Patents Represented by Attorney Mark C. Jacobs

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  • Large animal stock
    Patent number: 5634438
    Abstract: A large animal stock formed of two spaced side frames transversely connected at the front and rear to form an enclosure. Each side frame features an elevated top member both of which may be transversely connected along the length of the side frame at an elevation high enough not to impede access and egress of the animal to be confined within the stall.One or both side frames includes at least one outwardly pivotal guide bar, designated a gate arm, to help ease the animal into stock from the side. Adjustable bar(s) connected between the side frames may be relocated to diminish the confinement area of the animal for the ease and convenience of the handler. A quick release chain securing mechanism for attaching a chain to the animal's halter is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Inventor: Eugene S. Wilson
  • Expandable coach having at least one expansion chamber
    Patent number: 5628541
    Abstract: A coach, having an interior living space, which coach has at least one and no more than two expansion chambers. Each expansion chamber is formed as a box having top, side and bottom walls and one rear or front wall. The coach may be a trailer, an RV body disposed upon a truck chassis, or a recreational vehicle having a self-contained propulsion system. The coach may have instead of wheels as a support system, a series of vertical jacks or other support mechanism to thereby render the coach suitable for use as an office or an industrial facility. The coach features a spaced inner and outer wall construction and which may have no closing wall at the position at which the chamber is disposed. The chamber is adapted such that its sidewalls when in the retracted position are disposed between the inner and outer sidewalls of the living space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: R-N-R International, Inc.
    Inventor: Stewart Gardner
  • Moth inhibiting multigarment clothes hanger
    Patent number: 5582334
    Abstract: A multigarment, insect infestation inhibiting hanger device for use on a clothes bar. The device, which saves closet space, has a hook portion for disposition on a clothes bar on one end thereof. The hook portion is also disposed within or through a main body member cut from preferably incense cedar or molded of a mixture of incense cedar chips and a suitable resin. The device is configured to receive either a plurality of hanger in slots of garment receivers, or garment hanging loops upon upstanding segments of these garment receivers. The device permits the user to compactly group similar garments together for organization of the closet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Ink-Rol Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph S. Blazer, deceased, Sean B. Appleyard
  • Adjustable compound cable beam profile clip
    Patent number: 5533239
    Abstract: A sheet metal spring clip made from a resilient metal rectangular strip which is bent at various locations intermediate its top and bottom edges to cause sections of the clip to lie one above the other in a spaced relationship. The clip has a pair of connected elongated apertures each having unbroken walls normal to flat top and bottom surfaces, which walls serve as bearing surfaces at opposite sides of each of the two connected apertures for mounting of the clip preferably on a vertical support. Spaced handles similarly directed permit the resilient clip to be squeezed for positional alignment on the support. The clip further includes an edge slot in communication with a third elongated aperture, which aperture has similar walls and serves to provide bearing surfaces for retention of a bar normally disposed with respect to the support, after the clip has been positioned at a desired elevation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Inventor: Allen M. Gall
  • Reusable high efficiency propellant driven liquid product dispenser apparatus
    Patent number: 5507420
    Abstract: A reusable high efficiency propellant driven apparatus for the dispensing of liquid products, featuring a refillable product container, and a rechargeable propellant housing. The propellant housing may be moved from container to container, to dispense a plurality of products; and a non-completely dispensed container can have the product exhausted by the replacement of a spent propellant housing, with the same or a different housing that does contain propellant. The housing is disposed concentric to the container and preferably both are secured to a single cap. A dual piston construction is employed to provide a hermetically sealed propellant housing. Product and propellant deployment is controlled by the movement of a pair of gaskets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Aervoe-Pacific Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul J. O'Neill
  • Labyrinth barrier ventilated waterproff enclosure
    Patent number: 5499734
    Abstract: A watertight enclosure for the retention of air-cooled electrical and electronic components, which enclosure includes a labyrinth diverter system of baffles and barriers to divert any water or other liquid, that may enter the enclosure away from the components therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: Tesco Controls, Inc.
    Inventor: Wallace D. Tessmer
  • Portable dance floor
    Patent number: 5465546
    Abstract: A portable dance floor formed from the interconnection and interlocking of multiple dance sections each of which dance sections is formed from a dance substrate generally of plywood, wherein each dance section is supported off the ground. Dance sections interlock at the junction of four such sections, on the underside thereof into a main connector plate, and which sections interconnect along the interfacing sides of any two abutting sections by a spline disposed in a slot formed of aligned half slots. Transition members having an inclined plane to ease the change in elevation may be provided and may be interconnected in a similar manner to adjacent dance sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Inventor: Dale C. Buse
  • Snoring relief device
    Patent number: 5462066
    Abstract: An anti-snore device, which includes a U-shaped thermoplastic mouthpiece, moldable to fit the jaw definition of the wearer which device has a generally H-shaped cross section, with rearwardly diminishing elevations of the outer and inner vertical walls, both above and below the base to which these walls are attached. The outer wall features front facing opposed upper concave and lower convex areas. The device also includes a downwardly extending flange which extends into the lingual or tongue side of the teeth vestibule of the user to maintain the lower jaw in a forward posture. An optional removable handle of similar thermoplastic material to aid the custom molding process for the fit to the wearer may be employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Inventor: David T. Snyder
  • Vehicle body repair tool
    Patent number: 5461900
    Abstract: A device for use in the repair of automobiles, trucks, farm equipment and other vehicles having sheet metal bodies capable of deformation from impact accidents, which device includes a main body portion having a first nestable solid section and a second tubular receiving section, the receiving section being constrictedly open at its proximal end being closed on its distal end by a closure which is threaded to receive a work head of varying configurations, each of which is interchangeable with the other for carrying out specific tasks or functions within a specific area of the vehicular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Shamus
    Inventor: Marty R. Gutierrez
  • Wrist support system
    Patent number: 5445349
    Abstract: A wrist support apparatus for a person who performs activities requiring repetitive movement of the person's fingers which apparatus includes an elongated, flexible container of cloth and particulate material such as rice disposed within the interior of a tubular-shaped segment. The apparatus provides stable support for the wrist(s) and cooperates with each wrist to gently massage the wrists during finger movement. In addition, the apparatus can be cooled or heated to provide additional therapeutic effects during use. The invention also encompasses a method of employing the wrist support apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Inventor: Sandra A. Hart
  • Volumetric dry measure apparatus
    Patent number: 5441176
    Abstract: A volumetric measuring and dispensing apparatus for the dry measure of particulate matter such as sand, or gravel, which apparatus includes one of either (I.) a rotary table spaced slightly from a body having a stationary interrupted circular wall which defines a storage zone; or (II.) a stationary table spaced slightly from a rotating body having an interrupted circular wall which defines a storage zone. The storage zone includes a distally located gate, under which a predetermined amount of particulates can pass as one of the table or said body rotates relative to the other. The apparatus also includes a retention zone on the table outside of the gate for residual material. The particulates fall into a collection vessel such as a hopper or conveying belt. The contents of the storage zone may be replenished from a conventional feed hopper or manually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Inventor: Paul Auee
  • LP gas can and gas recycling apparatus
    Patent number: 5441088
    Abstract: A liquified petroleum gas (LP gas) can recycling apparatus which includes a first compacting portion which safely evacuates the can for recovery of any residual gaseous product therefrom, then compacts the can, discharges the slug now compacted for collection; and a second gas treatment portion which collects the residual gas, repressurizes it and stores it in a repressurized gaseous state. The apparatus is preferably operated in an automated fashion by compressed air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: Aervoe-Pacific Company, Inc. Nevada
    Inventors: Paul J. O'Neill, Gary P. Wittig
  • Aerosol can recycling system
    Patent number: 5385177
    Abstract: A method for recovering propellant from used aerosol cans which includes the steps of piercing the can; removing the mixture of residual propellant and fluid product from the can; collecting the mixture and then separating the propellant from the residual fluid product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1995
    Inventor: Paul J. O'Neil
  • Paint striper
    Patent number: D354288
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Assignee: Aervoe-Pacific Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Jesus J. Pena
  • Egg dyeing holder
    Patent number: D354421
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Inventor: Michael T. Helmer
  • Bicycle crank set
    Patent number: D356526
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Inventor: Greg Burns
  • Support for holding a paint roller vertically while being cleaned
    Patent number: D360719
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Inventor: Todd G. Ring
  • Fingernail glue bottle cap
    Patent number: D362623
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Inter-Continental Nail Products
    Inventor: Dat V. Ma
  • Mountain bike stem
    Patent number: D362650
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Inventor: Greg Burns
  • Mountain bicycle brake lever
    Patent number: D368061
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Inventor: Greg Burns