Patents Represented by Attorney Richard G. Kinney
  • Patent number: 4630657
    Abstract: A versatile router guide apparatus or kit is disclosed comprising a pair of side rails and a pair of headpieces, which may be releasably secured together to form a "modified box type" router guide. When so secured the guide may be clamped to a workpiece between the headpieces and a router moved in the guide to form transverse dadoes or cuts therein. Bridges are also provided that may be temporarily fixed across the rails at strategic positions therealong, and projecting router stops attached to headpieces so that precise interrupted cuts or dadoes can be made in the workpiece. Further, the router may be releasably positioned within the guide, at one location relative to the guide and the guide unclamped and moved longitudinally along the workpiece to make longitudinal cuts or grooves therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Inventor: George Obradovich
  • Patent number: 4607427
    Abstract: A lightweight, warp-resistant cover for use on runners in steel mills which covers employs a steel exoskeleton on which an expanded metal walls are affixed. The cover is of an overall inverted U-channel shape to which layers of ceramic batting material are laid in planes at right angles to the walls of the cover and are affixed by means of L-shaped hangers attached to the metal mesh and its framework with impalers parallel to the expanded metal walls. The ceramic batting is impaled on the hangers and completely lines the interior of the cover and is preferably sealed by a final coating of ceramic insulation at its inner surface. A plurality of covers may be joined end-to-end to span the full length of a runner with any particular one being easily removable and replaced because of its lightweight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Assignee: Crisman Sand Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Hartzell D. Scofield
  • Patent number: 4591328
    Abstract: A machine is disclosed for forming food items, such as cookies, into a fortune cookie shape with a paper fortune therein. The machine includes a device for feeding a succession of disc shaped blank food items to a moving track. A roller both advances the blank and forms grooves in the blank at desired creasing lines thereof. A descending arm bearing a fortune slip then folds the blank into a generally half-moon shape by pressing it downward through a slit opening and releasing the fortune slip therein. A pair of worm gears, cylinders with mirror image helical grooves therein, are mounted adjacent to one another and turn in opposite directions. At one end of each cylinder finger-like elements project outward and revolve into simultaneous contact with the points of the half-moon folded blank and serve to both fold them about a thin transverse bar and to deliver opposite sides of the now fortune cookie shaped item into the grooves of the cylinders. These advance the item off of the bar and along the cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Inventor: Yau T. Cheung
  • Patent number: 4591356
    Abstract: An arm band for stabilizing an intravenous needle inserted into a patient's vein. The arm band is provided with a hole in the body thereof, spaced from a side edge of the band. The hole is dimensioned to surround the needle. The band is further formed with a slit from a side edge thereof to the hole, to provide opposing flaps which open to permit passage over the tube part of the inserted intravenous needle. A strip is secured at one end thereof to the band on one side of the slit. The free end of the strip is extended over the slit, causing the edge of the hole to surround the needle. The free end of the strip is provided with means to secure it to the band on the other side of the slit, thereby obtaining the stabilization of the intravenous needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Inventor: Barbara C. Christie
  • Patent number: 4569153
    Abstract: The eradication of phreatophytes by enclosing them in transparent or translucent moisture-proof covers, thereby resulting in cessation of transpiration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1986
    Inventor: Elsie Szilagyi
  • Patent number: 4566666
    Abstract: An improved wall bracket and kit for making such a bracket for hair dryers and like small electrical appliances is disclosed which uses two plastic coated malleable wire bracket members that can be hand-bent to the desired shape to receive any one of many different shapes to receive any one of many different sized and shaped appliances. One wire member is longer than the other and has a performed U-shaped end loop for hanging the appliance electric cord looped over it. In one embodiment of the bracket and kit, the wire members are mountable in a two-part base that is also a cover plate for an electrical power outlet (e.g., that is commonly next to a bathroom sink) so that the hair dryer can be conveniently stored in an accessible place. In a second embodiment, the base is generally circular and mounted by either a central screw and/or adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1986
    Inventors: Robert J. Meska, Mary F. Bishop
  • Patent number: 4566257
    Abstract: An improvement for a lawn mower of the type that propels clippings and a stream of air from its cutting area which improvement allows it to collect the clippings in a horizontally disposed plastic trash bag is disclosured. Transfer means, a plate with an opening sized to the mower discharge chute, is releasably mounted on the mower against the chute to receive the clipping and stream of air and pass them through it in one direction. The plate defines a vent opening to allow air to vent in the opposite direction and has means for releasably affixing the disposable bag's opening's marginal areas in a generally vertical plane such that the bag encloses both the vent and clipping openings, so that clipping and air air propelled into the horizontally disposable bag and air is vented from it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1986
    Inventor: Mohammad Akrabawi
  • Patent number: 4552476
    Abstract: A combination tool for use in vehicle washing is disclosed in two embodiments. The tool combines a foaming brush wherein water (or water plus detergent) is cascaded from the brush base through its bristles and a cleaning wand wherein a narrow stream of high pressure water is emitted from a terminal nozzle. The tool provides for the brush housing to fit about the wand and be positioned at a distance from the wand's nozzle end when the combination is used as a wand but allow the wand to be drawn into the brush housing to be seated at the base of the brush so its output also serve to supply liquid to the brush. In both embodiments mechanical bias in the form of a helical compression spring positioned in the housing and about the wand keep the housing away from the wand end or alternatively latched in place at the base of the brush and a baffle is provided to convert the high pressure stream to a flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1985
    Inventors: Patrick T. Heraty, Michael Heraty
  • Patent number: 4535753
    Abstract: A radiant heat collector is disclosed in the form of a reflector oven. The oven collects heat from a heat source adjacent to the oven. The reflective surfaces are detachably secured to end plates, which plates are of a generally rectangular configuration. Tie rods may be used to retain the grill assembly, or tabs on either the grill or on the reflective surfaces, or on both, and may be used for this purpose with or without tie rods. The assembled reflector is of a generally elliptical section shape (rather than parabolic) to enhance the thorough heating of the material placed on the grill to be heated. The elliptical section encompasses one end of an ellipse about one focus line and a source of heat may be conveniently located at the other focus line. The major axis of the ellipse dips downward from the section to the heat source and the rack or grill is positioned under the section focus line esssentially to one side of the major axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Inventor: Leo Zayauskas
  • Patent number: 4520563
    Abstract: A reciprocating saw attachment for a chain saw whereby the rotating chain saw drive converts the attachment to reciprocating movement to operate a saw blade longitudinally remote from the chain saw tool. It comprises a guide bar having one end formed to replace the prior art guide bar. The guide bar of this invention is formed with a slotted aperture in the body thereof and carries a sprocket wheel at the distal end of the guide bar. An endless link chain encircles the edge of the guide bar, the sprocket drive of the chain saw motor and the sprocket wheel mounted on the guide bar. A slide block is reciprocally movable in the slotted aperture and driven by a crank lever connecting the sprocket wheel and the slide block. A longitudinal pole is mounted on the guide bar for distally supporting an elongated push rod mounted on the guide bar for reciprocal movement. The proximate end of the elongated push rod is linked to the slide block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Inventor: Aurilien J. Marceau
  • Patent number: 4521197
    Abstract: A game apparatus for challenging the mental dexterity of two or more players and teaching children readily how to recognize, add and remember monetary sums is disclosed, which uses three cubical members, two main members, one of which has indicia on its faces corresponding primarily to common coins, e.g., 1.cent., 5.cent., 10.cent., 25.cent., 50.cent., and $1; and the other of which has indicia on its faces corresponding to common monetary notes, e.g., $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100; and a lead member which has indicia of instructions on its face, e.g., score, no score, and second chance. The members are housed in a box-like container with a transparent top and thrown by the players in sequencial innings, with the individual player's score in each inning being determined by the upper face amount and the instruction. Each player accumulates his score from his innings and the first to reach a specific amount, such as one grand ($1,000), is declared the winner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Inventor: Rebecca G. Lumpkins
  • Patent number: 4429689
    Abstract: A sex aid device for males is disclosed comprising a tubular member that includes upper and lower longitudinally extending relatively inelastic but flexible supports and connecting elastic flexible sides, said tubular member being adapted to extend from the base of a penis to the glans penis, and the bottom support extending forward and forming a relatively inelastic spoonlike member for receiving the bottom of the glans penis to be exposed to tactile stimulation, said spoonlike member having a forward-extending smooth tip of soft compressible elastic material formed thereon. The device further preferably has upper and lower transverse ridges of smooth-surfaced compressible elastic material at the upper and lower lengths of the tubular member and one or two transverse side slits intermediate the length of the tubular member to aid in insertion of a non-erect penis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
    Inventor: Procopio U. Yanong
  • Patent number: 4427178
    Abstract: An attachment or accessory to a wheeled floor jack of the type that rolls during use is disclosed. The accessory comprises a flat, elongated guard sized to receive and carry the wheels of the jack and to captivate them within it. The accessory provides a flat platform or base on which and within which the jack can roll and over which the weight lifted can be spread and serves to keep the wheels from the ambient surface. The attachment thus overcomes the problem encountered when using such jacks on a soft surface, such as snow, sand, dirt or asphalt, of having the wheels embed and the jack "snow plow," or slip. The attachment is designed to remain attached to the jack after insertion, but to easily receive the jack and be removed from it. The attachment also aids in handling the jack and limits or eliminates undesirable rolling, for example, when the jack is stored in the trunk of an automobile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Inventor: Stanley J. Kozlowski
  • Patent number: 4385575
    Abstract: Easy-threading sewing needles, in two embodiments, for hand needles and sewing machine needles are disclosed, as well as a method for making the easy-threading structure. The needles have eyes defined by sidewalls, one of which is slit along a plane which passes from the outer surface into the eye and divides the sidewall into an elongated inner clip member and a conforming retaining member. The clip member is mechanically spring-biased against the retainer but may be resiliently bent inward to open the slit by pressing a thread loop against the outside of the sidewall. The clip springs back against the mating surface of the retainer as soon as the thread enters the eye and the pressure is removed. The machine needle includes an off-center eye and the thread trap formed on the thinner sidewall, the point of the needle being formed off-center under the eye and a smooth shoulder projecting outward just under the entrance to the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1983
    Inventor: Richard D. Weber
  • Patent number: 4348026
    Abstract: A game apparatus of the table level type wherein projectiles, e.g., pucks or discs, are hand-propelled to slide over an elongated surface from a launch area to a target area, is disclosed, which employs an elongated slide surface which is formed into a fixed contour so as to present the sliding projectile, as it travels along the length of the slide surface, with surfaces of varying pitches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Inventor: Russell E. Kauffmann
  • Patent number: 4249184
    Abstract: An antenna structure, kit and method for making the structure comprising a generally circular base, a plurality of specially formed pre-stressed similarly shaped and sized arms which may be affixed in a disk array to the base and means, an arm encircling turnbuckel cable arrangement, for stressing the pre-stressed arms into a generally parabolic disk array is disclosed. The ribs are each made of a plurality of layers of resilient material, such as wood, which are bonded together in a bowed pre-stressed shape, which shape when modified by the stressing by the cable to assume a generally parabolic disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1981
    Inventor: James K. Vines
  • Patent number: 4201991
    Abstract: An antenna structure, kit and method for making the structure comprising a generally circular base, a plurality of specially formed pre-stressed similarly shaped and sized arms which may be affixed in a disk array to the base and means, an arm encircling turnbuckel cable arrangement, for stressing the pre-stressed arms into a generally parabolic disk array is disclosed. The ribs are each made of a plurality of layers of resilient material, such as wood, which are bonded together in a bowed pre-stressed shape, which shape when modified by the stressing by the cable to assume a generally parabolic disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1980
    Assignee: Paraframe, Inc.
    Inventor: James K. Vines
  • Patent number: D277500
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Inventor: Leland S. McGill
  • Patent number: D281053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1985
    Inventor: Lois A. Curry
  • Patent number: D281269
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Inventor: Kirk D. Snyder