Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Rafael Baca
  • Patent number: 6572380
    Abstract: A game unit and a method for teaching favorable behavioral patterns. The game unit includes a portfolio and an allowance system in cooperative engagement with the portfolio. The portfolio includes a plurality of tab cards and a score unit for receiving the tab cards. The allowance system includes an allowance element as a unit of exchange between what is earned by a player and a tangible reward outside of the play situation. Accordingly, a method for teaching favorable behavioral patterns includes incorporating the game unit with a routine of a player for a predetermined period, such as a daily routine. The player is credited via the tab cards throughout the predetermined period for favorable and unfavorable behavior while performing the routine. At the end of play, a value received from calculating the awarded tab cards is used to determine a value of an allowance element to be received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Inventors: Kathryn Sue Buckley, Wilbert Earl Portis
  • Patent number: 5954235
    Abstract: A dispensing valve mounting assembly includes a housing having a beverage syrup inlet communicating with a beverage syrup outlet and a first mixing fluid inlet and a second mixing fluid inlet communicating with a mixing fluid outlet. The dispensing valve mounting assembly further includes a beverage syrup valve assembly disposed in the housing. The beverage syrup valve assembly is movable from a first position that interrupts communication between the beverage syrup inlet and the beverage syrup outlet to a second position that permits communication between the beverage syrup inlet and the beverage syrup outlet. The dispensing valve mounting assembly still further includes an inlet switch assembly disposed in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Inventors: Alfred Augustus Schroeder, Craig Cloud, Adrian Michael Romanyszyn