Patents Represented by Attorney Thomas S. Baker, Jr.

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  • Printed wiring board assemblies
    Patent number: 5966804
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a high-performance printed wiring board assembly, and the resulting product, utilize a substrate component that has a reinforcement material embedded in a condensation-reacted and thermally-crosslinked nadic end-capped polyimide resin electrically conductive lamina component pathways directly adhered to the substrate component resin and high-temperature soldered or otherwise attached connections that electrically join the conductor leads of included electrical devices to the lamina component conductive pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: National Center For Manufacturing Sciences
    Inventors: Daniel Anthony Scola, Richard Thomas Grannells
  • Snow vehicle
    Patent number: 5957471
    Abstract: A snow vehicle has a hull with a plurality of longitudinally extending bottom sliding surfaces adapted to independently contact the ground and each incorporating a control element to cause the vehicle to be steered as it is rotated about a longitudinal axis. The snow vehicle has an operator platform hull which will accommodate an operator seated on the snow vehicle when the snow vehicle is utilized as a sled and which will accommodate the feet of a rider when the snow vehicle is operated as a snow board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Inventor: Bruce V. Weeks
  • Stormwater catch basin filter assembly
    Patent number: 5954952
    Abstract: A novel filter assembly for a drainage system stormwater curb and gutter-type catch basin is provided with spaced-apart frame elements that are joined to and carry a singular mesh fabric filter element, the mesh fabric filter element advantageously additionally functioning to hingedly interconnect the filter assembly frame elements into a unitary structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Alpine Stormwater Management Company
    Inventor: Daniel M. Strawser, Sr.
  • Internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 5950579
    Abstract: A V-type internal combustion engine having a pair of opposed piston cylinders positioned in the same transverse plane is provided with a pair of co-operating pistons that are connected to a singular crankshaft crankpin through a pair of co-operating connecting rods and combined sleeve-type bearings that each lie outside the piston cylinder transverse plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Inventor: Vern D. Ott
  • Universal joint for extension of billiard cues
    Patent number: 5927894
    Abstract: A universal joint 10 for the extension of billiard cues. The joint comprises a joint element 12 generally tubular and adapted to hold at one end the front end of an extension and to receive at the other end the butt end of a billiard cue, and a generally tubular tightening element 14 adapted to lock the cue inside the joint element 12. The joint 10' is operative irrespective of the outer diameter of the butt terminal part of the cue received therein, by the combined action of slits 42, tapered portions 28, 38, 40 and resilience of the material of which the joint element 12 is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignees: Pasquale Donnarumma, Vito Cipolla
    Inventor: Salvatore Zavaglia
  • Tanning cot construction
    Patent number: 5926871
    Abstract: A tanning cot assembly is provided with a portable and foldable rigid support frame, a human-body support surface carried by the support frame, a face-opening frame carried by the support surface and having an interior face-opening, and an adjustably positioned head support only partially filling but spanning the face-opening frame interior face-opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Inventor: Troy D. Howard
  • Pilferproof cover and a container associated therewith
    Patent number: 5901870
    Abstract: A pilferproof or tamper resistant cover or lid for a container comprising a skirt having on its inner surface a circumferential nose for engaging a flange at an upper end of the container and a tear-off safety band having an inwardly inclined generally half tear-shaped cross-sectional form adapted to be snugly received in a groove of the container below the flange thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Lynes Holdings S.A.
    Inventor: Armand Wagner
  • Apparatus for effecting boiler tube removal
    Patent number: 5893209
    Abstract: A gap-cutter tool assembly for machining a longitudinal gap in an installed boiler tube is provided with clamp elements that engage the interior surface of the installed boiler tube, a cutter head track that provides a straight line cutting path within the tube interior and in the presence of different tube interior diameters, and a cutter head that co-operates with the cutter head track and that has different elevational positions during the cutter head cutting and return strokes, and at the end of the cutter head return stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Inventors: Bruce V. Weeks, Richard M. Arthur
  • Reinforced friction material
    Patent number: 5861203
    Abstract: An improved reinforced friction material is comprised of a cured friction material mixture of friction particles, filler particles, and binder particles, and has a embedded honeycomb core reinforcement whose individual cells are filled with and bonded at the cell walls to the cured friction material mixture by a novel manufacturing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Wagner Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yongbin Yuan, Stanley Frank Kulis, Jr., Timothy Franklin Merkel
  • Foodplant seed mixtures
    Patent number: 5859349
    Abstract: Foodplant seed for planting in a foodplant field is comprised of a mixture of 97 to 99 parts by volume of a first seed for a foodplant that has been genetically modified to have a resistance to herbicide applied during emergent growth, and 1 to 3 parts by volume of a seed having an included phenotypical difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Inventor: Rex R. Raque
  • Railroad trackwork intersections
    Patent number: 5845881
    Abstract: A railroad trackwork intersection assembly such as a crossing intersection or a turnout intersection is provided with at least one flange-bearing frog subassembly which has railcar wheel flangeways of uniform depth throughout the frog planform that co-operate with trackwork traffic rails, with easer subassemblies that are positioned exterior to but abut the frog subassembly, that have sloping flange support surfaces, and that may be removed from or adjusted in the assembly without moving or adjusting either the frog subassembly or the co-operating trackwork traffic rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: ABC Rail Products Corporation
    Inventors: Keith Young, Stephen R. Kuhn, Joan Q. Xia, Thomas S. Baker, Jr.
  • Squeeze bottle
    Patent number: D400401
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: National Packaging Corporation
    Inventor: L. Grant Lynd
  • Glove
    Patent number: D404850
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Inventor: Cary A. McIver, II
  • Helmet mug
    Patent number: D405318
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Inventor: Craig R. Steinfels
  • Construction game
    Patent number: D406619
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Inventor: Peter Karl Walter Larws
  • Trolley
    Patent number: D409808
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: A.Z. International S.A.
    Inventor: Bruno Zorzo
  • Trolley
    Patent number: D409809
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: A.Z. International S.A.
    Inventor: Roberto Zorzo
  • Trolley
    Patent number: D410126
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: A.Z. International S.A.
    Inventor: Roberto Zorzo
  • Round hood garden light
    Patent number: D411895
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Inventor: Lance Houston
  • Square hood garden light
    Patent number: D411896
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Inventor: Lance Houston