Patents Represented by Law Firm Thomas & Kennedy
  • Pickup van
    Patent number: 4626024
    Abstract: A truck is convertible between configurations as a panel truck and a pickup truck. It has a movable body section adapted to be positioned so as to shelter a rear portion of the truck cargo bay and so as to expose the rear portion to ambience. A fixed body section that shelters a forward portion of the cargo bay has a track mounted upon its top. The movable section has pivotable runners guided on the track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Inventor: Jack D. Swann
  • Pipe connection method and connecting structure
    Patent number: 4624489
    Abstract: A connection structure and method comprising the steps of providing a cylindrical joint member for connecting a first pipe and a second pipe inserted into opposite ends of said cylindrical joint towards the center of said cylindrical joint member and holding said pipes in such a position that their ends are separated only by a narrow gap, and compressing both ends and the center of said cylindrical joint member to form airtight seals between said first and second pipes and the ends of said cylindrical joint member and also between the ends of said first and second pipes and the middle part of said cylindrical joint member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1986
    Assignee: Daiwa Steel Tube Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Matsuichi Nakamura
  • Bottle carrier
    Patent number: 4623185
    Abstract: A bottle carrier has a web formed with a hand grip opening and an array of fork tines that extend transversely beneath the hand grip opening. Walls extend uprightly from an open end of tine pairs to prevent bottles from sliding off the tines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Inventor: Ronald S. Thomas
  • Hydrogen engine
    Patent number: 4622924
    Abstract: Hydrogen and oxygen are dissociated from water by converting water to steam and contacting the steam with resin or oil. Hydrogen is fed as it is dissociated into an internal combustion engine for combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Inventor: William N. Lewis
  • Preheater for road stripe applicators
    Patent number: 4623279
    Abstract: A preheater for melting a slab of thermoplastic marking material preparatory to applying a melt therefrom onto a paved surface has a heated slab receiver formed with a side wall oriented between 70.degree. and 82.degree. with respect to a reference ground plane upon which surface a slab may be flushly supported for heating and melt down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Assignee: Pave-Mark Corporation
    Inventor: Martin A. Smith
  • Portable air pump
    Patent number: 4621984
    Abstract: A portable air pump has a housing formed with internal walls that partition two compartments, one of which is accessible from ambience through a door. A flexible air hose is compactly stowed in the accessible compartment and connected with an air compressor housed in the other compartment for extension to ambience. A recharger with flexible wiring is also stowed within the accessible compartment adjacent the flexible air hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: Air Shot, Inc.
    Inventor: David A. Fussell
  • Magnetically tunable dielectric resonator having a magnetically saturable shield
    Patent number: 4620169
    Abstract: A dielectric resonator 11 is tuned by varying the magnetic flux induced into a magnetically saturable shield 12 mounted adjacent the resonator by varying the flow of current through a coil 17.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Assignee: Murata Erie N.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Martin J. Blickstein
  • Apparatus for mounting flashlights to bicycles
    Patent number: 4618081
    Abstract: Apparatuses for mounting flashlights to bicycles have concave surfaces for directly supporting flashlights and which are releasibly held thereto by Velcro type material bearing straps. The apparatuses also have semi-cylindrical channels adapted to the placed in mating contact with bar elements of the bicycles and releasibly held thereto by other Velcro type material bearing straps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1986
    Inventor: Mallory F. Miree
  • Wiring tool for wiring electric, multipin plug connectors, connector strips or the like, using clamping cutter techniques
    Patent number: 4615111
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wiring tool for wiring electric, multipin plug connectors, connector strips or the like, using clamping cutter techniques, comprising a support for the binder receiving the lines to be connected and an opposed support for the binder, the support being adapted to be displaced with respect to the opposed support parallel to itself and towards the opposed support, the support being supported in its mounting, in accordance with the invention, on at least one wedge adapted to be linearly displaced by means of a pushrod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1986
    Inventor: Reiner Rommel
  • Shelving apparatus and method of assembling same
    Patent number: 4615278
    Abstract: Shelving apparatus comprises a post (10), a collar (14) configured to be placed flushly against one side of the post (10) with two collar guide bars (15) extending outwardly from the opposite sides thereof, and detent means (12/18) or fixedly locating the collar axially along the post (10). The apparatus also includes a support (20) having a recess (25) configured to be placed flushly against another side of the post. The support recess is formed with two slots (27) configured to receive and to wedge into gripping engagement the two collar guide bars for drawings the collar and support tightly about the post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1986
    Inventor: Peter A. Cabrelli
  • Fireplace grate kit and grate
    Patent number: 4611573
    Abstract: Freestanding fireplace grates of different lengths are assembled from a kit that has a set of U-shaped bars of the same size and shape and a set of nuts and bolts. The assembled grates have a center module interfitted between two side modules. The modules are formed of the U-shaped bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Inventor: Robert D. Newman
  • Intravenous solution administration apparatus and method
    Patent number: 4609369
    Abstract: Intravenous solution administration apparatus comprises a container having flexible walls and a cup mounted to one of the flexible walls within the container with an open cup end located distal the one wall. A cap is mounted to another one of the flexible walls within the container for movement into and out of sealing engagement with the cup open end. The container also has a channel by which fluid may be drawn from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1986
    Assignees: John Fontana, Don Fontana
    Inventor: Dean M. Ball
  • Plier type tool with motion compelling mechanism
    Patent number: 4608888
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tool for crimping, cutting, pressing or the like, having a tool head and gripping levers arranged on the latter for actuating the tools and also, in order to fix the final pressure required for pressing, having a positive lock which is engaged between the gripping levers and designed as a ratchet, having a toothed segment which is provided on one gripping lever and a pawl on the other gripping lever, which pawl engages in the toothed segment, with the mounting of the pawl (6) in the gripping lever (2) being adjustable in order to change the final pressure required for pressing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1986
    Inventor: Reiner Rommel
  • Automatic towel aligning, cutting and hemming system
    Patent number: 4607582
    Abstract: Terry cloth towel (18) moves from a supply along its length through an aligning and cutting system (14), to a transfer station (15). As the untufted bands (20) of the toweling material approach the transfer station, a plurality of fingers (28) of a gate (25) engage the untufted portion of the toweling, an as the toweling continues to move, the oncoming edge (22) of the plush surface (19) of the toweling engages and is retarded by the fingers. In the meantime, a plurality of presser feet (92) each of which is aligned with the fingers of the gate urge the toweling into engagement with a feed roller (85) that pulls the toweling through the processing path, and tension in the toweling tends to lift one or more of the presser feet (92) to relieve the pull applied to the toweling. This function is to straighten the band of the toweling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Assignee: Opelika Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Charles E. Brocklehurst
  • Eyeglasses visor and case
    Patent number: 4606453
    Abstract: Two plies (20, 30) of crescent shaped material are placed in overlying relationship, with the plies being attached along their convex edges (21, 31). The concave edges (22, 32) remain unattached to each other, so that a pocket (29) is formed between the plies of material. Loops (41, 42) are formed at opposite edges of the convex edge of the plies of material. The limbs (14, 15) of eyeglasses can inserted through the loops so that the plies of material form a visor at the forehead of the wearer of the eyeglasses. In the alternative, the eyeglasses can be removed from the visor and inserted into the pocket, so that the plies of material form a case for the eyeglasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1986
    Inventor: Catherine T. Burns
  • Container with plug-fitting lid
    Patent number: 4606474
    Abstract: A container having a body (10) provided with a mouth (14) defined by a lip (13) located radially inwardly of the main body wall (11) by a flange (12), and a lid having a skirt (23) for plug-fitting in the lip and a peripheral rim (24) projecting outwardly of the skirt so as to extend over the flange and permitting removal of the lid by a tool engaged between the rim and the flange, both the lid and the body being plastics mouldings wherein the surface (16) of the lip (13) engageable with the lid skirt (23) is convex in cross-section and in that the skirt has a complementary surface (28) which is concave in cross-section and extends from adjacent the rim (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1986
    Assignee: Mardon Illingworth Limited
    Inventor: Henryk Dudzik
  • Mascara applicator
    Patent number: 4600328
    Abstract: A mascara applicator has a container formed with two cells and two brushes that have bristles configured as oppositely oriented cones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Inventor: Brenda Clements
  • On-line wing removal system
    Patent number: 4597136
    Abstract: Wings are automatically severed from birds while the birds are suspended inverted from shackles in a commercial poultry processing line. This is done by guiding the wing elbow joints with guide bars and directly pushing the torso between a pair of cutting blades. In this manner the balls and sockets of the shoulder joints are dislodged whereby the blades pass therebetween without chipping bone fragments from the shoulder joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Inventor: Jacobus E. Hazenbroek
  • Toes protector
    Patent number: D285500
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Inventor: Richard L. Shaffner
  • Multi-tierd data processing work table or similar article
    Patent number: D286353
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Inventor: Claude J. Robolin