having right and left arms rearwardly extending to right and left aircraft engaging units for engaging opposite sides of an aircraft steerable nose-wheel assembly in which one of the arms pivots with respect to a shoulder portion of the yoke so as to swing out to one side to release an aircraft, a holding assembly for holding the swinging arm rigidly in towing position comprising a pin removably positionable in an opening in the shoulder and swinging arm, the arms and shoulders being economically fabricatable primarily from inexpensive mass-produced members welded together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1981
    Inventor: Arvin B. Eichstadt
  • Patent number: 4268487
    Abstract: The method for minimizing manganese dioxide sludge formation comprising: to a water solution of potassium permanganate adding the article of commerce called "silicate of soda" in sufficient quantity for causing a visible prevention of manganese dioxide sludge formation at times when the resultant solution comes into contact with oxidizable substances, as compared with the visible manganese dioxide sludge formation which occurs when said contact is made without said addition first having been made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1981
    Inventor: Manuel G. Hicks
  • Patent number: 4265766
    Abstract: A marinade draining system comprising an inner receptacle having draining slots in its bottom side inserted into an outer receptacle, side supports capable of maintaining the inner receptacle higher in the outer receptacle for draining and yet releasable for allowing the inner receptacle to be lower for marinating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1981
    Inventor: Leonard S. Crossley
  • Patent number: 4262587
    Abstract: A conveyor in combination with a strapper for strapping objects on the conveyor automatically as the conveyor is automatically stopped in many pre-selected places.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1981
    Inventor: B. Carson Russell