Patents Represented by Law Firm Kinney, Lange, Braddock, Westman & Fairbairn
  • Patent number: 4456355
    Abstract: A processor for processing undeveloped photographic film discs mounted on a spindle assembly has a conveyor to intermittently convey the spindle assembly from a first end to a second end of the processor along a generally horizontal conveyor path. The spindle assembly is conveyed to a plurality of processing stations along the conveyor path, with each processing station having a processing tank. During processing, the processing tanks move between an upward process position and a downward dump and transport position. A fluid dispenser at each processing station dispenses processing fluid to the processing tank at that processing station when a spindle assembly is positioned at that processing station. A spindle sensor at the first end of the processor provides a signal indicative of the presence of the spindle assembly in the processor. The operations of the conveyor, processing tank movement and fluid dispensers are controlled by a control apparatus as a function of the spindle sensor signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignee: Pako Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Kaufmann, Robert W. Lundstrom, Robert E. Beer
  • Patent number: 4455077
    Abstract: A processor for processing undeveloped photographic film discs mounted on a spindle assembly has a conveyor to intermittently convey the spindle assembly along a generally horizontal conveyor path. The spindle assembly is conveyed to a plurality of processing stations on the conveyor path, with each processing station having a processing tank. During processing, the processing tanks pivot between an upward process position and a downward dump/transport position. In their upward process position, selected processing tanks are filled with processing fluids. When the spindle assembly is positioned at one of the selected processing tanks and that tank is in its upward process position and filled with processing fluid, portions of the film discs on the spindle assembly are contacted by the procesing fluid. The spindle and discs are then rotated to uniformly contact the photographic images on the film discs with the processing solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1984
    Assignee: Pako Corporation
    Inventors: Raisa Shpits, Robert W. Lundstrom, Benjamin H. Sannel
  • Patent number: 4443099
    Abstract: A photographic printing system including a masking card for carrying a transparency bearing an image to be printed at an aperture thereof. The card contributes to registration of the image within the printer optical path. The masking cards are carried in a first receptacle in stacking relation to others of the masking cards. A printing station is provided generally at the optical path of the printer and a card transport removes masking cards from the first card receptacle and conveys them to the printing station. A second card receptacle is provided while the printing station includes apparatus for ejecting masking cards from the printing station to the second card receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1984
    Assignee: Lucht Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Dale L. Linman, Stephen A. Bartz
  • Patent number: 4441453
    Abstract: An artificial fish habitat consisting of individual strands of a buoyant, water impervious material, such as foamed polyethylene or polypropylene, secured to a zinc anchor weight for installation on the bed of a body of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Assignee: Berkley and Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. McMickle, Danny R. Foote
  • Patent number: 4441273
    Abstract: A resilient ferrule cover for joining tapered tubular sections of a fishing rod wherein the ferrule cover is slid over a male ferrule portion with one end of the ferrule cover abutting a female ferrule while covering an exposed portion of the male ferrule and the other end of the ferrule cover abuts a chamfered transition between the male ferrule and its supporting rod segment. After the ferrule is repeatedly assembled, wear of the parts increases, and the ferrule cover, since it is flexible, rides up over the portion of the rod to which the male ferrule is attached, assuring a continued firm ferrule junction while covering the exposed ferrule portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Assignee: Berkley and Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. McMickle, James T. Rumbaugh
  • Patent number: 4432341
    Abstract: A solar heater includes an elongated solar collector having two fixedly connected solar panels of highly heat conductive material supported by a roof clamp on a shingled roof. The bottom edges of each of the solar panels include upturned gutter portions. One form of roof clamp for shingled roofs includes a J-shape shingle clamp member having a clamp bolt extending therethrough, and a solar collector clamp member assembled on the bolt and clamped to the bottom gutter portions of the solar panels. A bottom plate of the J-shape clamp member is slid under a shingle of a first shingle course and under a shingle of a second upper shingle course to carry the bolt into the top of the gap between adjacent shingle portions of the first course and to position a top plate of the shingle clamp member over parts of the shank portions of the first course and over a part of the one shingle of the second course. A clamp nut clamps the collector clamp member and the shinlge clamp member firmly to the contacted shingles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Assignee: Future Tech, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary L. Howe, Samuel G. Koutavas
  • Patent number: 4429484
    Abstract: An animal snare support includes an upright shank portion, ground support structure integral with the shank for fixedly positioning the shank with respect to the ground, a substantially horizontal bar portion integral with and extending away from the shank at the top end of the shank, and a snare support collar integral with the horizontal bar portion. The support collar has an opening therethrough, the axis of which lies at an acute angle above the horizontal. An animal snare consisting of a length of flexible multi-filament steel snare wire has an anchor end portion extending through the snare support collar and a loop end portion extending outwardly from the collar. A snare lock encompasses the loop end portion and an intermediate portion of the wire to form a snare loop. When the snare is set, the snare lock will be positioned adjacent the snare support collar, and the axis of the snare wire then supporting the lock will lie at an acute angle above the horizontal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
    Inventor: Ardell M. Grawe
  • Patent number: 4428249
    Abstract: In a processor of photosensitive material, a torque sensor actuates an alarm when a helical gear is subjected to torque in excess of a first predetermined value. The torque sensor includes a helical gear positioned on a shaft and biased against a stop. The gear is slidably attached to the shaft along the axis of the shaft and is fixedly attached to the shaft in an angular direction by a key. A shoulder of a flexible rubber boot movable with the gear along the shaft axis moves with the gear when the torque exceeds the first predetermined value and actuates a switch to warn the operator. In addition, as the torque increases, the gear slidably moves along the shaft past the key, thereby allowing the shaft to freely rotate in an angular direction within the gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Assignee: Pako Corporation
    Inventor: Keith L. Henk
  • Patent number: 4426606
    Abstract: Emergency braking device for a brushless motor comprising damping means connected through a switch to the windings of the brushless motor in case of emergency to dissipate the energy stored in the inductance of the windings of the brushless motor. The impedance characteristics of the damper means are optimized by selecting a capacitance which has a predetermined relationship to the inductance of the motor winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1984
    Assignees: Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd., Electro-Craft Corp.
    Inventors: Muneo Suita, Kazuo Mogi
  • Patent number: D272199
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1984
    Assignee: Drag Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Rudd
  • Patent number: D272424
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Assignee: Drag Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Alwin J. Stahel
  • Patent number: D272556
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
    Assignee: Berkley and Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. McMickle, James T. Rumbaugh
  • Patent number: D272610
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1984
    Assignee: Drag Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Alwin J. Stahel
  • Patent number: D272729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Assignee: Drag Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Alwin J. Stahel
  • Patent number: D272785
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1984
    Assignee: Berkley and Company, Inc.
    Inventor: James T. Rumbaugh
  • Patent number: D272787
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1984
    Assignee: Berkley and Company, Inc.
    Inventor: James T. Rumbaugh
  • Patent number: D274053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1984
    Assignee: Drag Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Alwin J. Stahel
  • Patent number: D274122
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Drag Specialties, Inc.
    Inventors: Alwin J. Stahel, James M. Preisler
  • Patent number: D274136
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Drag Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Alwin J. Stahel
  • Patent number: D274137
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Drag Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Alwin J. Stahel