Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Kenneth Jack
  • Patent number: 6682111
    Abstract: An impact absorbing truck grille guard having a rear frame consisting of a matrix of triangular tubes, the rear frame having an upper end, a lower end, and a forward end, the forward end of the rear frame defining a forwardly opening deflection space; a front frame having an upper end, a lower end, and a forward animal impact surface, the upper and lower ends of the front frame being respectively fixedly attached to the upper and lower ends of the rear frame, the front frame consisting of a rectangular array of hollow collapsible tubes, the front frame being adapted for, upon animal impact, deflecting rearwardly into the forwardly opening deflection space; and a truck mounting bracket fixedly attached to the lower end of the rear frame, the truck mounting bracket being adapted for fixed attachment to a truck front end and for cantilevered upward extension of the front and rear frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Kritter Gitter, Inc.
    Inventors: Terrance Lane Houseman, Merrill Lee Cauble, Lonnie Ray Martin, II, Michael Lee McCoy
  • Patent number: 6523619
    Abstract: A dirt grading implement consisting of a mounting plate having a front side, a back side, a left side, a right side, and having a lower end, the back side of the mounting plate being adapted for removable attachment to the boom arm or lift arms of mobile earth moving equipment; a bar fixedly attached to the lower end of the mounting plate, the bar having a leftwardly extending section and a rightwardly extending section, the sections extending respectively leftwardly and rightwardly from the left and right sides of the mounting plate, the bar having a forwardly oriented face and a downwardly oriented dirt engaging face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Inventor: Robert Cherry
  • Patent number: 6452336
    Abstract: A lamp for recessed ceiling mounting consisting of a ceiling aperture lining flange defining an air dam receiving space; a mounting plate fixedly attached to and extending outwardly from the upper end of said flange; a ballast; spirally threaded screws removedly mounting the ballast upon the mounting plates; a concave air dam having an interior flourescent tube receiving space; a plurality of friction clips connecting the air dam to said flange, said clips positioning the air dam within said flange's air dam receiving space; a flourescent light tube; and a plurality of spring clips mounting the flourescent light tube within the interior space of the concave air dam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Inventor: Raju S. Dandu
  • Patent number: 6447053
    Abstract: A concrete buggy operator protector consisting of a “U” bracket having a rearward end, a left arm, and a right arm, the left and right arms each having a forward end, the rearward end of the “U” bracket in combination with the left and right arms defining an operator protection space; cowl mounting slip pins fixedly attached to the forward ends of the left and right arms of the “U” bracket; an impact column fixedly attached to and extending downwardly from the rearward end of the “U” bracket; and a step mounting slip pin fixedly attached to a lower end of the impact column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Inventor: Lowell McDonald
  • Patent number: 6447204
    Abstract: A screed consisting of a screeding implement suspension frame; a first screeding implement having a first grading blade attached to a forward end of the screeding implement suspension frame so that a lower end of the first grading blade extends downwardly to a first elevation; a second screeding implement attached to the screeding implement suspension frame rearwardly from the first grading blade so that a lower end of the second screeding implement extends downwardly to a second elevation below the first elevation; a second grading blade; and spirally threaded nuts and bolts removably attaching the second grading blade to the first grading blade so that the lower end of the second grading blade extends downwardly below the second elevation; a third screeding implement attached to the screeding implement suspension frame rearwardly of the second screeding implement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Inventor: Lowell McDonald
  • Patent number: 6247757
    Abstract: A rotatable implement depth control apparatus consisting of a mounting plate having an upper end, a lower end, a forward face, a rearward face, a right side, a left side, and a lateral axis extending from the right side to the left side, the mounting plate being rotatable about the lateral axis; a rollable trolley, the rollable trolley having a forward end, a rearward end, a right side, and a left side; a rotatable implement carrying frame having a forward end, a rearward end, a right side, and a left side, the forward end of the rotatable implement carrying frame being pivotally attached to the rollable trolley; a rotatable implement having a right side, a left side, and having an axis of rotation extending from the right side to the left side, the rotatable implement being rotatably mounted within the rotatable implement carrying frame; and, a plurality of arms for transferring rotational motion of the mounting plate about the lateral axis to pivotal motion of the frame about the pivotal attachment to the r
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Inventor: Gary Cochran
  • Patent number: 5988292
    Abstract: A rotatable tilling device for tilling ground material, the device consisting of a rotatable shaft having an upper end, a lower end, and having an axis of rotation extending from its upper end to its lower end; a plurality of ground tilling tines, each ground tilling tine having an upper end and a lower end; and, upper and lower tine mounting structure capable of attaching the ground tilling tines to the rotatable shaft so that they span between the tine mounting structure, so that upon rotation of the rotatable shaft the ground tilling tines orbit about the axis of rotation, so that on contact of the rotatable shaft with ground material, the ground tilling tines also contact the ground material, and so that the ground tilling tines may flexibly bend between the upper and lower tine mounting structure; the upper and lower tine mounting structure fixedly attaching the ground tilling tines to the rotatable shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Inventor: Jerry Wayne Knotts
  • Patent number: 5984128
    Abstract: A tamper resistant box for shielding from tampering a telephone system junction box installed upon a wall of a building, consisting of a pair of side walls; an upper or lower wall fixedly attached to or homogeneously fused with the upper or lower ends of the side walls, the upper or lower wall spanning between the side walls; wall attaching means fixedly attached to or homogeneously fused with the inward ends of the side walls; an access panel fitted so that it may span between the lower or upper ends of the side walls; access panel attaching means capable of removably attaching the access panel to the lower or upper ends of the side walls; a false access panel fitted so that it may span between the outer ends of the side walls and so that it may span between the outer ends of the upper or lower wall and the access panel; and false access panel attaching means capable of permanently attaching the false access panel to the outer ends of the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Inventor: Britt Pate
  • Patent number: 5983990
    Abstract: A machine for warming and spraying paint comprising a water cooled internal combustion engine, a pump for pumping the paint, a power transfer means linking the engine drive linkage to the pump drive linkage, a heat exchange chamber having an interior channel therethrough enabling heated liquid coolant and paint introduced into the heat exchange chamber to flow therethrough and exchange heat without commingling of the two fluids, a liquid coolant transfer means for carrying the liquid coolant in a circuit path including the internal combustion engine radiator, the internal combustion engine, and the heat exchange chamber, and a paint transfer means allowing paint to travel through an open ended path including the pump and the heat exchange chamber, the paint transfer means allowing the paint to be pumped by the internal combustion engine and the pump and to be simultaneously warmed by heat transferred from the liquid coolant to the paint within the heat exchange chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Inventor: Kenneth Alvarez
  • Patent number: 5979356
    Abstract: A needle indicator including a display plate, the display plate being mountable on a sewing machine for viewing by a sewing machine operator; needle size indicia fixedly attached to or homogeneously fused with the display plate; needle type indicia fixedly attached to or homogeneously fused with the display plate; a size indicia marker slidably mounted upon the display plate, the size indicia marker being capable of alternately and selectively designating the needle size indicia; and a type indicia marker slidably mounted upon the display plate, the type indicia marker being capable of selectively and alternately designating the needle type indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Inventor: Linda Goodmon Emery
  • Patent number: 5974917
    Abstract: A tool for installing and removing MIG welding gun contact tips, the contact tips being substantially cylindrical, having substantially circular cross-sectional shapes and having cross-sectional diameters; the tool consisting of a tube having an outer peripheral surface, having a forward, having a rearward end, and having a conical bore, the conical bore of the tube having a forward end and a rearward end, the forward end of the conical bore having a diameter greater than the cross-sectional diameters of the contact tips and the rearward end of the conical bore having a diameter less than the cross-sectional diameters of the contact tips; and `T` handle means fixedly attached to or homogeneously fused with the outer peripheral surface of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Inventor: Michael A. Way
  • Patent number: 5976011
    Abstract: A straw and chaff spreading assembly consisting of a left spreader plate having a plurality of spreader fins fixedly attached thereto, a right spreader plate, having a plurality of spreader fins fixedly attached thereto, left spreader plate rotating means capable of rotatably mounting and upwardly angularly accelerating the left spreader plate, right spreader plate rotating means capable of rotatably mounting and downwardly angularly accelerating the right spreader plate; and, an oblongated straw and chaff deflecting shield fixedly mounted upon the rearward end of the harvester combine and positioned forward of the axes of rotation of the left and right spreader plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Inventor: Everett A. Hartman
  • Patent number: 5975824
    Abstract: An apparatus for bale lifting and load dumping, including a support frame; a truck bed overlying the support frame, the rearward end of the truck bed being pivotally attached to the rearward end of the support frame; a lift arm articulating beam, the lift arm articulating beam being pivotally attached to the rearward end of the truck bed; a pair of bale lifting arms extending substantially perpendicularly from the lift arm articulating beam; an actuator having an alternately extendable and retractable shaft, the actuator having a first end and a second end, the first end of the actuator being pivotally attached to the support frame; and a linkage interconnecting the second end of the actuator and the lift arm articulating beam; the connection of the linkage to the lift arm articulating beam being positioned so that upon alternate restraint of pivotal motion of the truck bed about the pivotal attachment to the support frame, and restraint of pivotal motion of the lift arm articulating beam about the pivotal at
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Inventor: Dewey Hostetler
  • Patent number: 5938579
    Abstract: A magnetic roller has a plurality of outwardly opening spacer receiving channels therearound, the roller being composed of a ferromagnetic steel; a plurality of non-magnetic spacers, each such spacer's interior surface forming a magnet receiving channel, each such spacer being composed of a non-magnetic material; a multiplicity of permanent magnets; a multiplicity of pole pieces, each such pole piece being composed of ferromagnetic steel; each non-magnetic spacer being fixedly mounted within a spacer receiving channel; the permanent magnets and pole pieces being fixedly mounted within the magnet receiving channels of the non-magnetic spacers, so that the pole pieces are alternately interspaced between the permanent magnets; and so that the permanent magnets are alternately oriented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Inventor: Arnold B. Cavazos
  • Patent number: 5938047
    Abstract: An assembly for storage and retrieval of materials consisting of a right gantry carrying track, a left gantry carrying track in parallel alignment with the right gantry carrying track, a right column, a left column, right column mounting means rollably mounting the right column upon the right gantry carrying track, left column mounting means rollably mounting the left column upon the left gantry carrying track, a lift beam having cantilevered lift arms fixedly attached thereto, lift beam mounting means mounting the lift beam upon the left and right columns so that the lift beam may be upwardly and downwardly moved, storage rack carrying tracks positioned between the gantry carrying tracks in parallel alignment, storage racks, and storage rack mounting means rollably mounting the storage racks upon the storage rack carrying tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Inventors: Chris Ellis, Bill Schnittker
  • Patent number: 5938301
    Abstract: A track assembly for a track laying vehicle or implement, such assembly comprising a rotatable hub having a plurality of track support members, each such member having an outwardly curved outer surface; such hub further having an inner suspending and positioning means, such means being capable of fixedly suspending such members in a circular pattern; such means suspending and positioning such members in a circular pattern; and, a continuous loop track, having an exterior ground engaging side, and having an outwardly curved interior hub engaging side, the hub engaging side of such track being in frictional contact with the outer surfaces of a plurality of such members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Inventors: Dewey Hostetler, Raymond Forpahl
  • Patent number: 5909934
    Abstract: A computer desk consisting of an oblongated base; a chair having a seat, and a forward edge; a chair attaching column interconnecting the chair and the oblongated base so that the chair overlies the rearward end of the oblongated base; a support column having a hollow interior space fitted for receiving and retaining a personal computer central processing unit having a tower configuration; slide ridges and slide channels slidably attaching the support column to the oblongated base so that the support column extends upwardly from the upper surface of the oblongated base, and so that the support column may be slidably positioned along the longitudinal axis of the oblongated base; and a cantilevered desk top fixedly attached to or homogeneously fused with the upper end of the support column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Inventor: Jon McGraw
  • Patent number: 5895183
    Abstract: A circular hole cutting apparatus comprising a support frame, having a forward end, a rearward end, a lower end, and an upper end; the forward end forming a cutting bit mounting means, capable of rotatably retaining a cutting bit so that the upper end of the cutting bit may upwardly extend from the upper end of the support frame, and so that the lower end of such a cutting bit may downwardly extend from the lower end of the support frame; and the lower end of the support frame forming a radius arm mounting means, the radius arm mounting means being capable of adjustably retaining a radius arm, so that the rearward end of the radius arm may alternately extend rearwardly from the rearward end of the support frame and retract forwardly from positions rearward of the rearward end of the support frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Inventors: Jamie McDaniel, David Anderson
  • Patent number: 5881392
    Abstract: A clothing assembly comprising of trousers, the trousers having a waist, a waistband, a right leg, and a left leg; and the trousers having a belt retaining loop, the belt retaining loop being fixedly attached to the right side of the trousers and positioned thereon so that the upper end of the belt loop lies below the waistband; and comprising a flexible belt, the flexible belt being positioned to form an upper loop and a lower loop, the upper loop extending upwardly and leftwardly from the belt retaining loop, the lower loop extending downwardly and leftwardly from the belt retaining loop, the upper loop encircling the waist of the trousers, and the lower loop encircling the right leg of the trousers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Inventors: Gregory Alan Koerner, H. Alice States
  • Patent number: D464593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Inventor: Ernest R. Register