Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Monty L. Ross
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Patent number: 6793219Abstract: A variation of a lottery-type game of chance where each drawing is not only a stand-alone event, but each entry is also valid for a defined number of accumulation rounds. The numbers selected for the entry are then compared to a predefined number of consecutive drawings. The total number of matches (or “hits”) during all of these accumulation rounds is used to determine if the entry is a winner. This variation can be conducted alongside the standard lottery-type game without interference and entries can begin and end their accumulation period at different times during the duration of the game.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Trace Publishing CompanyInventor: Henry C. Higginson
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Patent number: 6772694Abstract: A control agent delivery system useful for dispersing a pesticide, herbicide, fungicide or other biocide around a target or target area that is not directly accessible or that is hazardous to the user. The system includes a separable, two-part projectile containing a control agent disposed in a powder, liquid or gel dispersal medium, together with a gas-propelled, projectile launching device. A method of use of the subject system that causes the projectile to perform differently, depending upon the manner of launch, is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2003Date of Patent: August 10, 2004Assignee: NCH CorporationInventors: Robert Clarence Pearce, III, Dale Vilmer Kiplinger
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Patent number: 6764201Abstract: An inflatable figure assembly is disclosed that has an inflatable, semi-permeable body and a base unit with a continuously operating fan. The body is releasably secured to the base unit with a zipper that facilitates manufacture and interchangeability of a plurality of different bodies with the base unit. Internal lighting is optionally provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2003Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Gemmy Industries CorporationInventor: Tsai Chi-Cheng
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Patent number: 6715736Abstract: A picket privacy fence that is composed of a plurality of elongated interlocking pickets that form a continuous fencing surface. Top and bottom rails are run horizontally between upright support posts that are set in the ground at regularly spaced intervals. The elongated pickets are positioned vertically between the top and bottom rails. Each picket has a flange on both vertical edges so that adjacent pickets are interlocked using a lap joint thereby preventing any gaps between the elongated pickets. The regularly spaced upright support posts are located within a vertical shaft that passes through the elongated vertical pickets, thereby allowing the elongated interlocking vertical pickets to form a continuous fencing surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2002Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Inventor: Tommy Joe Cummings
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Patent number: 6663513Abstract: A pitching practice device for indicating and simulating the height and width of a strike zone for a typical batter, the device having a base slightly wider than home plate and two laterally spaced, upwardly extending posts connected to the base, the posts each having a plurality of slidably engaged sleeves that are independently adjustable to indicate the top and bottom of the strike zone, and the posts and sleeves having contrasting colors.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2001Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Inventor: Stuart Alan Howard
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Patent number: 6604715Abstract: Extruded polymeric articles useful for supporting, acoustically isolating and vibrationally dampening a pipe segment in relation to a structural support member, the articles having coextruded unfoamed and foamed polymeric layers and being attachable to the structural support member using nails, screws, formed wire hangers or other similarly effective fasteners. A method for making the subject articles and a system comprising a perforated, coextruded acoustic pipe support strap in combination with a shaped wire hanger for use in suspending a pipe segment from the web portion of a laminated joist having an I-beam cross section are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2001Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: LSP Products Group, Inc.Inventor: Samuel H. Howe
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Patent number: 6586374Abstract: A synthetic lubricant for gasoline and diesel engines having a viscosity ranging between about 14.5 and 16.5 cs at 100° C., the lubricant containing from about 55 to about 75 volume percent polyalphaolefin having a viscosity of about 6 to 8 cs at 100° C., an ethylene-propylene copolymer, an ester or diester, a packaged additive, a total base number enhancer and a minor effective amount of an antifoamant. A method of use is also provided whereby the subject lubricant is recirculated through an operating engine while periodically monitoring the total base number and adjusting the total base number to a level of about 12.0 by the addition of a total base number enhancer such as calcium phenate.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2002Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignee: Primrose Oil CompanyInventor: Edward Alan Paul
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Patent number: 6575416Abstract: An adjustable length over-the-door hanger for hanging a wreath or other hanging objects on a door whose length can be adjusted to position the hanging object at the desired height. The hanger is made of two vertical supports that are held together and where the lower vertical support can slide along the upper vertical support to lengthen or shorten the overall length of the hanger. A track on one support is engaged by a finger on the other support thereby allowing the hanger to be locked into any one of a number of fixed positions corresponding to the desired height for the wreath to be hung on the door. This positioning allows the hanger to be easily adjusted while in place on the door. The hanger has a hook that allows it to hang over the top of the door and another hook at the bottom on which the hanging object can be hung.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2002Date of Patent: June 10, 2003Assignee: Gemmy Industries, Inc.Inventor: Andrew G. Avinger
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Patent number: 6572584Abstract: A tamperproof retractable non-reusable syringe has a one piece hollow outer body with a barrel for a slidable plunger, a transition zone and a smaller diameter nose portion. An elongated needle holder and spring combination is installable from the rear of the outer body, guided into the nose portion and held by cooperating inwardly and outwardly facing surfaces oriented in the direction of retraction at the most constricted part of the transition zone where the nose begins. The plunger has an opening with a dislodgable stopper for receiving parts of the retraction mechanism. The stopper and the head of the needle holder are of significantly reduced diameter from the injection fluid chamber to resist blowing out prematurely. In one embodiment the head of the needle holder is surrounded by a separable retainer member which is slidingly removed by contact with the tip of the plunger after the stopper is mostly or fully removed to avoid cumulation of force required for retraction after the injection.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2000Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Assignee: Retractable Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas J. Shaw, Judy Zhu, Diane Rutherford
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Patent number: 6562256Abstract: A self-dispersing particulate composition, in the form of pellets, prills, flakes or granules, containing particles with a first functional component that is a glassy solid with small, dispersed pockets of pressurized gas and, in the same or different particles, a second functional component that is a special-use material having at least one additional utility. Special use materials include, for example, a deicer, a fertilizer, a drain cleaner, an insecticide, a carpet cleaner, and a powdered laundry detergent. Dissolution of the glassy material liberates pressurized gas, causing repositioning of the special-use material.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2002Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: NCH CorporationInventors: Wayne Anthony Fleming, Robert Martin Holdar, Robert Clarence Pearce, III
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Patent number: 6550423Abstract: An absorbent dog waste disposal pad holder lacking an underlying bottom wall and having nestable upper and lower frames that cooperate to form a peripheral wall to securely hold the periphery of a disposable, absorbent pad therebetween. Each nestable upper and lower frame comprises first and second frame members. The first and second frame members of the lower frame preferably comprise opposite side ends that interlock to form the lower frame. The first and second frame members of the upper frame preferably comprise ends that abut to form the upper frame. Preferably, the frames of the absorbent dog waste disposal pad holder are generally rectangular shaped, are made of moldable polymeric material and have an inverted U-shaped cross section. A method of assembling the subject absorbent dog waste disposal pad holder is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2002Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: The Bramton CompanyInventor: Susan Crawford Pope
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Patent number: 6526712Abstract: A corner assembly for covering a junction between adjacent walls includes first and second members, each formed from an extruded composite material comprising wood fiber and polyethylene resin. The first member includes a tongue extending from one end thereof. The second member includes a groove formed in one side thereof, such that when the tongue is received within the groove, the first side of the first member and the first end of the second member are disposed generally coplanar.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2001Date of Patent: March 4, 2003Assignee: Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph G. Brooks, Michael M. Tull, James E. Roach
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Patent number: 6494863Abstract: A retracting syringe of one use has a plunger comprising a handle portion and a needle retention portion forward of the handle portion. A positive locking structure in the syringe barrel ensures the syringe is not reused. In one embodiment, the positive locking structure is a stop in the syringe barrel. The handle portion separates after one use and is removed from the syringe. In a second embodiment, the handle portion has a plurality of stepped serrations and the positive locking structure is a clip which is movable with respect to both the handle portion and the barrel. In a third embodiment, the positive locking structure is a clip fixed in an enlarged back opening of the barrel with springing points which are protected from a plurality of stepped serrations on the handle portion by a sliding collar. This one use feature can be applied to a nonretracting syringe.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2001Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignee: Retractable Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas J. Shaw, Judy Zhu
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Patent number: 6489272Abstract: A composition useful as a well lubricant, solvent, emulsifier, and performance extender for corrosion inhibitors in high velocity gas, oil or water drilling, production or gathering applications, that is preferably formed by the reaction and distillation of a tall oil fatty acid with a fatty alkanolamide, preferably in the presence of methyl ester of fatty acids, and most preferably when further reacted and distilled with an emulsifier such as coconut oil diethanolamide or distilled tall oil amide of aminoethylpiperazine. The fatty acids and oils useful in the invention can range from C8 to C24, with C12, C14, C16, C18 and C20 fatty acids and oils being most preferred. The presence of methyl ester is preferred because it functions as a foam suppressant, diluent and amine scavenger during distillation.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2001Date of Patent: December 3, 2002Inventor: Larry W. Gatlin
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Patent number: D469566Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: January 28, 2003Assignee: Gemmy Industries, Inc.Inventors: Lonnie F. Gary, Chad H. Jones, Andrew G. Avinger
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Patent number: D469682Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignee: Gemmy Industries, Inc.Inventors: Lonnie F. Gary, Andrew G. Avinger, Chad H. Jones
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Patent number: D470937Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Assignee: Gemmy Industries, Inc.Inventors: Lonnie F. Gary, Chad H. Jones
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Patent number: D477773Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Gemmy Industries, Inc.Inventors: Lonnie F. Gary, Chad H. Jones
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Patent number: D482489Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Gemmy Industries, Inc.Inventors: Lonnie F. Gary, Chad H. Jones, Andrew G. Avinger
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Patent number: D495403Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2003Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: LSP Products Group, Inc.Inventor: Ted D. Deeds