Patents Represented by Law Firm McWilliams, Mann, Zummer & Sweeney
  • Patent number: 4598823
    Abstract: A conveyor belt cleaning arrangement consisting of a transversely disposed support which includes a plurality of connector slots. One or more elastomeric cleaner blades, either of the doctor blade type or the arm and blade type, include a locking device to releasably connect the blade to the support without the use of fasteners and secure the blade against lateral motion and hold the blade in position for cleaning the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: Martin Engineering Company
    Inventor: Robert T. Swinderman
  • Patent number: 4592725
    Abstract: A palatal arch bar of the removable and adjustable palatal arch wire type disclosed in Goshgarian U.S. Pat. No. 3,792,529 which is improved to have a dual upper arch usage, whereby the arch bar may be applied from the mesial and used as disclosed in said patent to derotate the first permanent molars, and then removed, reversed and reapplied to the molars from the distal to use them as anchor molars in the translation of the upper arch canines. The improved arch bar comprises an arch wire equipped with a fitting or spur adjacent each terminal end of the arch wire that adapts the arch bar for use in bodily retraction of the maxillary permanent canine teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1986
    Inventor: Robert A. Goshgarian
  • Patent number: 4589235
    Abstract: A panel partition arrangement for domestic garages, for forming an alternately usable family sports center in the form of a recreation chamber within the space defined by domestic or family home garages and the like that are usually equipped with the familiar overhead type sectionalized garage door, in which the partition arrangement is mounted inside the garage to form with the door in its lowered position a recreation chamber within the garage for accommodating family oriented recreations such as playing ball type game sports and the like, with the garage door sections being faced on their inner sides to be in flush relation in the closed position thereof, and vertical walls being provided to form the side walls and inner end wall of the recreation chamber, of which the indicated vertical walls are flush surfaced, and the floor is obstruction free, for defining the recreation chamber, with the indicated vertical walls optionally being formed to define closet or other storage space that is normally closed at
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Inventor: Paul S. Anderson
  • Patent number: 4586600
    Abstract: A tensioning arrangement is provided to position belt cleaner blades relative to a conveyor belt, which arrangement includes a linkage connection to vary the force which the blades exert against the belt and an over-center camming feature which locks the blade in the cleaning position to prevent disengagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Martin Engineering Company
    Inventor: Michael J. Lindbeck
  • Patent number: 4576352
    Abstract: A treadmill exercising apparatus of the inclineable slider bed type in which the apparatus frame at its head end is equipped with a cross member that is coupled to a pair of spaced apart threaded screw members for changing the inclination of the treadmill frame, in which the coupling of the frame cross member to the respective threaded screw members is by way of special nut assemblies that each include a tubular member or shell fixed to the respective ends of the frame cross member, a lower nut member that is keyed to the tubular member involved at that end of the cross member, and is in load transmitting relation to the screw member it engages, and on which, the respective tubular members rest, and an upper nut member that is keyed to the respective tubular members for lost motion movement relative thereto, but which is not in load transmitting relation to the respective screw members, whereby the upper nuts are free to float longitudinally of the respective screw members to accommodate tolerance variations
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Ajay Enterprises Corp.
    Inventor: Ralph Ogden
  • Patent number: 4574891
    Abstract: A clamp arrangement is provided for mounting an agricultural tool to a tool bar or cross bar. The clamp includes an upper clamp plate and a lower plate which are bolted to the bar and slotted to receive a vertical support bar. The vertical support bar is positioned vertically by means of a slotted clamp member which may be disposed above the upper clamp plate or below the lower clamp plate, the clamp member is fixed to the vertical bar by a set screw. Clearances are provided to absorb horizontal loads imposed on the agricultural implement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Assignee: Yetter Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Gerald E. Williamson
  • Patent number: 4573567
    Abstract: The invention relates to a conveyor belt housing access port and elastic closure therefor, for use on a conveyor belt cleaner installation wherein hinges, catches, gaskets and the like are completely eliminated. The cover is retained in place by inherent tension and includes securing means which may incorporate a magnetic force, or interengaging means between the cover and a continuous rim about the opening. The securement may involve an enlargement of the rim such as a ledge, or a flange and an interengaged groove, or flange on the cover operatively related to such enlargement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1986
    Assignee: Martin Engineering Company
    Inventor: Robert T. Swinderman
  • Patent number: 4571109
    Abstract: A low profile notebook for holding looseleaf style prepunched notebook paper of the inexpensive lined or blank type commonly used in schools of all levels by students for note taking purposes, in which the notebook comprises front and rear panels articulated to a back panel, with a one piece all plastic notebook paper binder being anchored to the rear panel adjacent and parallel to the back panel and comprising a back piece having a pair of spaced upstanding rectilinear posts adjacent either end of same that are positioned as applied to the notebook to be received in several of the prepunched holes in the paper, and an end flange upstanding from each end of the back piece, with each end flange having a flap articulated to same that is adapted to swing substantially in coplanar relation with the plane of the paper mounting posts to move toward and away from the post adjacent same and each having a snap fit locking means for snap fit locking engagement with the respective posts to releasably bind the paper in t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1986
    Assignee: Sales Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: Samuel P. Lapertosa
  • Patent number: 4567876
    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 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: November 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Inventor: Ralph Ogden
  • Patent number: 4567833
    Abstract: A composite constant contact side bearing for railroad cars that comprises a body, that may be either cage mounted or free mounted, having a top wall that supports the car body bolster, a bottom wall structure that is to be supported by the truck bolster, oppositely facing side walls that extend the length of the body, and oppositely facing end walls that extend normally of the body side walls, with the body comprising a rigid filler block enclosed within a polyurethane casing that defines the body top wall, end walls, and side walls, with the filler block being of generally quadrilateral parallelepiped configuration, but defining a depending stud from its underside that protrudes from the polyurethane casing below the filler block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: Holland Company
    Inventor: Thomas L. Hanson
  • Patent number: 4566689
    Abstract: A treadmill exercising apparatus comprising a generally planar frame equipped with a planar slider bed and head and tail rollers journalled respectively at the head and tail ends of the frame, over which an endless nylon belt is trained. The treadmill frame at its head end is equipped with a cross member that pivotally mounts a motor assembly including an electric drive motor and shaft driven by same that is keyed to a stepping pulley aligned with a stepping pulley keyed to the head roller, and between which a drive pulley belt is tensioned by a tensioning device that subjects the motor assembly to uniform spring biasing action about the pivotal mounting of the motor assembly for uniformly tensioning the pulley belt into drive transmitting relation with the respective pulleys, and with the motor assembly including a hand crank arrangement for manually relieving the pulley belt tension for changing of the pulley belt with respect to the stepping pulleys for convenient speed changing of the treadmill belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1986
    Assignee: Ajay Enterprises Corporation
    Inventor: Ralph Ogden
  • Patent number: 4566061
    Abstract: A control and program input arrangement for industrial process programmable controllers, and specifically for the controller microprocessor that provides manually operated mode operation and user programming controls that avoid the need for a coded terminal for user desired program entrying or modification, which arrangement comprises a control panel assembly including a master control panel section and associated status control panel sections, and manually operated keyboards associated therewith, that provide for manually effected shifting of the processor between tape reading, automatic operation, and manual operation modes, as well as for manual effectation of entry of programs into the programmable controller system memory at specific sites or slots of the memory map, checking of the accuracy of such entries, revision of such entries or previously made entries, and cancellation of same, without requiring use of the tape and tape reader components and associated parts of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1986
    Inventors: Ralph Ogden, Patrick H. Eich
  • Patent number: 4565383
    Abstract: Front and rear wheel drop outs for bicycle frames that are specially suited for bicycle frames of the tubular strut type used in light weight high performance high quality bicycles, the frames of which comprise a plurality of tubular strut members interconnected by lugs and brackets to form the well known generally diamond shaped frame that includes the familiar head, top, down, and seat tubes, the familiar pair of seat stay tubes, and the familiar pair of chain stay tubes. The invention provides for a special front wheel fork tip arrangement of the drop out type that is applied and brazed, socket fitted, relation to each fork blade of the front wheel mounting fork assembly, and a special rear wheel drop out bracket arrangement involving right hand side and left hand side drop outs that are formed to receive in brazed, socket fitted, relation the bicycle frame seat stay tube and the frame chain stay tube that is to be made fast to same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1986
    Assignee: Trek Bicycle Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy S. Isaac
  • Patent number: 4563286
    Abstract: A water purification arrangement which uses as the water treating agent ionized oxygen allotrope gas in multiple (multivalent) ion charge forms (as distinguished from common chemical treatment substances), in which the raw material for practicing the invention is ambient atmospheric air, and specifically its atmospheric oxygen content. The arrangement provided has a gas flow path having multivalent oxygen ion allotrope forming sites that each include a magnetic flux field energy zone within the ambient air flow path characterized by interacting multi-polar magnets that exert flux fields across the flow path, and one or more elongate oxygen photolysis lamps enveloping the flux with ultraviolet light wave length ionizing electronvolt radiant energy emissions. The ambient atmospheric air is passed in a continuous flow through the flow path and then is conveyed to and is interspersed in the water to be treated in a continuous flow application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1986
    Inventors: Dennis E. J. Johnson, Scott J. Johnson
  • Patent number: 4562014
    Abstract: A method and device for the in-line dispersion transfer of a gas flow into a liquid flow for dispersing and diffusing ambient air and/or other oxidant gas or gases into a filtrate or other liquid flow, such as water, and at super saturation achieving rates, to provide for oxidation and/or coagulation treatment of the contaminants or other undesirable materials in the liquid, for chemical free, water purification purposes, in which the device involved is free of moving parts and comprises a T-fitting body defining in-line liquid inflow and outflow ends and a mounting section intermediate such ends, with the fitting body mounting between its said ends thereof a standpipe at the mounting section of same with the standpipe being exposed to a source of the gas to be dispersed into the liquid flow, and with the fitting body and the standpipe comprising an assembly for dispersing the gas into the liquid flow including Venturi action means for dispersing or diffusing the gas in the liquid, induced by the kinetic ener
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Inventor: Dennis E. J. Johnson
  • Patent number: 4561505
    Abstract: This invention relates to a folding tool bar assembly having a central tool bar structure and wing members hingedly mounted adjacent opposite ends thereof, with hinge mechanism pivotally connecting the respective wing members to the structure for movement between extended positions beyond the structure ends and folded positions overlying the central structure and including locking hooks to prevent relative movement of the central structure and wing members when in the operating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Yetter Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Gerald E. Williamson
  • Patent number: 4559834
    Abstract: A multipurpose flowmeter arrangement of simplified construction that may be adapted for a number of different flowmeter applications under both pressure and vacuum conditions, in the form of a one-piece molded plastic body defining a float tube, rearwardly projecting tubular mounting studs at the base and top of the float tube that are also to form the fluid connections to and from the float tube, with the flowmeter body also defining both at the base and at the top of the float tube a cylindrical valve chamber, which valve chambers are aligned with the bores of the respective mounting studs and are each defined by a forwardly projecting cylindrical wall that, for use with valve control, may have fixed to same a sleeve that has an internal left hand thread to optionally threadedly receive either a similarly externally threaded plug to seal the valve chamber in question, or a similarly externally threaded nut that has a right hand internal threading for threadedly mounting a similarly externally threaded valve
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1985
    Assignee: Dwyer Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Phillips, Duane M. Kobos
  • Patent number: D281713
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1985
    Assignee: Beatrice Companies, Inc.
    Inventor: Erwin F. Mikol
  • Patent number: D281901
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1985
    Assignee: Shepherd Products Limited
    Inventors: Carl J. Demrick, Ronald D. Hussey
  • Patent number: D285336
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Assignee: Shepherd Products Limited
    Inventors: Carl J. Demrick, Ronald D. Hussey