Patents Represented by Attorney John J. Welch, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6446382
    Abstract: A combined fishing tackle holder and food cooler consisting of a cabinet component atop each of four corner legs each amenable to threadably receiving a spike based screw component which cabinet component has a wholly insulated hollow center space and a bipartite lid with insulating material on the bottom thereof as well as holding a plurality of drawers amenable to opening and closing within each lateral side of the cabinet component and further which cabinet component holds two cupholders, each one slideably openable in each upper anterior corner thereof as well as holding a pair of velcro hook and fastener components on the posterior side thereof and a fishing pole support unit affixed to an anterior side thereof which fishing pole support unit contains each of two pole holder units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Inventors: Robert J. Cloutier, Steven Hebert, Gerard Allain
  • Patent number: 6334748
    Abstract: A screw device with an elongated shank, a self-tapping cutter located thereon on and with a cutting head within which there are two equivalent and opposing grooves the angularity of which with reference to horizontal is the same and equivalent to the angular pitch of the threading about the shank and with serrated edging about the bottom side of the cutting head and in the top side of the cutting head there being found a closed hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Inventor: Sigurdur Gudjonsson
  • Patent number: 6293367
    Abstract: An extension ladder with ladder leveling apparatus consisting of an extension ladder, an elongated stabilizing strut with a series of teeth extending laterally therefrom and attachable to one leg of the extension ladder unit by way of a pair of u-bolt components each with a pair of threaded ends with such threaded ends being insertable one each through each of two through holes in each of a pair of grip components with teeth extending medially from one side of each grip component to complement and insert within spacing between the teeth of the stabilizing strut upon the tightening of threaded nuts one each about each threaded end of each dual bolt component and further with the stabilizing strut terminating in a footing component that extends laterally from the lie of the plane of said strut and which footing component is flared outwardly both anteriorly and posteriorly and to which an anteroposteriorly pivotable foot unit equipped with a rubberize base pod is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Inventor: Hilmar K. Gulseth
  • Patent number: 6290629
    Abstract: An underwater exercise apparatus consisting of a pair of fastening vices amenable to being held together by screws and bolts and serving to removably hold an elongated support arm to which a seat for sitting is attached and further serving to hold together a pair of oppositely positioned three-sided support units each of which rests upon a pair of adjustable foot pods and atop each elongated middle side of each of which support units there is affixed a housing unit containing a wheel and pedal mechanism in turn connected to a pair of pedals; each connected to one end of an elastic cord with each cord being affixed at a second end of each to a support block, one support block being affixed atop a posterior side of one support unit and one support block being affixed atop a posterior side of the other support unit and with there being affixed atop an anterior side of each support unit, an adjustable upright handlebar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Inventors: Joseph H. Vargas, III, Galen M. Williams
  • Patent number: 6254307
    Abstract: A bi-partite sluiceway apparatus with silt removal tray components consisting of a pair of elongated three-sided bottom containment trays with triangularly shaped soffet units affixed to outer walling of lateral sides of each and with each having oppositely inclined beveled posterior ends with each tray holding at top edging of lateral sides thereof, elongated three-sided silt collection trays each with beveled posterior ends as well and with each silt collection tray having a grasping plate characterized by the presence of a concentrically positioned through hole and being affixed to lateral sides thereof near a front end thereof and with each silt collection tray being swiveably lockable to a containment tray by way of a nut and bolt assembly insertable through concentric through holes near frontal ends of each tray, and with all beveled ends in contact with one another upon complete assembly of the apparatus within a roadbed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Inventor: Richard E. Ragold
  • Patent number: 6237233
    Abstract: The instant invention is a door frame adjustment apparatus that is four-sided and horizontally adjustable consisting of a slideably adjustable scale component, and corresponding adjustable bar component, vertically and horizontally aligned adjustable locking members, adjustable hinge units, horizontally aligned bubble leveling components, stabilizing members, magnetic stripping continuously affixed to the edging of one lateral side thereof and to a portion of a top side thereof and spacing within the lateral sides to facilitate affixation of door frame units to interior walling of an opening within building framing serving to encase the door frame unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Inventors: Robert J. Cloutier, Jean Louis Ouellette, Gerard Allain
  • Patent number: 6196210
    Abstract: The invention is a compound bow with a stabilizing pin affixed to the base of the sight window of the bow at an angle less than 90° with reference to the horizontal lie of the base of the sight window in combination with a porous arrow marked by the presence therein of a through hole in proximity to the tip of the arrow that is amenable upon a pivotable arrow rest component of the bow to being engaged and held statically by the stabilizing pin upon near full extension by an archer of the bowstring of the bow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Inventor: Roger M. Chamberlain
  • Patent number: 6182462
    Abstract: The instant invention is a cooler box internally illuminated by way of an illuminating system built into inner walling of the lid of the box for one embodiment thereof and into inner walling of the box itself for a second embodiment thereof, the system consisting of current conducting circuitry by way of which a manual switch, an automatic spring loaded switch, seating means holding an incandescent light bulb and seating means holding a portable, energized battery unit are all interconnected within compartments within such walling and over the exterior of each of which compartments, a translucent plate and a second plate are respectively removably affixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Inventors: Craig M. Bania, Daniel R. Blanchard, Sr.
  • Patent number: 6158350
    Abstract: The instant invention is a lightweight enhanced velocity bullet consisting of a hollow cylindrically shaped metal jacket component made of brass, the body of which is filled nearly to capacity with a malleable tin-copper-silver alloy material and with the body having a flattened posterior end and with there being a second end anterior to the body which said second end is hollow within, devoid of any alloy material and tapering symmetrically to a blunt point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Inventor: Valentino Pulcini
  • Patent number: 6134803
    Abstract: The instant device is an elongated four-sided, solid high molecular weight polyethylene wood sticker unit serving to separate, within a wood kiln unit, the lowermost surfaces of uppermost laid in planking from the uppermost surfaces of lowermost laid-in planking and characterized by the presence of four rounded edges marking the intersection of any two sides thereof and a helically inclined groove cut into the outer surfaces of all four sides thereof and extending uniformly from one end thereof to the other end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Inventors: Maurice H. Gilchrist, Peter W. Sheehan
  • Patent number: 6062554
    Abstract: The instant invention is a dual clamping apparatus consisting of a three sided clampstand component, one left handed screw bolt and one right handed screw bolt, a bi-threaded barrel component held by the screw bolts insertable each through hexagonally shaped holes in the lateral sides of the clampstand, the barrel component having a horizontally inclined through hole centered therein from side to side, half of which is marked by the presence of right handed threading and half of which is marked by the presence of left hand threading for receipt of the screw bolts as well as having a plurality of closed lever holes within its outer surface for receipt of a lever to turn the barrel component through an angle causing movement outward or inward as the case may be of the inserted screw bolts and further with each screw bolt having a closed, threaded hole in the head of each for receipt of an extension screw component fitted with a threaded extension screw nut component with a pair of tapped holes in the base of th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Inventor: Nelson F. Leonard
  • Patent number: 6053659
    Abstract: An inlaid brick walkway bed leveler consisting of a handle affixed to a rakehead with the handle being supported by a pair of equivalent mediolateral struts attached to the handle and the rakehead, a brace serving to support the struts, a straight bottom edge of the rakehead, the lateral aspects of the front face of the rakehead being amenable to receipt of snugly fitting, adjustable width gauge components with chair shaped ends each amenable to receipt of a clip component and to each of which width gauge components there is affixed a pair of threaded posts extending through elongated slits in the rakehead with an anteroposterior through hole medially positioned in the rakehead near the topside thereof and with there being affixed to the top side thereof just above the anteroposterior hole, an encased leveling bubble component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Inventors: Bruce A. Burton, Bruce H. Burton
  • Patent number: 6024115
    Abstract: The instant invention consists of an inner cannula of hosing amenable to transport of a liquid coupled with an outer cannula or cannulae of hosing amenable to transport of a gas. As respects one embodiment, affixed to outer walling of the inner cannula and to inner walling of the outer cannula are rigid struts, typically three or four, at 120.degree. or rights angles with respect to one another at various points along the respective lengths of the cannulae that serve to maintain separation of the cannulae from one another at times when the inner cannula is filled with a liquid and the outer cannula is filled with a gas. A second embodiment is strut free. Each cannula has an ingress end whereat a liquid is introduced into the inner cannula and whereat a gas is introduced into the outer cannula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Inventor: John F. Freed
  • Patent number: 6003629
    Abstract: A roofer's safety brace unit consisting of a pair of main frame track components, an extension arm, a pivotably attached support arm equipped with a rubberized foot pad at one end thereof and a running wheel at the other end thereof placeable upon a roof by virtue of the function of a plurality of chair shaped lateral support units equipped with rubberized foot pads such as are attached to plank holding brackets affixable to the main frame track components or extension arm, and, one of which brackets is further equipped with a pivotable plank bar such that when a duplicate pair of such safety brace units is utilized by a roofer, planking suitable to safely supporting the weight of a roofer working on a roof is readily and dependably held fast in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Inventors: Robert J. Cloutier, Charles M. Synder, Norman J. Cloutier, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5953762
    Abstract: A sports helmet with a protective fincap made up of a sturdy, flexible material and affixed thereto centrally upon the top surface of the helmet such that the fincap extends centrally, upon the helmet, anterioposteriorally from the bottom edge of the frontal brim of the helmet to the backside occipital edge of the helmet. The fincap has minimum breadth and minimum height at the loci of the bottom edge of the frontal brim and the backside occipital edge respectively with breadth and height increasing anteroposteriorly and posteroanteriorly at the same rate to a point of maximum breadth and height at the locus of the intersection of a horizontally inclined line tangent to the uppermost portion of the topside surface of the helmet and positioned perpendicular to the vertically inclined and anteroposteriorally inclined horizontal central axes of symmetry of the helmet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Inventor: Joseph Corbett
  • Patent number: 5941239
    Abstract: A multiple lens solar heating unit consisting of a piping component, a housing component with a transparent housing cap, holes within the housing component for entry and exit of the piping component, multiple lens mounting braces affixed parallel wise to inner walling of the housing component, a plurality of external lens holders mounted to the braces by mounting pins and rotatably pivotable in an XY plane, an equivalent plurality of internal lens holders mounted one each to each external lens holder by mounting pins and rotatably pivotable in an XZ plane and an equivalent plurality of magnifying lens mounted one each within each internal lens holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Inventor: Mark Rogers
  • Patent number: 5936407
    Abstract: An intravehicular auto harness tester with switch consisting of a first housing unit mountable within or upon the dashboard of a motor vehicle containing three small light emitting diodes with wiring leading thereto and therefrom coupled with one resistor per diode, with such wiring entering the housing unit and leaving it by way of a coaxial cable leading to or from a second housing unit located typically in the trunk of the vehicle with three prongs and female socket pocket at a front end of the second housing unit for interfacing with an intravehicular auto harness power plug and with three female socket pockets and a prong at a rear end thereof for interfacing with a trailer harness plug and with wiring therein running from prongs to socket pockets and via junctions along such wiring also from the front end prongs to wiring in the coaxial cable leading to the diodes and a ground wire within the cable leading via an off/on switch from the diodes to the front end socket pocket of the second housing unit alo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Inventor: Leslie R. Borland
  • Patent number: D416745
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Inventor: Linda G. Noyes
  • Patent number: D426453
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Inventors: Brian C. Stearns, Alan L. Stearns
  • Patent number: D428799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Inventors: Brian C. Stearns, Alan L. Stearns