Patents Represented by Attorney R. William Graham

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  • Cross-shaped urn
    Patent number: 7117570
    Abstract: A cross shaped container includes a cross shaped member having four arms which are communicably connected at a central portion, wherein the arms are generally hollow and each arm has a cap for sealing a terminal end thereof. A pedestal base supportively connects to one of the arms in a manner to support the cross shaped member in an upright manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Inventor: Ted A. Borgerding
  • Actuator
    Patent number: 7100465
    Abstract: An actuator includes an inner tube, an outer tube disposed over the inner tube in a manner such that the tubes reciprocate with respect to one another. A removably operably disposed ball screw having a ball nut thereon extends through the tubes, the ball screw having an outer diameter which is less than an inner diameter of the tubes such that an annular space exists between the screw and the tubes. A brake assembly is operably disposed within outer tube and at least a part of said brake assembly, and said ball screw and said ball nut are removable from the tubes without causing damage thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Inventors: Russell E. Hollis, Paul R. Hollis, Douglas W. Olson
  • Hanging device
    Patent number: 7100774
    Abstract: A hanging device having a base that can be connected to a wall. A-plurality of horizontally disposed retainers extend across a front face of the base, wherein each retainer includes a pair of retainer members which are biased toward one another. The members are configured to be movably displaced from one another to readily permit the insertion of an article to be hung, such as a garment, therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Inventor: Michael James Wenzler
  • Inversely proportioned mouthpieces
    Patent number: 7078605
    Abstract: Mouthpieces for brass wind musical instruments are shaped so the physical length of a mouthpiece body (40, 50, 60, 70, & 80) is inversely-proportional to the volumetric size of a corresponding cup-chamber (42, 52, 62, 72, & 82). Methods for constructing separate sets of such mouthpieces for each kind of brass wind instrument are disclosed. Other embodiments include variations like multi-section components and alternative backbore shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Worth Love
  • Enclosure for handling hazardous material
    Patent number: 7077486
    Abstract: An enclosure for handling hazardous material includes a sealable housing which is configured with a first air inlet connected to a bubble gauge and a second air inlet disposed inside the housing for air evacuation from the housing is connected to a pump for maintaining subatmospheric pressure in the enclosure and for drawing a stream of air inwardly through the first air inlet via the bubble gauge into the housing and out the second air inlet. A filter interposed in the stream of air leading to the second inlet. At least one glove port is formed in the housing and has a flexible relatively gas impermeable glove connected thereto. An air exchange port in the housing is operably connected to a sealed bellows which provides for changes in air volume within the enclosure which occurs from moving the glove within the enclosure under subatmospheric pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Inventor: Stephen F. Tattershall
  • Billiard rack laser system for positioning a rack for a billiard game
    Patent number: 7063620
    Abstract: A billiard rack laser system for positioning a rack for a billiard game includes a pool table having an alignment mark and a pool rack having a laser operably connected thereto such that when the rack is placed on the table, the laser is equipped to illuminate a beam which when directed at the alignment mark illuminates the same thereby indicates a proper spot of the rack for positioning the same on the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Inventor: Steven Nearhood
  • Apparatus and method of use for identifying and monitoring women at risk of developing ovarian surface epithelium derived carcinomas
    Patent number: 7056293
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of use thereof for identifying and monitoring women at risk of developing OSE-derived carcinomas is provided. The apparatus includes an introducer needle configured to be capable of insertion into a female such that a terminal end of the needle is positioned adjacent an ovary of the female, a microendoscope having an optic fiber which is operably insertable into the needle in a manner to enable an image of the ovary to be obtained therethrough, and a tissue removing member operably co-insertable into the needle with the optic fiber therein to enable removal of ovarian tissue cells with minimal deleterious effect to the ovary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: LifeLine Biotechnologies, Inc
    Inventors: William H. Reeves, Jonathan Reeves, Louis Keith
  • Display
    Patent number: 7036254
    Abstract: A display is disclosed as having a first panel, a second panel, and a third panel. The third panel is retained by and between the first and second panels in a manner in which at least part of the third panel is exposed. An indicia is printed on the exposed part of the third panel which includes an integrally formed detachable portion which is fixably connectable to one of the first and second panels and which provides a bearing surface upon which the third panel rotates. The first and second panels are adhered to one another in a manner to permit rotation of the third panel member there between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Neff Packaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Elston Jones, Douglas Arthur Kline
  • Piston-cam engine
    Patent number: 7017534
    Abstract: A piston-cam engine includes a drive cylinder, a drive piston operably disposed therein having a piston head and a shaft, a support frame having a drive shaft rotatably movably connected thereto, a cam having a peripheral surface and having a plurality of lobes thereon, a roller member connected to the piston shaft and adapted for engagement with the peripheral surface of the cam, and a biasing element for biasing the roller member continuously against the peripheral surface of the cam. A support drive plate interconnects the piston shaft and the roller member and one or more slave cylinder(s) is provided adjacent the drive cylinder and has a slave piston operably disposed therein and has a piston head and a shaft, wherein the slave piston shaft is connected to the support drive plate to absorb part of a force exerted on the support plate during operation of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Inventor: Ray O. Chaney
  • Method and apparatus for enhancing oil and gas flow in a well
    Patent number: 7004258
    Abstract: An apparatus for increasing oil and gas recovery includes a delivery mechanism for automatically introducing a flow enhancing substance into a plunger of an oil or gas well and method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Inventor: Sam Farris
  • Light string storage device and turntable
    Patent number: 7004319
    Abstract: The present invention is a light string storage device that is used to easily wind and un-wind light strings, such as Christmas lights, and is used for storage of the strands. The device protects the light bulbs and sockets against damage; the electric cord, plug and connector and light bulbs stay in place and untangled; it keeps the cord and bulbs from twisting as they are placed on the device; and the plug and connectors are easily attainable for testing the lights prior to strand placement. The invention also includes a turntable with retaining means to easily attach and remove the storage device to the turntable. The lightweight turntable can either sit on the ground or table during use and allows the person to turn the storage device easily during installing or removing of the light strands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Inventors: Roy F. Knight, Beverly Jane Knight, R. Michael Ruckel, R. William Graham
  • System for aiding in prevention of engine overheating in a vehicle
    Patent number: 7004245
    Abstract: A system for aiding an engine in a vehicle includes an air duct operably disposed in the vehicle having a fresh air inlet for receiving fresh air, first outlet for exhausting air outside the vehicle, and second outlet for exhausting air inside a passenger compartment, a cool air conditioning device operably disposed in the duct to cool air as it passes thereby when in an “on mode”, a heater core operably disposed in the duct to continuously provide heat air as it passes thereby and remove heat from the engine. A first diverter is operably disposed in the duct for continuously diverting at least some of the heated air toward the first outlet when the cool air conditioning device is in an “on mode” and a second diverter is operably disposed in the duct for continuously diverting at least one fresh air or cool air toward one of the outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Inventor: Adel A. Abdeljawad
  • Telescoping guide for a concrete saw
    Patent number: 6981494
    Abstract: A telescopic guide for a concrete saw includes a plurality of sleeves, a wheel and mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Inventor: Andrew Bowman
  • Insulator and connect cable and method of making same
    Patent number: 6974912
    Abstract: An insulator and cable, wherein the insulator includes a spacer of low dielectric factor having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end comprises more than about three quarters of an axial length of the insulator and wherein the first end has a generally cylindrical opening extending axially therein of a diameter sufficiently larger than the wire diameter such that the wire can be axially extended through the opening without contacting the first end and the second end has a generally conical opening having a larger end communicating with the cylindrical opening and a smaller end adjacent a wire retaining surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Inventor: Peter E. Selby
  • Fan induction blower box
    Patent number: 6966293
    Abstract: An improvement in an air filter compartment of an internal combustion engine within a vehicle includes an air filter compartment having a forward end having an air inlet connected to the vehicle to receive air through a front grill of the vehicle and a rear end with an air outlet leading to an engine intake of the vehicle. The air filter compartment has an intermediate portion configured to removably retain an air filter adjacent the forward end and a high output fan rearwardly of the air filter. The fan operably connects to a power supply of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Inventor: Kevin Patillo
  • Hanging device
    Patent number: 6964342
    Abstract: A hanging device having a base that is to be connected to a vertical support or wall, with its long axis of the base vertically disposed. A plurality of horizontally disposed retainers extend across a front face of the base, wherein each retainer includes a pair of retainer members which are biased toward one another. The members are configured to be movably displaced from one another to readily permit the insertion of an article to be hung, such as a garment, therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Inventor: Michael James Wenzler
  • Device for holding a workpiece adjacent a ceiling support
    Patent number: 6957515
    Abstract: A device for holding a work piece over head, wherein the device is employed between a first wall support and a second wall support and the wall support are interconnected to support a ceiling support, which includes a first removable support connector for connecting the device to the first wall support, a first cross member hingedly connected to the first removable support connector at one end and having another end which is elongated and includes an inwardly extending opening thereby forming a female end, a second removable support connector for connecting the device to the second wall support generally opposing the first wall support, and a second cross member connected hingedly connected to the first removable support connector at one end and having another elongated male end which is of a size and configuration to be slidably received within the female end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Inventor: Mark D. Hatfield
  • Critical temperature indicator
    Patent number: 6957623
    Abstract: A critical temperature indicator according to the present invention produces a visual, irreversible indication that the indicator has been subjected to a selected critical temperature. The critical temperature indicator includes a transparent housing, and a temperature sensitive transformable material operably contained within the transparent housing which includes mixture of water, nucleating agent (preferably ice nucleating active (INA) microorganisms), latex, and stabilizer which is translucent prior to exposure of a predetermined temperature and is transformed upon being subjected to the predetermined temperature to render a substantially consistent opaque material thus precluding visibility therethrough and thereby providing a sure visual sign that the indicator has been subjected to the predetermined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Inventors: Robert E. Guisinger, Floyd Ramp, Randall Lane
  • Carburetor shaped novelty container
    Patent number: D517423
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Inventor: Robert D. Jeschke
  • Translucent cross shaped urn
    Patent number: D518939
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Inventor: Ted A. Borgerding