Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Lucas & Just
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Patent number: 4961593Abstract: A lightweight, collapsible golf trolley is disclosed comprising an extruded elongate chassis member 1 of lightweight metal or alloy, e.g. aluminum. The chassis member 1 is of an inverted channel section with two downwardly and outwardly flared side wall sections 2, 3 against which are pivoted the wheel struts 4, 5 which are likewise lightweight alloy extrusions. Preferably the struts are in two halves forming a parallel linkage with the chassis and the wheel brackets 13. Hinged to the forward end of the chassis is a handle 27 which can be folded to a position alongside the chassis thus collapsing the wheel struts via the tie 37.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1988Date of Patent: October 9, 1990Assignee: Acushnet LimitedInventors: Mark A. Sanders, Derek D. Roberts
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Patent number: 4960281Abstract: The golf ball has no three dimples in a row with edges aligned. This pattern produces a golf ball with reduced drag. The preferred golf ball has multiple sizes of dimples.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1989Date of Patent: October 2, 1990Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventor: Steven Aoyama
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Patent number: 4960283Abstract: The multiple dimpled golf ball has 78% or more of its surface covered with dimples. For a golf ball with a total of 414 dimples, 144 dimples have a diameter of 0.14 inches and 270 dimples have a diameter of 0.15 inches. If no dimples are removed from the poles, then the golf ball has 422 dimples.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1989Date of Patent: October 2, 1990Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventor: William Gobush
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Patent number: 4959000Abstract: An improved retractable pin mold for golf balls has a gate valve positioned at the pole of the core.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1989Date of Patent: September 25, 1990Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventor: John P. Giza
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Patent number: 4957551Abstract: The method for treating the dust entails the following steps:(a) supplying a combination of dust, a reducing agent and flux to a gastight electrothermic smelting furnace,(b) smelting, reducing and volatilizing certain metals in the smelting furnace,(c) tapping of an inert slag phase and a liquid metal phase from the smelting furnace,(d) continuous removal from the smelting furnace of a gas phase containing chiefly CO-gas, metal fumes, sulphur, chlorides and fluorides together with entrained unreacted dust,(e) further treatment of the gas phase.The process produces an inert slag phase which can be safely deposited in a landfill. The process also allows for recovery of valuable metal components from the dust.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1988Date of Patent: September 18, 1990Assignee: Elkem a/sInventors: Jan A. Aune, Thor Pedersen
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Patent number: 4955613Abstract: The golf ball product is made from two polybutadienes, each having a Mooney viscosity of below about 50 and a cis-1,4 content of greater than about 40%. One polybutadiene is nickel- or cobalt-catalyzed, while the other is lanthanide-catalyzed. The golf ball product includes a mix of the two polybutadienes, a metal salt of an unsaturated carboxylic acid and a free radical initiator.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1989Date of Patent: September 11, 1990Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Paul M. Gendreau, Lauro C. Cadorniga
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Patent number: 4949976Abstract: The multiple dimpled golf ball has 78% or more of its surface covered with dimples. For a golf ball with a total of 324 (332) dimples, 124 (132) dimples have a diameter of 0.157 inches and 200 dimples have a diameter of 0.17 inches. For a golf ball with a total of 384 (392) dimples, there are two configurations: (a) 144 (152) dimples have a diameter of 0.14 inches and 240 dimples have a diameter of 0.16 inches; or (b) 66 (72) dimples have a diameter of 0.13 inches and 318 (320) dimples have a diameter of 0.16 inches. For a golf ball with a total of 414 (422) dimples, 144 (152) dimples have a diameter of 0.14 inches and 270 dimples have a diameter of 0.15 inches. For a golf ball with a total of 484 (492) dimples, there are two configurations: (a) 174 (182) dimples have a diameter of 0.13 inches and 310 dimples have a diameter of 0.14 inches; or (b) 170 (178) dimples have a diameter of 0.13 inches, 260 dimples have a diameter of 0.14 inches, and 50 dimples have a diameter of 0.15 inches.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1988Date of Patent: August 21, 1990Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventor: William Gobush
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Patent number: 4949445Abstract: Disclosed is a process for fitting a cylindrical sleeve around a cylindrical core. The core is covered with a layer of compressible material.Upon mounting a pressurized medium is fed between the inner surface of the sleeve and the outer surface of the compressible layer.The compressible layer, of which at least the outer layer is impermeable for the pressurized medium, is compressed and the sleeve can be slid on the core.Also is disclosed a roller core for use in a process as discussed above.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1989Date of Patent: August 21, 1990Assignee: Stork Screens B.V.Inventors: Anthonius M. Van Der Meulen, Albert J. Bosch
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Patent number: 4948395Abstract: The media is permethylated hydroxy ether of cyclodextrin and is used in capillary gas chromatographic columns.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1989Date of Patent: August 14, 1990Assignee: Advanced Separations Technologies Inc.Inventor: Daniel W. Armstrong
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Patent number: 4948143Abstract: A golf ball having dimples covering its surface and having four great circular paths on the surface of the golf ball where none of the paths intersect a dimple is disclosed. The four great circular paths are obtained by laying out an octahedron on the surface of the golf ball and connecting the midpoint of each edge of the octahedron to form eight equilateral triangles and four squares. The dimples are arranged by filling each triangle and square with dimples. Golf balls having four great circular paths and 456, 408 and 432 dimples are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 1989Date of Patent: August 14, 1990Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventor: Steven Aoyama
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Patent number: 4947662Abstract: The electronic key has a drive head and a turning blade for inserting in a rotor of a lock. The key has an intermediate zone, on the edges of which there are retractile contacts charged by springs in corresponding housings. These retractile contacts are joined to conducting plates that come through the head from the electronic circuit integrated in the drive head itself. On the insertion and turn of the key in the lock these retractile contacts enter into connection with fixed contacts of the corresponding electronic circuit of the lock that are included in the interior wall of an annular extension of the stator in front of the rotor of the lock.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1989Date of Patent: August 14, 1990Assignee: Talleres de Escoriaza, S.A.Inventor: Juan A. Imedio
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Patent number: 4946593Abstract: A rubber composition for use with potable water is disclosed. The composition is based on butyl rubber. The accelerator system is carbamate-free and the composition preferably includes coal-derived carbon black. Improvements in processing are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1989Date of Patent: August 7, 1990Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventor: Edward P. Pinigis
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Patent number: 4943930Abstract: The method and apparatus for the non-destructive evaluation of a concrete mass uses the maturity method for evaluating the strength and durability of the concrete mass. The apparatus employs sensors which are implanted in the concrete along with a microprocessor and non-volatile RAM or EEPROM. A microcomputer is used periodically to up load the RAM and to make an evaluation of the concrete mass.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 1989Date of Patent: July 24, 1990Inventor: Farrokh F. Radjy
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Patent number: 4941914Abstract: The desulfurization agent for molten iron is made up of 95 to 70% commercial calcium carbide, 30 to 5% calcium aluminate slag, and 10 to 0% of a metal oxide. The calcium aluminate slag is made up of 65 to 50% calcium oxide, 35 to 25% aluminum oxide, and 12 to 3% calcium fluoride. The metal oxides are ferric oxide, manganomanganic oxide and ferrosoferric oxide. The desulfurizing agent has been found to reduce the amount of calcium carbide in the resulting slag.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1989Date of Patent: July 17, 1990Assignee: Elkem Metals CompanyInventors: Donald B. Craig, Thomas K. McCluhan
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Patent number: 4942042Abstract: An anti-diarrhea composition comprises diarrhea symptom-reducing amounts of a powdered absorptive material capable of absorbing pathogenic intestinal bacteria, a sodium salt, a potassium salt and a sugar. The absorptive material may be Smectite or mormoiron attapulgite. The salts are preferably NaCl and KCl, with NaHCO.sub.3 also being present. Suitable sugars are glucose and dextrose. The composition may also contain a suspending agent, a coloring agent, a flavoring agent and a sweetening agent. It may be packaged in solid form for admixture with water prior to administration and is preferably moisture protected, for example by the nature of the packaging or by inclusion of a dessicant. The absorptive material may be packaged separately from the salts and sugar. On admixture with water for adminstration, the composition preferably contains, per liter, 2.5 to 15 g of absorptive material, 10 to 30 g of glucose, 60 to 120 mEq of Na.sup.+, 10 to 50 mEq of HCO.sup.- and 10 to 30 mEq of K.sup.+.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1988Date of Patent: July 17, 1990Assignee: Societe de Conseils de Recherches et d'Applications Scientifiques (S. C. A. S.)Inventors: Hridaya Bhargava, Jacques Jutteau
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Patent number: 4941511Abstract: Device with valve function which can be brought into and out of a pipeline and parked in the same. The device comprises a channel for throughflowing fluid, a valve (2) which is medium controlled and/or remote-controlled, a parking brake/packer seal unit (9) which with limited force can be brought to bear against the wall of the pipeline, a cylindrical wire anchor (1) with an external diameter which is slightly lesser than the internal diameter of the pipeline and can be brought into pressure contact with the pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1988Date of Patent: July 17, 1990Assignee: Den norske stats oljeselskap a.sInventors: Trond V. Johansen, Ola Ruch, Ludvig Naess, K. P. Kristjansson, S. F. Utengen
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Patent number: 4940198Abstract: Bracket unit for fixing a gutter to an eaves section (1), comprising fixing means consisting of a bolt (6) for insertion through a bore formed in the eaves, and mating therewith a nut (4), a bracket part (10; 31; 35, 36), a curved bottom end part of which is suitable for supporting the gutter, and an elongated supporting part (3; 20) with an insertion space (8; 29) for the accommodation and retention therein of the other, top end part (9; 30; 37) of the bracket part (10; 31; 35, 36), a supporting surface to be fitted against a bottom side of the eaves, and a bore (12, 15; 25) for passage of the bolt (6), said bore being directed at right angles to the supporting surface and running through the supporting surface, and also comprising positioning means for positioning the supporting part (3; 20) and the bracket part (10; 31; 35; 36) relative to each other from a number of positions, while the supporting part (3; 20) consists of only one part which is to be fitted on the bottom side of the roof section (1), andType: GrantFiled: November 14, 1988Date of Patent: July 10, 1990Inventor: Gerrit J. de Wilde
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Patent number: 4940215Abstract: The present invention relates to a cover for a tiltable ladle said cover having a pouring basin with at least one opening in its bottom communicating with the ladle. The cover is suspended in the horizontal beam of a ladle support frame by springs, said springs being intended to lift the cover away from the top of the ladle when the pouring basin is empty.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1989Date of Patent: July 10, 1990Assignee: Elkem a/sInventor: Douglas S. White
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Patent number: 4936587Abstract: Dimples on a golf ball are interrelated by dimple number, dimple diameter and dimple depth and are arranged on the surface of the golf ball in a manner which enables the golf ball to travel further. At least about 80% of the distances between the closest points of the edges of adjacent dimples are less than about 0.065 inches and at least about 55% of the distances between the closest points of the edges of adjacent dimples are greater than about 0.001 inches.Dimple number, dimple diameter and dimple depth are also interrelated in a specific manner according to the formula: ##EQU1## wherein: d=average depth of all dimples in inchesD=average diameter of all dimples in inchesS=computed unknown (1.0 or less for present invention)x, y, a and b are dependent on the number of dimples.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1980Date of Patent: June 26, 1990Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Francis deS. Lynch, John W. Jepson, Robert A. Brown
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Patent number: 4935060Abstract: The cement slurry of the present invention is gas tight, very low strength retrogression at high temperature, and substantially no tendency to settle or segregate. The cement slurry is made with a hydraulic cement, 5-85% microsilica based on the weight of the cement, 5-250% of a high density filler material based on the weight of the cement, 0-5% of a retarder (dry weight) based on the weight of the cement, 0-12% of a thinner (dry weight) based on the weight of the cement, 0-8% of a fluid loss additive (dry weight) based on the weight of the cement, 0-30% silica flour and/or silica sand based on the weight of the cement and water in such an amount that the cement slurry has a density between 1.95 and 2.40 g/cm.sup.3.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1989Date of Patent: June 19, 1990Assignee: Elkem a/sInventor: Eldar O. Dingsoyr