Patents Represented by Attorney John J. Welch, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5474672
    Abstract: The instant device serves to remove petroleum substances from pumped bilgewater in small boats. Bilgewater under pressure is pumped into a media housing chamber after having first passed into a filter housing chamber containing polyethylene beads that separate the petroleum substances from water. The purified water under pressure is pumped out of the media housing chamber. When petroleum product that is so separated builds up in concentration to a certain critical level, an electrical sensing component is activated serving to notify a person to open a petroleum product outline control valve on the media housing chamber and to close an outflow control valve on outflow piping attached to he media housing chamber in order to permit such petroleum substances to be pumped away into a collecting pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1995
    Inventors: Charles E. Peterson, Pepe J. Nuzzolo
  • Patent number: 5433127
    Abstract: There is here disclosed a multi-functional cylindrically shaped jack handle with a solid first end characterized by the presence of a centrally located notched out slot for receipt of flat release screws on hydraulic jacks, a first shoulder in proximity to the solid first end to prevent insertion of the handle too deeply into the inner compartment of a jack when pumping it up, a hollowed out second end characterized by the presence of two notches located directly across from one another in the perimeter of the hollowed out second end for receipt of ear screws on or within jacks and a second shoulder in close proximity to the hollowed out second end to prevent inadvertent insertion of this end into the well of a jack when pumping it up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Inventor: William L. Messier
  • Patent number: 5421961
    Abstract: The instant device is a forming board position control system. A forming board fitted with the instant invention is positioned at various distances from and with virtually perfect constant parallelarity to the lie of the frontal plane of a headbox in apposition to the forming board. A computer controlled motor causes a parallelwise positioned pair of worm gear jacks mounted to the board, to move the board longitudinally to and fro through a distance from the frontal plane of the headbox as is determined with reference to manually manipulated computerized settings until the system stops perforce of a signal to such effect received by a controller computer as the result of interaction as between a magnet affixed to the base of one of two mounting plates to which the board is also mounted and a transducer closely positioned thereto and connected directly to the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Inventor: Joseph Miller
  • Patent number: 5405359
    Abstract: A toggle wedge is hereof depicted that serves as a suture anchor in bone or soft tissue to which further soft tissue can be sutured in close opposition thereto which wedge is made up of a top portion characterized by the presence of a barbed tip, three smooth sides, one side with two paired suture entry holes in its upper portion, a centrally located suture exit hole at the bottom of this upper portion, an outwardly inclined stop face separating this side's upper portion and this sides lower portion, a tooth centered on the bottom portion of a rounded notch cut into the lower part of this lower portion and a base containing a centrally located suture entry hole and two paired suture exit holes found in an inclined portion of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Inventor: Javi Pierce
  • Patent number: 5377992
    Abstract: A rectangular board same utilizing two decks of conventional playing cards, both of which decks are identical but without jokers and a plurality of distinct sets of tokens or pegs for placement upon rectangular spaces of equal area on the face of the drawing board or within holes found in the spaces and providing for shuffling, combining the decks of cards and dealing a distinct number of the cards to each player of the game and further providing that each player will in sequence, lay down a card of that player's hand, cover a rectangular space corresponding to the card lain down or lay down a red ace and cover any rectangular space or lay down a black ace and remove one of an opponent's tokens from one of the rectangular spaces, and replace it with one of his/her own, then draw a card providing that the process is repeated sequentially until a player would win the game by being the first player to cover on the game board five rectangular spaces, one then three then one to form on the board a shape in the for
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Inventor: Yvonne Audet
  • Patent number: 5358158
    Abstract: The instant device is made up of a semi-rigid, one piece belt clip with two sides worn on the belt of a fisherman, with touch fastener material permanently affixed to the one piece, two sided belt clip with two identical strips of hook tape stitched to the touch fastener material close to the bottom edge of the side of the belt clip furthest from the body of a fisherman wearing the device on the fisherman's belt and with a slit in each of the strips of hook tape which slits are amenable to receipt of the respective ends of a fishing reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1994
    Assignees: Paul Darr, Christine M. Baranowski
    Inventor: Paul Darr
  • Patent number: 5324308
    Abstract: The instant device is made up of a guide wire component, a proximal wedge component and a distal wedge component with the proximal wedge component having a side with an inclined medial face, two suture grooves on this side above its inclined face, a stop face inclined obtusely to and outwardly from its inclined face and a guide wire hole through its head extending through its length and terminating in its inclined face as well as serrated bone biting edges located on its opposite side and with the distal wedge component having two suture thread holes in its medial face and at its base and a guide wire hole on the side where its inclined face is found below and between its two suture thread holes and at its base, and a stop face inclined obtusely and inwardly from its inclined face as well as a beveled bone biting edge at its top such that simultaneous application of downward pressure on the head of the proximal wedge component and upward pressure on suture thread threaded through suture thread holes in the di
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Inventor: Javin Pierce
  • Patent number: 5277347
    Abstract: The instant invention consists of a piece of heavy string eighteen or so inches long that is looped about itself, tied at one end of the loop and then subjected to a threading of both sides of the loop through a plurality of compressible, movable small cord locks before the tying of another intermediate knot serving thereby to create a sub-loop between two knots between which is a plurality of compressible, movable small cord locks. It moreover consists of another compressible, movable small cord lock through which both sides of the portion of the looped heavy string beyond the intermediate knot are threaded prior to the tying of the final knot at the other end of the initial heavy string loop to create a second sub-loop and complete assembly of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Inventor: Paul Savard
  • Patent number: 5271624
    Abstract: A modified sling commonly used in unmodified form for load bearing modified to the extent that one end, a top end consists of a closed eye loop and the other end, a bottom end is flat. The flat bottom end of the device is folded onto the body of the device and a pouch later filled with weighted material is stitched from the fold and then stitched shut thus forming a weighted bottom end. Two VELCRO straps are held to the body of the device by VELCRO hookholds. When the device is to be used, the closed eye loop end is threaded through netting before or after first turning it over the crossbar of a goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Inventor: J. Paul Sciortino
  • Patent number: 5213402
    Abstract: The instant device consists of an insulated hollow interior cabinet built into a home or office wall with exterior doors flush to exterior trim on said walling within a home or office such that when said exterior doors are open, there is seen, a flat top ceiling plate, a flat bottom floor plate, two lateral wall plates and an upwardly inclining posterior plate extending from the back edge of the flat bottom floor plate and a downwardly inclining posterior plate extending from the back edge of the flat top ceiling plate such that both inclining plates meet at a complementary angle with all said plates joined to form one complete hollow interior cabinet unit, characterized likewise by the presence of a hinged drop leaf cover covering the inside face of the upwardly inclining plate when closed and which when opened through an arc exposes four circular apertures and one elliptical aperture in the upwardly inclining plate and which said device serves by way of further components, to wit, hollow chutes positioned b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Inventors: Joseph Bernal, David Chapman
  • Patent number: 5167598
    Abstract: The instant invention comprises a flat bottom surface, a flat posterior surface and two flat pentagonal lateral surfaces all jointed together to form one hollow unit and with a pair of parallel horizontal aperture slits of equal length through which banding is threaded, cut equidistantly from the respective bottom and leading edges of two flat pentagonal lateral surfaces and with a pair of parallel vertical aperture slits of equal length through which a second piece of banding is threaded, cut equidistantly from the respective top and posterior edges of two flat pentagonal lateral surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1992
    Inventor: Francis N. Sands
  • Patent number: 5110083
    Abstract: A first metal bar having an upwardly extending flange; a second metal bar; a third angulated metal bar or strut; a first horizontal waler support plate; a second vertical form engaging plate extending downwardly from one end of the first horizontal waler support plate, a third vertical waler engaging plate extending upwardly from an opposite end of the first horizontal waler support plate; and, a rotatable cam lock device for engaging with a form tie which device is pivotally mounted to and beneath the first horizontal waler support plate such that the first metal bar is welded to the first horizontal waler support plate with its flange extended upward while that bar extends outward from the first horizontal waler support plate and such that the second metal bar is welded to the second vertical form engaging plate and extends downwardly therefrom, and such that the third angulated metal bar or strut is welded at one end thereof adjacent to an outer end of the first metal bar and is welded at an opposite end t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Inventor: Ross C. Page
  • Patent number: 5107958
    Abstract: A Johnson Ladder Leveler serving to level a ladder on an uneven surface comprising an extension leg held by a bolt nut apparatus to a treaded triangular foot which said extension leg extends longitudinally when in use while fastened by way of a spring pin head on a spring pin welded to said extension's leg's medial side and by way of a threaded screw bolt from without to a ladder receiving sleeve via insertion into said ladder receiving sleeve's outermost of two compartments while said ladder receiving sleeve internally holds an internally mounted ladder leg within the innermost of said ladder receiving sleeve's said two compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Inventor: Robert L. Johnson
  • Patent number: D335688
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Inventors: Christopher Paquette, Michael Paquette
  • Patent number: D346093
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Inventor: Scott I. Holson
  • Patent number: D353630
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Inventor: Kathleen R. Marchinkoski
  • Patent number: D361128
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Inventor: Philip A. Frizzell
  • Patent number: D362178
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Inventor: Hester Curtis
  • Patent number: D363216
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Inventor: Hester Curtis
  • Patent number: D370489
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Inventors: Peter T. Taggett, Edward J. Grossi