Patents Represented by Attorney Rod Bryant Jordan
  • Patent number: 5624574
    Abstract: A process for use in the final stages of purification of sewage water in which the effluent is placed under pressure by a pump and forced through a filter. Part of the effluent is sampled and chlorinated by a chlorine gas injector and then reintroduced into the lager body of effluent. The entire mixture is held within a detention chamber in order to allow the chlorine to dissipate, and then pumped out into a natural stream through a pipe in which air bubbles are injected in order to replenish the oxygen level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Inventor: Dean Caldwell
  • Patent number: 5411009
    Abstract: An apparatus for eliminating noise and vibration from compound bows comprising a fluid filled tube mounted horizontally to the bow body having a cylinder mounted within the tube, and a tuning rod or wire mounted within the cylinder. The vibrations from the bow travel down the tuning wire within the cylinder and are absorbed by the fluid within the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Inventors: Myron P. Thompson, Cecil E. Thompson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5351944
    Abstract: An apparatus for clamping and holding objects, on which work is to be performed, that can be operated by downward pressure of the workman's foot. The apparatus consists essentially of two jaws in a horizontally adjacent position. The lower jaw is rigidly fixed. The upper jaw is pulled down against the lower jaw by a vertical bar that is affixed to the upper jaw. The downward force is supplied by two springs. The spring force may be overcome by exerting foot pressure downward against a lever which is pivotally affixed to the vertical bar and is pined at its mid section to a rigid bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Inventor: John Johnson
  • Patent number: 5328490
    Abstract: A method of producing calcium chloride granules of a specific size from a calcium chloride and water solution in a completely closed environment by controlling the rate of fall of a specific size of solution droplet through an up-current of hot, dry gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Inventor: Lucas James
  • Patent number: 5269689
    Abstract: A process of teaching the use of keyboards thereby enabling keyboard operators to produce large quantities of printed material in a much shorter time at higher accuracy. The process instructs keyboard students to associate printed material with four specific finger movements rather than keyboard memorization, thereby securing proficiency for keyboard students in as little as four hours rather than the usual six to thirty six weeks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Inventor: Dorothe M. Hill
  • Patent number: 5230517
    Abstract: A game designed to aid in fostering personal relationships using a board, a pair of dice, several stacks of question and command cards, a timer, a box of laxatives, and several other related objects. The purpose of the game is to force the fostering of personal knowledge between couples through the forced answering of random questions dealing with personal relationships upon certain random occurrences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Inventor: Marlin L. Peacock
  • Patent number: 5215483
    Abstract: A vessel for pleasure or cargo transportation in which the vessel is born by a special flotation method comprising a plurality of circular floats that are designed to be rotated at high speed in such a way that the vessel skims across the water riding on the crests of the waves. The vessel is powered primarily by jet pumps in such a way that the vessels may be linked as a train, each successive jet pump taking advantage of the residual effect of the preceding jet pump. It is also powered by a vector sail system. A special laser alignment system is employed, for maintaining alignment, when the vessels are linked in a train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Inventor: Arthur B. Whitworth
  • Patent number: 5161056
    Abstract: An apparatus for mounting visual images or image producing devices onto the valve stems of inflatable tires, and more specifically, a valve stem mounted reflector having a lens, a reflective element and a forcible removable system of mounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1992
    Inventor: Matthew J. Sitter
  • Patent number: 5095896
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in audio monitoring of carbon dioxide concentration in general, and as an aid in blind nasal intubation, as well as other procedures requiring the monitoring of carbon dioxide in which carbon dioxide is measured by a carbon dioxide monitor, the carbon dioxide monitors output is used as the control voltage of a voltage controlled oscillator, and the output of the voltage controlled oscillator is amplified, delivered to a speaker, and thereby produces an audible tone whose pitch is directly proportional to the level of carbon dioxide being monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Inventor: Sota Omoigui
  • Patent number: 4930784
    Abstract: A portable, artificial putting green capable of being deployed over a variety of surfaces, so constructed as to take on the shape of the underlying surface on which it is placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Inventor: Rodney B. Jordan