Patents Represented by Attorney Howard I. Podell

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  • Can opener gun
    Patent number: 4050155
    Abstract: A portable can opener tool shaped as a gun, with an elongated trigger pivoted to a butt handle. Pulling of the trigger to the butt of the handle serves to rotate a can past the blade of the tool so as to cut the top of the can away from the can rim. The tool incorporates a basic frame member to which a cutter frame is pivoted at the front end of the basic frame with both the basic frame and cutter frame extending to form butt handle ends which are drawn together to clamp the cutter blade into a can top. The trigger is pivoted to the basic frame and pivotably joined to a pusher arm which bears against radial members of a shaft fixed to a rachet wheel, or alternately, the pusher arm is fitted with rachet teeth for directly bearing against the rim of a can to be rotated against the cutter blade. The cutter blade may be in the form of a free turning wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Omero Pitocchi
  • Foot and leg brace
    Patent number: 4050455
    Abstract: A foot and leg brace assembly formed of three sections flexibly joined together. A first thigh section is a curved plate of a size to fit about the underside of a user's thigh, with the second leg section formed of a curved plate shaped to fit about the rear of the user's leg and the third foot section shaped to fit under the sole and behind the user's heel. All three sections are fitted with attachment straps, with the leg and thigh sections each fitted on their interior surfaces with a padding of foam rubber or plastic. A transverse bar is hinged to the rear of the sole of the foot section, and extends on both sides of the sole section, being held by a pair of opposed tension springs on an axis perpendicular to the axis of the foot section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Lennie R. Smith
  • Bicentennial eagle clock
    Patent number: 4050231
    Abstract: A clock mounted in a wall of a bell suspended from a horizontal support that is mounted on spaced pillars fixed to a base. A molded figure of an outstretched eagle is fittedabove the horizontal support. A bell hammer is suspended from a horizntal axle that is rotatably fixed at one end, internally to a wall of the bell and at the other end of the axle to the chime mechanism of the clock so that the bell hammer strikes the wall of the bell when actuated by the chime mechanism of the clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Lopez, Juan Lopez
  • Gyro foil
    Patent number: 4050652
    Abstract: A flying vehicle in the form of a fixed structure fitted with propulsion engines and in the form of a fixed wing and tail section mounted to a pair of counter-rotatable discs, one below and one above the fixed structure, with the discs when rotating providing both aerodynamic lift and gyroscopic stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Vincent D. DeToia
  • Quarter card deck
    Patent number: 4050698
    Abstract: A deck of cards for the assisting of improvement in children of learning skills of matching, counting, alphabet use, color use and providing simple games of fun. Each card of a fifty-two card deck depicts one-quarter of the picture of an animal in color, with each card of the four card set depicting a quarter-picture of a given animal identified by a common letter of the alphabet, a common numeral and an individual card suit symbol. Two different card decks are required for presentation of all letters of the alphabet. The name of the depicted animal may be marked on one or more cards and the picture of each card is drawn in a common scale so that four cards of different sets may be combined to form a picture of generally continuous outline which is a composite of quarter pictures of different animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Albert Brown
  • Fly tie tool
    Patent number: 4050176
    Abstract: The tool is in the form of a clip shaped of a single bent length of sheet spring material having a first leg of flat shape joined by a U-section to a second leg. The free end of the second leg is bent as a right angle flange with the end of the flange bearing against the first leg to serve as a clamp jaw against a fishing line held between the flange and the first leg. The mid-section of the second leg between the jaw and the U-section is formed as a V-section with the tip of the V-section resting on the first leg and serving as a fulcrum. Squeezing pressure on the section of the second leg between the U-section and the V-section applied towards the first leg causes the flange to move away from the first leg to free a line clamped between the first leg and the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: William Asper
  • Hamper and cart
    Patent number: 4050708
    Abstract: A clothes hamper and a wheeled cart on which the hamper may be mounted in both a fixed upright position of the cart or transported with the axis of the cart inclined to the vertical. The cart is formed of a bent shaped plate shaped as an angle to form a pair of base flanges and a back rest and fitted to a telescopic handle, with a curved flange of the plate serving as a bearing for the mounting of an axle which supports a pair of cart wheels. The hamper is formed with a hinged cover, with legs projecting below the hamper base located so as to fit between the base support flanges of the cart so that in the erect position of the cart, the hamper legs rest directly on the floor supporting the cart wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventors: Momcilo M. Samardzija, Cheryl Samardzija
  • Zee wrench
    Patent number: 4050334
    Abstract: A wrench adaptable for freeing the jammed rotor of a sink garbage disposal unit. The wrench is in the form of a shaped solid bar formed with a straight shaft section the handle end of which is bent at an acute angle to the axis of the shaft section, with the opposed tool end of the bar bent in the plane of the handle section to lie perpendicular to the axis of the shaft section. The tool end of the bar is formed as a rectangular shaped section of a size to fit about upraised detents or cutting blades on the rotor of the garbage disposal unit so as to rock and free the rotor, when jammed, and the tool is of a size to fit into the drain outlet of the sink to which the disposal unit is attached and to extend beyond the drain, when installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Davis, Jr.
  • Disk guide
    Patent number: 4047458
    Abstract: A guide plate assembly, mountable on the table of a saw which guides a sheet rotatably fixed to the guide plate to enable the saw blade to cut the sheet into a circular disk of a desired diameter. The assembly includes a first slide bar that may be latched in position in a miter slot of the saw table, with a plate attachable to the first slide bar that is slidably latched to the first slide bar, and a second slide bar fitted with one or more cylindrical pivot holes which is also slidably latched in an open slot of the plate. A pivot screw, in the form of a wood screw fitted with a cylindrical head is fastened to the center of a sheet, to be cut, and the cylindrical head rotatably mounted in a pivot hole of the second slide bar, so that the sheet may be circularly rotated about the cutting edge of the saw blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Lester W. Hall
  • Rollable walk guide
    Patent number: 4047825
    Abstract: A wire grid shaped with brick size spaces which may be transported or stored as a roll, and which is adaptable for serving as a permanent guide and reinforcement when unrolled onto a flat path with bricks subsequently individually mounted in each of the grid spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert O. Lundahl
  • Aerial distress marker
    Patent number: 4044711
    Abstract: A distress marker assembly in the form of an inflatable balloon fastened to a cylinder of compressed helium or hydrogen gas, with a flexible line fixed at one end to the cylinder and at the other end to an anchor unit. The anchor unit is shaped with a clasp for fastening to a fixed object or the person of the user, and formed with a pair of flexible clamp jaws through which the line is fed out to the balloon, when inflated. The balloon is marked with a distinctive color and with large letters spelling out S.O.S. The balloon contains a quantity of metal oxide powder to serve as a radar reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Leon L. Jamison, deceased
  • Foldable stool
    Patent number: 4043277
    Abstract: A lightweight foldable stool formed with a top that is hinged along a mid-line and hinged on its underside to telescopic legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Doralee A. Wallace
  • Allen wrench holder
    Patent number: 4043230
    Abstract: A holder for retaining individual hexagonal wrenches of a set of the type known as Allen wrenches. The holder is in the form of a cylindrical member fitted with a plurality of through parallel transverse wrench holes, each wrench hole of the size to retain a specific size wrench. A set screw is individually threaded in a hole intersecting and transverse to each wrench hole for tightening about a wrench in the wrench hole. A cap member is fixed to one end of the cylindrical member by a pair of flush mounted cap screws, with the holder fitted with a shaped recess open to the capped end of the cylindrical member for retention of small wrenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Eugene G. Scrivens
  • Fishing pole holder
    Patent number: 4043531
    Abstract: A holder unit for fastening a fishing pole to a flat surface, such as on a boat. The unit is in the form of a pair of wire loops fastenable about a fishing pole mounted on a base to which an expandable suction cup is fixed. A pivotable lever, that extends beyond the base, serves to expand the volume of the internal recess of the suction cup so as to create a clamping suction, when desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Harvey L. Green
  • Drowsing chair pillow
    Patent number: 4042278
    Abstract: A pillow unit that may be readily draped over the top of a chair back to enable a user to rest his head against the pillow for relaxation or drowsing purposes. The unit is formed of a flexible sheet of fabric material and fitted with one or more pairs of spaced pillow sections projecting from the face side of the fabric. Preferably the unit is formed with two pairs of pillow sections so that the fabric may be draped over the top of a chair back, with the pair of pillow sections of the fabric on the face side of the chair back balanced by the weight of the pair of pillow sections on the fabric lying on the back of the chair back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank L. Jensen
  • Airplane route viewing system
    Patent number: 4041529
    Abstract: An airplane route display system for presenting to the airplane passengers, over a television viewing monitor screen, a photographic display of a section of the route viewed by a television camera in the airplane, over which the airplane is being flown. An audio output from a pre-recorded tape describes the scene being viewed by the television camera, with the start of the audio equipment triggered by a remote signal transmitted or reflected from a ground marker serving to synchronize the audio tape. The audio output may also be connected to a microphone for use by aircraft personnel in interjecting a topical comment about the route being displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Clarence William Masterfield
  • Clothing hanger guard
    Patent number: 4040545
    Abstract: A wire clothing hanger which is adaptable for the carrying of heavy clothing, in which the hook section of the hanger is enclosed in a protector member of increased outer diameter than the wire of the hook itself.The protector member is preferably fabricated of a soft material such as foam rubber or foam plastic, or of a paper pulp product so as to prevent injury to the hand of a person carrying such a hanger by the hook section, when heavy clothing is wrapped about the hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Joseph Hill
  • Trailer pin latch plates
    Patent number: 4039202
    Abstract: A pair of plates, rotatably joined together on the underside of a trailer or semi-trailer, which in the latched position enclose the trailer pin so as to prevent a tractor from being joined to the fifth wheel of a tractor. The plates, when in the latch position, may be fastened by key locking or other latching means. Opening of the plates permits access of a tractor fifth wheel to the trailer pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Rudy A. Bamettler
  • Nail extractor
    Patent number: 4039140
    Abstract: A tool for removing nails in the form of a bar curved to form a fulcrum at its working end, which terminates as a short first forked claw. A second forked claw of intermediate length is fixed at a second distance from the fulcrum and a long third fork claw is fixed at a second distance from the fulcrum with all forked claws being generally similarly curved and extending in the same direction from the bar. The second and third claws are used to fasten about a nail head which has been partially lifted above the surface on which the fulcrum is rested, for complete removal of the associated nail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Barron Pulliam
  • Vehicle transfer case stabilizer bar
    Patent number: 4039038
    Abstract: A stabilizer bar fastened to the four wheel drive transfer case and to an adjoining frame cross member to correct for vibration and tilt of the transfer case when the attached vehicle is in the four wheel drive mode. The transfer case is mounted below a transverse frame cross member, and the stabilizer bar is threaded at each end to a set of nuts surrounding rubber washers, with one end of the stabilizer bar fitted to an adjacent transverse cross member and the other end fastened through a hole in the wall of the transfer case to the case wall. The threaded ends of the stabilizer bar permit adjustment of the length of the stabilizer bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1977
    Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
    Inventor: Bartel Wilhelm