Patents Represented by Attorney Thomas A. Lennox
  • Patent number: 4811637
    Abstract: A detachable hand protection device constructed of a elastomeric polymeric composition interfits over one or both ends of hand wrenches of either open ended or closed ended configuration having a hexagonal longitudinal opening through the length of the body of the jacket to grip the wrench body member from the sides with a "V" shaped wall surface from each side and having openings through the top and the bottom of the jacket allowing the wrench end being held to be switched around and engage a nut or bolt head while the device is in place and having an end wall of reduced thickness to stretch over a wide range of sized wrenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Inventor: Ronald T. McCleary
  • Patent number: 4805948
    Abstract: A wedge security device to be positioned on a floor at the inside bottom edge of an inwardly opening door includes a wedge shape member including an upper and lower surface leading at a front acute angle such that the bottom edge of the door will ride up on the upper surface of the wedge with a rounded surface extension allowing the wedge to rock backwardly when the edge of the door engages the wedge, a resilient compressible pad to facilitate wedging of the member under the door and a rubber appendages pad on the bottom of the wedge shape to prevent sliding along the floor surface with a pair of guide member with slots to allow the door to move toward and up on the wedge shape, but prevent its movement backwardly away from engagement once it has been wedged into position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Inventor: David A. Renzi
  • Patent number: 4796884
    Abstract: A child's play set including a playhouse type structure attached to a swing set is provided with a lift system including a four sided horizontal frame sized to match the foot print of the playhouse where the playhouse has no floor allowing the size of the play structure to be increased to suit larger children with porch structures resting on frame extensions to abut and hold the base of the playhouse between them on the lift structure with frame structures to raise the swing support members to match a height suitable for the larger children.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Coop Design, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald B. Ely, Dale A. Ely, Eric W. Anderson
  • Patent number: 4787557
    Abstract: A solid set spike irrigation head connecting device constructed of a PVC housing pipe filled with concrete encapsulating a vertical connection pipe that extends out the top and is bent at about a 45 degree angle to extend out through the housing about a foot from the top of the housing toward lateral irrigation pipe to provide a durable, cleanable, drainable, stress-free connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Inventor: Miles E. Jackson
  • Patent number: 4784384
    Abstract: An exercise machine that allows essentially unlimited number of lifting exercises to be performed that operates like free weights but with the safety of a universal gym including a single stack of weights connected through a pulley system extending vertically upwardly to a frame and then downwardly along vertical frame members from point locations to connect to two separate connection points on an exercise grasping device all in a single plane wherein movement of either connecting point, lift the weight and an adjustable weight supply device comprising a vertical rod and tube centrally positioned in a vertical hole through the weight stack to allow both the choice of number of weights as well as the height at which the weight is first lifted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Inventor: James A. Deola
  • Patent number: 4756026
    Abstract: Contact sport protection sleeves and pads are provided for the forearm, elbow, knee and shin of the players including at least one protection panel of flexible elastomeric polymeric foam or of rigid plastic attached to an elastomeric sleeve with two flexible elastomeric polymeric foam edge pads abutting the lengthwise edges of the protection panel with the panel and edge pads all enveloped in elastomeric fabric with stitching between the abutting of the panel and the two edge pads providing extra protection with flexibility to reduce any restriction of movement of the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1988
    Inventor: Alfred R. Pierce, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4756507
    Abstract: A fluid control valve stem extension and locking device includes a rod member to extend the valve stem with a lower end bored and threaded to threadably engage the exposed end of the valve stem with set screws extending horizontally into the bore opening to bear on the sides of the valve stem, the upper of the extension rod shaped to duplicate the shape of the exposed end of the valve stem and a detached plate having a hole shape to interfit over the exposed end of the valve stem coupled to move with turning of the valve stem and including a stop device duplicating the function of the stopping device used in the valve with a locking mechanism including a cylindrical tube sized to interfit over the stem extension device with an attachment plate structurally attached to the lower end of the tube with a horizontal radial plate structurally attached to the outside surface of the upper end of the tube with two holes corresponding to the valve positions and a locking plate with an opening to interfit over the shape
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1988
    Inventor: William J. McAndrew
  • Patent number: 4750587
    Abstract: An escape ladder at rest is an elongated cylindrical body divided lengthwise with a plurality of rung devices hingeably attached between rear quadrants and between front quadrants lockable in a horizontal position and foldable into the tubular body when left and right quadrants and mated together. Right quadrants and left quadrants are interlocked together to allow the interlocked quadrants to slideably move only lengthwise in relation to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Assignee: William A. McAllister
    Inventors: William A. McAllister, Frederick Schindler
  • Patent number: 4726588
    Abstract: A detenting device used in the form of a puzzle including magnets and balls using a nonmagnetic tube around which an annular tubular magnet surrounds the tube with one magnetic pole on the entire inside surface of the tubular magnet and the opposite magnetic pole on the entire outside surface of the magnet wherein the ball or other magnetically attracted body is positioned at either one end or at the other end of the magnet requiring force to dislodge it from either position to the other position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: Balls-N-Bars, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony G. Caprio
  • Patent number: 4708487
    Abstract: A blender for installation under kitchen cabinets includes a housing mounted underneath the cabinet with a shaft detent connection bushing extending downwardly from the housing connected to a motor which is electrically controlled to provide various speeds to the bushing into which a shaft disengagingly connects having blending blades at the lower end with a cup shaped container with annular threads at the top edge which engage annular threads on the bottom wall of the housing to seal the container around the blender shaft with a switch to shut off the power with the cup container is not in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Inventor: Robert Marshall
  • Patent number: 4703528
    Abstract: A coverlet suitable for placing on the beach or ground or use as a bed cover, includes two plies, one of cotton terry cloth and the bottom ply of cotton twill cloth. The corner reinforcements with holes allow each coverlet to be interconnected with clips to form larger shapes with a hidden pocket opening to an edge of the coverlet closed by VELCRO strips, supplied in a waterproof bag constructed of waterproof fabric with a draw string closure, shoulder carrying strap and patch pocket closed with VELCRO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1987
    Inventor: Reno R. Rolle
  • Patent number: 4702402
    Abstract: A product coupon container attachable to a shopping cart across the rear upper edge bar of the basket and the upper bar of the infant seat in the open position including two boxes, each with lids and a horizontal member extending downwardly from each lengthwise edge of each box with a hole proximate to one end opening downwardly and to the side of the horizontal member together with a plurality of holes at the end of each member such that when two of the containers are slideably interconnected, the combination spans the distance between the two bars and the holes engage in the bars at the top of the shopping cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1987
    Inventor: Vincent J. Ferri
  • Patent number: 4691427
    Abstract: An apparatus for clip-stapling a cover which encloses a pre-fab building construction section which includes a pneumatic driving casing having interchangeable heads, wherein the shape of the head is flat for permanent fastening or flat only in the center resulting in a temporary fastener clip staple that is shaped flat in the center and raised rectangular sections at each end so that a three-pronged tool can be used to easily remove the staple without any injury to the resin plastic cover or the building structure section beneath said cover and including a hand drawn stripping which is housed in a canister that is fitted into alignment with the magazine chamber holding the staples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Assignee: Vanguard-Hill, Inc.
    Inventor: Delmar J. Hill
  • Patent number: 4673599
    Abstract: Fur garland is prepared by cutting strips crosswise to the length of pelted knitted pile fabric, applying spray contact adhesive to the lengthwise edges of the plush pile, pulling on the strip lengthwise causing the knitted body to curl into a tubular shape adhesively attaching the edges together forming a plush garland, attaching tubular force fit interlocks on both ends of the garland allowing the garland to be connected in a continuous length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1987
    Inventor: David Vanderslice
  • Patent number: 4670149
    Abstract: A bacterial incubator device to facilitate organic reduction of waste materials and method of placing it in the waste water collection system, such as in a grease trap, together with the addition of culture strains of bacteria with a high capacity for specific organic reduction, including an enclosure having a foraminous wall structure packed with high surface area elements such as spherical packing of a shape of size to multiply the solid bacterial growth surface area of the location in the sewage collection system and a weight device to cause the incubator to be positioned at the interface of floating scum matter and the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Inventor: John Francis
  • Patent number: D290766
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1987
    Inventor: Alfred R. Pierce, Jr.
  • Patent number: D290767
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1987
    Inventor: Michael A. Duffek
  • Patent number: D293161
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1987
    Inventor: Walter T. Stevens, Jr.
  • Patent number: D294542
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: Vanguard-Hill, Inc.
    Inventor: D. James Hill
  • Patent number: D299564
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1989
    Inventor: Alfred R. Pierce, Jr.