Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Pauley Petersen Kinne & Fejer
  • Rack for a switchgear cabinet
    Patent number: 6164460
    Abstract: A rack for a switchgear cabinet, whereby the rack is assembled from frame legs, four of the frame legs being horizontally oriented forming a lower rack frame, which is connected to support profiles for bottom plates. The support profiles form a bottom frame (30), which has upward projecting fastening straps (50, 52). The frame legs (12 to 14) of the lower rack frame (11) have vertically aligned inner profile sides (21), which are provided with recesses (26) in the area of their lower edges (23) and of the adjoining profile sides for introducing the fastening straps (50, 52), and the fastening straps (50, 52) are screwed in place, resting on the inside of these inner profile sides (21) of the lower rack frame (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Reuter
  • Connecting element
    Patent number: 6164985
    Abstract: A connecting element having a bracket for fastening side walls of a switchgear cabinet onto a frame profile of a switchgear cabinet frame and having a contact spring connected to the bracket for providing an electrical connection between the side walls and the frame legs of the switchgear cabinet frame. The contact springs have contact points disposed in the direction of the side wall, which contact points protrude above the contact surface of the frame profile on which a corresponding side wall is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Reuter
  • Device for cleaning tubs which contain liquid in working conditions, and use of the device in a washer chamber
    Patent number: 6163914
    Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning tubs filled with a liquid, wherein a suction device which can be moved by a drive communicating with a delivery pipe is arranged on a base of the tub. The drive is operated by a pressurized fluid and drives a water wheel which is non-positively coupled to a displacement device contacting the base of the tub. A filter unit is connected to a suction pipe of the suction device. The suction device has a guide system for to and from movements and a two-way valve is actuated by limit switches for alternative opening of a passage for reversing movement of the water wheel. The apparatus can be used in a washer chamber of an aeration plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Inventor: Kurt Martin
  • Premixed ionization modulated extendable burner
    Patent number: 6162049
    Abstract: A ported, premixed extendable burner provides increased turndown capability relative to conventional burners. The burner has an adjustable flameholder sleeve which can be extended and retracted relative to a flameholder, to increase and decrease the available flameholder area. The burner is suitable for use in modulated heating applications and other applications where high turndown ratios are desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Gas Research Institute
    Inventors: Roberto O. Pellizzari, Johannes H. J. Thijssen, Scott Macadam
  • Device for creating an electrically conducting connection for an assembly panel fitted in a switch cabinet
    Patent number: 6159024
    Abstract: A device for creating an electrically conducting connection for an assembly panel fitted parallel to the rear side in a switch cabinet, to which assembly panel are allocated on at least one side a frame section of a frame, an assembly track or a frame section-type edge of a side wall. Specially designed contact springs and assembly panels ensure that the assembly panel, optionally fitted with a non-conducting surface protection layer, can be fitted simply and with appropriate contacts in a switch cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Device for pressing of tablets from a blister pack
    Patent number: 6155424
    Abstract: A device for pressing of tablets from a blister pack. The device has a base plate and a cover plate. When closed, the two plates connected to each other by a hinge are superimposed in such a manner that openings in the cover plate are arranged substantially over openings in the base plate. The base plate is arranged using fins at a distance from a datum plane. Supporting bumps and embossed edges form a support plane on which the blister pack rests with the cover film thereof, for facilitating punching through the cover film when pressure is exerted on bumps of the deep-drawn plastic film of the blister pack. Tabs with corresponding locking noses lock the device. The device also allows disabled patients to remove the tablets required from the blister pack without further assistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Createchnic AG
    Inventor: Werner Fritz Dubach
  • Profiled frame for a switchgear cabinet
    Patent number: 6155658
    Abstract: A profiled frame for a switchgear cabinet with an inner profiled section and an outer profiled section. The inner profiled section is made from a sheet steel blank and is or can have fastening receivers, on which built-ins can be fixed in place in an interior of the switchgear cabinet. The profiled frame can be visually individualized if the outer profiled section is designed as an extruded profiled section and has one or several ornamented surfaces oriented toward the exterior of the switchgear cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Woodward, Paul Runnalls
  • Assembly rail for a switching cabinet
    Patent number: 6155434
    Abstract: An assembly rail for a switching cabinet, designed in a form of a stamped and bent part and having an assembly wall directed towards the inside of the switching cabinet. Lateral fixing devices, bent out of the assembly wall, are fitted with an assembly plate. Hooks are stamped and bent out of the assembly plate. The hooks can be inserted into fastening cavities of the vertical frame sections of the switching cabinet. The assembly rails can be firmly and easily secured to the frame sections with slotted fastening cavities if the hooks are bent out of the assembly plate around an axis of flexion extending in the longitudinal direction of the frame sections, if a protruding section of the hook is stamped out from the bending point and if a width of the hook is determined by the material thickness of the fastening plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Kohler, Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Process for incinerating solids on a water-cooled thrust combustion grate, and a grate plate and grate for accomplishing the process
    Patent number: 6155184
    Abstract: A process wherein primary air supplied to the combustion bed through the thrust combustion grate is deflected after exiting from a surface of the thrust combustion grate by deflector elements mounted on the surface of the thrust combustion grate. The grate required for this purpose has grate plates made from a permeable hollow element with connection pieces for supplying and draining cooling water, with primary air supply ducts that run through the grate plate from a bottom to a top. Deflector elements against which the primary air exiting the outlet is intended to impact, are disposed over openings of the primary air supply ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Doikos Investments Limited
    Inventor: Jakob Stiefel
  • Creped nonwoven liner with gradient capillary structure
    Patent number: 6150002
    Abstract: A unitary creped nonwoven web has a hydrophobic uncreped side and a creped side. The hydrophobic side includes looped regions. The creped side includes relatively narrow hydrophilic regions. The looped regions and creped regions act in conjunction with each other to form gradient capillaries, which urge the transfer of liquid toward the hydrophilic regions and away from the hydrophobic looped regions. The creped nonwoven web can be used as a top liner for an absorbent structure, such as a diaper, with the hydrophilic ends facing the absorbent core. When used in this fashion, the creped nonwoven web helps keep the wearer's skin dry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: Eugenio Go Varona
  • Corner connector for a rack
    Patent number: 6149255
    Abstract: A corner connector for a switching cabinet with depth and length struts which are disposed horizontally and joined to vertical frame pieces in corner areas by corner connectors. Substantial flexibility of use is achieved with the corner connector having a compensating element enabling differently structured vertical frame pieces to be connected according to choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Kohler, Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Large label panel container carrier
    Patent number: 6148994
    Abstract: This invention relates to a package of a plurality of containers unitized with a flexible carrier. The carrier is constructed from a plastic planar sheet having a plurality of container receiving openings including corner container receiving openings and inner container receiving openings. A panel is positioned with respect to a straight longitudinal panel edge of the container receiving openings. When the containers are inserted into the container receiving openings, the panel remains flat and tight with respect to the containers. The panel is urged into a flat position with respect to the containers through a distinct spatial relationship between and among the container receiving openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Olsen
  • Film multipackage
    Patent number: 6145656
    Abstract: This invention relates to a single-piece carrier for unitizing a plurality of containers with a retainer sheet integrated with a carrier sleeve. The retainer sheet comprises a plurality of container receiving openings for engaging a top portion of a group of containers of the plurality of containers and two partial container receiving openings for partially engaging a top portion of two additional containers of the plurality of containers. The carrier sleeve surrounds the plurality of containers and a handle is positioned over a center row of containers. A package including containers comprises two layers of containers within the film sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Leslie S. Marco
  • Method for application of protective polymer coating
    Patent number: 6146709
    Abstract: A process for application of a protective coating to a steel, concrete, or wooden structure so as to provide protection against corrosion, weathering, or other environmental damage in which the surface to be protected is heated to a temperature in a range of about 75.degree. F. to about 150.degree. F. after which a liquid thermoset primer is applied to the heated material in two stages. The first portion is solidified by heating and then coated with a second portion, forming an uncured liquid thermoset outer primer layer. A melted polymer powder layer is then applied by flamespraying over the uncured liquid thermoset primer layer, forming an intermediate polymer powder layer embedded in the uncured liquid thermoset primer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Institute of Gas Technolgy
    Inventors: Joseph M. Katz, William F. Rush, Jr., Victor Tamosaitis
  • Switching cabinet with an assembly plate
    Patent number: 6145943
    Abstract: A switching cabinet which is enclosed by wall elements and a door. An assembly plate is placed parallel to a vertical side wall. The assembly plate can be moved in a direction of the associated side wall by sliders on at least one guide rail and brought into a position for mounting. Limited mounting opportunities, because of the guide rails, are thus avoided by designing the guide rails as a separate part, by providing positioning units which are detachably secured to the switching cabinet, and by being able to remove the guide rails from the cabinet after the assembly plate is positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Reuter, Paul Root
  • Method for predicting continuous and discontinuous waveguide targets using interwell seismic signature characteristics
    Patent number: 6147929
    Abstract: A method for planning continuity logging surveys and for detecting the presence of a continuous or discontinuous low-velocity inclusion in a subterranean geological formation. To detect the presence of a continuous or discontinuous low-velocity inclusion, a seismic source is inserted into a source borehole located at either a boundary or a center of a low velocity inclusion. Seismic energy is generated coupled to the low-velocity inclusion using the seismic source. The seismic energy propagates as seismic waves through the low-velocity inclusion and is measured and recorded by at least one detector disposed in a receiver borehole. The seismic waves are analyzed for the presence of at least one seismic signature from which the distance of a discontinuity, if any, of the low-velocity inclusion with respect to the receiver borehole can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Gas Research Institute
    Inventor: Jorge Octavio Parra
  • Switch cabinet
    Patent number: 6142591
    Abstract: A switch cabinet with a rack having four vertical frame sections, in which an internal housing arranged in an interior of the switch cabinet is connected to the rack, which has two vertical side walls and an upper and a lower horizontal cover. In order to be able to install the internal housing simply in the switch cabinet, the vertical side walls are attached to the vertical frame sections and each has an upper and a lower longitudinal guide that runs in the direction of the cabinet depth. The cover can be pushed into the longitudinal guides via the open front side of the rack with guide elements and secured to them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Dirk Hemann
  • Clamping apparatus
    Patent number: 6141834
    Abstract: A clamping apparatus for a hose or another suitable tubular member. A coiled band forms an opening within which the hose or other tubular member is positioned. The coiled band forms an inner band, a middle band and a outer band. The middle band is sandwiched between the inner band and the outer band. A retainer is positioned about the inner band and the outer band, to retain the inner band, the middle and the outer band in a sandwiched position with respect to each other. Two or more projections extend radially inward, toward the opening formed by the coiled band, from the inner band. The projections interfere with the retainer to limit movement of the retainer in two directions, opposite to each other, along a longitudinal axis of the band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: A. J. Gerrard & Company
    Inventor: Walter William Lenox
  • Quickspin archery vane
    Patent number: 6142896
    Abstract: An archery vane having a first side with a first surface and an opposing second side with a second surface, the second surface having a roughness greater than the roughness of the first surface. A projection is attached to the first surface. The archery vanes generate rotation of the arrow shaft about its spin axis to provide increased stability of the arrow shaft and improved flight accuracy of the arrow. Arrows having such archery vanes are easily and efficiently manufactured due to the position of the archery vanes on the arrow shaft generally parallel to the spin axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: New Archery Products Corp.
    Inventors: Miroslav A. Simo, Robert S. Mizek, Frank A. Harwath
  • Window latch
    Patent number: D435429
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Triodyne-Wangler Construction
    Inventors: Ralph L. Barnett, William Anthony Wangler