Patents Represented by Attorney Thomas R. Lampe

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  • Toroidal rotary damper apparatus
    Patent number: 7048098
    Abstract: A toroidal rotary damper apparatus includes a housing having a toroidal inner housing surface and a piston moveable in the housing having a curved outer peripheral piston surface in engagement with the inner housing surface. A fluid barrier is attached to the housing and located in the housing interior. A flow control passageway defined by either the piston or the fluid barrier controls passage of damper fluid when there is relative rotational movement between the piston and the housing to dampen the forces causing relative rotational movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Inventor: Norick B. Moradian
  • Mud flap holder system
    Patent number: 7040662
    Abstract: A mud flap holder assembly includes a mud flap support clip bifurcated at one of the ends thereof to define an open ended variable width slot. The mud flap is held in position by a bolt positioned in the slot with portions of the support clip defining the slot forming a detent frictionally releasably engaging the flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Betts Spring Company
    Inventors: Graylin Patrick Barr, William Michael Betts, IV, William Michael Betts, V, Stanley H. Day
  • Dock bumper
    Patent number: 7036448
    Abstract: A marine bumper for releasable connection to dock structure includes an elongated bumper cushion of compression resistant foam material, an inner cover of water impermeable, plastic sheeting and an outer cover of woven plastic sheet material. Passageways extending through the elongated bumper cushion accommodate securement straps, the securement straps passing through openings in the inner and outer covers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Inventor: Joseph S. Holmes
  • Level and chalk line marker
    Patent number: 7028411
    Abstract: A chalk line marker is releasably connectable to a level. When connected to the level, the chalk line marker is employed to provide chalk marks in orientations established by the level. When the chalk line marker is removed from the level, the level and chalk line marker can be used independently in conventional fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Inventor: Mark Kasche
  • Deterrent strip for repelling birds and other pests
    Patent number: 7020995
    Abstract: A deterrent strip for repelling birds and other pests includes two electrical wire support members separated by spaces extending across the strip to allow bending. Connectors are attached to the wire support members to resist lengthwise stretching of the strip, the connectors extending across the spaces and offset from the center of the strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Inventor: Roger Snow
  • Apparatus convertible between creeper and stepladder configurations
    Patent number: 7007770
    Abstract: Apparatus for supporting an individual is employable as either a creeper or a stepladder and includes two hingedly connected platform portions which can be locked in co-planar condition or in a configuration where the platform portions define an angle therebetween of less than 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Inventor: Genaro Perez
  • Assembly for providing information about an individual
    Patent number: 7005170
    Abstract: An assembly for providing information about an individual such as a lost child includes an envelope and an information sheet releasably adhesively connected to the rear panel of the envelope. The information sheet is manually removable from the rear envelope panel for insertion into the envelope. Removal of the information sheet exposes the adhesive on the envelope rear panel and the adhesive is used to apply the envelope to an individual's clothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Inventors: Marne L. Simpson, Stephen M. Simpson
  • Apparatus for forming a flange at the end of a conduit
    Patent number: 7003998
    Abstract: Apparatus for shaping a conduit to form a radially outwardly projecting flange at an end thereof includes a holding fixture, a collar surrounding the conduit disposed in an opening in the holding fixture, rotation imparting structure engaging the collar for simultaneously rotating the collar and the conduit and a flange forming tool connected to the holding fixture engaging a conduit end to apply bending forces to the conduit to form the flange when the conduit is rotated. The apparatus also includes a conduit cutter for cutting the conduit to form the end prior to flange formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Inventor: Philip E. Smith
  • Swash plate drive system
    Patent number: 6990889
    Abstract: A swash plate disposed in a housing is a ball bearing assembly. The outer race of the ball bearing assembly is free to move relative to a swash plate drive shaft and also relative to reciprocating members driven by the swash plate and mounted for axial movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Rix Industries
    Inventor: John Below
  • Apparatus for stiffening a hanger rod
    Patent number: 6991198
    Abstract: A hanger rod stiffener includes a clamp having two straight, double-ended, spaced, parallel clamp segments and a third clamp segment extending between them. The clamp is positioned over a stiffener member and a hanger rod and the third clamp segment is disposed at an angle to bias the hanger rod to a predetermined position within the clamp when the stiffener member and clamp are brought together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Inventor: Steven A. Roth
  • Apparatus with locking hinge convertible between creeper and stepladder configurations
    Patent number: 6988586
    Abstract: Apparatus for supporting an individual is employable as either a creeper or a stepladder and includes two platform portions connected by locking hinges which selectively alternatively lock the platform portions in co-planar condition or in a configuration where the platform portions define an angle therebetween of less than 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Inventor: Genaro Perez
  • Apparatus including flash light and bit holder for attachment to an electric drill
    Patent number: 6964545
    Abstract: Apparatus for releasable attachment to an electric drill housing includes a flexible base member, a bit holder and a flashlight. The positions of the bit holder and the flashlight are adjustable relative to the base member and a flashlight head of the flashlight can be adjusted relative to the flashlight body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Inventor: Ronald S. Languasco
  • Dryer system for shower
    Patent number: 6962005
    Abstract: A shower dryer system includes a dryer tower with nozzles for directing heated air into a shower enclosure interior. A programmed controller controls the rate of air flow and the temperature of air flow to and through the air nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Jacuzzi, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Khosropour, Harold Leung, Jim R. Pauls, Bob A. Davis
  • Modular heat recovery ventilation system
    Patent number: 6948553
    Abstract: A modular heat recovery ventilation system includes a modular heat exchanger and a modular apparatus spaced from the heat exchanger for delivering both fresh air and exhaust air to the heat exchanger. The apparatus includes separate blowers for generating two separate air streams. The apparatus includes an access plate at the bottom thereof allowing access to the interior of the enclosure of the apparatus through a ceiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Beutler Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Sean Day, Calvin Richard Wylie, Tristan Adair Venzke
  • Support structure for electric lighting fixtures
    Patent number: 6945676
    Abstract: Structure for supporting a lighting fixture includes a connector hook assembly releasably connected to a connector element extending from a support canopy. The connector hook assembly includes two relatively moveable connector hook members biased to a closed condition by a spring. One of the connector hook members has an internally threaded base for connection to a lamp suspension arm. Wiring passes from the suspension arm through an area formed by the internal threads of the base and through an aperture formed in the internally threaded connector hook member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Inventor: Dennis J. Scott
  • Telescoping hand held pole
    Patent number: 6938927
    Abstract: A telescoping, hand held pole includes telescoping pole segments releasably locked together by lock members. A lock release mechanism employed in the pole includes a manually engageable member which, when pushed, initiates unlocking of all of the lock members, allowing telescoping of all of the telescoping pole segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Inventors: Michael J. Martin, Leonard L. Hofheins
  • Building heating assembly
    Patent number: 6929057
    Abstract: A heating assembly for a house or other building includes a furnace module, an evaporator coil module and an adaptor module disposed between the furnace module and the evaporator coil module. Tension straps are employed to connect the modules and maintain the adaptor module in compression between the furnace module and the evaporator coil module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Beutler Corporation
    Inventors: Eugene Scott Sahota, Jeffrey Lee Smith, Michael Kevin Hartsough, Gregory Christopher Briggs, Robert Glenn Richard, Martin Gatsumi Goto, Michael Dean Fryman
  • Bathtub
    Patent number: D511819
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Jacuzzi, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Benjamin Madson, William Robert Worrell
  • Faucet
    Patent number: D513059
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Jacuzzi, Inc.
    Inventor: James R. Pauls
  • Package
    Patent number: D521370
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Inventor: Mark Winn Beutler