Patents Represented by Law Firm Mann, McWilliams, Zummer & Sweeney
  • Patent number: 4620753
    Abstract: An arrangement for mounting a domestic appliance, such as a machine, within its cabinet that provides, in the case of sewing machine heads, both free arm to storage and flat bed to storage positions as well as a fifth position orienting the sewing machine to permit access to the machine, of side bobbin access type machines, bobbin from the top of the cabinet, with the connection of the appliance head to its cabinet being by way of a pair of fixed oppositely disposed pins at the front side of the assembly and a pair of oppositely disposed retractable pins spaced to the rear of the fixed pins, with the pairs of fixed and retractable pins cooperating with brackets located one each adjacent the respective ends of the head that are anchored to the cabinet, and with the sewing machine being oriented with regard to the fixed and movable pins such that the center of gravity of the sewing machine is located basically between the fixed and retractable pairs of pins, to provide a gravity assist biasing action on the sew
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1986
    Inventor: Ralph Ogden
  • Patent number: 4611523
    Abstract: A device for setting the intonation of the individual strings of a fretted stringed instrument, such as a guitar, wherein the instrument bridge includes for each of the individual strings both an end restraining and a fine tuning apparatus, for instance, of the type disclosed in Rose U.S. Pat. No.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Inventor: John H. McFarland
  • Patent number: 4611498
    Abstract: A collection receptacle and method of using same to scrape and collect residue from a moving surface, such as a conveyor belt, for a predetermined time period in order to analyze and evaluate both the nature and amount of residue carried by the moving surface. Information derived from the collection procedure is of assistance in determining the type and extent of conveyor belt cleaning equipment required. The receptacle consists of a container with an open upper end and one or more scraper blades extending upwardly above the side walls of the container. A pair of spacer arms also extend upwardly from the container and engage the moving surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Assignee: Martin Engineering Company
    Inventor: Richard P. Stahura
  • Patent number: 4603679
    Abstract: A barbeque grill with paper start facility comprising an open top receptacle defining a floor that includes one or more draft openings of adjustable size, a tinder receiver, that receives the tinder forming paper, in association with the receptacle at its central axis and in alignment with the draft openings, a charcoal support grid and means for removably mounting same in the receptacle over the receptacle floor and above and adjacent the upper end of the tinder receiver, a charcoal receiver in the form of an open ended sleeve of impervious sheet metal material that includes a pair of oppositely located handles adjacent its upper end, which charcoal receiver is proportioned to be disposed in substantially congruent relation with the tinder receiver and on the charcoal support grid above the tinder receiver, and a food cooking grid and means for removably mounting same in the receptacle above the charcoal grid after the charcoal is ignited by igniting the tinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1986
    Inventor: Ralph Ogden
  • Patent number: 4602779
    Abstract: A treadmill exercising apparatus comprising a generally planar frame equipped with an inclinable, planar slider bed, a driving head roller, and an idler tail roller, both journalled in the slider bed and respectively at the head and tail ends of the frame, over which an endless belt, formed by a low long term creep or stretch resistant synthetic resin extruded film, oriented of polyester or nylon, is trained, with the slider bed having a top slider surfacing formed from one of the same materials or from Masonite hardboard sheeting, across which the upper run of the belt rides, with the head and tail rollers each being formed from a rigid metallic material and provided with a belt centering crown, which, at least in the case of the driving head roller, is provided with an elastomeric coating or covering that defines the crown surfacing, whereby the coefficient of dynamic friction of the belt riding on the treadmill slider bed is no more than about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1986
    Assignee: Ajax Enterprises Corporation
    Inventor: Ralph Ogden
  • Patent number: 4601771
    Abstract: A labeling device or mechanism in the nature of an attachment for application to labeling machines of the type disclosed in Wesley U.S. Pat. No.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1986
    Assignee: Labelette Company
    Inventor: James G. Wesley
  • Patent number: D286386
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Inventor: Susanna M. Orr