Patents Represented by Attorney Robert T. Gammons
  • Patent number: 4428555
    Abstract: An easel-type mount for supporting calendars and memorandum pads on a desk of the kind embodying a display portion and headboard and a leg and brace interengageable to support the structure upright with the display portion and headboard disposed at an obtuse angle relative to each other and to a method of making the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Assignee: Winthrop-Atkins Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas C. Atkins
  • Patent number: 4427555
    Abstract: A filter system wherein there is a first chamber containing fluid at a predetermined level, a shroud positioned in the first chamber immersed in the fluid, said shroud defining a downwardly-open second chamber, a quantity of discrete, buoyant bodies supported in the shroud by flotation, said discrete, buoyant bodies defining a filter media, a conduit connected to the top of the shroud for delivering fluid to the shroud at a pressure to displace the discrete, buoyant bodies downwardly therein as the fluid is forced downwardly into the shroud and into the lower part of the first chamber below the shroud, a second chamber surrounding the first chamber, a conduit connecting the top of the shroud with the second chamber, a conductor connected to the bottom of the second chamber providing an outlet from the bottom and valves in the several conduits operable on the one hand to admit fluid into the shroud and to permit fluid to be withdrawn from the third chamber while blocking flow of fluid from the first chamber to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignee: Control Fluidics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. Brown, Wesley M. Tufts
  • Patent number: 4426070
    Abstract: A spring assembly comprising a base frame, a grid frame, coils connected at their lower ends and upper ends to the respective frames wherein the grid frame is provided with crossing longitudinal and transverse wires so positioned as to enable spacing the coils transversely of the grid frame at a uniform spacing and wherein the longitudinal wires of the grid frame are provided with deviations for receiving diametral portions of the coils and retaining the latter from movement relative to the grid frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1984
    Assignee: Webster Spring Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Garceau, Henry R. Ramsey
  • Patent number: 4425363
    Abstract: A method of Treatment of Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) in humans by the administration of the compound of the formula ##STR1## or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof in a non-toxic, effective therapeutic amount (calculated as base) to a human in need thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1984
    Assignee: Burroughs Wellcome Co.
    Inventor: Warren C. Stern
  • Patent number: 4423562
    Abstract: A combination wall calendar and support for accommodating writing materials comprising a back panel provided with an aperture by means of which it can be suspended on a wall, a front panel for receiving a calendar pad, photograph or the like, a panel which may optionally be positioned in a plane parallel to the back panel or positioned forwardly thereof at an angle appropriate to provide an inclined writing surface and second and third panels for supporting the first panel in said writing position and defining a pocket for receiving and storing writing materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1984
    Assignee: Winthrop-Atkins Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Gordon E. Nichols, deceased
  • Patent number: 4421269
    Abstract: A system for automatic control of water temperature by means of a plurality of pushbuttons or their equivalent bearing indicia identifying a range of available temperatures which, when actuated through appropriate circuitry, control the water valve setting as to the proportion of hot water to cold water and vice versa and as to the volume of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Inventor: Si-Ling Ts'ao
  • Patent number: 4420403
    Abstract: A filter module wherein the fluid to be filtered is projected into a chamber containing a floating bed of buoyant bodies confined within the chamber at the top side and wherein the point of entry of the fluid is constantly moved about the center of the bed so that successive portions of the bed are subjected to weltering while the remainder is quiescent such that the solids are separated from the bodies dispersed by weltering and gravitate to the bottom of the module and are drawn off and the filtrate is drawn off through the quiescent portion of the bed at the top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1983
    Assignee: Control Fluidics, Inc.
    Inventor: Wesley M. Tufts
  • Patent number: 4414784
    Abstract: An enclosure for an apartment house balcony wherein the balcony has a floor, roof and at least one open side, a wall member structured to be secured across said open side to close said open side, a window opening in said wall member, a transparent panel in said window opening so positioned as to permit light to enter directly into the balcony through the window opening and a reflector panel so positioned as to reflect light not normally entering the window opening into the area of the balcony shaded by the roof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Inventor: Richard M. Masters
  • Patent number: 4412826
    Abstract: A device for attachment to the gear shift lever of an outboard motor to enable shifting the gears from neutral to forward and/or reverse at a safe distance inboard of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1983
    Inventors: William A. Jones, Hugh M. Young
  • Patent number: 4404696
    Abstract: A toilet bowl provided with one or more fountains supported inside the rim so structured as to project solid, fan-shaped sheets of flush water downwardly on the inner surface of the bowl and a flange peripherally of the rim overlying the fountains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1983
    Assignee: International Water Saving Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter O. Heinze, Wesley M. Tufts, Jeffrey F. White
  • Patent number: 4396080
    Abstract: A device for reducing errors in weighing systems caused by extraneous noise and/or vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Assignee: Pneumatic Scale Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald M. Dee
  • Patent number: 4394636
    Abstract: A transformer having a main winding and a control winding has a pair of E-shaped cores (10, 11), and an I-shaped third core (13) positioned on one E-shaped core (10). A small groove (14) is provided on the base plate (10c) of the first E-shaped core (10). A control winding (12) is wound on the I-shaped core (13) so that the winding (2) rests in the groove 14. Those cores (10, 11, 13) are made of ferrite material. Thus, both the main winding and the control winding can be produced using a winding machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1983
    Assignee: TDK Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Imaizumi Hiraku, Mitsui Tadashi
  • Patent number: 4389198
    Abstract: An outboard motor system for propelling a vessel comprising a power plant stationarily fixed to the vessel with its drive shaft in the horizontal athwartship position, a propeller assembly comprising a propeller and a kinematic train for driving the same mounted to the vessel for rotation about a horizontal axis parallel to the axis of the drive shaft and for vertical movement relative to the drive shaft, the kinematic train including an input shaft, the axis of which coincides with the axis of rotation of the propeller assembly and is parallel to the drive shaft, pulleys fixed to the respective shafts and a band entrained about the pulleys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1983
    Assignee: Harbormaster, Division of Mathewson Corp.
    Inventor: Ronald C. Henderson
  • Patent number: 4378641
    Abstract: A boat shoe and sole therefor wherein there are first and second ribs protruding perpendicularly from the bottom comprising a wiping edge and inwardly thereof a plurality of uniformly-distributed, friction-engendering nubs on the surface portions of the bottom side at the forepart and heel end bounded by the aforesaid ribs and groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1983
    Inventor: Arthur S. Tarlow
  • Patent number: 4377874
    Abstract: In a toilet system wherein the bowl is evacuated by a pump, the intake side of which is connected by a first conductor to the bowl and the discharge side of which is connected by a second conductor to a waste pipe, a bypass conductor connecting the first conductor to the waste pipe and a valve at the junction operable when the pump is disabled to permit the bowl to be flushed through the bypass conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1983
    Assignee: International Water Saving Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Wesley M. Tufts
  • Patent number: 4372546
    Abstract: A spring assembly of the kind comprising a rigid base frame, a wire grid frame, a plurality of helically-coiled springs attached at one end to the base frame and at their other ends to the wire of the grid frame, said wires and ends of the coils being so structured as to enable detachably attaching the ends of the coils to the wires of the grid frame in overlapping locking engagement with the wires of the grid frame without the aid of wire clips or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1983
    Assignee: Webster Spring Co. Inc.
    Inventor: Henry R. Ramsey
  • Patent number: 4359852
    Abstract: A moistureproof package comprising a container and lid characterized in that the lid is attached to the container by means of a primary hermetic seal and is provided with a secondry snap fastener for securing the lid to the container once it has been opened, and further characterized in that the container and lid frame are formed from a single sheet of material enough larger in area than that required to form the container to also form the lid frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1982
    Assignee: H. P. Hood, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis S. Hoffman, Susan L. Kurlander
  • Patent number: 4356531
    Abstract: A computer housing comprising spaced, parallel side walls containing grooves for slidingly receiving cards and spaced, parallel top and bottom walls to which the side walls are secured to provide, in conjunction with the side walls, a card cage and an enclosure for removably receiving, respectively, cards and a fan module, the invention comprising means for assembling the side walls to the top and bottom walls preparatory to securing them, comprising jig means on the side walls and top and bottom walls adapted to be interengaged to support the component walls in precise assembled relation to each other for securing and means independent of the jig means for securing the assembled walls to each other while so held by said jig means and including devices to assist in inserting and removing the cards and for coupling and uncoupling the fan module to a source of power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1982
    Assignee: Data General, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry C. Marino, Lawrence J. Bibeau
  • Patent number: 4350187
    Abstract: This invention relates to container filling machines and specifically to cleaning the exterior surface of the filling nozzle of product clinging thereto following the filling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1982
    Assignee: Pneumatic Scale Corporation
    Inventors: William H. Trusselle, John A. Gustafson, Jr.
  • Patent number: D268687
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1983
    Inventor: James C. Rogers