Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm R. Gale Rhodes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5047192
    Abstract: Process of manufacturing a cryogenic regenerator including a plurality of channels for conducting a working fluid, including the steps of providing a cylindrical forming member having a longitudinal axis and a plurality of peripheral slots displaced axially and oriented substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical forming member, or having a continuous spiral peripheral slot of sufficiently small pitch such that the convolutions thereof are oriented substantially parallel to such longitudinal axis; providing epoxy which is relatively flexible upon hardening, loading the epoxy with thermally conductive material for enhancing the radial thermal conductivity of the cryogenic regenerator, and applying the epoxy to the periphery of the cylindrical forming member to fill the plurality of slots or the spiral peripheral slot with the epoxy and to form a radial layer of the epoxy of a generally first radial thickness allowing the epoxy to harden and thereafter reducing the radial thickness of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Assignee: CDC Partners
    Inventors: John R. Purcell, Raymond E. Sarwinski
  • Patent number: 5043626
    Abstract: Composite safety coating and fluorescent lamp which lamp upon being energized causes the intermediate portion of the glass envelope to be heated to a relatively low temperature and causes the end portions of the glass envelope adjacent the end caps to be heated to a relatively high temperature, the composite safety coating includes a first substantially light transparent coating nondegradeable to the relatively low temperature surrounding and secured to the entire glass envelope and portions of the end caps, and second and third substantially light transparent coatings nondegradeable to the relatively high temperature surrounding the portions of the first coating surrounding the portions of the glass envelope heated to the relatively high temperature and portions of the end caps, the second and third coatings preventing degradation of the portions of the first coating surrounding the portions of the glass envelope heated to the relatively high temperature; and manufacturing process therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Inventor: James D. Nolan
  • Patent number: 5042706
    Abstract: A web for being fed by a pair of sprockets, each sprocket provided with a plurality of standard feed pins and one or more pairs of additional pins with one additional pin of each pair of additional pins located on either side of one or more of the standard feed pins, the web having a pair of longitudinally extending side edge portions with each side edge portion provided with a plurality of standard feed holes for receiving the standard feed pins of one of the sprockets and each longitudinally extending side edge portion also provided with a plurality of pairs of additional holes equal in number to the plurality of standard feed holes, one additional hole of one pair of additional holes provided on either side of each of the standard feed holes to permit the pairs of additional holes to receive the one or more pairs of additional pins regardless of the circumferential location of the one or more pairs of additional pins on the sprockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Inventor: Joseph W. Coburn, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5034650
    Abstract: A lamp for providing illumination to ultraviolet light-sensitive materials and including a coating for providing the lamp envelope with a safety coating for containing debris produced upon the lamp envelope being broken and for substantially absorbing the ultraviolet light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Inventor: James D. Nolan
  • Patent number: 5029583
    Abstract: An optical analyzer for determining an analyte in a fluid of interest such as a body fluid of interest satisfying the foregoing need and embodying the present invention may include a housing; combination optically transparent cuvette and lancet mounted removably in the housing, the cuvette may receive an optically transparent reagent test system for reacting with the body fluid to produce a change in at least one optical transmissive characteristic of the system indicative of the analyte; a cuvette carrier mounted slidably in the housing and for removably receiving the cuvette; a spring actuator mounted in the housing and connected to the cuvette carrier, the spring actuator may be compressed and released to advance the carrier and thereby advance the lancet into engagement with a portion of a body to produce the body fluid; depth control apparatus for controlling the depth of penetration of the lancet into the body portion; an electrooptical system mounted in the housing in optical engagement with the cuvett
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Personal Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Meserol, Thomas Palmieri
  • Patent number: 5021710
    Abstract: An insect attraction lamp including a lamp for transmitting black light perceptible to insects as an attractant, and a coating providing the lamp with a safety coating for containing debris produced upon the lamp being broken and for allowing transmission of the black light therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Inventor: James D. Nolan
  • Patent number: 5000174
    Abstract: There is diclosed a self-contained breathing assembly of the positive pressure type including a remotely positioned improved pressure demand regulator for substantially instantaneous response for breathing air having reduced operating parts substantially reducing potential breakdown and wherein there is provided a gas flow disconnect assembly between the user face mask and gas flow conduits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Cairns & Brother Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Gray, Robert M. Armstrong, Walter J. D. Lybrand
  • Patent number: 4999075
    Abstract: Process of mass manufacturing a plurality of security cards including the steps of embossing a surface of a layer of plastic film at first locations with visual image producing devices such as holograms or diffraction gratings, metalizing the surface including the visual image producing devices, applying a layer of background ink over the surface except for where the visual image producing devices are located, printing indicia on the background ink at second locations, laminating a layer of clear plastic film over the surface to form a laminate, cutting individual security cards out of the laminate and embossing indicia into third locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Inventor: Joseph W. Coburn, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4979209
    Abstract: Individual security subscriber line module including a generally rectangular, hollow box-like structure including a top, bottom, opposed sides and opposed first and second ends, such structure providing an internal space for receiving an individual circuit; a pair of subscriber wiring terminals mounted on the top for connection to a subscriber line, a plug connected to the pair of subscriber wiring terminals by first electrical conductors; a jack mounted on the top and provided with second electrical conductors for connecting the jack to the incoming telephone company line, the jack for having the plug plugged therein to interconnect the pair of subscriber wiring terminals and thereby the subscriber line to the incoming telephone company line and the plug for being unplugged from the jack to provide a demarcation point between the subscriber line and incoming telephone company line, and upon the plug being unplugged from the jack the jack for receiving the plug of an operating telephone to facilitate determin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: Keptel, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Collins, Pina Schneider, Anthony L. Nieves, Thomas G. Graham
  • Patent number: 4964836
    Abstract: A poseable toy animal including at least a pair of flexible limbs formed in part by skeletal-like structure including a pair of flexible members extending downwardly from a generally inverted U-shaped frame including a pair of downwardly extending support members and formed in part by flexible material surrounding the flexible members and which flexible members and flexible material may be bent into different shapes to provide the animal with different poses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: Bandai America Incorporated
    Inventor: Masato Kamei
  • Patent number: D312244
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Keptel, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Collins, Thomas G. Graham, Victor P. Kaminski, Theodore M. Monette
  • Patent number: D312820
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Keptel, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Collins, Anthony L. Nieves
  • Patent number: D313417
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Assignee: Keptel, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas G. Graham, Thomas J. Collins, Joseph J. Paddock
  • Patent number: D313803
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Keptel, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Collins, Peter Quintana
  • Patent number: D314385
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Keptel, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Karan, Thomas J. Collins
  • Patent number: D314759
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Keptel, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Collins, Anthony L. Nieves
  • Patent number: D318653
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Assignee: Keptel, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony L. Nieves, Thomas J. Collins
  • Patent number: D321056
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Inventor: John M. Chambers
  • Patent number: D322676
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Inventor: John M. Chambers
  • Patent number: D323367
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Prostretch, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher J. B. Smith, IV