Patents Represented by Law Firm Robbins & Laramie
  • Patent number: 4897170
    Abstract: The invention is a novel Soderberg electrode paste composition. The composition is a mixture comprising carbonaceous aggregate, novolac resin binder, plasticizer and optionally hexamethylenetetramine. The novolac resin of the binder has a melting point of at least 100.degree. C. and a free phenol content of not more than 4% by weight based on the weight of novolac resin solids. The residual coking value of the composition of the invention is at least as great as the minimum preferred coking value of traditional Soderberg pastes which are based on coal tar pitch binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Assignee: Borden, Inc.
    Inventor: Pitchaiya Chandramouli
  • Patent number: 4897148
    Abstract: To remove adhesive tape wrapped around a printed circuit board, a taped board is caused to advance along a predetermined travel path; along that path, the adhesive tape is cut along the leading and trailing edges of the board, and then pried up and clamped at opposite corners of the leading edge, to eventually become removed simultaneously from both major faces of the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Assignee: Orlandi Aldo e Orlandi Ivano S.d.f.
    Inventor: Ivano Orlandi
  • Patent number: 4896730
    Abstract: An apparatus which can cultivate rice and other crops, comprising a frame having a plurality of transversely extending spaced cultivator bars, each of the bars having a plurality of spaced elongated soil working members extending generally vertically downward of said bars. The apparatus is pulled over the planted area to remove the weed plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Assignee: Pure-Harvest Corporation
    Inventors: James D. Jarrett, Lynn S. Murray
  • Patent number: 4892744
    Abstract: A flexible, generally tubular, three-surface, single-pleated, microwave-penetrable package for use in cooking popcorn. Two transverse seals and one lengthwise-extending seam seal the package. Venting means releases accumulated steam produced by the popping corn and the package maintains its expanded structure even after venting has commenced. A convenient means of opening the package is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1990
    Assignee: Borden, Inc.
    Inventor: Jon A. Ylvisaker
  • Patent number: 4891387
    Abstract: This invention is directed to the use of microencapsulated blowing agents in the bulk polymerization of cycloolefin monomers by ring-opening polymerization. These microencapsulated blowing agents aid in filling molds during reaction injection molding procedures such that both surfaces of the article being molded remain in contact with their respective mold surfaces eliminating sink marks in these surfaces. In addition, the microencapsulants may be introduced at higher levels which provide structural foams with the polymers from cycloolefin monomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: The B. F. Goodrich Company
    Inventor: Dennis J. Janda
  • Patent number: 4891471
    Abstract: Disclosed is a strands protector which comprises a U-shaped housing having a three-dimensionally bent bottom wall and side walls upstanding from the bottom wall, and a cover member connected by a hinge to the housing to close the opening of the housing and releasably secured to the housing by locking means. The cover member includes a hinge at a position corresponding to the location of the bent portion of the bottom wall of the housing.Also disclosed is a locking mechanism which comprises a locking arm provided on one of two hinge-connected members and an arm-engaging receptacle provided on the other member. The locking arm has an end projection adapted to be inserted in a central hole of the receptacle to secure the two members together, and the receptacle has a projection insertion cutout at a position where interference occurs between the projection of the locking arm and the receptacle when one of these two members is superposed on the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Ono, Norihiro Yoneyama, Toshio Okazaki
  • Patent number: 4888194
    Abstract: A shelf-stable aseptic dairy product and process for preparing the same are disclosed. The product comprises dairy ingredients, an added monoglyceride emulsifier, sodium alginate stabilizer and other optional ingredients. The process comprises (a) heating dairy ingredients to above about 60.degree. C.; (b) combining heated dairy ingredients, added emulsifier, sodium alginate stabilizer, and other optional ingredients; (c) performing an ultra-high temperature treatment; (d) cooling; (e) homogenizing to produce a stable and uniform emulsion; and (f) further cooling and packaging the resulting cooled emulsion in an aseptic container under aseptic conditions. A shelf-stable aseptic packaged product prepared according to the disclosed process is also disclosed. The product is shelf-stable for several months and is capable of forming a stable foam upon whipping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1989
    Assignee: Borden, Inc.
    Inventors: Delmar L. Andersen, David J. Keller, Paul J. Streiff
  • Patent number: 4887978
    Abstract: The interlock device for a connector (e.g. a fusible link connector)--junction block assembly includes a first lock mechanism for locking the insulating housing of the connector in position, against downward displacement, within the mounting framework of the junction block, and a second mechanism for locking the insulating housing in the same position, against upward displacement, within the mounting framework of the junction block substantially simultaneously with the first lock mechanism. The first and second lock mechanisms respectively each include a pair or pairs of wedge-shaped lock pawls with one provided on the insulating housing and the other on the mounting framework. Mating pawls, respectively, have slidable contact surfaces with oppositely directed gradients and oppositely facing lock surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1989
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Murakami
  • Patent number: 4885859
    Abstract: The invention relates to a folding card 1 with a cover 2 that is connected to a back 3 by at least one fold line F.sub.1 and with an internal folding system 4, that is connected at least to the inside surface 3a of the back 3 and can assume a three-dimensional form when the card is unfolded. In order to achieve a particularly effective and optimal effect, the internal folding system 4 consists of at least two superimposed frame elements that change their relative positions when the card is unfolded and whose windows are of differing sizes, whereby the size of the windows increases in the order of the successively overlapping frame elements. The largest window is the one located furthest from the back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: Refeka Werbemittel GmbH
    Inventor: Joachim Gasser
  • Patent number: 4886648
    Abstract: Process for the recovery of germanium from solutions that contain it, in particular from solutions diluted by the addition of tartaric acid and extraction with an organic solution of a tertiary amine. In the reextraction with sodium hydroxide there is obtained a concentrate of germanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: Asturiana De Zinc, S.A.
    Inventors: Francisco J. S. Menendez, Fernando M. S. Menendez, Antonio De La Cuadra Herrera, Francisco A. Tamargo, Luis P. Lorenzo, Matias R. Valcarcel, Vicente A. Fernandez
  • Patent number: 4881462
    Abstract: A portable electrical labeling machine is capable of printing and dispensing labels automatically. A driving device engages label-carrying tape that is transparent to infra-red rays, drawing the tape past a photocell and a printing stamp. The photocell detects the presence of a label on the tape such that when a label is adjacent the photocell, the stamp and driving device are activated. The printing stamp and driving device are deactivate when the photocell detects a gap between adjacent labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignee: Mida S.r.l.
    Inventor: Carlo Vanoni
  • Patent number: 4880943
    Abstract: The method of binding a flat wiring harness according to the present invention comprises the steps of:arranging a plurality of covered wires in parallel relationship in the same plane and bonding them in an easily separable manner thereby forming a flat wiring harness, separating the covered wires by a predetermined, identical number between adjacent covered wires over a predetermined length thereby dividing them into a plurality of small bundles, separating both end portions of all the covered wires in each of the small bundles between adjacent covered wires, and laying the plurality of small bundles one on top of the other and binding them up together in an easily separable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1989
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Kuzuno, Hiroshi Watanabe, Shigeo Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 4880858
    Abstract: A wet filter cake of coal fines or other inorganic particulate material is converted to a crumbly mass by blending with water absorbent polymer particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1989
    Assignee: Allied Colloids Limited
    Inventors: David Farrar, Peter Flesher, Malcolm Skinner, John Clarke, David Marshall, Malcolm Hawe
  • Patent number: 4879884
    Abstract: A universal circular knitting machine with a plurality of knitting stations, having two revolving cylinders axially aligned with each other surrounded by cam skirts, selection devices, stitch length regulation devices and yarn selector devices mounted on a stationary structure. Each movable element for determining needle selection and needle vertical movement, along with yarn-guide actuation, is driven by an electromechanical actuator mounted on the stationary structure. A central electronic control unit sends actuation command signals to the electromechanical actuators. The signals are synchronized with the revolution of the cylinders in accordance with a pattern corresponding to a knitted fabric to be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1989
    Assignee: Orizio Paolo S.p.A.
    Inventor: Leopoldo Bertagnoli
  • Patent number: 4878387
    Abstract: An automotive instrument having a meter scale plate and an indicator lens which are arranged in a side-by-side fashion on the same display panel. A light-shielding projecting wall is provided on the rear side of the meter plate constituting the display panel, so as to prevent the light illuminating the meter scale plate to leak into the area of the indicator lens. A light-shielding structure is provided on a case of the instrument so as to shield the end of the light-shielding projecting wall, thereby preventing the meter illuminating light from leaking to the area of the indicator lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1989
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 4877062
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a temple for holding or for laterally tensioning a woven fabric, in particular on weaving looms, comprising endless guide means having displaceably arranged therein members provided with needles for engagement with said woven fabric, said guide means extending and being arranged in such a way that the needles of at least two members are simultaneously in engagement with the edge of the woven fabric and that, in the course of the needling-in operation, the needles brought into engagement with the woven fabric, are located at a greater distance from the longitudinal axis of the width of woven fabric than in the course of the de-needling operation. The failures occurring in the case of such a temple are now eliminated by providing an appropriate amount of play between the individual members and by guaranteeing at the same time that the members are returned to the point of needling-in in an appropriate manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Inventor: Tilman Hoefelmayr
  • Patent number: 4872302
    Abstract: Articles are stretch wrapped in a plastic film by forming a tube around them from a flat plastic film, sealing the longitudinal edges of the film and then longitudinally stretching the tube to cause it to constrict on the articles being wrapped. The tube is initially of a sufficient diameter to avoid contact with the articles. Both the articles and the tube are conveyed downstream. The tube is fed downstream by a positive transport means which isolates the tube forming operation from any downstream tension. A downstream mechanism pulls on the tube faster than the positive transport means conveys it causing the tube to stretch and constrict on the articles to be wrapped. The tube is closed behind each set of articles and the downstream portion is severed from the upstream portion forming a tube terminus behind one set of articles and in front of the next set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Borden BV
    Inventors: Cornelis van Eijsden, Jan C. Mersman
  • Patent number: 4872319
    Abstract: In an air-cooled absorption type cooling/heating water generating apparatus using a refrigerant and an absorbent solution and including a high-temperature regenerator, a separator, a low-temperature regenerator, an air-cooled condenser, an evaporator, an air-cooled absorber, a high-temperature solution heat exchanger, a low-temperature solution heat exchanger, a solution circulating pump and a refrigerant circulating pump, a constant flow rate control valve is disposed in a conduit connected between the high-temperature solution heat exchanger and the low-temperature regenerator so as to control the flow rate of the solution flowing through the conduit, and a pressure regulating valve is disposed in a conduit connected between the low-temperature regenerator and the condenser so as to regulate the internal pressure of the separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Tongu
  • Patent number: 4871134
    Abstract: The clip for securing a wiring harness in position has a holder portion for holding the wiring harness and a flange portion extending transversely from the holder portion for securing the clip to a fixed part of the vehicle structure. The flange portion is pivotably connected to the holder portion so that the former, in assembly, can be collapsed in parallel to the latter from the normally erect position, reducing the overall dimension of the combined clip and harness to facilitate insertion of the combination through a panel hole of relatively smaller dimension. This reduces the assembly cost and improves the assembly efficiency. Another form of clip is provided at its flange portion with a flexibly bendable constrictive portion formed in the middle of the flange portion. The clip also can be bent via the constrictive portion, reducing its overall dimension, and attains the same effect as the first mentioned clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Ryuetsu Oikawa
  • Patent number: 4869972
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fuse material consisting of aluminum or a rollable aluminum alloy having a copper plating deposited thereon and optionally being provided with a tin plating deposited on the copper plating. A fuse made of the fuse material shows a small temperature rise and has an extended useful service life as compared to conventional fuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Yuuji Hatagishi