Patents Represented by Law Firm Kennedy & Kennedy
  • Corrugated paperboard container
    Patent number: 5328027
    Abstract: A corrugated paperboard blank that folds together to form a container for enclosing a tank or other fragile article. A pair of seats space the article from a bottom and an upper support extends inwardly to hold the article from movement during shipping and handling. A support panel foldably attaches to an offset flange at an upper edge of the container. The flange spaces the support panel below the upper edge of the container for holding items, such as a lid, separate from the article in the container. The container closes without staples or adhesive for opening, inspection of the articles and reclosing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: Titon Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Gene Hollar, John Schafer
  • Method and apparatus for separating oil and water
    Patent number: 5326469
    Abstract: Oil and water separation apparatus comprising a reaction chamber having an inlet through which a mixture of oil and water may be introduced. A reaction that extends upwardly from an intake opening therein located in the reaction chamber and out of the chamber. The apparatus also has an ozone generator and a conduit through which ozone may be channeled from the ozone generator into the upwardly extending reaction tube. A pump is provided for pumping water and oil upwardly through the reaction tube entrained with ozone and out of the reaction chamber. A filter is provided for oil oxidized to particulate form by the ozone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignee: Zander Filter Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Edwin H. Thompson
  • Treatment for texturing paper
    Patent number: 5326522
    Abstract: A method of forming a textured surface in a sheet of photographic paper by washing the paper for a predetermined period of time, repeatedly cockling the sheet to form a plurality of randomly placed ridges and valleys in the paper, drying the paper, and compressing the paper in a press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Inventor: Ron Lee
  • Cold compress system
    Patent number: 5324318
    Abstract: A cryotherapeutic apparatus is disclosed for treating an injury with a cold compress system that has a flexible application bag coupled with a cold liquid supply container via a flexible tube. The flexible application bag is secured about a body member with the bag in contact with the area of injury. The supply container is elevated above the bag so that cold liquid gravitates from the supply container into the application bag causing it to fill and to apply cold and pressure to the area of injury. The height of the supply container above the application bag is adjusted to establish the desired pressure exerted by the application bag upon injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Inventor: Kirby Smith
  • Wood-cleated corrugated paperboard insert for lawnmower container
    Patent number: 5318180
    Abstract: An insert having a central bottom panel with two end panels and two top flanges foldably connected by spaced-apart scores for forming a U-shape insert that is received by a conventional regular slotted container. A pair of elongate members attach to the bottom panel to provide increased bottom rigidity to the container. A pair of cleats attach to each of the side panels and a lower end of the cleat rests on an upper surface of one of the elongate members. A transverse member attaches to each top flange and is supported on an upper end of the cleats. The transverse member supports a top load on the container and the cleats communicate the top load to the elongate members. An enclosed container is disclosed for holding an article on the elongate members by wrapping the insert and the article thereon with a film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: North American Container Corporation
    Inventor: John M. Grigsby
  • Apparatus for applying a film of liquid
    Patent number: 5316403
    Abstract: A moistener having a porous applicator tip attached to an upper end of a container holding liquid with an opening in the surface of the applicator tip communicating with a tube to allow the replacement of the loss of volume equivalent of air in the container during use of the apparatus to apply a film of water to a surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Inventor: Amin F. Mansour
  • Liveload assembly for maintaining torque on bolts
    Patent number: 5316319
    Abstract: A liveload assembly having a stack guide with a thread on the exterior side wall, a plurality of compressible belleville washers stacked inside the stack guide, and a retainer cap having a thread on an inner side wall for matingly engaging with the stack guide to hold the belleville washers in compression. The gland follower of a fluid flow apparatus is liveloaded by placing the liveload assembly over the bolt extending upwardly from the gland follower. A nut is threaded on the bolt to contact the stack of belleville washers and the retainer cap is unscrewed to a second position on the stack guide and fixed by turning a set screw through a bore in the cap and against the side of the stack guide. Compression of the gland follower is monitored by viewing the relative movement of the stack of belleville washers through a longitudinal slot in the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: RM Engineered Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven M. Suggs
  • Leak-resistant corrugated paperboard container with exterior hand grips
    Patent number: 5307982
    Abstract: A container foldably assembled from a single blank of treated corrugated paperboard for carrying iced canned or bottled beverages and food, with hand grips exterior of the container defined by a hole in each corner panel that folds against the end panels of the container. A hook at each end of a strap engages a respective hand grip for carrying the container on the shoulder of a person using the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: Coolers Unlimited, Inc.
    Inventor: James F. Swindell
  • Vegetable crisper
    Patent number: 5303563
    Abstract: A sprayer seated on at least a portion of the upper periphery of a vegetable crisper and periodically supplied with pressurized fluid for emitting through at least one orifice a spray over the vegetables held within the crisper for maintaining the freshness thereof. The sprayer preferably is an elongated ribbon-like member having a plurality of orifices and which cooperatively forms at least a partial seal between the upper peripheral edge of the crisper and a removable top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Assignee: Hydro-Crisper, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry W. Bishop, Stephen W. Braun, Lee Payne, Jr.
  • Improved spirally-formed seal for shafts and valve stems
    Patent number: 5301960
    Abstract: A packing material for formation of a seal for a rotary or reciprocating shaft is disclosed wherein a core element is enveloped by a sheet of expanded graphite material. The core element is preferably formed of a wire mesh and solid graphite. The enveloping process is accomplished in such a manner as to wrap the core element with a self-lubricating surface material. The packing material of the present invention provides the advantages of graphite packings and metallic core packings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Suggs Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Reid M. Meyer, Jim B. Cohen, James W. Suggs, Jr., Steven M. Suggs
  • Beverage service pitcher
    Patent number: 5289953
    Abstract: A pitcher (10) for the controlled delivery of a liquid or a combination of liquids and solids together into another container. The pitcher has a front chute (18) for the pouring of liquids contained near the base of the pitcher and two side chutes (20, 21) for the pouring of a combination of liquids and solids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Inventors: Joseph P. McMillan, III, Lawrence W. Owen, Jr.
  • Antimicrobial air filter and method of making same
    Patent number: 5288298
    Abstract: An antimicrobial air filter has a layer of fabric bearing porous activated carbon particulate deodorizing agents, a layer of polymeric expanded foam filter media impregnated with a biostat type antimicrobial agent and a pleated sheet of HEPA filtration media treated with the biostat. The layers are assembled such that the biostat does not migrate into the porous carbon particulates. The filter may be used in central air conditioning and heating systems without the need for an air circulator in addition to those conventionally employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Inventor: William T. Aston
  • Shipping container for an outboard motor
    Patent number: 5275279
    Abstract: A container for storing and shipping outboard motors horizontally. The motor attaches to an H-frame by screwing the bolts on the stern bracket to a cross bar. Vertical cleats attach to the sides of a corrugated paperboard carton, and the cleats guide the H-frame into the carton. A hold-down pad formed by folding a blank of corrugated paperboard having scores defining a plurality of panels attaches to an end wall and engages the skeg of the motor to restrict pivotable movement of the motor during shipping and handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: North American Container Corporation
    Inventor: Charles F. Grigsby
  • Stand up plastic bag and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 5273362
    Abstract: Containers are produced from a sheet of flexible material having a thermally bondable inside surface. In one embodiment flaps are formed and folded outwardly to form two windows in the sheet. Pleats are formed and bonded to transverse the windows so that a pleat ply closes the windows. The pleats are folded to bring the flaps against the window closing pleat plies and bonded. In another emobdiment holes are cut in the sheet located in one ply of the pleats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Jebco Packaging Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Jerry E. Buchanan
  • Socket
    Patent number: 5269455
    Abstract: An integral socket attached to a base for receiving an end of a vertical cleat in a corrugated paperboard container, the socket having a bottom skirt for aligning the socket to a side face of a member of the base and a top skirt for restraining the vertical cleat from moving out of the socket. A cavity defined in the socket receives therein a tenon at the end of the vertical cleat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: North American Container Corporation
    Inventors: Charles F. Grigsby, John M. Grigsby
  • Sunvisor
    Patent number: D343158
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: VMC Fiberglass Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Thomas, Jr., Kirk Thomas, Carl M. Davis, II
  • Wood reinforced corrugated paperboard shipping container with attaching strips
    Patent number: RE34557
    Abstract: A wood reinforced corrugated paperboard shipping container is disclosed having a rigid wood base, a wood reinforced corrugated paperboard body attached thereto and a top frame. The wood reinforced corrugated paperboard body includes attaching strips at the location of the base whereby a wood-to-wood connection is achieved. The wood-to-wood connection, in combination with selectively notched vertical reinforcements, provides for heavy equipment to be packed, shipped, handled and stored without container component separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: North American Container Corporation
    Inventor: John M. Grigsby
  • Doll
    Patent number: D345772
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Inventor: Rhonda J. Smith
  • Umbrella case
    Patent number: D347520
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: CUI International, Inc.
    Inventor: Magda El-Edwy
  • Muscle stimulator
    Patent number: D347898
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Inventor: Pat E. Belcher