Patents Represented by Attorney James J. McKeever
  • Patent number: 5685100
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the fire arm industry and more particularly to a system that impresses a bar type code into the brass cartridge casing that has been fired from a gun. The identifying markings are placed on the gun with as little visibility as possible but enough to form the code to identify the fired casing as being from one specific handgun, rifle or shotgun. The code markings may be placed on the bolt, breech and/or the firing pin of any firearm without effecting its operation in any way. The identifying code markings are impressed on the surface of the shell casing when the firearm is fired. These identifying code marks may be placed at the outer rim surface, inside the primer area rim, on the primer its self or in multiple places on the shell casing. The identifying code markings are similar to bar code markings and directly relates the spent casing that has been fired by a firearm, to that firearm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Inventor: Richard G. Atchison
  • Patent number: 5685829
    Abstract: A hydro-therapy device for use with home or club showers and physical therapist which consists of a flexible hose to connect to a diverter valve that is in turn connected to a water source. A shower head of choice is also connected to the diverter valve so that the user mat select a regular shower or a hydro-therapy treatment to a selected portion of his body. The control nozzle of the present invention is connected to the other end of the flexible hose. The control nozzle is what creates the hydro-therapy high pressure single stream of water. The user simply places the diverter valve in the hydro-therapy position, points the control valve at that part of the body that he wishes to treat and slide the on/off switch to the on position and the treatment begins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Inventor: Winston E. Allen
  • Patent number: 5638999
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of sports and more particularly to any sport that involves the use of a ball and glove, mitt or similar article. Specifically, the present invention relates to a device that aids the user in forming the desired pocket in the related glove or mitt over a time period that is dramatically shorter than the presently used methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Inventor: Ryan A. Greene
  • Patent number: 5566692
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a package for dispensing cut brushed dental floss and more particularly the present invention relates to a dispensing package for cut brushed dental floss that allows the removal of a single floss one at a time. The novel dispensing package of the present invention consists of an internal control card with an apex fold line and a rear portion on the opposite side of the apex. The cut brushed floss is placed on the control card in a manner where the floss section of the cut brushed floss is in a zigzag folded position on the interior of the control card, the brushed section is on the face portion of the control card and the threader section is led over the apex to the rear portion which holds the brushed section on the face of the card. The package having the loaded card inside has an opening to permit removal of a single cut brushed floss therefrom, one at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Inventor: Thomas E. Thornton
  • Patent number: 5311890
    Abstract: A teeth cleaning element containing threading end portions for cleaning relatively large spaces in the teeth consists of from about 400 to about 800 filaments in an elongated bundle that is from about 1,200 to 2,400 about denier. The filaments at the mid-portion of the length of the bundle are textured with the crimps and crinkles of the texturing of the several filaments being intermingled and in contact at numerous points and being adhered together at the contact points to form a bulky, longitudinal, longitudinally and laterally resilient mass. The filaments at the opposite end portions of the bundle that extend from the bulky mid-portion are adhered together in compact, smooth parallel relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Inventor: Thomas F. Thornton
  • Patent number: 4449467
    Abstract: A Roller-furling sail both main sail and head sail, such as jibs or genoas, are constructed in the reverse miter cut or Scotch cut. The sails are constructed of sail cloth panels to the luff with one mitered seam bisecting the angle made by the panels that run parallel to the foot and the leech of the sail. The panels running adjacent to the foot and the leech are of a heavier weight cloth than the remaining body of the sail. As the sail is furled a greater portion of the lighter weight sail cloth is taken up thereby leaving an increased percentage of the heavier sail cloth exposed to the stronger winds. The sail may also be provided with a luff flattening panel that is seared to the luff of the sail in a generally curved shape from the area of the tack to the area of the head of the sail. The luff flattening panel allows the sail to be partially furled and maintain the desired flat shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1984
    Assignee: Hild Sails, Inc.
    Inventors: Herbert A. Hild, Walter Scanlon
  • Patent number: 4146599
    Abstract: A device for applying exposed aggregate, which is utilized on the exterior and interior of building and home construction, as well as other structures, has been developed that consists of a rigid to flexible type backing with a resilient material such as foam or the like attached thereto forming the face of the device. It is essential to the device of the present invention that the resilient material forming the face of the device has sufficient resiliency to insure that aggregate that is placed thereon will not easily roll off the face of said device and yet in no way inhibit the adhesion of the exposed aggregate on a prepared surface when applied. In utilizing the device of the present invention and in carrying out the method of the present invention, aggregate is placed on the face of any number of devices of the present invention and such devices are used to directly apply aggregate to a surface such as a wall which has been prepared to receive exposed aggregate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1979
    Inventor: John B. Lanzetta