Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Rick Martin
  • Rotating light toy
    Patent number: 7361074
    Abstract: A non-battery operated rotating light and/or noise making toy apparatus is disclosed. The system includes a handle to which is connected an electro-mechanical LED power generation chamber. One or more LEDs are electronically connected to the power generation chamber. The power generation chamber contains a series of gears that drive a magnet through a rotational frequency dependent on the gear ratio. The magnet, in turn, induces a current into an induction coil with each rotation of the magnet as it rotates in a circular fashion via its positive and negative poles. The induced current consists of a positive and negative current. Current is fed into one or more LEDs or any type module such as a noisemaker, creating a standing pattern lighting effect and/or noisemaker. The frequency of the lighting of one LED is a function of the gear ratio with respect to the primary gear rotation to magnet rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Rapid Pro Manufacturing, Martin and Periman Partnership
    Inventors: Douglas M. Periman, Ronald A. Angstead, Patrick Bertsch, Brent W. Murray, Armand J. Ferraro, Jr., Ralph M. Martin
  • Machine and method to feed filled bags, open the bags, empty the bags, and dispose of the empty bags
    Patent number: 7341416
    Abstract: A filled plastic bag may contain insulation. The bags are stacked in a loader. A pair of reciprocating arms rotate a bottom-most bag causing that bag to fall through an opening of a base. A conveyor receives the bag and moves it through a transverse knife and a longitudinal knife. Once the bottom of the bag is slit into quadrants, a pair of gripper wheels peel the bag off. The bag's contents fall into a hopper of a blower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Inventor: Yuriy N. Rubtsov
  • Simplified two-man lifting harness
    Patent number: 7331493
    Abstract: A shoulder harness is made of straps forming a figure eight having a criss-cross strap configuration, in one embodiment, across a user's back. Two loops are formed which hang under the user's arms. The loops may be threaded into slots on the top of a wide tension buckle, which is centered in front of the user. A webbed lift strap about five-inches wide is threaded into the base of the tension buckle. A second user threads the opposite end of the lift strap into the base of the second user's tension buckle. The lift strap is placed under a load and carried by the two users over rough surfaces that dolly wheels could not handle. Another embodiment includes a central ring to join three or more users' straps together. Another embodiment is a shoulder harness made of vertically hanging straps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: TDT Moving Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas E. Dent, III
  • Railroad car coupler gap analyzer
    Patent number: 7328871
    Abstract: In trains a dragging air hose can snag an object on the tracks and break. A broken air hose can lead to an emergency stop or an accident caused by faulty brakes. The present invention mounts a video camera opposite a lit screen, thereby contrasting the air hose profile against a white screen in all weather and lighting conditions. Machine vision algorithms locate the air hose in a captured image from a moving train, and compute its lowest point. An alarm condition is sent to a remote location. An optional car gap detector is laser based. It helps align the car gap with the data capture for the camera. Another subsystem can include a car coupler height detection algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Progressive Rail Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen E. Mace, Robert W. Martin, Jr., Stephen N. Handal
  • Car model attachment for standard skates
    Patent number: 7293782
    Abstract: A toy car, boat, tank, truck, airplane and the like is made with two inter-connecting parts. The parts fit over a standard skate boot (roller-skate, in-line skate, etc.). Thus a toy is shown having an interconnecting front and rear module, which slips over a standard skate boot. Battery powered lights are shown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Inventors: Angela L. Jennings, Brent W. Murray
  • Device for application of hair curlers
    Patent number: 7287532
    Abstract: An application handling device 1 for rolling hair curlers 2 into hair comprising a grip section 3, at least one shaft 5 projecting from the grip section 3 for the torque-tight reception of a hair curler 2, and a hair retention finger 8, extending in its closed position parallel to the shaft 5, forming with the shaft 5 a hair reception and laid out swivelably with respect to the shaft 5 for opening and closing the hair reception, is characterized thereby that with the application handling device 1 is associated an ionization device 9 with a high-voltage generator 10 and at least one ion-emitting electrode 12 electrically connected to the high-voltage generator 10, the at least one electrode 12 with respect to the disposition of its at least one ion-emitting end 13 is developed for the ion emission directly onto the hair 14 wound about a hair curler 2 retained by the application handling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: WIK Far East Ltd.
    Inventor: Klaus Hafemann
  • Concave combustion chamber
    Patent number: 7258093
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine is provided with a roughly concave cylinder head, wherein a ridge descends into the combustion chamber. A first wall is formed from the ridge to a cylinder periphery to form a seat for an air intake valve. A second wall is formed from the ridge to the opposite cylinder periphery to form a seat for one or more exhaust valves. The valves must criss-cross to open/close. The result is a more efficient flow of intake air and exhaust air to and from the combustion chamber which creates more horsepower. A plug compatible cylinder head can be installed on an engine to get added horsepower without a supercharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Inventors: Shawn D. Chriswell, Darrell R. Chriswell
  • Cap
    Patent number: D549931
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Inventor: Carla S. Melton
  • Moose head shaped carabiner
    Patent number: D550065
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Bison Design, LLC
    Inventor: Brian James Kelleghan
  • Arrowhead hone
    Patent number: D550532
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Sports and Recreation Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Radocy
  • Carabiner
    Patent number: D553480
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Bison Designs, LLC
    Inventor: Brian James Kelleghan
  • Searchlight with charging station
    Patent number: D556353
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Inventors: Albert W. Gebhard, Gerald L. Gohl
  • Visor
    Patent number: D559503
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Inventor: Carla S. Melton
  • Belt mounted holder
    Patent number: D559534
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Inventors: Ronda F. Rider, GiGi M. Targa
  • Cover for an animal extremity
    Patent number: D560317
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Best Buddy Pet Products, Inc
    Inventor: Erica L. Townshend
  • Carabiner with space for a pinch light
    Patent number: D564341
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Bison Designs, LLC
    Inventor: Brian James Kelleghan
  • Flexible animal perch
    Patent number: D565251
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Inventor: Stephen J. McLean
  • Visor
    Patent number: D565282
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Inventor: Carla S. Melton
  • Nail gun holder
    Patent number: D565396
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Inventor: Nathan W. Wipf
  • Shopping cart
    Patent number: D566372
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: AMSA, Inc.
    Inventor: Ivor Michel Walter