Patents Represented by Attorney Samuel M. Learned, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4200984
    Abstract: A detachable tool combining bracket and method for accomplishing the detachable affixment of a combination square and a tape measure such that the respective tools in combination relative one to the other, through employment of the combining bracket and method, thereby enables one to quickly and conveniently measure and mark off along the longitudinal edge of a workpiece equal or varying perpendicular lengths thereof, in either a right or left-hand use configuration of the tools in combination, and after the foregoing use application of the tools in combination enables the quick and convenient detachment of the combining bracket from each of the tools respectively such that each of the tools may thereupon be traditionally employed separately and unimpeded in other use applications when the combined use application thereof by way of the tool combining bracket is not called for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1980
    Inventor: Ray D. Fink
  • Patent number: 4184494
    Abstract: A feminine performance costume garment for wearer use primarily in dance or competitive athletic activities such as gymnastic events and the like, and method of making the same, structurally comprising in combination an exterior costume garment and a panty brief undergarment wherein the undergarment is affixed integrally to the exterior costume garment by sewably stitched communication at the respective garment leg openings and vertically by stitching along the laterally disposed respective sides thereof, in such a manner so that during practice and performance use by one attired in such a performance costume garment combination the undergarment and exterior costume garment leg openings, by virtue of the combined structural construction of being respectively secured one to the other so as to move together as a unit, thereby eliminates the problem otherwise encountered by the exterior costume garment leg openings riding up to expose the undergarment in the crotch area and upper thigh leg areas of the wearer du
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1980
    Assignee: Tighe Industries
    Inventor: Leroy A. King, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4102014
    Abstract: A poultry back processing machine improvement modification assembly comprised of the combined mechanical assembly of a configured water slide infeed trough into which poultry back members for mechanically automatic interior surface fatty tissue and kidney removal processing are manually positioned in a sequential series for safe and efficient delivery thereof to the processing machine conveyor, a laterally spaced set of longitudinally disposed angularly downward positioned bar members to guide the respective depending flank sections of the poultry back members into a distended flank configuration for improved mechanical access to the interior back member surfaces, a laterally spaced set of laterally outward angled longitudinally extending opposingly outward rotating interior poultry back member fat removal and flank section spreading screens, longitudinally followed by a set of laterally spaced stationary blades positioned to sever the respective kidney retaining membranes interior of each back member for imm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1978
    Assignee: Victor F. Weaver, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene G. Martin, Dale M. Risser
  • Patent number: 4091537
    Abstract: A hand-held safety utility knife having an elongated shaped handle within which a replaceable cutting blade is securely retained, wherein the knife assembly is also provided with a compression-extension spiral spring loaded retractable blade guard that is mechanically cooperative with the cutting blade of the knife and manually activated for retraction by depressing a compression-extension spiral spring loaded trigger thereby enabling cutting utility of the blade in use application, and upon manual trigger release after use application provides non-use safety locking of the guard with respect to the utility knife cutting blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1978
    Assignee: Stevenson Machine Shop
    Inventor: Wayne E. Stevenson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4084626
    Abstract: An automatically operational net weight filling machine having a plurality of similar but independently adjustable operational stations which conveyably receive from a bulk storage source a loose and flowable dry particulate material, measures out an adjustably predetermined net weight amount of that material into a net weight receptacle enclosed within a chamber provided with a selected atmosphere, and then dispenses the net weight amount of that material from the net weight receptacle into an evacuated container such as a bottle or the like, wherein the respective containers are also automatically delivered to and discharged from the machine after net weight filling thereof with the subject material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1978
    Inventor: Alfred T. King
  • Patent number: 4050109
    Abstract: A self-propelled and contained trailer washing machine, operable by one individual, which machine is comprised of an integrally powered and steerable wheel mounted rigid frame structure configured to straddle the height and width dimensions of a typical over-the-road commercial trailer so that when the washing machine is operator-aligned to straddle a trailer and then driven along the longitudinal dimension thereof, on such a single driven pass the exterior surfaces of the trailer are automatically washably cleaned by the operator first activating a selected material application pump which supplies an operator controlled amount of a suitable fluid cleaning material directed through a spray arch from one of a plurality of tanks mounted within and carried upon the rigid frame structure, followed by operator activation of a set of spaced frame structure mounted laterally adjustable vertical rotary brushes which simultaneously engage and by opposing rotary motion scrub the respective trailer sides concurrent with
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Inventor: Samuel M. Learned
  • Patent number: 4041572
    Abstract: A de-boning machine having a plurality of similar operational heads respectively designed to receive and mechanically engage a centrally-extending elongated meat-encased bone member characterized by having a single shaft and at the respective longitudinal ends thereof a ball or a socket structure comprising part of a ball-and-socket joint, exemplary of which would be the bone in a chicken thigh or the like, and thereafter by a sequential camming activation of cutting and peeling blades of the respective operational heads, while the heads are being operationally driven, automatically effect an annular severing of the encasing meat about the elongated bone shaft at that end thereof immediately interior of the socket structure, and then initiate a longitudinal removal of the encasing meat from the bone shaft by inversely peeling the encasing meat upon itself along the bone shaft length, then moving the peeled meat around the ball structure at the opposite end of the elongated bone shaft, after which the meat ret
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1977
    Assignee: Victor F. Weaver, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene G. Martin, Dale M. Risser
  • Patent number: 4011443
    Abstract: An indicating safety light assembly for attachment to motorcycles and the like, being comprised of a safety light sub-assembly which has as components thereof distinctively shaped amber and red colored illumination transmitting cover members respectively affixed to either a segmentalized or a unimodular mounting bracket member in a back-to-back spaced or abutted complementary configuration, which safety light sub-assembly is either bolted to or threadably connected to the upper end of a vertically extending tubular mounting member which at the lower end thereof, is fixedly attached by means of a mounting clamp assembly to a frame member rearward of the seat of a motorcycle or the like so that the amber colored illumination transmitting cover member of the safety light sub-assembly faces forward and the red colored illumination transmitting cover member of the safety light sub-assembly faces rearward of the motorcycle or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1977
    Inventors: Merle F. Smith, Harold H. Wagman
  • Patent number: 3991876
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sanitary linkage connection assembly which pivotally interconnects transverse bars to form a food processing conveyor comprising an endless belt in which a plurality of laterally spaced transversely extending rod members are connected in spaced relationship by respective link members of the linkage connection assembly, achieved by welding one end of each link to an end of each rod to provide an endless belt having an overall smooth external linkage structure which is substantially without surfaces or spaces receptive to the accumulation and retention of food particles which form contaminants when in a conveyor belt of the type described for use upon a transport device in food processing operations and thereby provide a linkage connection assembly in a conveyor which is easily cleaned to maintain it in a sanitary condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1976
    Inventors: Jacob Schmidt, Sr., Jacob Schmidt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3978874
    Abstract: A machine employing heated water as the medium for shrinking heat sensitive film wrapping on food products and the like, wherein the machine provides a hot water distribution and recirculation system incorporating a variable speed propeller pump operable to provide a combination of droplet type hot water sprinkling and cascaded hot water drenching in order to quickly and efficiently accomplish the close encasement shrinking of the heat sensitive film wrapping upon food product items conveyably transported through the shrinking chamber of the machine, thereby precluding thermal degradation of the food products with a consequent discoloring thereof when the same are otherwise exposed to elevated temperatures during the film shrinking operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1976
    Inventors: Jacob Schmidt, Sr., Jacob Schmidt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3971312
    Abstract: An adjustable squeegee holding device for a silkscreen printing frame, which when installed upon the rear frame member of a silkscreen printing frame provides a convenient place to support and retain an inked squeegee when the same is not in use during silkscreen printing operations as well as additionally providing a silkscreen printing frame counterbalance means when the frame is in a raised position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1976
    Inventor: Othmar Carli
  • Patent number: 3963095
    Abstract: A vehicular mounted, multiply-articulated aerial lift and ladder assembly comprised of a terminally affixed and partially enclosed platform member pivotally connected to a linked parallel bar assembly having a ladder section as the outward longitudinal element thereof, wherein the linked parallel bar assembly is in turn pivotally connected to the uppermost end of the extension member of a vertically displaceable dual-membered main extension ladder assembly which at the lower end thereof is pivotally attached to a horizontally rotatable platform affixed to a supporting structure upon the vehicle, the entire combined aerial lift and ladder assembly heretofore described having displacement powering means entirely operable from a control panel within the platform member, whereby a person occupying the platform may accurately position and maintain himself in an extended aerial work location within the horizontally oriented platform member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1976
    Assignee: Cam Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Melvin R. Hedges
  • Patent number: 3961430
    Abstract: An inflatable backup pad adapted to be mounted upon the ironer rolls of an industrial type ironer and having opposite ends detachably connectable, in combination with a roll cover adapted to surround the exterior surface of said pad and the ends of said cover also being detachably connected to define the outer operative surface of the ironer roll, said cover being distended to its full circumference when said pad is inflated and thereby cause said pad to frictionally engage both the ironer roll and said cover to prevent appreciable relative movement therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1976
    Inventor: Dan D. Mazzolla
  • Patent number: 3955786
    Abstract: A miniature magnetic base flagstaff for vehicle bodies comprised of a geometrically configured base plate member to which is affixed an upwardly extending flexible flagstaff appropriate for attachment thereto of a miniature flag of suitable type, and to the underside of the base plate member there is affixed a plurality of geometrically arranged elastomeric magnet members containing a dispersion therein of permanently magnetized ferrous particles which are secured to the underside of the base plate member. Said flagstaff assembly is particularly suitable for use in ceremonial vehicular convoys, such as funeral processions, wherein the vehicles comprising the convoy traditionally fly a miniature flag attached thereto which identifies each respective vehicle as being a unit of the convoy procession and the purpose therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1976
    Inventor: James J. Duddy
  • Patent number: 3950867
    Abstract: An ironing roll reflector, pad, and cover means adapted to be mounted upon vacuum cylinders of industrial type ironing machines and having, as respective components in the preferred embodiment thereof; a sheet of heat reflective material provided with a plurality of perforations therein and having one end affixed to the cylinder and circumferentially wrapped around the cylinder so that the plurality of perforations therein communicate with the openings provided in the cylinder: a second component comprised of a resilient porous pad member directly overlying said heat reflective sheet and having one end thereof affixed to said cylinder coincident with affixed end of said reflective sheet circumferentially wrapped around said heat reflective perforated sheet member to form a single thickness of resilient padding upon the cylinder; and a porous fabric cover member having one end thereof affixed to the free terminal end of said resilient porous pad member and also circumferentially wrapped about the pad member to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1976
    Inventor: Dan D. Mazzolla
  • Patent number: 3946461
    Abstract: A machine designed to automatically section poultry breast members by means of reciprocally operated rotating circular knife blades which respectively engage and selectively section a poultry breast member indexed to and clampably held in cutting position at the respectively selective knife stations in one of three ways; a two-way cut comprised of a single longitudinal severing of a poultry breast member into two halves, or a three-way cut comprised of an initial keel cut of the breast member at one knife station followed by a longitudinal severing into halves of the remainder of the poultry breast member at another knife station, or a four-way cut comprised of an initial transverse severing of the poultry breast member followed by a longitudinal cut at yet another knife station of the two laterally severed breast member sections into halves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1976
    Assignee: Victor F. Weaver, Inc.
    Inventor: Eugene G. Martin
  • Patent number: 3937356
    Abstract: A rectangular shaped food products storage and transfer vessel having an integral sanitary top rail structure triangular in cross-section and formed by being bent downward from the upper edges of the respective side-wall panels of the vessel, the lowermost depending edges of the rail members thus formed being joined to the upper external sidewalls of the vessel by means of a continuous exposed weld and the sidewall rail structure terminal positions at the respective upper external corners of the vessel being closed by separately formed corner members weldably affixed thereto to form a continuous closed rail structure about the upper open periphery of the vessel and thereby provide an easily cleanable reinforced protective top edge member for the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1976
    Inventors: Jacob Schmidt, Sr., Jacob Schmidt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3930282
    Abstract: A machine designed to remove skin from the backs of poultry automatically and mechanically by conveying the back carcass members sequentially through a machine having processing stations operable in sequence to sever the kidney retaining membranes and remove the kidneys by vacuum; position the tail for mechanical maceration and removal by a set of coarse intermeshing rotating helical gear members; and, macerate and remove the skin from the back carcass member by a second set of intermeshing rotating helical gears of finer pitch than the first set, followed by the back carcass members, free of skin, are discharged to a collection receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1976
    Assignee: Victor F. Weaver, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene G. Martin, Dale M. Risser