Patents Represented by Attorney Warren H. Kintzinger
  • Patent number: 4390622
    Abstract: Method for rapid, high intensity visual indication of the presence of Neisseria bacteria species utilizing a new and improved peptone buffer and pH indicator reagent system as the specimen carrier for oxidation series testing, which series test may also include beta lactamase enzyme detection utilizing the reaction of the same reagent system carrying the specimen with a penicillin substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Inventor: Garry W. Cartwright
  • Patent number: 4356880
    Abstract: A sonic reflector comprising three mutually perpendicular walls of sound reflective material each of a generally right triangular shape. Plural arrays of such reflectors provide acoustical panels useful in assisting performers in monitoring their own performance on stage and in delivering enhanced sound to the audience. Plural reflector arrays have wide applications where it is desirable to return sound waves to the vicinity of the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1982
    Inventor: James W. Downs
  • Patent number: 4336247
    Abstract: A whole body system nutrient material basically of lyophilized and dried mussel meats and body fluids with ascorbic acid (vitamin "C") added. The nutrient material is produced with a coating of ascorbic acid applied to substantially all surfaces of previously dried mussel material cells through immersion of the dried material in fluid containing ascorbic acid in solution in quantity such as to coat mussel material cells inside and out. One solution useful is a water based solution and another is an alcohol solution, both with ascorbic acid that remains as a coating on surfaces. The mussel particulate material, even though it is fine, consists of porous cell clusters having the nucleic components incorporated as part of the inner cell walls. The intercellular matrix ground substances generally are also permeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1982
    Inventor: Arthur E. Eriksen
  • Patent number: 4334661
    Abstract: A fluid drink container mounting ground stake with a pointed bottom and blunted top having a laterally extended drink container supporting foot and a ring spaced above the foot and in general alignment therewith for holding a drink container spaced above the surface of ground the stake is driven into.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1982
    Inventor: Samuel G. Pitt
  • Patent number: 4321826
    Abstract: A float with an iron rod movable within a double coil AC coupling network measuring backed up liquid level as the measure of open channel, ditch or stream liquid flow through a weir or parshall flume. The AC output of the liquid measuring double coil is rectified and converted to a direct current signal passed to a voltage-to-frequency converter having a frequency output sensed and processed by a microprocessor. In a memory of the microprocessor there is a flow rate for each frequency that is calculated according to the number of gallons that will flow in a unit time. Thus, it is not necessary to linearize the coil and the same kind of coil can be used for any flow, with only a memory table in the microprocessor memory being changed for linear correction. This flow rate may be added for totalizing and/or put out to a digital-to-analog converter for recording and, if desired, controlling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1982
    Inventors: William C. Bibbee, Stanley B. Capps
  • Patent number: 4319614
    Abstract: A salad dressing dispenser, in the form of a bottle having a top stopper with a depending individual server in the form of a suspended cup into which an individual serving may be placed by tilting the bottle and shaking the contents to insure proper distribution of salad dressing ingredients entering the individual serving cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1982
    Inventor: William E. Boice
  • Patent number: 4320357
    Abstract: A frequency synthesizer employing direct FM, as opposed to phase modulation, so subaudible tones may be transmitted, in the form of a 10 KHz increment, direct synthesizer with a skewed frequency standard deriving four intermediate 2.5 KHz tuning steps. Fast settling time of frequency change accommodates semi duplex operation, and a shaping network provides the amount of skewing changes required between band ends for substantially perfect tracking. A low division ratio programmed divider in the system maximizes transmitter signal to noise ratio, and a low pass filter in the synthesizer phase locked loop allows voice band moduation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1982
    Inventors: Paul G. Wulfsberg, Dennis L. Fredrickson, Gregory L. Triplett, Ralph J. Crumrine, Cole E. Cunningham
  • Patent number: 4309743
    Abstract: An ornamental article of jewelry having an internally lighted pendant housing suspended from a necklace or bracelet for free irregular movement with body movement of the wearer. The internally lighted pendant housing encloses small batteries at the bottom and thereabove a low current demand light emitting structure that is subject to intermittent jiggled tilting to complete the battery-light circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1982
    Inventor: Danny W. Martin
  • Patent number: 4305437
    Abstract: A container filling device that raises a case of empty containers to be filled to engagement with a centering block and fill tube assembly. Each centering block surrounds a fill tube extending into the container and forms a seal around the neck of the container to be filled while providing communication between the interior of the container and a vacuum system. Fluid operated reciprocating piston pumps, through a system of check valves, draw measured amounts of liquid product from a bulk storage container and thereafter inject the measured amounts through the fill tubes into the containers while air is simultaneously exhausted from the containers by vacuum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1981
    Inventor: James A. Greene
  • Patent number: 4294597
    Abstract: A central vacuum or air cleaning system handling fibrous materials such as spilled cotton waste in a cotton gin or lint in a textile mill, chaff in grain handling and/or wood dust and dirt in lumber industries and other air contaminating industrial processes. Dirt and lint laden air is drawn into a bin structure with a drum filter or condenser at the top that rotates through an area in operational contact with doffer rolls that remove drum filter deposited lint and dirt to fall down a still chamber provided with an internal plate or baffle extending downwardly from the tower doffer roll a substantial distance approximating one-half the vertical length of the bin. This eliminates pressure differential across the critical area of the doffer rolls that is encountered with filter drum and doffer roll structure delivering deposited lint and dirt waste directly to the exterior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1981
    Inventors: Ronald J. Archer, Richard V. Fetterly
  • Patent number: 4290824
    Abstract: A rosin flux with a water soluble rosin derivative replacing the rosin of otherwise a typical rosin flux such that residues of solder flux be completely removable with either a water based or solvent based cleaning substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1981
    Assignee: Cobar Resources, Inc.
    Inventor: Hugh F. Cole
  • Patent number: 4290071
    Abstract: A multi-band multi-element directional antenna array having a driven element and at least one parasitic element with a network at the center of each element interconnecting element opposite side radiators. While some of these would be a driven element and either a reflector or director parasitic element array most applications call for at least three elements, a driven element, a reflector element and a director element, and for some applications, additional parasitic director elements are added. While antenna arrays embodying features hereof may be adapted as two band f.sub.1 f.sub.2, f.sub.2 f.sub.3, or f.sub.1 f.sub.3 antenna arrays, primary useage would be in a three radio band f.sub.1, f.sub.2, f.sub.3 version with band nominal center frequencies related, approximately by the progression 1, 1.5, 2 (example 14, 21, and 28 MHz).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1981
    Assignee: Electrospace Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard C. Fenwick
  • Patent number: 4286385
    Abstract: A composite indicator for use with overlay process color screen tints in offset color printing comprised of a composite screen made of relatively angled color screens. The respective dot patterns of the color screens have the word of the process color associated with that angle worked in by an out-of-phase dot pattern with respect to that screen background dot pattern. An overlaying color screen, when properly angled, causes, by out-of-phase moire pattern effect, the name of that color to be visually readable as a relatively lighter or darker pattern on a contrasting background.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Inventor: Joseph F. Huck
  • Patent number: 4279546
    Abstract: Offshore platform leg jacket and piling sets having inflatable grout seals with inflation lines extended to the outside of respective jackets and upward to the top of the jackets each equipped with a premature inflation prevention structure low in the inflation line preventing fluid hydrostatic pressure from causing premature grout seal inflation. The structure inserted low in each inflation line is in the form of a rupture disc or, alternately, a pressure controlled relief valve so selected and/or set that the hydrostatic fluid pressure required to burst the rupture disc or to open activate the relief valve is always higher than the maximum hydrostatic pressures the respective grout seals are exposed to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1981
    Assignee: Oil States Rubber Company
    Inventor: Don B. Landers
  • Patent number: 4274099
    Abstract: A radio frequency RF reflective surface of randomly deposited conductive roving lifted from the surface of a reflector mold after having been bonded with such as a polyester resin or epoxy resin. The roving in the form of a chopped element layer of fiberglass having a conductive material coating on the fiberglass is deposited from a chopper gun to cover an entire surface in the form desired for RF reflection and then, without interruption, non-conductive roving is used in the chopper gun to build up the necessary thickness and structural strength in the antenna with a bonding resin being simultaneously applied to fix the roving in place in the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: James W. Downs
  • Patent number: 4270736
    Abstract: A climb inhibiting structure for integration with, or attachment to, a fence run incorporating a longitudinally extending rod-like bearing member that is mounted in parallel-displaced relationship with the top extreme of the fence run. A series of relatively short turn cylinders are rotatably mounted, end-to-end, about the bearing member. A plurality of spine-like members extend radially outwardly from the surface of each rotatable member in spaced relationship precluding purchase by an animal's leg or paw. The spines are preferably yieldable so as to substantially minimize injury to climber, with rotation of the spine carrying member precluding a purchase by means of which the climber might pull itself up and over the fence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1981
    Inventor: Fred O. Burch
  • Patent number: 4271457
    Abstract: Ornamental articles of jewelry having a battery-light circuit extending through an articulating electrically conductive material interconnect link such as an ornamental multi-linked chain subject to intermittent circuit opening and closing with body movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1981
    Inventor: Danny W. Martin
  • Patent number: 4269297
    Abstract: A see-thru coin box for vending machines so the owner-operator of the vending machine has a visual indication of the money collected and so that potential vandals realize that, generally, the amount of money in the coin box is in significant compared to the risk and time required to break into the machine. The coin box is an injection molded tough transparent rectangular shaped box locked in place with its transparent front closing the coin box opening in the vending machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1981
    Assignee: Aosco & Associates, Ltd.
    Inventor: Joseph W. Aossey
  • Patent number: 4266179
    Abstract: A solar radiant energy concentrating system for concentrating solar radiation on a radiant to electric power thermionic conversion transducer. The radiated energy concentration system utilizes multiple reflector units that collectively together or selectively less than all reflectors as an intensity control are settable to reflect solar radiation onto a multi-surfaced concentrator down onto a focal area encompassing the target area for reflection from the concentrator to the transducer input. The energy concentration is varied in the ratio range of from 20,000 to 1 up to 250,000 to 1. Reflector units are set to compensate for the constantly varying declination angle of the earth toward the sun, step tracks the sun compensating for daily rotation of the earth West to East on its axis up to a full 360.degree. depending on latitude North or South of the equator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1981
    Inventor: James E. Hamm, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4261435
    Abstract: A tray with a clip and wire frame support for secure mounting on the top platform of a step ladder. The tray is shaped to hold tools, and with small tray pockets - screws, nails and other small items may be held, and if painting is to be done the ladder tray is sized to hold paint trays of substantially all sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1981
    Inventor: Milton Winter