Patents Represented by Attorney Kenneth P. Glynn
  • Patent number: 6854618
    Abstract: A child resistant multiple dosage blister pack dispenser includes a main housing bottom component having walls and a bottom panel for supporting a blister pack, a middle component, and a main top component. The bottom panel has a plurality of rows of orifices located so as to position a blister pack thereabove, with individual dosages of the blister pack located above the orifices, so that individual dosages are pushed therethrough from the blister pack. The main housing top component is connected to the middle component and is laterally moveable. It has a first position, being a rest position, and a second position, being a dispensing position. There is a biasing spring connected to at least one of the components, that biases the top component relative to the middle component so that the top component is in its first position. There are a plurality of push tabs located on the top component for dispensing in a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Valley Design, Inc.
    Inventor: John E. Harrold
  • Patent number: 6851884
    Abstract: The present invention is an anchoring biscuit device for joining three boards. It includes, (a) a first substantially flat horizontal top element having a generally biscuit-shaped configuration, with opposite sidewalls, at least one of said sidewalls having a flat edge, and at least a portion of said sidewalls being non-parallel with respect to one another; (b) at least one substantially vertical support member attached to the underside of the top element and extending downwardly therefrom for a predetermined length for joinder of two adjacent boards which have been pre-cut with biscuit receiving slots, and, (c) an attachment orifice located at least on the top element for attachment of the anchoring biscuit device to a support board for anchoring and support of the two adjacent boards. In one preferred embodiment, a top bevel is included at the orifice to permit angled screwing at positions other than vertical positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Blue Heron Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: Harry W. Eberle
  • Patent number: 6846254
    Abstract: A sports training device with a breakaway feature, includes a first yoke for removable attachment to a first wrist of a user and a second yoke for removable attachment to a second wrist of the user, and a breakaway connecting strap. The first yoke and second yoke are made of flexible material, being elongated, with a middle portion and two opposing ends. The opposing ends have complementary attachment mechanisms for removably attaching them to one another. The second yoke has a temporary attachment breakaway feature to connect to the strap at the middle portion of the second yoke. The connecting strap has a first end permanently attached to the middle portion of the first yoke, and a second end temporary yoke attachment for attachment to the second yoke, creating a predetermined breakaway resistance when connected to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Inventor: Malcolm M. Baxter
  • Patent number: 6844005
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nasal topical application product for restricting the flow of airborne contaminants into a human nasal passage by creation of a proximate, enhanced electrostatic field. This nasal application product includes: (a) a plurality of masses of one or more electrostatic polymers; and, (b) a topical carrier having the plurality of masses dispersed through a portion thereof. At least one of the electrostatic polymers is a poly (dimethyl diallyl ammonium chloride) polymer and is included in the product in an amount of at least 10% by weight, based on the total weight of the polymers and the topical carrier. The nasal application product may be topical solutions, semisolids, spray solutions and vaporizable solutions. Topical applications may be in the form of ointments, pastes, creams and gels. The carrier of the nasal application product of the present invention may be selected from the group consisting of dilutents, volatile spray carriers, lotions, solvents, gels and hydrogels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Trutek Corp
    Inventors: Ashok L. Wahi, Kanneth Sugathan
  • Patent number: 6835019
    Abstract: The fluid applicator device includes a handle member, a dispensing member, an applicator member and a fluid dispensing mechanism. The handle member acts as a container member adapted to receive and store a fluid. The handle member has an opening, and has a closure device openable and closeable at the opening for insertion of at least one of: a fluid; and a fluid-containing cartridge. The handle member dispensing end connected to a dispensing member that is elongated and substantially cylindrical. The dispensing member has a plurality of apertures to create a dispensing manifold. The hollow applicator member is located around the dispensing member, and may preferably fully extend over the end of the dispensing member, as well. The hollow applicator member is an absorbent, deformable, resilient, sponge-like material, and it is rotatably connected to the dispensing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Inventor: Tracy G. White
  • Patent number: 6824014
    Abstract: The present invention is a combination ice sculpture mold and water cooler container which may be used to freeze a liquid and then cut open to create a frozen sculpture, and it alternatively may be used as a water or other liquid supply in its inverted, open position with a “water cooler”, i.e. a bottled-liquid receiving liquid dispenser. It could be used for both purposes—first with a water cooler and subsequently as an ice sculpture. Alternatively, it may be kept in tack and used as an enclosed “ice sculpture” and subsequently reused for either purpose. It includes a hollow plastic container having a top, a bottom and sidewalls, and a neck and dispensing orifice at its top. The present invention hollow plastic container has a three dimensional sculpture mold formed out of at least one of its sidewalls. The sculpture mold depicts a recognizable unique three-dimensional form of a physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Inventor: John C. Borbone
  • Patent number: 6817419
    Abstract: In a well production management and storage system having at least one collecting tank and the well pump and a control panel with a timing trigger for activating the well pump and deactivating the well pump for a first predetermined run cycle and a first predetermined rest cycle, the improvement is a controller for adjusting at least one of the first predetermined run cycle and the predetermined rest cycle. This controller detects either changes in rate of rise in liquid in the collecting tank and/or water level in the well when the pump is in a run cycle. When these parameters change, by a predetermined increment, the pump run cycle and/or rest cycle is automatically adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Inventor: John A. Reid
  • Patent number: 6817047
    Abstract: The present invention is a collapsible cot with wall members, which includes a base frame, having an open position for use and a collapsed position for storing and transporting, with a footprint to support base flexible sheet material of an area sufficient to support a reclining human at least the size of a young child, and being collapsible so as to reduce its footprint by at least one half. Legs are collapsibly connected to the base frame, and a flexible sheet material is attached to the base frame to support at least a young child. There are at least two collapsible side walls, one each on opposite sides of the base frame, which include flexible sheet material and collapsible wall support mechanism, either hingeably or removably connected to the base frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Inventor: Catherine A. Brodeur
  • Patent number: 6813341
    Abstract: The present invention is an item location system which relies upon voice activation and responsiveness to identify location(s) of item(s) sought by a user. The system includes a continuous speech recognition digital signal processor, a programmable microprocessor interfaced therewith, voice input and user feedback mechanisms, including audio and/or video feedback. Preferred embodiments utilize audio feedback to the user. The continuous speech recognition engine utilizes Hidden Markov Models to create real time continuous speech recognition and feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: iVoice, Inc.
    Inventor: Jerome R. Mahoney
  • Patent number: 6808184
    Abstract: The present invention is a shopping cart for manually transporting goods from one location to another, it includes a bottom frame with a plurality of wheels connected thereto, a vertical support connected to the bottom frame and extending upwardly therefrom to support a basket. The basket has a rigid bottom, an open top, a front, and a back, and two side walls. Each of the side walls includes at least one top member connected to the front and the back. The side walls, front and back, each establish corners where they connect to one another, and these corners include at least one substantially vertical rigid member. The side walls each include a flexible, elastically expandable member connected to the top member and elsewhere to the basket. The flexible, elastically expandable member may be open mesh or sheet, and may be a partial panel. Optionally the flexible, elastically expandable material may be included in the front of the cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Inventor: Marc L. Ames
  • Patent number: 6800119
    Abstract: Fresh and clean air in a forest, which contains abundant anion and phytoncide molecules, relaxes stress and anxiety and helps the metabolism of human body. An apparatus is disclosed in the present invention, which removes the dust particles, chemicals, smelly compounds, etc. in the air. The apparatus further disperses anions and phytoncide molecules in the air to generate an air condition resembling the air environment in a forest, which is fresh, clean and containing substantial amount of anions and phytoncide molecules. The apparatus of the present invention is also very concise and can be used in a small space, such as in an office, a vehicle, etc. The present invention also discloses the design for building the apparatus, which can generate air condition resembling the air environment of a forest, in a compact manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Chang Gung Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chün-Hsiang Huang
  • Patent number: 6776178
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mechanized fumigation tent having a plural suspension system with composite closing structure. It includes an overhead structure; support frame having top; a tarp mounted atop the frame and hanging from the frame to define top and side curtains, the curtains having a lower periphery which defines a bottom perimeter; and first plurality of cables, being curtain cables, and communicating with the overhead structure. The curtain cables are functionally connected to side curtains and adapted for raising and lowering side curtains relative to support frame. There is second plurality of cables, being frame cables, and communicating with the overhead structure and being connected to the frame and adapted to raise and lower the curtains by raising and lowering the first plurality of cables, and so as to raise and lower the frame and the tarp by raising and lowering the second set of cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Glynn, Christopher D. Langhart
  • Patent number: 6758620
    Abstract: A metered dose dispensing dabber device includes a dabber main housing having a container attachment for affixing the device to a container, a metered dosage reservoir, a hollow dip tube, a metered dosage reservoir outlet, and a valve. The main housing has a base divider wall, this base divider wall having an underside and top side. Further, the base divider wail is closed to prevent liquid from passing from the underside to the top side. The metered dosage reservoir has enclosed walls and is located above the top side of the divider wall. The hollow dip tube passes through the base divider wall and extends downwardly therefrom for insertion into a container. The dip tube also extends upwardly to a predetermined height in the metered dosage reservoir to establish a fill level. The metered dosage reservoir outlet is located on a metered dosage reservoir wall opposite the dip tube. The valve is located in the reservoir outlet, in proximity to the dip tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Valley Design, Inc.
    Inventor: John E. Harrold
  • Patent number: 6759114
    Abstract: An extruded hollow thermoplastic board, which includes a pair of flat and parallel sheets spaced apart and interconnected by extending ribs, generally has a plurality of depression bands in the areas where the flat sheets and extending ribs are joined. The bands, which negatively affect the surface flatness, are especially apparent for crystalline thermoplastic materials. A hollow thermoplastic board, which effectively reduces the depth of the depression bands by inclusion of locationally fixed gas pockets in the rib area during production, is disclosed in the present invention. The hollow thermoplastic board of the present invention substantially enhances the surface smoothness and is highly beneficial to applications such as printing, lamination and graphic art. The present invention also provides a method for production of the hollow thermoplastic boards of smooth surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Inteplast Group, LTD
    Inventors: Phillip C. L. Wu, Yao Cheng, Haur Horng Yang, Jyh-yao Raphael Li
  • Patent number: 6739095
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an outdoor tent, which includes of a flat, flexible sheet material for its main body. Along the peripheral edge (i.e. near the bottom edge) or along each of at least two of the plurality of edges, there is at least one, and preferably, a plurality of tank compartment anchors, each having at least one fill orifice and closure means for the fill orifice. The plurality of tank compartment anchors are hollow, flexible tank compartment anchors, and, in preferred embodiments, the tank compartment anchors and sheet material are formed of the same material. In some preferred embodiments, the tank compartment anchors also have drain plugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Inventor: Peter N. Glynos
  • Patent number: 6728089
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a wide input voltage range surge suppressor. It includes a series circuit for attachment to an upstream AC power input, and to a downstream load. There is a nonlinear low pass L-C filter having an inductor (and in some preferred embodiments, a low Q linear inductor) and a diode bridge, wherein the diode bridge includes at least one large value capacitor. There are two or three electrolytic capacitors of the nonlinear low pass L-C filter diode bridge in preferred embodiments. There is also a two section high pass filter connected to the electrolytic capacitor. This two section high pass filter has at least two diversely rated capacitors and at least three diversely rated resistors. A voltage offset diode is connected to the two section high pass filter and at least one electronic switch is connected to the voltage offset diode, with at least one capacitor connected to the electronic switch. The electronic switch is preferably a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Inventor: Jack R. Harford
  • Patent number: 6726053
    Abstract: A child resistant multiple dosage blister pack dispenser includes a main housing bottom component having walls and a bottom panel for supporting a blister pack, and a main top component. The bottom panel has a plurality of orifices located so as to position a blister pack thereabove, with individual dosages of the blister pack located above the orifices. These orifices are of sufficient size and shape to push individual dosages from the blister pack therethrough. The main housing top component is permanently connected to the bottom component and is laterally moveable relative to the bottom component. The top component has a first position, being a rest position, and having a second position, being a dispensing position. There is a biasing spring connected to at least one of the bottom component and the top component, that biases the top component relative to the bottom component so that the top component is in its first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Inventor: John E. Harrold
  • Patent number: 6692171
    Abstract: A squeegee with squeegee handle and remote spraying device, includes a squeegee section having an enclosed container for holding liquid, a sprayer head, which is in connection with the squeegee section, and a surface extending in a lengthwise direction. The enclosed container has a threaded neck. The sprayer head has a threaded cap adapted for engaging the threaded neck, as well as a dispensing means for dispensing the liquid. The dispensing means includes a trigger being in connection with a conduit, a nozzle at an end of the sprayer head, and pressure inducing means for inducing a pressure change in the conduit so as to draw spraying agent into the conduit and out of the nozzle. The conduit extends through the threaded cap and into the enclosed container. There is also a squeegee blade attached to the sprayer head and being nearly perpendicular to the surface of said enclosed container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Inventor: John Vito
  • Patent number: 6681945
    Abstract: A child resistant overcap and container device is specifically for containers having non-round bodies, at least non-round upper bodies, with round necks, especially oval shaped containers. The container has a round neck for attachment of an inner cap. The shape of the container is such that it is wider than it is deep, to create side to side shoulders. There is also a collar permanently attached to the neck that has an open, central circular portion and a pair of opposite shoulders extending outwardly from side to side above the shoulders of the container. The collar has either at least one J-slot or at least one J-slot tracking protrusion located on at least one of its front and back. There is also an overcap having a front and back and opposing sides, and having a hollow inside. The overcap has an outside footprint substantially corresponding to the footprint of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Valley Design, Inc.
    Inventor: John E. Harrold
  • Patent number: D488373
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Blue Heron Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: Harry W Eberle