Patents Represented by Attorney Thomas N. Tarrant
  • Patent number: 4167669
    Abstract: Rapid curing of polymerizable materials is effected more efficiently by rapid pulsing of applied energy at a repetition rate of 3 to 120 pulses per second. Pulsed energy using fast high intensity xenon flash lamps is exemplary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1979
    Assignee: Xenon Corporation
    Inventor: C. Richard Panico
  • Patent number: 4131652
    Abstract: A coactive mixture of acetohexamide and a steroid hormone in a cream base and method for the relief of psoriasis and related skin ailments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1978
    Inventor: Charles R. DeLuccia
  • Patent number: 4121830
    Abstract: A bingo computer in which every number has a storage location in an addressable memory and a "pick" counter sequentially addresses the memory at a high rate of speed for locations picked and a much lower rate for locations not picked. A display counter shares the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Assignee: Random Electronic Games Co.
    Inventor: Dennis J. Buckley
  • Patent number: 4122406
    Abstract: A circular polarizer in the form of a waveguide coupler containing a sloped septum and using discontinuities on the septum slope together with a waist constriction to achieve good isolation and low ellipticity over a wide band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Inventor: Edward Salzberg
  • Patent number: 4121803
    Abstract: A flagholder particularly suited for mounting on gravestones in which two similar side members are drawn together in clamping fashion on either side of the mounting structure by a bolt passing through one end into the other. The flagstaff is secured in a hole recessed in one of the side members or in an intermediate member resting on top of the mounting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Inventor: John S. Garrick
  • Patent number: 4121561
    Abstract: A box stove made essentially of two pieces of sheet metal bent into the forms of interlocking "U"s and assembled together. The stove containing a roof-shaped baffle below the flue exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Inventor: Richard G. Cote
  • Patent number: 4117482
    Abstract: An electromagnetic energy pulse-echo system combined with a data processing unit and a memory storing the locations of a number of fixed echo reflectors relative to a waterway so that the pulse-echo system operating from a boat can register the echo reflectors and positions in the waterway can be calculated by the data processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1978
    Assignee: Associated Controls & Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Jepsky, Irvin S. Englander, James E. Williams
  • Patent number: 4104709
    Abstract: A surgeon's headlight utilizing an adjustable iris diaphragm to allow continuous variation of the diameter of the illuminated spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1978
    Assignee: Applied Fiberoptics, Inc.
    Inventor: Jacobus Kloots
  • Patent number: 4099714
    Abstract: A fencing game set in which an apertured target supported from a base on a springy rod is interposed between duelists who simultaneously attempt to pierce the apertures and displace the target from the opponents aim. Score accumulators for each are mounted in the target base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Inventor: Charles W. Willis
  • Patent number: 4094485
    Abstract: A bracket for mounting mobile electronic equipment having L-shaped slots for receiving mounting studs attached to the equipment and wire spring elements across one or more of the slots for latching the studs into the "feet" of the L-shaped slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1978
    Assignee: Tram/Diamond Corporation
    Inventor: James S. O'Callaghan
  • Patent number: 4087074
    Abstract: A fluid actuator for 90.degree. rotating valves having a return spring coupled to an independent fluid actuated piston to assist in spring compression on the forward stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Assignee: The Parker & Harper Mfg. Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Roger G. Massey, David G. Holloway
  • Patent number: 4086424
    Abstract: A dynamic gradient furnace in which a plurality of heating zones along an axis of the furnace are controlled sequentially to provide a moving temperature gradient profile through the heating chamber of the furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Inventor: Robert H. Mellen, Sr.
  • Patent number: 4083916
    Abstract: A method of molding plastic layers such as used for table tops and the like in which decorative pattern dividing strips are applied to the mold surface in a support frame. The strips are adhesively secured to the mold surface and then the support frame removed after which the plastic mix is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1978
    Inventor: Arthur E. Chasse
  • Patent number: 4082422
    Abstract: A fiberoptic cable having a strain-relieved terminal end in which a length of elastomeric material is bonded to and covers the cable sheath to prevent sharp bending adjacent the terminal and a sleeve is mechanically fitted inside a rigid plastic terminal housing as an adhesive bonding adapter between said sheath and said housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1978
    Assignee: Applied Fiberoptics, Inc.
    Inventor: Jacobus Kloots
  • Patent number: 4073050
    Abstract: A fiberoptic cable assembly in which an extruded sheath for the bundle of optical fibers has latex or silicone rubber end casings for handling and strain relief that are molded directly to the cable sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1978
    Assignee: Applied Fiberoptics, Inc.
    Inventor: Jacobus Kloots
  • Patent number: 4047413
    Abstract: An automatic metal-spinning machine utilizing a plurality of work spindles, which rotate on their own axes, adjacent respective parallel spinning-tool operating shafts rotatable with variable pressure to apply tools against workpieces on the spindles while all simultaneously and continuously rotate around a central column so that a plurality of metal blanks are progressively formed and several parts are completed as the spindles and tool operating shafts make one revolution around the central column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1977
    Inventors: Burton F. Lewis, Alan Y. Lewis
  • Patent number: 4046350
    Abstract: A power actuated 90.degree. rotation valve in which the power actuator is coupled to the valve stem by a socket which simultaneously engages a lug fixed with the valve stem and a nut threaded to said valve stem so that the nut cannot loosen during actuation of the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: The Parker & Harper Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger G. Massey, David G. Holloway
  • Patent number: 4042201
    Abstract: A bracket for mounting mobile electronic equipment having L-shaped slots for receiving mounting studs attached to the equipment and wire spring elements across one or more of the slots for latching the studs into the "feet" of the L-shaped slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1977
    Assignee: Tram/Diamond Corporation
    Inventor: James S. O'Callaghan
  • Patent number: 4021056
    Abstract: A ski boot with a central longitudinal cavity in the sole is disclosed in combination with a block designed to mate with the cavity. The block is securable to a ski and laterally-acting detent devices are provided to releasably capture the boot to the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1977
    Assignees: Gilbert B. Oakes, James R. Branch, Roger A. Peabody
    Inventor: Gilbert B. Oakes
  • Patent number: D253907
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1980
    Inventors: Fred A. Wentworth, Jr., Paul F. Heald