Patents Represented by Attorney Tod R. Nissle

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  • Apparatus and method for cleaning a golf ball
    Patent number: 5939167
    Abstract: A laminate includes a water resistant layer and a water absorbent layer. The laminate is sized to be folded to seal the water resistant layer and to be concealed on the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Inventor: Rick C Holmes
  • Combined shock absorber--torsion bar to increase proportion of sprung to unsprung weight in rear of suspension dragster
    Patent number: 5938247
    Abstract: A shock absorber--torsion bar system for the rear of a suspension dragster increases the proportion of sprung to unsprung weight in the dragster and therefore facilitates balancing and stabilizing the dragster to improve performance during a race.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Inventor: Ronnie L. Santhuff
  • Method and apparatus for securing brassiere straps
    Patent number: 5935044
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for securing brassiere straps in a selected position prevents the straps from sliding off the shoulders of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Inventor: Lorie K. Brewster
  • Method and apparatus for supporting swimming pool lighting strip
    Patent number: 5915848
    Abstract: A clip for mounting a light strip along the side of a pool. The clip is mounted on an arm of a cove strip. The clip is shaped to support the light strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Inventor: Ted E. Deason
  • Stackable interlocking guitar
    Patent number: 5918294
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for enabling a player to simultaneously hold and utilize two or more guitars. Two guitars are shaped and dimensioned to be stacked one on to the other and interconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Inventor: Donald J. Karg
  • Method and apparatus for manufacturing concrete panels and for constructing a wall with the panels
    Patent number: 5913793
    Abstract: A method and apparatus simplify the construction of a concrete panel to include openings through which rebar and concrete slurry extend in order to anchor the panel in a trench at a construction site to form a wall. The method and apparatus of the invention also reduce the likelihood that the panel will settle and damage the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Inventor: Craig A. Hills
  • Process for etching trace side walls
    Patent number: 5904863
    Abstract: A process for etching the sides of a trace remove the feet which extend laterally out from the sides and over a circuit board substrate adjacent the trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Coates ASI, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael M. Hatfield, Marshall I. Gurian
  • Method and apparatus for installing telephone intercom--voice messaging apparatus at doorbell for dwelling
    Patent number: 5905787
    Abstract: A doorbell response system is utilized in a dwelling. The dwelling includes a telephone, includes a telephone line connected to the telephone, and includes a doorbell and a pair of doorbell electrical wires which power the doorbell. The doorbell response system is powered by the pair of doorbell electrical wires and includes an auxiliary doorbell button, a speaker, a microphone, and apparatus to initiate the dialing of a telephone number. The doorbell response system also includes a connector to connect the microphone and speaker to the telephone line to enable a first person to converse over the microphone and speaker with a second person on the telephone line, and, includes apparatus for eliminating the dial tone in the telephone line so that the first person can so converse with the second person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Inventor: John C. Stuart
  • Method of removing lint from clothes dryers using a magnetically mountable hand held vacuum cleaner
    Patent number: 5904160
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner and method for facilitating the removal of lint from the lint screen of a clothes dryer without requiring that the lint screen be removed from the dryer. The vacuum cleaner includes an elongate housing, a nose attached to the housing and shaped and dimensioned to extend into the lint gathering recess to remove lint therefrom; an air permeable collecting apparatus for capturing lint in the housing; a vent; a fan for directing air through the nose into and through the air permeable collecting apparatus and for directing exhaust air out through the vent; and a magnet on said elongate housing for removably attaching the vacuum cleaner to a metal housing of the clothes dryer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Inventor: Shari L. Wright
  • System and method for collating and stacking two streams of cut sheets
    Patent number: 5896797
    Abstract: Collating apparatus cuts a strip of paper into two side-by-side streams of individual pages or sheets of paper. These streams of paper are transported on belts such that each sheet in one stream is next to and paired with a sheet in the other stream. Each pair of sheets is stacked by moving one of the sheets onto the other which the other sheets continues to be transported by belt. Each stacked pair of sheets can be stacked on each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Inventor: Leroy J. Thompson
  • Prosthetic leg apparatus and method
    Patent number: 5888214
    Abstract: A prosthetic apparatus and method facilitate the selection of a prosthetic leg having compression and expansion characteristics which are uniquely adapted to provide comfort for a particular handicapped individual. The prosthetic apparatus and method enable the compression and expansion characteristics of the apparatus to be readily adjusted without requiring the utilization of a coil spring, of compressed air, or of a hydraulic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Inventor: Adam A. Ochoa
  • Retractable trailer hitch
    Patent number: 5860671
    Abstract: A trailer hitch assembly positioned in the bed of a pickup truck permits a trailer ball hitch to be rotatably moved between a deployed position and a retracted position by utilizing only forces generated manually and by the force of gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Pro-Hitch Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: H. Roger Mackeown
  • Prophylactic
    Patent number: 5857466
    Abstract: A prophylactic apparatus reduces the risk that a venereal disease will be transmitted during sexual intercourse and reduces the risk that the prophylactic will, in use, cause physical injury. The prophylactic is provided in a wide variety of differing sizes one of which best correlates to the needs of each particular user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Inventor: Frank C. Sadlo
  • Method and apparatus for generating unique characterization data for paintings
    Patent number: 5845001
    Abstract: A non destructive method and apparatus generates unique characterization data for a painting. The method and apparatus spatially correleates points in a photograph of the painting with data defining a physical property of the viewing surface or of the internal structure of the painting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Inventor: Thomas N. Thomas
  • Method, composition and apparatus for reducing the incidence of cigarette smoking
    Patent number: 5810018
    Abstract: Effective concentrations of nicotine, of a stimulant, and of a sequestering agent are admixed in a liquid carrier. The sequestering agent prevents binding of nicotine with metallic ions which interfere with absorption of nicotine through the lining of the oral cavity. The liquid solution is sprayed into the oral cavity for simultaneous absorption of the nicotine and stimulant through the lining of the oral cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Inventor: Woodrow C. Monte
  • Tool for installing clip on duct flanges
    Patent number: 5794322
    Abstract: A tool for clipping together a pair of flange connectors includes a handle and a clipping member. The clipping member is shaped and dimensioned to force a U-shaped clip over the flange connectors to secure the connectors together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Inventor: Robert Issagholian-Havai
  • Evaporative cooler pump
    Patent number: 5785507
    Abstract: An evaporative cooler pump is modularized to readily receive pump impellers and pump volutes of different shapes and dimensions in order to optimize the evaporative cooler water pump performance. The flow of water through the pump is streamlined to improve the efficiency of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: Dial Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: John B. Hanneken
  • Mailable multi-sheet business form for prevention of tenting during printing
    Patent number: 5782691
    Abstract: A strip of multi-part business forms includes a plurality of primary sheets and secondary sheet each attached to a primary sheet. The primary sheets are separated by and folded along lines of weakening formed in the strip. Each secondary sheet is removable from a primary sheet to reveal a die cut and/or imprinted area on the primary sheet. The construction of the strip of business forms avoids tenting problems which are encountered by conventional strips of multi-part business forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Inventor: Gary E. Stewart
  • Method and apparatus for installing telephone intercom-voice messaging apparatus at doorbell for dwelling
    Patent number: 5784446
    Abstract: A doorbell response system can be retrofit in an existing doorbell system without requiring the incorporation of new wiring in the existing doorbell system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: CMS Investors
    Inventor: John C. Stuart
  • Pad conditioner
    Patent number: 5779526
    Abstract: Polishing apparatus cuts and shapes a polishing pad to produce a polishing surface which minimizes pad runout and which can be contoured to better achieve desired polishing rates, pressures, and performance with respect to selected areas on a semiconductor wafer being processed with the polishing pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Inventor: Gerald L. Gill