Patents Represented by Law Firm Scrivener, Parker Scrivener & Clarke
  • Golf putter
    Patent number: 4141556
    Abstract: The invention provides a golf putter having a head of generally triangular shape in plan view with a substantially vertical striking surface and a bottom surface curved to prevent scraping of the ground surface on either putting or transverse movement. Marking means facilitating alignment of stroking movement with the ball are provided, together with means for positioning the shaft at an angular position with respect to the plane of the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1979
    Inventor: Leo J. Paulin
  • Flexible stile or rope ladder for climbing poles or like members
    Patent number: 4139079
    Abstract: A flexible stile ladder is disclosed wherein the midpoints of the ladder steps or rungs are slidably connected to the pole. Preferably, the slidable connectors are slides which operate in a track carried by the pole. The invention is particularly useful for climbing masts of sailboats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Inventor: Trevor Clark
  • Disc brake structure permitting quick change of friction pads
    Patent number: 4139082
    Abstract: In a spot-type disc brake the pads are insertable in a substantially peripheral direction through openings in an end of the brake. In service the openings are blocked by a closure member which has to block the two openings two limbs each extending through the openings to engage the pads. The member is pivotal about an axis parallel to the rotational axis of the brake's disc and disposed outside the disc's periphery. The brake's caliper is made in two halves bolted together and has blind journals receiving trunnions integral with the member. The drag force tends to act along the limbs so that the drag force is taken substantially entirely by the trunnions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Assignee: Girling Limited
    Inventor: Roy E. Edwards
  • Production of composite articles
    Patent number: 4138959
    Abstract: Apparatus for making a container for example a frusto-conical container from a blank having an end panel and side panels, the apparatus having a cavity tool and a core between the blank can be clamped in the form which it takes in the finished article, and a blank positioning member movable relative to the tools which, as the tools move toward a closed condition to clamp the blank will engage a free edge of the blank already in its final axial position in the cavity tool to correctly position that edge before the tools reach the closed condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Assignee: Airfix Industries Limited
    Inventor: Kenneth F. Rumball
  • Electronic aid for inhibiting smoking
    Patent number: 4138722
    Abstract: An aid for inhibiting smoking by providing a display of the total number of times a smoker draws in or inhales smoke during a smoking session. The display is provided by a pocket calculator having automatic constant features whereby the calculator can be adapted to operate as a digital counter responsive to a signal generated each time a smoker draws in on the tobacco or other product being smoked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1979
    Inventor: Robert N. Bonnett
  • Method for controlling operation of apparatus for preheating and calcining cement materials containing combustible materials
    Patent number: 4137090
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling the operation of an apparatus for preheating and calcining cement materials. Noncombustible cement materials are introduced into a preheater while cement materials containing combustible materials, into a calciner immediately at the downstream of the preheater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norio Nakamura, Satoshi Tominaga, Tsuneo Kobayashi, Mitsuo Nagaoka
  • Method for simultaneously calcining first kind of pulverized materials containing combustible compounds and second kind of pulverized materials
    Patent number: 4135876
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for calcining pulverized raw cement materials or alumina materials prior to a burning process, a first kind of pulverized materials containing combustible compounds and a second kind of pulverized materials being simultaneously calcined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norio Nakamura, Satoshi Tominaga, Tsuneo Kobayashi, Mitsuo Nagaoka
  • Hinge with interfitting locking means
    Patent number: 4135273
    Abstract: A hinge for doors and the like is provided in which an un-headed hinge pin is held frictionally in the axial passage through a cylindrical plastic retainer which is centrally positioned between, and is aligned with, interlocking bosses which extend toward each other from the two leaves of the hinge. Interfitting locking means are also provided in the two leaves whereby the hinge may be locked in closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Inventor: Stannard D. Holmes
  • Two stage combustion furnace
    Patent number: 4135874
    Abstract: Disclosed is a furnace whose NOx emission may be reduced to a minimum degree so far unattainable in any prior art furnaces by optimumly controlling the ratio of exhaust gas mixed with the combustion air to be supplied to the burners to the exhaust gas to be mixed with the two-stage combustion air which is admitted through air nozzles into the combustion chamber and also by optimumly controlling the distribution of the two-stage combustion air in the combustion chamber depending upon the operating conditions. The present invention may be applied to any types of furnaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Tsuzi, Kiyoshi Aoki, Takeshi Sakai, Hiroshige Ikebe, Dogi So
  • Sliding caliper disc brakes
    Patent number: 4134477
    Abstract: A sliding caliper disc brake comprising a torque member which is adapted to be fixedly mounted adjacent a brake disc and which has portions lying on both sides of the brake disc which are connected by bridging portions positioned radially outwardly of the periphery of the disc. Directly and indirectly operated friction pad assemblies are located on opposite sides of the disc and each include a friction pad carried by a respective pad backing plate. A caliper member is mounted on the torque member. The caliper member is guided for sliding movement relative to the torque member in a direction perpendicular to the disc, the caliper member and both the friction pad assemblies being supported by the torque member so that drag forces experienced by the pads during use of the brake are transmitted directly to the torque member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: Girling Limited
    Inventor: Anthony Asquith
  • Cutting loop for suction resectoscopes
    Patent number: 4134406
    Abstract: In a resectoscope of the type having inflow and outflow conduits and in which suction is applied to the outflow conduit, a damaged cutting loop must be replaced by blind insertion of the new loop through the annular passage between the tube which surrounds and holds the telescope and the tube which forms the inner boundary of the outflow conduit, and into the opening of a passage through the fixed block of working element. Such insertion is facilitated by the present invention by the addition to the stem of the loop of a member of arcuate cross section having its axis parallel to the stem of the loop, which is positioned adjacent the proximal end of the stem and which engages and at least partially surrounds the tube which surrounds the telescope and which positions and guides the stem of the loop as it is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Inventor: Jose J. Iglesias
  • Sub-sea well heads
    Patent number: 4134456
    Abstract: A sub-sea well head comprising a connector and a christmas tree which is enclosed in a capsule is characterized in that a master valve is contained within a member forming the foot of the christmas tree, the member penetrating and being sealed into the bottom of the capsule and supporting the capsule, and in that the master valve is contained within a part of the member within the capsule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: Vickers-Intertek Limited
    Inventor: Kenneth Ball
  • Furnaces
    Patent number: 4132394
    Abstract: A fuel-fired furnace for melting metal in a more efficient manner, the furnace having a burner with its combustion air being preheated by passage through an air chamber between spaced inner and outer walls of the furnace jacket and by passage through a heat exchanger through which waste combustion products pass. The jacket is double insulated and the burner is cooled by a special arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1979
    Assignee: Ace Furnaces Limited
    Inventors: Keith Johnson, Frank Hipkin
  • Containers
    Patent number: 4131212
    Abstract: A container with a closure, the container and closure being engageable by relative rotation, locking means on the container and closure which allow the closure to be rotated in the direction required to apply the closure but not in the opposite sense, the locking means on one of the container and closure being formed as a tear band so as to unlock the pair of locking means and allow removal and replacement of the closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1978
    Assignee: Airfix Industries Limited
    Inventor: Kenneth F. Rumball
  • Installation and method of burning cement raw
    Patent number: 4130390
    Abstract: Extensive improvements in the production capability of the existing installations of the type comprising a rotary kiln and a suspension preheater unit are disclosed; that is, another suspension preheater unit provided with a calciner at its lowermost heat transfer stage and a distributor to direct a part of the preheated raw materials from the existing preheater to the calciner are installed, and all the raw materials supplied to two preheater units are uniformly and highly calcined ahead of the kiln in the preheaters by control of the distributor as well as the fuel rate to the calciner, thereby the production capacity of the kiln is doubled. Furthermore the accumulation of raw materials on the bottom of the calciner can be substantially eliminated and the specific power consumption of the installations may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1978
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kobayashi, Tadaaki Saika
  • Aerofoil structure
    Patent number: 4129272
    Abstract: An aerofoil structure which is inflatable by ram air when in use, includes a flexible multi-cell air fillable envelope having a readily removable flexible spar at its leading edge whose ends provide anchorages for a pair of operator control lines. In use the spar flexs to accommodate variations in air speed over the envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1978
    Inventors: Andrew W. Jones, Raymond Merry
  • Frame pinning device
    Patent number: 4126259
    Abstract: A device for use without an external power source and comprising two hand-operated pinning assemblies arranged at 90.degree. to each other with a foot operable jaw assembly for holding mitred picture frame moulding against the pinning assemblies during pinning, each pinning assembly incorporating a magazine for pins, and visible adjustable stops being provided to control the insertion depth of the pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1978
    Assignee: E. H. Galer and Co. Limited
    Inventors: Edgar Galer, Paul S. Holt
  • Climbing device for climbing crane
    Patent number: 4125193
    Abstract: A climbing device for a climbing crane wherein two upper supporting arms are supported vertically movably by a main cylinder having its upper end pivoted to the upper portion of a guide frame which in turn is intrusively attached to a mast, and two lower supporting arms are supported by the lower portion of the guide frame whereby climbing or descending is carried out by effectively taking advantage of the upper and lower supporting arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1978
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeto Matsumoto
  • Method for separating edible crab meat from non-edible portions of cooked crabs
    Patent number: 4124920
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for vibrating edible crab meat from the core portion of a crab body that has been de-shelled, de-legged and de-fingered and the central core portion of which has been cleaned. The crab body is supported in a core box with the body cavity directed downwardly opposite a discharge opening formed in the bottom of the core box, whereupon the core box is vibrated at about 1500 to 5000 vibrations per minute to shake the crab meat from the core and to deposit the meat particles on an endless conveyor that travels therebeneath. Preferably the core box bottom contains a plurality of pockets having walls converging toward the discharge openings, the crab cores being held in place by suitable cushion means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1978
    Assignee: Sea Savory, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard T. Wenstrom, Theodore S. Reinke, Calvert B. Tolley, J. Clayton Brooks
  • Liquid reservoir primarily for use in a vehicle braking system
    Patent number: D250948
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Assignee: Girling Limited
    Inventor: John F. Pickering