Patents Represented by Attorney Thomas M. Galgano
  • Patent number: 4385626
    Abstract: A speculum for the examination of body cavities, said speculum comprising duck-bill-shaped spreading members and co-operating locking elements to hold the speculum in an adjusted open condition, said locking elements being so biased as to stay clear from one another when in rest, but being adapted to engage with one another only by a conscious action of the user of the speculum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1983
    Assignee: Lamaf-Kunststoffen B.V.
    Inventor: Peter Danz
  • Patent number: 4384907
    Abstract: In a machine and method for producing plastic bottles by periodically applying a bonding agent to a cup of a series of cups adapted for successive bonding operations of each cup to respective round-bottomed hollow bodies of plastic material, and including an applicator station for applying the bonding agent to a surface of a cup, a conveyor movable in a transport direction for receiving and moving the cups, an arresting device for temporarily arresting the cup movement near the applicator station, a rotatable transporter provided with seats for the cups and with holders for the bottles above the seats, and an extraction device for removing successive bottles from the transporter, the combination of, or retrofit kit, including a drive arranged to be intermittently coupled to the arrested cup for imparting a rotating movement to the cup, and a coupler for coupling and uncoupling the drive to the arrested cup, wherein the applicator station is arranged to apply the bonding agent to the surface of the rotating cu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1983
    Assignee: Aidlin Automation Corp.
    Inventors: Stephen H. Aidlin, Roy D. Styers
  • Patent number: 4385185
    Abstract: Compounds of the general formula I: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are equal or different alkyl-, alkoxyalkyl-, or aryl groups, or together form a ring; R.sub.3 is an allyl or benzyl radical; and R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 represent hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkenyl or further compounds of the formula II: ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 have the meaning indicated above and R.sub.6 stands for hydrogen or methyl or to compounds which are modified by the addition of hydrogen to at least one olefinic or carbonylic double bond of compounds of the general formula I or II. The invention also relates to a process for preparing the new compounds. The compounds of the general formula II are obtained by thermal treatment of a selection of compounds of formula I, for which R.sub.3 stands for the allyl or methallyl radical. The compounds according to the invention are used as fragrant and flavoring substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1983
    Assignee: Consortium fur Elektrochemische Industrie GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Gebauer, Walter Hafner
  • Patent number: 4383919
    Abstract: In this screening bottom, the screening elements which are mounted on a support structure are provided with an exchangeable and automatically clamped rubber plate acting as a wear-and-tear resistant layer. Beneath the rubber plate, a reinforcing structure is provided consisting of plastic ribs and/or a reinforced structure which is imbedded in a plastic material, as well as clamping elements. The reinforced structure and the clamping elements constitute a unitary grid which is undetachably coupled with the rubber plate. Thereby, it is possible to transfer the advantages from the unit construction assembly technique to screening bottoms with associated screening elements which basically are composed of rubber with a high abrasion resistance characteristic. No complicated and expensive vulcanization molds and devices are required for making the screening elements. The molding tools which are already available for making plastic screening elements can be partially used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1983
    Assignee: Hein, Lehmann AG
    Inventor: Gerhard Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4382838
    Abstract: A plate-like silicon crystal having a columnar structure formed along the direction of the shortest axis, produced by cooling molten silicon, which may contain a doping agent, in a temperature gradient between the two largest boundary surfaces of the melt, one of which has a maximum temperature of 1200.degree. C., and the opposite surface being at least 200.degree. to 1000.degree. C. higher, but below the melting point of silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1983
    Assignee: Wacker-Chemie GmbH
    Inventor: Bernhard Authier
  • Patent number: 4382789
    Abstract: An improved manual pressure syringe for odontological use, includes a handgrip provided with a control lever, a barrel for a cartridge, and a bushing arranged on the longitudinal extension of the barrel. It also includes a shaft having a pushbutton at one end which is slidable in the bushing and acts on the piston of the cartridge, a thrust lever for the shaft operated by the control lever, and a coil spring arranged between the thrust lever and the bushing. The coil spring is formed of two end parts, the turns of which are of a larger diameter than that of the shaft, and an intermediate part, the turns of which are substantially of the same diameter as that of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1983
    Assignee: Domenico Colombo
    Inventors: Domenico Colombo, Americo Colombo
  • Patent number: 4380436
    Abstract: The invention relates to a support for retaining a removable dental prosthesis on the remainder of one's natural teeth. In accordance with the invention, a conical pin is mounted on the crown base of a capped tooth. A slotted conical bushing is mounted on a dental prosthesis which bushing is received in a telescopic manner on the pin. The pin and the bushing are so disposed that they are positioned vertically between the capped tooth of the remainder of the natural teeth and the adjacent tooth of the dental prosthesis. The bushing is provided with a spring element which yieldingly engages into recesses of the pin when the bushing and the pin are in total engagement with each other, thus retaining the dental prosthesis in its end position. By a corresponding force application, the yielding snap connection can be easily released, so as to remove the dental prosthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1983
    Assignee: Dental Keramik Sande GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Kipp
  • Patent number: 4380675
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are equal or different aliphatic radicals, if desired, branched, and R.sub.3 stands for H or CH.sub.3. The invention also relates to a process for making these compounds and their use as fragrant and flavoring products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1983
    Assignee: Consortium fur Elektrochemische Industrie GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Gebauer, Walter Hafner
  • Patent number: 4379421
    Abstract: An electrical pickup for a stringed musical instrument comprises a cylindrical permanent magnet and a coil surrounding the magnet and wound lengthwise thereof. The ends of the magnet are fixed to two rigid mounting wires, and the coil is wound on a former comprising a central tubular core and two parallel plates fixed to the tube on diametrically opposite sides thereof. The tube, and thus the former and coil as a whole, can turn on the magnet. The magnet is magnetized so that the magnetic poles thereof are positioned at diametrically opposite edges of the magnet, i.e. at the ends of a diameter of the circular cross-section of the magnet cylinder. Thus the former and coil can be turned between two positions 180.degree. apart in order to reverse the winding direction of the coil around the fixed magnetic axis H of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1983
    Inventor: Kevin N. G. Nunan
  • Patent number: 4379016
    Abstract: A method for mounting elastic strips onto a web of material for making dirs or the like, includes the steps of gathering-up the web of material, i.e., it is shortened by forming a multiplicity of fine transverse folds thereon, and mounting unstretched elastic strips in discrete sections onto the edge areas of the gathered-up web of material. A device for carrying out the method is also provided which includes a drum having a toothed gear-like surface, an embossing roller having a toothed gear-like surface which is in camming engagement with the drum, a device for holding and guiding the gathered-up web of material on the drum and a station for mounting elastic strips in discrete sections onto the edge areas of the web of material which is held and guided on the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1983
    Assignee: Winkler + Dunnebier Maschinefabrik und Eisengiesseret GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kurt Stemmler, Heinrich Metheisen
  • Patent number: 4377475
    Abstract: In the case of an apparatus for sucking up and holding sludge, use is made of a sludge tank which may be evacuated. The sludge tank has a sludge door and a water outlet able to be put into operation separately from the door. The water outlet is made up of an overflow line joined up with water in the sludge tank by way of a filter unit, the filter unit having a cleaning unit with at least one nozzle for jetting water onto the filter unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1983
    Inventor: Karl Wiedemann
  • Patent number: 4376599
    Abstract: A ditch shoring unit includes at least a horizontal support frame composed of longitudinally-extending, transversely-adjustable girders made of profile steel parts and having guide heads mounted thereon, as well as a plurality of pile-driving planks which in their cross section, are generally wave-shaped and which are provided on their inner side with a guide channel for a positive locking reception of an associated guide head of the support frame therein. Each pile-driving plank is also provided on its inner side with abutments which are arranged in a vertically, supermposed, spaced-apart manner and locking means are provided on the longitudinal girders of the support frame having a locking element which is moveable into and out of the area between two superimposed abutments of an associated pile-driving plank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1983
    Inventor: Josef Krings
  • Patent number: 4373643
    Abstract: A transport container which is suitable, in particular, for transport on airplanes, should be lightweight and, in addition, assure an absolute safe insulation of the interior of the container against severe climatic changes. This is particularly important when transporting art articles which otherwise could be damaged. In accordance with the invention, such a transport container is so structured that the walls and the lid consist of a plurality of layer zones which are coordinated with each other with respect to their efficiency characteristics--namely, an inner layer zone consisting of a rigid moisture-storing material, a heat-insulating material layer mounted atop the inner layer zone and covered on both sides with a water-impervious foil, a wide mesh-like grid structure which rests on the heat-insulating material layer and forms a plurality of air chambers and an outer wall of the transport container which covers the grid structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1983
    Assignee: KTS, Kunstoff-Technische Spezialfertigungen Anni Przytarski
    Inventor: Joachim Przytarski
  • Patent number: 4370807
    Abstract: A water-powered, rotary head shaver is provided which includes a housing having a hollow shaving head portion defining an interior chamber and having at least one opening and at least one water outlet port formed therein and a hollow handle defining an interior channel which communicates with the chamber of the shaving head portion and which has a water inlet port formed therein. A rotary head grill is mounted within the opening of the shaving head portion and a drive shaft is rotatably mounted within the chamber of the shaving head portion. An impeller having a plurality of vanes is mounted on the shaft and a rotary cutting head is coupled to the shaft for rotation therewith and is disposed adjacent to the shaving head grill plate for cooperative shearing engagement therewith upon rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1983
    Inventor: Charles R. O'Neill
  • Patent number: 4369902
    Abstract: A retractable load carrier for the cantilever support of loads from the rear of a vehicle, consisting of a pair of spaced-apart, elongated channel supports, disposed from the rear of the vehicle in the direction of travel. Each support consists of a plurality of elongated, hollow, rigid channels which nest one within the other, and are supported on a pair of brackets which are mounted within the rear of the vehicle. The brackets are detachably secured to flanges, which are bolted to the frame of the car. The individual channels can be telescoped outwardly, so that when fully extended, either shear pins or snaps will prevent adjacent channels from becoming disengaged. Lamps can be disposed either on the channels or the channels can be provided inside the vehicle behind each of the taillights, so that the taillights can be pulled out, thereby pulling out the channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1983
    Inventor: Steve Lampeas
  • Patent number: 4366584
    Abstract: In order to save space, a bathroom appliance such as a lavatory pan, urinal, basin or bidet is mounted to turn about a pivot axis between an operative position in which the appliance is accessible for its normal usage and an inoperative position in which the appliance is retracted into a cavity within or behind the structure, e.g. wall or floor, on which the appliance is pivotally mounted. The water inlet and waste outlet to and from said appliance are connected thereto by water tight joints which each include two parts relatively rotatable about the said pivot axis e.g. rotary ring joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1983
    Inventor: Frank S. Mchuma
  • Patent number: 4365931
    Abstract: A new device for the displacement of fluids, has at least one essentially revolving covering, which has the form of a trunk of a cone or pyramid, which minor base has an inlet or catch-basin inlet for fluids. The revolving covering contains a core which is concentric therewith, and which has a surface of revolution non-parallel to the wall of the covering and which converges progressively towards the same so as to define therebetween an annular conduit that gets gradually narrower towards the major base of the above-mentioned revolving convering, which base forms an annular outlet or discharge socket for the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1982
    Inventor: Jorge P. M. Dellacha
  • Patent number: 4366024
    Abstract: Competitive current generation by the exploitation of solar energy requires cheap solar cells. A process is described which makes it possible to manufacture from silicon a base material for solar cells of this type in an economical manner and in large quantities. This is achieved by bringing silicon from a supply container into contact with a non-elemental lubricating melt, which is immiscible with silicon but will not wet silicon and has a melting point below that of silicon, and by drawing off a silicon film, sliding on this lubricating melt, and solidifying the silicon continuously by cooling to below its' melting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1982
    Assignee: Heliotronic Forschungs-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft fur Solarzellen-Grundstoffe mbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Ast, Josef Dietl, Dieter Helmreich, Hans-Dieter Miller, Erhard Sirtl
  • Patent number: 4365415
    Abstract: A melon cutting tool includes an elongated handle portion having a preferably U-shaped cross section which is configured and dimensioned for gripping by the user's fingers and a blade portion secured to the handle portion normally thereof, having a generally notched-shaped cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1982
    Inventor: Rene Pustoch
  • Patent number: 4364690
    Abstract: A smoothing screed is used with a road finishing machine for setting roadmaking material when the surface of a road pavement, which has been damaged by tracks or depressions worn therein, is renewed. The smoothing screed is of adjustable width and profile and has a central main screed from which adjusting screeds may be drawn out laterally. There is further provided a central ridge profile adjustment device, which allows the central portion of the main screed to be adjusted so as to be lower than the ends of the main screed, and two further adjustment devices at the ends of the main screed, which allow the outer ends of the adjusting screeds to be adjusted so as to be lower than the ends of the main screed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1982
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Klaus-Gerd Hoes
    Inventor: Theodor Bruns