Patents Represented by Law Firm Trexler, Bushnell & Wolters, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 4455550
    Abstract: An intrusion monitoring apparatus wherein horizontal and vertical sync signals separated from the video signal generated by a monitor television camera are used to produce window pulses having respective timings and lengths corresponding to discrete spots on the video frame screen, said window pulses being used for gating the input video signal, sudden level change of the respective gated video signal portions being detected to provide an audible and/or visual alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1984
    Assignee: General Research of Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Shozo Iguchi
  • Patent number: 4453941
    Abstract: A composition and process for producing pigmentation in hair and skin is disclosed which employs non-mutagenic compounds to duplicate naturally occurring biosynthetic colors. The composition for imparting golden coloration comprises as active ingredients a solution of a tyrosine derivative having a side chain with a substituted amine group in admixture with certain compounds having a reactive nitrogen moiety, and is topically applied in the presence of an oxidant. The composition for imparting a dark coloration comprises as active ingredients a solution of tyrosine derivative having a side chain free for indole formation in admixture with certain compounds having a reactive nitrogen moiety, and is topically applied in the presence of an oxidant. Mixtures of the two compositions may be applied to impart proportionate intermediate colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1984
    Assignee: Board of Overseers of Goshen College
    Inventor: Merle E. Jacobs
  • Patent number: 4453555
    Abstract: A hairpiece foundation, comprising a number of layers of components, is disclosed. A first component, the base layer, has a predetermined curvature and conforms substantially to the head of a human subject. A second component, a first adhesive substance, is bonded to an exterior surface of the first component. A third component, a first surface coating, is bonded to the second component. A fourth component, a second adhesive substance, is bonded to an interior surface of the base layer. A fifth component, a second surface coating, is bonded to the fourth component. A sixth component, a third adhesive substance, is bonded to the fifth component. A seventh component, a layer of thermoplastic urethane film similar to the base layer, is bonded to the sixth component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1984
    Assignee: Hairline Creations, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul V. Finamore
  • Patent number: 4454494
    Abstract: An oxygen sensor which exhibits a change in electrical resistance as a function of oxygen partial pressure comprises at least one of strontium ferrate, barium ferrate and strontium barium ferrate, in which part of the iron in the ferrate lattice has been replaced by at least one element of valency greater than 3, such as titanium, cerium, niobium or tantalum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1984
    Assignee: Lucas Industries plc
    Inventors: David E. Williams, Bruce C. Tofield, Peter McGeehin
  • Patent number: 4453265
    Abstract: A speaker driving circuit for use with an audio amplifier made selectively ineffective comprising switching means for providing intermittent current to the speaker when said means is energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: General Research of Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Masao Nakano
  • Patent number: 4452593
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a mechanism whose construction and assembly are simplified and whose cost is consequently reduced. The mechanism comprises a support device, a movable device connected to the support device in such manner as to be movable in translation relative to the support device by an actuating device. The support device and movable device are mounted on an intermediate member to pivot about respective pivot pins. The two pivot pins are parallel to each other and the intermediate member defines two cavities which are parallel and extend in a direction orthogonal to the two pivot pins. Two push-members are slidably mounted in the two cavities and the ends of the push-members are respectively in contact with two parallel surfaces. One of the surfaces is defined on the movable device and the other is defined on the fixed device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Huret et ses Fils
    Inventor: Maurice E. L. Coue
  • Patent number: 4450789
    Abstract: A watering device for confined poultry is offered. The watered includes an upwardly opening cup, and a valve mechanism at the cup bottom. Ears extend from the cup over a valve body to retain the valve body in the cup. These ears can be provided with extensions for engaging a flotation member so as to dispose the flotation member and a valve pin in upright positions even when little or no water is present in the cup. A mounting base attaches to at least one bar of the poultry confinement area, and supports the cup and valve on the cage bar. A cup upper lip has at least one recess adapted to engage a cage bar so as to mount the waterer in a position accessible to the confined poultry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1984
    Assignee: CTB, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman P. Nilsen, Richard T. Novey
  • Patent number: 4448392
    Abstract: A thread stop is provided for a screw jack including at least one elongated, substantially cylindrical screw member having an external thread. The thread stop comprises at least one radially outwardly deformed part in a predetermined portion of a minor diameter of said external thread. This formed part is formed by a method including ductilely outwardly deforming a predetermined portion of a minor thread diameter of the external thread, so as to retain the hardness of the deformed portion substantially similar to that of the remainder of the screw member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1984
    Assignee: Auto Specialties Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Bernard F. Ladewski
  • Patent number: 4446711
    Abstract: One embodiment of an invention providing am inprovement upon a U-bolt bender is disclosed. The bender has a clamp for clamping a workpiece thereto and a slide for advancing the workpiece along a path. The improvement comprises a die and rollers for urging an intermediate portion of the workpiece against a forward surface of the die and for urging end portion of the workpiece respectively against sides of the die adjacent to the forward surface. The bender carries the rollers and the slide carries the die and brings the workpiece into engagement with the rollers by advancing the workpiece along the path. The sides of the die converge together and extend away from the forward surface such that as the slide brings the workpiece into engagement with the roller, the rollers urge the intermediate portion of the workpiece against the forward surface and urge the end portions of the workpiece respectively against the sides of the die, the slide meanwhile causing the clamp to clamp the workpiece to the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignee: Vale Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Raymond L. Valente
  • Patent number: 4446818
    Abstract: A hanger for supporting an auger conveyor tube in a given angular position is provided. The hanger comprises a hanger element defining a hole for receiving the conveyor tube, and a number of recesses communicating with the tube hole. Each recess is adapted to mate with a tube flange, so as to locate the tube and a feed drop-out aperture in any of a first series of angularly discrete positions. A series of attachment holes at the hanger element top permit the hanger to be attached to support structure in any one of a second series of angularly discrete positions. In this way, a multiple series of angular positions is provided, so that the conveyor tube may be located in virtually any desired angular orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignee: Chore-Time Equipment, Inc.
    Inventor: Preston D. Rigterink
  • Patent number: 4445374
    Abstract: The recorder comprises a case of moulded plastics material which forms in its lower part a driving cable entrance which is externally screwthreaded and bearings in which a shaft carrying a magnet of a tachometer and transmission means can be respectively fitted. The case further comprises internal ribs for supporting a sheet which closes the case and is in one piece with flanges which support the shaft of an indicator needle of a speedometer and counting means of the distance recorder and guide the fitting of the assembly inside the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: Huret et ses Fils
    Inventors: Roger Huret, deceased, by Alain P. B. Huret, heir
  • Patent number: 4442719
    Abstract: An improvement in an acoustic flowmeter of the type utilizing a pair of longitudinally spaced transceivers mounted to a fluid-carrying conduit and an oscillator feeding predetermined alternating signals to the transceivers. The improvement lies in a novel monitoring circuit which comprises a phase responsive circuit for producing signals corresponding substantially only to the phase difference between the signals produced by the respective transceivers for developing an output signal which corresponds in a predetermined fashion to the rate of fluid flow through the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1984
    Inventors: Ollie J. Allen, Kelly M. Allen
  • Patent number: 4443022
    Abstract: A unitary roller skate sole plate is provided with downwardly open recesses for receiving the strut arms of attached wheel trucks. The recesses include shaped, resilient cushions having sockets for holding the strut arms ends while allowing generally universal motion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1984
    Assignee: The Chicago Roller Skate Company
    Inventor: Gordon K. Ware
  • Patent number: 4441769
    Abstract: A lens disinfecting unit comprises a housing with adjacent compartments separated by a barrier wall. One compartment is adapted to receive the lens case for heating while the other compartment contains the heater and related circuitry. The barrier wall includes a heat sink which is insert-molded into the barrier wall to provide a water-tight seal such spilled liquid cannot leak from the lens case compartment to the heater compartment. The casing for the unit is made up of sections permitting sequential assembly, namely, two members are employed, one being a lid pivotally mounted over the heating well and the other being snap-fitted over the compartment containing the circuitry; and a third member serves to maintain the other two members in captive relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Assignee: Ryder International Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Thomas, Francis E. Ryder
  • Patent number: 4442182
    Abstract: A one-piece, composite electrical connector is disclosed. The connector is fabricated from at least two portions of electrically conductive metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Assignee: Teledyne Penn-Union
    Inventor: John E. Chart
  • Patent number: 4440309
    Abstract: A hermetical stopper used for liquid receptacles made of aluminum including minicasks of beer. Unlike the case in conventional receptacles in which the discharge ports usually have been hermetically sealed with aluminum as the same material for the main body, the hermetical stopper according to this invention is made independently of the main body so as to be able to put into and pull from out the discharge port at will, so that it is possible to be used repeatedly keeping the hermetically sealed state even after the primary use because of the discharge port being not necessary to be cut off purposely from the main body at the time of broaching the receptacle. In this way, this hermetical stopper according to the invention is very commendable also from the point of view of the effective use of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1984
    Assignee: Totoku Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 4438552
    Abstract: A plastic fastener comprises an insertion leg of the general shape of the letter V, a pair of flange pieces disposed at the free ends of the insertion leg, and a pair of head pieces extended upwardly from the respective flange pieces. This fastener assumes its complete state by causing the head pieces to be twisted sidewise and moved past each other and subsequently allowing the rear edges of the head pieces to abut against each other. Two plates can be attached fast to each other simply by inserting the combined head portion of the fastener into the perforation formed in advance in one of the two plates and forcing the insertion leg into the perforation formed in advance in the other plate. Desired separation of the insertion leg from the latter plate is accomplished by moving the rear edges of the head pieces apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuaki Omata
  • Patent number: 4435675
    Abstract: A battery charging system comprises a battery which may be selectively connected to a load or a battery charger. The system further includes a discharge monitor the output of which is connected to five of the address inputs of ROM, the remaining five inputs of which are connected to the output of a counter driven by a clock. The output of ROM is connected to the input of a D/A converter, the output of which is connected to the current control input of a charger. ROM is programmed with a set of charging schedules of equal duration. In operation, at the commencement of a charging cycle, a particular schedule is selected by the discharge monitor and the system is then driven through the selected schedule by the counter and the clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Lucas Industries plc.
    Inventor: Derek S. Adams
  • Patent number: 4433876
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rolling bearing for linear motion wherein a slide unit is mounted on a track rail. Track plates having track surfaces facing track surfaces on both sides of the track rail are fitted onto the inside surfaces of the slide unit and the slide unit is capable of making a linear motion against the track rail through rolling bodies mounted between the track surfaces of the track plates and the track surfaces of the track rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1984
    Assignee: Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuo Mottate
  • Patent number: D273892
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1984
    Assignee: Techny Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Fenne, Carl A. Wassell