Patents Represented by Law Firm Speckman, Pauley & Fejer
  • Open cycle desiccant cooling systems
    Patent number: 5526651
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for open cycle desiccant cooling wherein the process stream and regeneration stream are divided into a plurality of radial stream segments by non-parallel partitions forming unequal face segments in the desiccant wheel and the heat wheel for the same stream segment. The unequal face segments in the desiccant wheel and the heat wheel provide differing temperature profiles at the face of each wheel and allow obtaining desired temperature profiles for heat exchange and moisture adsorption. The process of this invention results in reduction of the radial speed of the heat wheel to less than 4 providing high effectiveness of the heat wheel increasing the capacity and the COP of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Gas Research Institute
    Inventors: William M. Worek, Weixiang Zheng
  • Lockable mounting apparatus with adjustable, returnable pivoting and/or plunger action
    Patent number: 5526799
    Abstract: A mounting apparatus having a rod slidably mounted within a longitudinal bore of a housing. The rod has returnable pivoting action and adjustable, returnable plunger action, with respect to the housing. A compression spring is used to return the rod to a linear rest position after linear displacement of the rod with respect to the housing. A lock nut having a through bore is used to access a tension adjustment screw which varies the length of the compression spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: New Archery Products Corp.
    Inventor: Miroslav A. Simo
  • Pharmacologic atrial defibrillator and method
    Patent number: 5527344
    Abstract: A method and an implantable apparatus for automatically delivering a defibrillating drug to a patient upon detection of the onset of atrial fibrillation. Atrial activity of a heart is detected and monitored. A delivery time is continuously computed and a delivery signal is emitted as a function of the monitored level of the atrial activity. When the delivery signal is emitted, an infusion pump discharges a defibrillating drug into the bloodstream of the patient. The atrial activity is also continuously monitored for computing a pacing time at which a pacing signal is emitted as a second function of the monitored level of atrial activity. When the pacing signal is emitted a pacer paces the atrium of the heart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Illinois Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Robert C. Arzbaecher, Thomas E. Bump, Charles E. Yurkonis, David R. Bloem
  • Closure for a container consisting of a lower closure part and a screw top
    Patent number: 5526947
    Abstract: A closure for a container, comprising a lower closure part and a screw cap. The lower closure part has a pouring spout and can be connected with a container opening by a base element. The screw cap comprises a cap bottom and a cap shell having an interior thread. The screw cap can be screw-fastened and unfastened from the pouring spout, which is provided with an exterior thread. The screw cap is secured against being unfastened by engaged connections. The screw cap can be released for being unfastened by releasing the engaged connections. A child safety device is provided by a special design of the engaged connections between the screw cap and the lower closure part, so the body of the container is no longer a part of the child safety device and therefore can be optimally adjusted to its specific function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Heinrich Stolz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Bernd Stolz
  • Method of making an induction heating tool
    Patent number: 5526561
    Abstract: A jaw-like cylindrical tool for producing a strong electromagnetic field for causing a Curie point heater to be energized having a curved cross-section that brings the two edges of the jaw-like structure into contact. Closely spaced conductors lie along the inner surface of the structure transverse to its axis while widely spaced conductors lie transverse to said axis along the outer surface of the structure. The inner surface of the structure has a plurality of axially extending ferrite rods lying immediately adjacent the inner surface conductors. The inner and outer surface conductors are connected so that the currents flow in opposite directions, the outer conductors reducing electromagnetic radiation while the ferrites and inner conductor spacing produce a strong central magnetic field irrespective of the field created by the opposing field produced by the outer conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Gas Research Institute
    Inventor: Thomas H. McGaffigan
  • Check valve made of plastic
    Patent number: 5524864
    Abstract: A check valve made of plastic for containers of liquids. The check valve includes a valve housing having an inlet connector and an outlet opening. The outlet opening includes a valve seat. A linearly displaceable valve sealing body can be moved toward and away from the valve seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Inventor: Werner F. Dubach
  • Method and apparatus for using a high-pressure fluid jet
    Patent number: 5524821
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a high-pressure fluid jet which preferably draws a material, such as an additive, into the fluid jet. A working pressure of the fluid is increased to generate a high-pressure fluid. The high-pressure fluid is stored within a high-pressure chamber of an accumulator. The stored high-pressure fluid is discharged through a discharge port of the accumulator. The pressure of the high-pressure fluid within the high-pressure chamber is maintained by decreasing the volume of the high-pressure gas chamber as the fluid passes through the discharge port. The high-pressure fluid is then transported into an injection nozzle for forming a high-pressure fluid jet. Within the injection nozzle, a material is combined with the high-pressure fluid jet. The combined fluid and material jet is then discharged from the injection nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: Jetec Company
    Inventors: Gene G. Yie, Masato Miyamoto
  • Clamp and guide apparatus for forming a mortise in a door or a doorjamb
    Patent number: 5524684
    Abstract: A clamp and guide apparatus for forming a mortise in a door or a doorjamb. A base of the clamp and guide apparatus can be adjustably clamped with respect to either the door or the doorjamb. A support arm is secured with respect to a baseplate of the base. A clamp bracket is adjustably mounted with respect to the support arm, preferably so that it moves along a longitudinal axis of the support arm. The clamp bracket has a grasping leg portion which engages against a relatively small available grasping surface of a doorjamb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: R. J. Stuckel Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Robert W. Stuckel
  • Hinge comprising two hinge parts rotatably connected with each other via support walls
    Patent number: 5522118
    Abstract: A hinge comprising two hinge parts rotatably connected to each other by support walls, on each of which a support arm of a suspension device for a control device or the like is disposed. The hinge axis extends perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the support arms. Simplified assembly of the hinge and the simple installation of cables or the like is achieved where the hinge parts, which respectively are at right angles to each other, have a support arm fastening wall and a support wall, both of which are provided with a cable passage. The support arm fastening wall and the support wall of one hinge part are connected to each other in one piece by lateral walls which terminate even with the free end of the support arm fastening wall and the free end of the support wall and form an assembly chamber behind the support arm fastening wall and the support wall which is accessible through an opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Neuhof, Udo Munch
  • Self-closing catheter valve
    Patent number: 5522806
    Abstract: A self-closing catheter valve having a housing with an oval cross section and a conical hose attachment connector which can be inserted into a catheter hose. A valve hose piece partially extends through the housing. A V-shaped spring element deforms and constricts the valve hose piece by pressing the valve hose piece against a wall of the housing. An actuation member is positioned within the housing for bringing the self-closing catheter valve into an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Inventors: Peter Schonbachler, Peter Huser, Thomas Huser, Othmar Horat
  • Archery accessory adapter
    Patent number: 5522375
    Abstract: An archery accessory adapter apparatus including an adapter plate having at least one bore, and a locknut for allowing repeated mountings and demountings of an archery accessory from the bowriser portion of a bow, without the need for tools in the target or hunting field, and without requiring lateral readjustment of the archery accessory once mounted on the bowriser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: New Archery Products Corp.
    Inventors: Miroslav A. Simo, Robert S. Mizek
  • Hybrid direct/indirect water heating process and apparatus
    Patent number: 5520165
    Abstract: A hybrid direct/indirect liquid heater and a process for heating a liquid in which an unheated liquid is introduced into a direct contact chamber of a hybrid direct/indirect liquid heater where it is directly contacted with hot flue gases exhausted from a cyclonic combustor-heat exchanger. The unheated liquid in the direct contact chamber condenses any moisture in the hot flue gases, forming contaminated liquid droplets and the contaminated liquid droplets are introduced into an indirect heating chamber of the hybrid direct/indirect liquid heater where they are indirectly heated by contact with the exterior of the combustor-heat exchanger, forming heated contaminated liquid. Gaseous contaminants are separated from the heated contaminated liquid, forming decontaminated liquid which is accumulated in a hot liquid storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Institute of Gas Technology
    Inventors: Mark J. Khinkis, Hamid A. Abbasi, Roman E. Grosman
  • Refillable ink pen
    Patent number: 5518331
    Abstract: A refillable pen having a writing reservoir for supplying a writing tip with ink and an additional supply reservoir for refilling the writing reservoir by operating a first valve. The additional supply reservoir is refilled from outside of the pen through a second valve by an accompanying refill container. The accompanying refill container has an injection needle with a valve and a wall of the refill container forms bellows for increasing the pressure on the liquid inside the refill container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Storelic AG
    Inventors: Werner Moosmann, Werner Bohnert
  • Enzyme from Rhodococcus rhodochrous ATCC 53968, Bacillus sphaericus ATCC 53969 or a mutant thereof for cleavage of organic C--S bonds
    Patent number: 5516677
    Abstract: A process for organic C--S bond cleavage of a sulfur-containing organic carbonaceous material by contacting the carbonacous material with a sulfur specific reactant of membrane fragments, an enzyme, or a composition of enzymes having the ability to selectively react with sulfur by cleavage of organic C--S bonds. Preferred are sulfur specific reactants associated with cell membranes of Rhodococcus rhodochrous strain ATCC No. 53968 and Bacillus sphaericus strain ATCC No. 53969 and their derivatives which have the ability to selectively react with organic sulfur of sulfur-containing organic carbonaceous material by cleavage of organic C--S bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Assignee: Institute of Gas Technology
    Inventor: John J. Kilbane, II
  • Rack frame
    Patent number: 5513759
    Abstract: A rack frame having two front and two rear supports, which can be closed off by means of wall elements, except for the front, and into which structural units can be built. Holders, on which the structural units can be fastened, are attachable to both front supports. Wall elements can be simply attached at arbitrary heights. Structural units with different installation depths can be attached so that they terminate flush with each other either in the front or the rear. This is accomplished by perpendicular longitudinal slots for receiving beveled edges of the wall elements that are formed in the exteriors of the rear supports. The rear supports have fastening strips, which extend spaced apart and parallel to the wall elements. Adjustable U-shaped fastening elements can be attached to the fastening strips, and are used to fix the wall elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1996
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Besserer, Klaus-Dieter Bovermann, Marc Hartel
  • Targeted polymerized liposome contrast agents
    Patent number: 5512294
    Abstract: Polymerized liposome particles based upon lipids having a polymerizable functional group and a metal chelator to attach an imaging enhancement agent and lipids having an active targeting group to provide targeted polymerized liposome contrast agents. The polymerized imaging enhancement liposome particles interact with receptor targets holding the image enhancement agent to specific sites providing in vivo study by magnetic resonance, radioactive, x-ray or optical imaging of the expression of molecules in cells and tissues during disease and pathology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Inventors: King C. Li, Mark D. Bednarski, Richard W. Storrs, Henry Y. Li, Francois D. Trooper, Curtis K. H. Song, Dorothy A. Sipkins, Jeremy K. Kuniyoshi
  • Apparatus for retaining hangers
    Patent number: 5509542
    Abstract: An apparatus for retaining mounted garment hangers or other hook-shaped members on a hanger rod. A housing is mounted with respect to the hanger bar. The housing has a bore within which a pin is slidably mounted. A retaining rod is secured with respect to the pin so that the retaining rod follows sliding movement of the pin with respect to the housing. A bias force urges the pin into a normally open position. A lock member is mounted within another bore within the housing, so that the lock member slides with respect to the housing. The pin and the lock member preferably engage with each other to actuate the pins between an open position and a locked position. In the locked position of the pin, the retaining bar forces the garment hangers or other hook-shaped members against the hanger rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: Richard H. Simmerman
    Inventors: Richard H. Simmerman, Leonard B. J. Woloszyk
  • Direct catalytic oxidative carbonylation of lower alkanes to acids
    Patent number: 5510525
    Abstract: A process for direct oxidative carbonylation of lower alkanes to acids having one greater carbon atom. The process uses a metal salt catalyst promoted by halide ions and/or a metal with oxygen as the oxidant in an aqueous medium. The process is especially effective for conversion of methane to acetic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: Gas Research Institute
    Inventors: Ayusman Sen, Minren Lin
  • Flash thermocracking of tar or pitch
    Patent number: 5507938
    Abstract: A process for producing high-quality pitches comprising atomizing a preheated feed material of carbonaceous tar and/or pitch, forming an aerosol, contacting the aerosol in a reaction vessel with a flowing, non-reactive gas atmosphere for less than about 10 seconds at a gas temperature of about 1400.degree. F. to about 2000.degree. F., and separating and recovering a liquid fraction of the liquid formed in the reaction vessel which remains in a liquid phase up to a distillation temperature of about 750.degree. F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Institute of Gas Technology
    Inventors: Richard A. Knight, Ronald H. Carty, Michael Onischak
  • Stowing device for bombs
    Patent number: D369196
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Udo Munch, Markus Neuhof