Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Michael K. Dixon
  • Patent number: 6817476
    Abstract: A water clarification system for removing suspended solids from a fluid, such as sewage, using gravity. The water clarification system may include a plurality of settling plates releasably coupled to a housing. The housing positions the settling plates at acute angles relative to a substantially horizontal line using a plurality of guides. The settling plates are kept in position using one or more flanges that are releasably coupled to side walls of the housing. The water clarification system operates by receiving a fluid through an inlet orifice located near bottom sections of the plurality of settling plates. The fluid travels in the spaces between adjacent settling plates and through apertures in top flanges of the settling plates. The fluid collects in an exit channel that is formed by the top flanges of the settling plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Aerex Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Donnick, Jr., Robert E. Brayton
  • Patent number: 6785981
    Abstract: A restriction sensor system for identifying the existence of blockages in exhaust conduits of clothes dryers. The restriction sensor system may include a pressure sensing device having a body configured to be coupled to an exhaust conduit of a clothes dryer. The pressure sensing device may be capable of determining changes in air pressure in the exhaust conduit. Once the air pressure present in the exhaust conduit exceeds a threshold air pressure, the pressure sensing device may send a signal to an indicator to generate an alarm, which may be a visual alarm or audible alarm, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: In-O-Vate Technologies
    Inventor: Richard John Harpenau
  • Patent number: 6786499
    Abstract: A suspension system for supporting a front wheel of a vehicle, such as a motorcycle, that includes at least one movement limiting device coupled to a support arm assembly and to a frame. The support arm assembly may support the front wheel and pivot about an axis that is generally orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of a vehicle and generally orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the support arm assembly. The suspension system controls the amount of movement the support arm assembly undergoes about the pivot. The suspension system may be configured to absorb shock encountered in motorcycles having extreme rake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Tempest Cycles, Inc.
    Inventor: Erick J. Ackley
  • Patent number: 6484769
    Abstract: A push-through delimber device having a frame, a blade lattice, a trough, a throat and a saw so that trees can be topped and delimbed in the throat and pushed through the delimbing blade lattice to further delimb the trees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Inventor: Kerry Seymour
  • Patent number: 6431232
    Abstract: A tree delimber including a track, a gripping assembly for gripping the butt end of a tree, and a delimbing assembly movably coupled to the track and includes a delimbing blade and a guide for funneling the tree into the delimbing blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Inventor: Kerry Seymour
  • Patent number: D451391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Grabb-It, Inc.
    Inventor: Martin R. Bozlee
  • Patent number: D498813
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: D.O.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Mark S. Nichols