Patents Represented by Attorney Thomas A. Lennox
  • Patent number: 4502878
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for tubulating a glass barrel including a glass lathe with the tubing in one chuck and a barrel holding device in the other chuck having a pair of spring members to engage the openings of the barrel and hermetically seal the barrel with an air pressure source to induce pressure to the inside of the barrel with the method including heating the end of the tubing and the point on the barrel for attachment, blowing a hole out through the point and welding the tube over the hole while the parts are spinning on the lathe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1985
    Inventor: Edwin D. Smith
  • Patent number: 4497125
    Abstract: A wall display device, particularly suitable for displaying record albums including a plurality of blocks, one for each corner of the album having upper vertical corner channels to hold the bottom corners of the album and vertical side channels to hold the upper corners of the album where each block can support the corners of four different albums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Inventor: Daniel M. Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 4454983
    Abstract: A control valve used as a steam trap including a flexible flow adjustment restriction device, such as a flexible tube, with a chamber filled with a control fluid having a high co-efficient of thermal expansion and a heat conduction configuration conveying heat from the flow to the control fluid, such that a change in the flow temperature causes expansion or contraction of the control fluid to adjust the flexible flow adjustment member; to provide a universal steam trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1984
    Inventor: Robert J. Tarvis, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4451234
    Abstract: The dental articulator device of this invention includes a lower tongue member device to receive and hold a model of the mandibular portion of the pair of an upper tongue member device to receive and hold a model of the maxillary portion of the jaw. A lower body device is provided for providing support for holding the device and structurally connecting it to the lower tongue member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1984
    Inventor: Toshimi Oye
  • Patent number: 4434571
    Abstract: A device and method for lubricating muzzle-loading bullets is provided, including a cylindrical chamber of special diameter allowing a portion of the bullet to be inserted, sealing off the grooves in the bullet to be lubricated, and a plunger piston system to hold and then eject the bullet into a flexible cylindrical tube wherein the bullet may be stored and then ejected into the muzzle of the rifle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Inventor: Warren V. Eisenhuth
  • Patent number: 4409950
    Abstract: A fuel saving and pollution control device is connected in the vapor conduit between the crank case and the intake manifold of an internal combustion engine wherein vapors are drawn through the unit that includes a filter and a water condensing grid. The unit passes burnable vapors but removes large particulates, resins and high molecular weight materials. Water condensate collected after engine operation is injected to the intake manifold upon restart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1983
    Inventor: Nathan Goldberg
  • Patent number: 4396214
    Abstract: A spade with a replacable blade with a tapered neck-socket connection with a spring pin lock. Footrest steps pitched downwardly on the blade to avoid the leg touching the tubular handle and an oversized two-handed tubular D-handle are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Inventor: Walter Lesche
  • Patent number: 4384435
    Abstract: A hemispherical inflatable tent of a plurality of compartments generally in the shape of orange sections, inflated through a manifold in the top of the tent communicating with each compartment section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1983
    Inventors: Victor W. Polise, Robert Marinacci
  • Patent number: 4351505
    Abstract: A bathroom scale holder is provided including a panel firmly attached to the wall with a pair of cantilever members extending from the panel onto which horizontally adjustable spring members are attached wherein the scale resting on the horizontal cantilever members is held in position by the spring members against the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1982
    Inventor: Edward Wickersham
  • Patent number: 4343500
    Abstract: A security door stop bolt mounted in the floor preventing entrance through the door including a tube housing imbedded in the floor with a door stop sliding in the tube, nestled in the tube when not in use but raised with a manual lifting means to prevent inadvertent triggering of the stop bolt with a carpet cut out attached to the top of the door stop to hide the entire mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1982
    Assignee: Thunderbolt Corporation
    Inventor: John W. Steiner
  • Patent number: 4327619
    Abstract: A cutting table for cutting house siding is provided for use with a power saw held on a guide rotated to make miter cuts and hold the sheet on the table and against the rail. The guide swings free and folds off the table surface when mitered cuts are not necessary. A second guide may be folded onto the table surface to hold the power saw and cut at a 90.degree. angle to the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Inventor: John J. McNamee, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4291482
    Abstract: A stabilizing attachment for firearms is provided to support the forearm during firing and includes two rods through horizontal holes in a vertical extension of the grip with the rods extending to the rear connected to an upright "U" shaped support for the forearm and a hand released securing mechanism to hold the horizontal rods in an adjustable position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1981
    Inventor: Joseph R. Bresan
  • Patent number: 4288316
    Abstract: A fecal examining device for use in the float separation of parasite eggs from feces with a screen composed of slots having an effective flow area of at least 40% of the surface area interposed in the liquid to allow ova to pass through the screen to a collecting slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1981
    Inventor: Michael J. Hennessy
  • Patent number: 4264013
    Abstract: A jewelry holder attached to the wall or door in a bedroom or dressing room is provided with a horizontal front panel having apertures in which detachable hooks are frictionally wedged to hold chains, necklaces and the like. Bracelet, ring and earring holders are provided along the top of the front panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1981
    Inventor: Mary C. Vollmer
  • Patent number: 4258441
    Abstract: A hand and lower arm prosthesis is provided for amputees who have the amputation stump of the lower arm muscularly connected to the upper arm, the prosthesis including a lateral thumb pinch utilizing a key grip with spring closure force connected to the upper arm elbow and in combination connected to the opposite shoulder to translate force of humeral flexion electively, alternately or in combination, with pronation and supination to the thumb pinch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1981
    Assignee: Hand Rehabilitation Foundation
    Inventor: Judith A. Bell
  • Patent number: D260231
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Inventor: Frank P. DeMuro
  • Patent number: D272550
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
    Inventor: Umberto D. Esposti
  • Patent number: D273403
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Inventor: Joseph C. DeLuca
  • Patent number: D276609
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1984
    Inventor: Joel S. Schwartz
  • Patent number: D278014
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Inventor: James M. Faris