Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Waters & Morse, P.C.
  • Patent number: 5582433
    Abstract: Garage sale pricing labels and method comprise a plurality of sets of color coded pricing label strips, each set being color coded to distinguish products of different sellers and each set including separate strips of labels containing different preprinted prices for each strip and one strip containing no price. The labels contain non-adhesive tabs for easy application and removal. The tabs can be adhesive portions covered with unremoved release paper or can be portions not covered by adhesive. The adhesive and labels are specially selected to adhere to a wide range of products and textures and fabric without falling off and yet be easily removable and restickable to a tally board for keeping track of sales.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Inventor: Lorna W. Sisson
  • Patent number: 5582499
    Abstract: Apparatus for changing a load support by a first pallet to a second pallet comprises a stop member rigidly mounted on a floor surface, the stop member having an opening at a lower end sufficient for the pallet to slide under the stop member and having an abutting surface above the opening for engaging a side of the load on the first pallet. The first pallet has a rear edge facing the stop member opening and a front edge on an opposite side facing away from the stop member. A spacer member fits under the front edge of the first pallet to raise the front edge of the first pallet above the level of the second pallet, the spacer member being moveable inwardly toward the stop member along with the first pallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Inventor: Gary L. White
  • Patent number: 5582015
    Abstract: A liquid nitrogen capillary tube heat exchanger comprises a vertical array of alternating vaporization chambers and pressure control chambers connected together in series. The vaporization chambers each have a plurality of capillary tubes mounted in exterior loops along the exterior of the chamber in communication with liquid nitrogen in the chamber. The capillary tubes provide a contolled rate of vaporization of the liquid nitrogen and increased exterior surface area to facilitate refrigeration. The pressure control chambers are filled with copper filings and a dessicant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Ecometrics Corp.
    Inventor: James G. Davidson
  • Patent number: 5577653
    Abstract: A blood collection tube holder includes a flexible waist band that is fastened around the waist of the person collecting blood samples; a storage pouch mounted on the band for storage of other articles used in the blood collection procedure; and a tube holder mounted in a secondary pouch attached to the storage pouch. The tube holder comprises tube receptacles that receive and releasably support a plurality of blood collection tubes in a stable, upright position and in a manually accessible location. The tube receptacles comprise flexible, cushioning sleeves with harder plastic tubular inserts having closed lower ends. The secondary pouch can be opened by a releasable fastener so that the interior of the pouch can be accessed for replacement of tube receptacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Inventor: Michael C. Bieker
  • Patent number: 5575533
    Abstract: A blow molded vehicle seat frame system with integral restraint safety belt comprises a blow molded full bench, split bench or high back seat frame with discrete, strategically-placed, insert tubular beams to provide seat and seat belt mounting and load carrying capacity. A molded back contains tubular side cavities housing non-circular reinforcing beams therein. A telescoping tube at the top of the beam provides a shoulder belt height adjustment mechanism. The reinforcement beams provide an efficiently designed load path wherein the belt forces resulting from a crash situation are directed through super-high strength roll form metal tubular beams directly to the vehicle seat track or pedestal mounts. The primary load carrying seat component members are designed structurally to create discrete displacement occupant energy absorption to provide safe occupant crash kinematics and deceleration forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Concept Analysis Corp.
    Inventor: Patrick M. Glance
  • Patent number: 5572848
    Abstract: A header heat plate for a large paper roll wrapping machine comprising a plurality of separate face plate sections that are mounted on a common backing plate to form a complete header plate for applying a roll header to an end of a paper roll. A roll header is temporarily held to the face plate sections through the application of a vacuum suction to openings in the face plate sections. Each face plate section includes heating elements integrally molded therein. These are heated to activate a heat sensitive adhesive contained on the roll side of the roll header. A wrapping paper is applied to the roll and crimped over interior roll headers inserted at the ends of the rolls. Grooves are cut along the side edges of the wrapping paper to reduce the amount of wrapping paper overlap and indentations in the ends of the paper rolls caused thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Inventor: Benjamin Wall
  • Patent number: 5572933
    Abstract: A tiltable table has a pneumatic actuator and a locking system for establishing and maintaining a table position. The locking system is operated by an air cylinder that engages a dog with a ratchet plate secured to the table. The ratchet permits the table to be raised but not lowered while locked. The ratchet must be unlocked before the table can be lowered. The dog is spring-biased to locking position, and is air-operated for release against the action of the biasing spring. On lowering the table, air from the actuator can be used to unlock the ratchet. The air can be permitted to escape through a restriction orifice at a slow enough rate to maintain sufficient air pressure to keep the locking system disengaged, but sudden release of all the air pressure will again permit the spring to re-lock the system to prevent a downward slamming of the table surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: International Material Control Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald J. Thompson
  • Patent number: 5572751
    Abstract: A bunk bed system in which separate beds are positionable as free standing beds, as regular bunk beds, or as a perpendicular bunk bed system comprises a headboard extender that attaches to a side of a lower bed and a footboard extender incorporated into a bookcase. The headboard and footboard extenders each comprise two extender posts that engage the upper bed support posts and support the upper bed perpendicularly over the lower bed. One extender post of the headboard extender is attached to a headboard support post of the lower bed by means of rectangular end caps that fit over the upper and lower ends of both legs and hold them together. Locking pins extend between the extender posts and the lower ends of the legs of the upper bed to hold the stacked legs in alignment. Another extender post of the headboard extension is attached to the lower bed frame by means of a hook that is tightened over the bed frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Inventor: James C. Brandt
  • Patent number: 5573404
    Abstract: A behavior modification device and process comprises a recording implement having a group of interrelated columnar items of a person's behavior, with an assigned monetary value to each of these. The columns are laterally and vertically aligned so that the person has a running view of a summary of the effect of his behavior during a stated period. The device is constructed as a sheet of printable paper or plastic material secured in place by magnetic attachment to a refrigerator door, or to some similar available surface where the family traffic is relatively dense. The device, when completed for the stated period, can be used as a basis for the payment of allowances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Inventor: Willard S. Stawski, II
  • Patent number: 5555561
    Abstract: A cuff seal for sealing the cuffs of anti-contamination protective clothing having cuffs at the distal ends of arms and legs comprises an elongated band that is removably attached to the cuff at an inner end and wraps around the cuff and is attached to the cuff where it overlaps the band at an outer end of the band. The band is fastened to the cuff and to the band itself by spaced pairs of snap fasteners. The band is formed of a stretchable woven fabric which includes an elastomeric yarn in addition to non-elastomeric yarn in order to provide at least a limited stretch capability for the fabric. The band is about two inches wide and covers the arm cuff completely and extends distally beyond the arm cuff so as to provide a snug seal between the band and the wearer's glove at a position distally separated from the cuff. The band similarly encircles the limb of the wearer at the cuff of the coverall legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: Traak, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Plachta, Gregory L. Bain