Patents Represented by Attorney Leo Gregory
  • Patent number: 5623978
    Abstract: A double claw stump cutting tooth having two cutting heads having cutting faces angled to slice into a stump with both heads adapted for simultaneously cutting or chipping a stump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Inventor: Lyle Clemenson
  • Patent number: 5620274
    Abstract: A mobile suspension arrangement having a central member adapted to frictionally hold in suspension extended wires having related clip members frictionally engaging the wire ends and hanging strings for suspending mobiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Inventor: Stuart C. W. Wear
  • Patent number: 5603551
    Abstract: A desk chair particularly designed to have supporting members disposed between guide members having facing complementary grooves, and the supporting members having supporting rollers riding in said grooves whereby the chair responds to movement of the body to retain it in a good posture position, the only force present in said structure being that of gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Inventor: Kelly Sheehan
  • Patent number: 5586888
    Abstract: This invention is a familiar design overlying the adjacent toe portion of a pair of childrens shoes. With the shoes properly positioned side by side, a child will see the design as a whole and relate the left foot shoe with its left foot and the right foot with its right foot shoe as the proper positions for the shoes to be worn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1996
    Inventor: Marlene K. Webb
  • Patent number: 5561939
    Abstract: A collector of aquatic invertebrates for laboratory study comprising a substantially invisible collector having a removable wide mouth entry portion reducing to a narrow neck inlet passage whereby the invertebrates are secure from escape and are readily removable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Inventor: Donald D. Wik
  • Patent number: 5520565
    Abstract: A flying toy disc with a pivoted fuselage, the disc flying spinning in flight upon being thrust with a forward spinning motion, the disc having a particular transverse configuration which taken with the pivoted fuselage tends to stabilize the flight of the disc by having air streams co-act upon the lower and upper surface of the disc to stabilize the flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Inventor: Clark Ulysse
  • Patent number: 5509792
    Abstract: A reciprocal type of pump structure wherein a piston has a linear function actuated by a pair of coils energized alternately and includes a plurality of tapered flutes. A check valve in an outlet of the structure which stretches to open said outlet under the impact of expelled fluids and of its own volition retracts to the closed position immediately upon the cessation of fluids being expelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: Pumpworks, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul J. Sullivan, Vernon R. Scott, Robert Smith
  • Patent number: 5495794
    Abstract: A hand held utensil adapted to hold a vegetable such as a potato for peeling, the device having a flange retaining the hand in a safe position and having an extension therebeyond securely holding the vegetable in position for peeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Inventor: Clark Ulysse
  • Patent number: 5472166
    Abstract: A sign pole mount having a curved face with a vertical passage and an angled passage therein opening through said face, the mount having a vertical backing wall and a bottom backing wall, each having inward extending grooves along the sides thereof and a base plate having angled projections adapted to respectively receive the grooves in alternate positions for various angled extensions of a sign pole inserted through the passages of the mount. The base plate can be secured either to a vertical or horizontal supporting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Popco, Inc.
    Inventor: Philip A. Wear
  • Patent number: 5465514
    Abstract: This invention relates to a variably decorative picture frame having semi-cylindrical about the face thereof wherein are disposed cylindrical tubes adapted to have therein decorative material in harmony with the decor or environment in which the frame is placed, the same being readily changeable as may be desired or required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Inventor: Clark H. Ulysse
  • Patent number: 5427289
    Abstract: A carrier particularly adapted for use with an automotive vehicle having limited cargo or carrying space which may be readily removably mounted upon the trailer hitch of such a vehicle having a width corresponding to that of the vehicle and being adapted to comprise a hinged tray or shelf which may be lowered to support and carry a load and the carrier may be put into a collapsed position by pivoting said shelf to be in a vertical out of the way position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Inventor: Pierre A. Ostor
  • Patent number: 5427564
    Abstract: Relates to the automatic operation and control of a surface treating device having a powered tool and a work wheel for engagement with a work piece, said device being carried on a robotic arm and being adapted to maintain a uniform pressure of engagement of said work wheel with a work piece and a uniform rate of speed of the working surface of said work wheel in its engagement with the work piece, and a balancing pressure applied to said powered tool and work wheel to in effect make them weightless for their precise control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Robotics and Automation Corp.
    Inventors: Glenn A. Whittington, Steven J. Austin
  • Patent number: 5421611
    Abstract: A self positioning elevating and supporting device carried at the rearward end portion of a snowmobile which upon being released from an inoperative position self positions itself to elevate and support in elevated position the rearward end portion of a snowmobile raising the underlying track arrangement thereof above the supporting ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Inventors: Michael Peterson, Douglas Koppy, Michael Anderson
  • Patent number: 5387064
    Abstract: For the enclosed compartment space of a truck type of automotive vehicle rearward of the cab seating section, particularly herein with reference to a mail delivery truck, a movable shelf supported on rollers running on ledges formed by the internal wheel wells of the body of the truck, the shelf carrying mail baskets therein, both the shelf and baskets thereon being easily reachable by the operator seated in the cab section by use of a hook equipped rod whereby the operator can move forwardly the shelf and baskets thereon to be readily reachable for access thereto without the operator being required to step down to have access to the same by an approach through the rear of the truck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Assignee: Cardinal Materials Flow, Inc.
    Inventor: John B. Cardinal
  • Patent number: 5375910
    Abstract: An elevating member to be disposed upon the seat of a chair to elevate to a raised position the body of a person thereon, the elevating member comprising a pair of overlying plate members being hinged at one side thereof and having a seat supporting surface thereon, the same being hinged as at the front of a seat, said members lying over two sides of an expandable member, means retaining the side walls of said expandable member forming an airtight chamber, a low pressure air supply being connected with said chamber inflating the same and angling the upper of said plate members upwardly and forwardly elevating a person seated thereon to an erect position, this device being particularly adapted for use by persons having difficulty rising to a standing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Air Physics Corporation
    Inventor: Lloyd Murphy
  • Patent number: 5374010
    Abstract: A vertical lift and short takeoff airplane achieving a powered lift which is generated by deflecting downward on the order of nearly 90.degree. the slipstream from the driven propellors by means of the wing flap system of the airplane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: E.G.R. Company
    Inventors: Charles R. Stone, Richard T. Stone
  • Patent number: 5372567
    Abstract: A segmented tool rack having a plurality of individual bays to retain tool heads for an automated selection by a robotic arm, the tool heads being positively locked in the tool rack and upon selection by a robotic arm, the tool head remains in locked position until locked-onto the robotic arm at which time it is unlocked from the tool rack avoiding the possibility of an accidental dropping of a tool head and further, the tool head remains locked in position on said rack in the event of a loss of power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1994
    Assignee: Robotics and Automation Corporation
    Inventors: Glenn A. Whittington, Steven J. Austin
  • Patent number: 5367812
    Abstract: A butt stock extender for a rifle to avoid the impact of recoil on an adjacent head portion of the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Inventor: Peter Lautrec
  • Patent number: D354904
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1995
    Inventor: Mark S. Halsten
  • Patent number: D356197
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Inventor: Stephen C. Loughlin