Patents Represented by Attorney Tod R. Nissle

Find this attorney in the Justia Lawyer Directory

  • Method and apparatus for adjustably sizing identification band
    Patent number: 6546656
    Abstract: An identification band and method for fitting the same to an individual's wrist. The ends of the band overlap when the band is applied around an individual's wrist. The band is constructed so the band can be adjusted to fit different sizes of wrists and allow the end to overlap without requiring that one of the ends be cut to size the band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Inventor: Carl R. Twentier
  • Method and apparatus for securing drip irrigation tubing to connector
    Patent number: 6543138
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling a drip irrigation system includes a drip irrigation member with a connector and includes a length of tubing. The tubing has an end. A securing member is mounted on the end of the tubing. The end is slidably forced over the connector. The securing member is rolled along the tubing to a position at which the securing member elastically circumferentially compresses the tubing against the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Inventor: Robert J. Berry
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUSLY RECEIVING FRAMES FROM A PLURALITY OF VIDEO CHANNELS AND FOR ALTERNATELY CONTINUOUSLY TRANSMITTING TO EACH OF A PLURALITY OF PARTICIPANTS IN A VIDEO CONFERENCE INDIVIDUAL FRAMES CONTAINING INFORMATION CONCERNING EACH OF SAID VIDEO CHANNELS
    Patent number: 6535240
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for video conferencing. The method and apparatus continuously receive frames from a plurality of video channels and alternately continuously transmit to each of a plurality of participants in a video conference individual frames containing information concerning each of the video channels. The method and apparatus only transmits at any given instant new picture data for one of the participants in the video conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Inventors: Chih-Lung Yang, Chen-Yuan Kuo
  • Method and portable apparatus for storing long-handled garden tools prior to use in landscaping
    Patent number: 6530487
    Abstract: A stand stores long-handled garden tools. The tools are removed from the stand to be used. The stand is unusually compact and permits a plurality of garden tools to be stored in close proximity to one another. The distal end of a garden tool is slidably received by a sleeve formed in the stand. The sleeve is shaped to contact the distal end of the tool and maintain the tool in a substantially vertical orientation while permitting the tool to generate a force which forces the stand against the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Inventor: Robert J. Berry
  • Method and apparatus for installing in swimming pool a track for receiving optical fibers
    Patent number: 6529664
    Abstract: A method and apparatus mounts one or more optical fibers in a channel in a track along the periphery of a pool. The method and apparatus prevent slurry from entering the channel during the construction of a coping along the pool periphery. The track is mounted in the coping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Inventor: Ted E. Deason
  • Method and apparatus for dispersing pigeons
    Patent number: 6508204
    Abstract: A method is provided for dispersing pigeons from a building structure in which the pigeons roost. The method utilizes a horizontally oriented light beam. The light beam is positioned two to six inches above the surface on which the pigeons roost. The beam, when it is normal to a pigeon's eye and strikes the eye, causes the pigeon discomfort and makes it fly away from the building structure. The beam is utilized for at least three consecutive days.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Inventors: Michael R. Matheson, Ronald A. Matheson
  • Apparatus and method for practicing hitting a baseball
    Patent number: 6508243
    Abstract: Pitching apparatus delivers a sequence of different kinds of pitches to a batter and prevents a batter from ascertaining from the position of the pitching apparatus the kind of pitch which the apparatus will deliver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Inventor: Thomas L. Long
  • Washed sand drying and handling plant
    Patent number: 6499493
    Abstract: A washed sand drying and handling plant (100) includes a belt feed hopper (1), a conveyor belt (2), a sand rinsing unit (3), a dewatering apparatus (4), a radial conveyor (5) and a sand drying and handling apparatus (6). The sand drying and handling apparatus (6) includes four vesssels or tanks (7). Each tank (7) is generally cylindrically shaped and has a cone-shaped base. Sand is held in the tanks (7) for a predetermined amount of time sufficient to allow the sand to dry to the desired level by gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Inventor: Kevin Gerard Keenan
  • Apparatus for abstracting heat with a solid--liquid matrix utilizing a kinetic--circulation--kinetic heat transfer cycle
    Patent number: 6497116
    Abstract: Apparatus for abstracting heat comprises a container charged with a first liquid and with small auxiliary containers free to circulate in the first liquid. Each of the small auxiliary containers is charged with a second liquid. The freezing point of the first liquid is less than the second liquid such that when the second liquid is frozen, the first liquid is not, is free to circulate, and permits the auxiliary containers to circulate in the first liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Inventor: Thomas P. Noel
  • Method for soldering pipes
    Patent number: 6484925
    Abstract: A method for soldering pipes configures the pipes being soldered such that water running through the pipes is not permitted to pool in the pipes. The method also configures the pipes to facilitate sealing of the pipes after the soldering is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Inventor: Gregory L. Harding
  • Method and apparatus for stacking sheets in offset relationship
    Patent number: 6474640
    Abstract: A method and apparatus forms stacks of paper sheets. Each stack is offset from adjacent stacks. The method and apparatus prevent the top sheet of a first stack of paper from being frictionally dragged out of position when the initial sheet of paper in a second stack slides over the top sheet of the first stack. The method and apparatus clamp the forward edge of the top sheet in the first stack to hold the top sheet in position when the initial sheet of paper in the second stack slides over the top sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Inventor: Earnest B. Bunch, III
  • Method and apparatus for promoting the sale of a product
    Patent number: 6470609
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for promoting the sale of a showerhead enables a prospective customer to evaluate the showerhead in a relaxed setting and separate from competing showerheads, while at the same time providing in a fixed, permanent, readily viewed location the information necessary to contact the manufacturer or seller of the showerhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Inventor: Kenneth D. Dannenbaum
  • Method of texturing drywall corner bead and wall adjacent the corner bead
    Patent number: 6427418
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for texturing a wall. The method selects a texture pattern and provides a corner bead with the selected texture. After the corner bead is mounted, the same texture pattern is formed on drywall adjacent the corner bead, after which the texture pattern on the drywall is painted along with the corner bead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Inventor: Randall W. Zell
  • Method and apparatus for stacking ankle plates to permit free, sliding, lateral displacement of plates
    Patent number: 6428056
    Abstract: A method and apparatus shapes and dimensions the flanges of angle plates to ensure that the plates can be stacked without nesting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Inventor: Robert Issagholian-Havai
  • Method and apparatus for installing water resistant cover on a limb
    Patent number: 6421830
    Abstract: A water resistant covering covers a part of the body, prevents water from penetrating the covering, and can be emplaced on the body with a single hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Inventor: David V. Reynolds
  • Method and apparatus for reducing risk that a thrown toy will injure an animal
    Patent number: 6415740
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing the risk that a thrown toy will injure an animal. The apparatus consists of a toy which when thrown bounces erratically, which compressively elastically deforms, which includes a soft fabric outer surface that compresses to absorb blows, and which can withstand being bitten or chewed by a dog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Inventor: Jon K. Curry
  • Method for molding a bearing sleeve for a multiple pole, shaded pole subfractional-horsepower induction motor
    Patent number: 6399007
    Abstract: A bearing sleeve and method for manufacturing the same enable a bearing to be placed in a captive position in the sleeve by inserting the bearing into a slot in the sleeve and then slidably rotating the bearing to the captive position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Dial Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: John B. Hanneken
  • Decor unit and method for mounting same on a wall
    Patent number: 6371190
    Abstract: A kit for assembly into a wall-mounted decor unit. The kit includes a laminate board, a fabric cover, and fasteners for attaching the laminate board to a wall. The laminate board includes sections folded in zig-zag fashion along lines of weakening. The sections of the laminate board can only be folded away from the lines of weakening. The fabric cover is slidably, removably mounted on the laminate board after the laminate board is unfolded and mounted on a wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Inventor: Rene D. Owens
  • Utility knife
    Patent number: 6354007
    Abstract: A utility knife include a handle, a neck pivotally mounted on the handle, and a blade mounted in the neck. The neck can be folded into the handle to transport the utility knife. The blade is slidably removably inserted into and from the handle without requiring disassembly of the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Inventor: Robert E. Scarla
  • Business form
    Patent number: 6352608
    Abstract: A business form is disassembled and manipulated to prepare a plurality of different labels each utilizing a different structure to attach the label to an object. The labels facilitate the correlation of a vehicle and the keys for the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Inventor: Ronald L. Garden