Patents Represented by Law Firm O'Brien & Marks
  • Container with easy tuck-under flap for overlapping closure and method
    Patent number: 4094459
    Abstract: A reverse folding portion of a fold-down portion of one flap is hinged for being bent reversibly relative to the fold-down portion during insertion of the fold-down portion under an adjacent flap to produce locking of the closure flaps with overlapping corners of adjacent closure flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1978
    Assignee: Olinkraft, Inc.
    Inventor: Everett A. Coons
  • Machine for packaging dispensing spoons and method
    Patent number: 4091915
    Abstract: In the packaging of dispensing spoons with bottles in containers, the spoons are oriented by means of protuberances on shank portions thereof extending normal to the shank in the same direction as the hollow side of the spoon bowl. The spoons are tilted longitudinally either while falling off the end of a conveyor or by a downwardly curved conveyor section. Properly oriented spoons are caught by a wire extending above the conveyor during the tilting to hang the spoons on the wire in a single orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1978
    Inventor: Antonius Bernardus Claasen
  • Container having improved filling valve
    Patent number: 4091986
    Abstract: An industrial container or bag is disclosed as having a filling valve for particulate materials, which valve is an effective seal following a filling operation and which valve is flexibly mounted to preclude its rupture during the filling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1978
    Assignee: Olinkraft, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert T. Eberle
  • Intensifier tube of the proximity focus type
    Patent number: 4092557
    Abstract: An image intensifier tube of the proximity focus type has a transparent cathode window with a curved inner surface and an anode window formed by a fiber optics plate having an inner surface curved to be substantially complementary to the cathode window inner surface. The arrangement mitigates the so-called "chicken-wire" effect and other flaws inherent in intensifiers using fiber optics at both the cathode and the anode ends. It is cheaper in manufacture and may be made of smaller depth, thereby simplifying its incorporation in existing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1978
    Assignee: N. V. Optische Industrie "De Oude Delft"
    Inventor: Hendrik Mulder
  • Bulk container with partial bellows bottom
    Patent number: 4091983
    Abstract: A bulk container with at least one cell has partial bellows corners formed at two adjacent bottom corners by three bottom panels hinged on three adjacent walls, and has a fourth bottom panel hinged on the bottom edge of the wall between the other two corners of the cell free of the three bottom panels and sandwiched between the intermediate panel of the three bottom panels and fold-in portions defined by partial diagonal score lines and cuts in the two side bottom panels of the three bottom panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1978
    Assignee: Olinkraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Vernard S. Booth, Billy W. Oswalt
  • Slide fastener with bottom stop
    Patent number: 4091509
    Abstract: An elongated member inserted through coinciding central openings of interlocking coils at the bottom of a slide fastener is secured therein by deforming one or more of the convolutions of the coils at the bottom of the slide fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1978
    Assignee: Textron Inc.
    Inventor: Norman W. MacFee
  • Separable slide fastener
    Patent number: 4090279
    Abstract: A separable slide fastener is disclosed which utilizes two oppositely-oriented sliders, both of the sliders being of the locking type. Bottom stops are provided at the bottom of the slide fastener and a one of the bottom stops has a channel formed in it to accommodate the locking prong of the lower slider and cammed surfaces to allow the pin side of the bottom stop to be drawn through the slider to separate the slide fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1978
    Assignee: Textron Inc.
    Inventor: George Wasko
  • Elongated snap-acting bimetal element
    Patent number: 4090163
    Abstract: An elongated bimetal member has a transverse curvature opposing temperature warp and a longitudinal curvature aiding temperature warp. The transverse curvature maintains the member straight in a longitudinal direction until the sum of the longitudinal temperature warp forces and the bias of the longitudinal curvature exceed the retaining forces of the transverse curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1978
    Assignee: Robertshaw Controls Company
    Inventors: Harold A. McIntosh, Hollis L. Randolph, Bradford N. Hull
  • X-ray picture coding
    Patent number: 4087837
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for forming a video representation of an X-ray shadow picture of a body. The system comprises an X-ray source, an X-ray screen, a video circuit with scanning means and display means, and a plate positioned between the X-ray source and the body. The plate has a transparency to X-radiation varying over its surface for spatially coding the X-rays. The system includes means in the video circuit for decoding the signal produced by the scanning means so that in the picture produced by the display means, the influence of the scattered radiation caused by the body is substantially eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Assignee: N. V. Optische Industrie "De Oude Delft"
    Inventor: Ronald Jan Geluk
  • Method for sealing cracks and cavities in different kinds of building constructions, such as building constructions in rock, concrete, brickwork and timber
    Patent number: 4086309
    Abstract: A method for sealing cracks and cavities in different kinds of building constructions, such as building constructions in rock, concrete, brickwork and timber is disclosed, according to which holes communicating with the cracks or cavities are driven into the building construction. These holes are sealed outwardly and put in connection with a vacuum source so that the water present in the cracks or cavities is sucked by the negative pressure in the direction towards the holes. Crack sealing material e.g. cement, epoxy tar, setting plastic, silicate based sealant or the like, is then applied to the cracks or cavities and is, due to the negative pressure prevailing in them, drawn into its sealing positions in the building construction, where it is allowed to harden or set under the influence of the negative pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Assignee: Stabilator AB
    Inventor: Claes Yngve Hjalmar Alberts
  • Pallet box pack
    Patent number: 4085847
    Abstract: A pallet box pack is disclosed which includes a pallet base and a top cover with a collapsed tube assembly having inwardly bendable bottom flanges and being received in the pallet base underneath the top cover. The pallet box pack can be converted to a bulk pallet box by erecting the collapsed tube assembly so that it forms a receptacle for bulk material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Assignee: Olinkraft, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard P. Jacalone
  • Combination shipping and storage container
    Patent number: 4083485
    Abstract: An improved combination shipping and storage container which comprises an inner container having at least one product receiving cell which is positioned within a removable outer shell which has an open top and an open bottom. The outer shell is removable from the inner container by means of a plurality of notches formed in opposite sides of the upper portion of the inner container which permits the outer shell to be lifted upwardly and removed from the inner container so that the outer shell can be reshipped to the original user and reused with a new inner container. After the outer shell is removed from the inner container, the inner container structure may be used to contain the products for storage purposes at a warehouse location.Also disclosed is a new and novel method for packaging a product utilizing the new and novel container here and before described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1978
    Assignee: Olinkraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Bamburg, Farris N. Duncan, Roger M. Floyd
  • Molded element tape support for invisible slide fastener and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 4080691
    Abstract: Each stringer of a slide fastener includes a plurality of spaced coupling elements, molded on continuous connecting threads, with wing portions extending into the spaces between the legs of coupling elements on the upper side thereof. The stringer tape weft threads are looped over the connecting threads and pass over the edges of the wing portions adjacent the heads of the coupling elements while a number of the warp threads interwoven with the weft threads overlie the legs and wing portions to form a slide fastener chain with hidden or invisible elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1978
    Assignee: Textron Inc.
    Inventor: George B. Moertel
  • Slide fastener
    Patent number: 4078278
    Abstract: An invisible slide fastener includes thermoplastic slide fastener elements secured to folded-back portions of the mounting tapes. The slide fastener elements are molded onto the tapes so that integral fastening extensions of the fastener elements extend through an open mesh area of each tape. The slide fastener elements include an interlock structure which is particularly resistant to movement between the opposite rows of slide fastener elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1978
    Assignee: Textron Inc.
    Inventor: Norman William MacFee
  • Graphical data entry pad
    Patent number: 4079194
    Abstract: A data entry pad for the entry of two-dimensional graphical data to a communication system includes a resistive grid area to which a conductive layer may be selectively contacted so that graphical data can be generated by external resistance measuring electronic circuitry. The resistive grid area is formed by a pattern of resistive inking on a base and is separated from the conductive layer by a foamed thermoplastic insulating separator. High resistance bands surround the grid area so as to linearize its output values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1978
    Inventor: Victor Kley
  • Folded tape slide fastener stringer with securing stitches
    Patent number: 4078280
    Abstract: Stitching, such as a straight line of stitches or an overedge stitch, secures the opposite halves of a folded tape together adjacent to interconnecting portions of a continuous coupling element encircled by strap portions of the tape defined by slits extending transversely over the folded edge through which head portions of the coupling element protrude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1978
    Assignee: Textron Inc.
    Inventor: George B. Moertel
  • Slider for slide fastener
    Patent number: 4074399
    Abstract: A slider for a slide fastener is disclosed which includes a slider body, a locking spring and a pull tab. The locking spring includes a locking prong extending through the slider body to engage the coupling elements of the slide fastener to lock the slider. Pulling on the pull tab in either direction cams the cross bar of the pull tab upward to release the lock and allow movement of the slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1978
    Assignee: Textron, Inc.
    Inventor: Stanley G. Kedzierski
  • Dual load trailer
    Patent number: 4068772
    Abstract: A trailer is disclosed which includes a trailer base and a carrier frame, the trailer base receiving one load and a load platform of the carrier frame receiving a second load. The load platform is mounted on legs which are pivotable at both ends so that the load platform can be swung from a carrying position to a loading position and back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1978
    Inventor: C. R. Prudhomme
  • Towing hook
    Patent number: 4061103
    Abstract: A towing hook device having a lockable towing hook, use being made for locking of a pivoting pin which has been unilaterally recessed, there being disposed adjacent the recess a drop-shaped body such that the end of a blocking arm of the towing hook causes the blocking pin to execute a forced movement between a blocking position and a release position, the blocking pin in the blocking position being retained by a pawl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: Machinefabriek Mampaey Marine Engineering B. V.
    Inventor: Johannes Josephus Mampaey
  • Method of packaging and shipping bulk material using reusable outer shell
    Patent number: 4056913
    Abstract: An improved combination shipping and storage container which comprises an inner container having at least one product receiving cell which is positioned within a removable outer shell which has an open top and an open bottom. The outer shell is removable from the inner container by means of a plurality of notches formed in opposite sides of the upper portion of the inner container which permits the outer shell to be lifted upwardly and removed from the inner container so that the outer shell can be reshipped to the original user and reused with a new inner container. After the outer shell is removed from the inner container, the inner container structure may be used to contain the products for storage purposes at a warehouse location. Also disclosed is a new and novel method for packaging a product utilizing the new and novel container here and before described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1977
    Assignee: Olinkraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Bamburg, Farris N. Duncan, Roger M. Floyd