Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon
  • Patent number: 7073930
    Abstract: An aimable lamp assembly is provided having a bezel, with an opening, in which the bezel is secured to a backplate. A housing assembly having a front housing and a back housing is disposed between the backplate and the bezel. A light source is disposed within the housing assembly. The back housing is connected to the backplate through a ball and a socket joint and the front housing partially protrudes through the opening in the bezel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventors: John Marstan Tiesler, Shu-Hsiung Chou, Christopher Paul Pattitoni
  • Patent number: 7065824
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cleaning implement with a removable cleaning element comprising a base member having a first end with an annular toothed edge and at least one resilient retention member positioned intermediate the toothed edge and a second end of the base member, each resilient retention member having a stop surface facing the second end. An annular locking member is movably mounted on the base member, the locking member having an inner wall surface and at least one ledge projecting from the inner wall surface and adapted to abut the retention member stop surface. The inner wall surface of the locking member further includes a threaded portion intermediate an end of the locking member and the ledge. Also included is a cleaning element mounting member having an annular toothed edge for complementary engagement with the toothed edge of the base member and an outer wall surface with a threaded portion for threaded engagement with the threaded portion of the locking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Quickie Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Robert E. Petner
  • Patent number: 7052777
    Abstract: A composite nanoparticle material comprising a plurality of cores and a plurality of shells. At least one of the cores is encapsulated by one of the shells. An oxygen storage material comprising a plurality of oxygen storage catalyst cores. A plurality of oxygen transport shells. At least one of the oxygen storage catalyst cores is encapsulated by one of the oxygen transport shells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Nanophase Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Richard W. Brotzman, Jr., Marc L. Kullberg
  • Patent number: 6955275
    Abstract: A wastewater trickle tower has a support structure containing biomedia and a wastewater discharge arrangement for discharging wastewater onto the biomedia. A receptacle below the biomedia receives wastewater falling from the biomedia. The biomedia is surrounded by a flexible curtain suspended from the support structure and extending down to the receptacle. The curtain may have a vertically-extending, releasably-closable opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: BioProcess Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: John W. Haley, III
  • Patent number: 6954975
    Abstract: A ramp member is provided for attachment with an edge of a floor mat to facilitate transportation of an object from a floor to an upper surface of the mat. A tab is provided which extends from the ramp member and defines a plane. Two projections extend from the plane of the tab out of alignment with the plane. Additionally, two cavities are formed in the ramp member adapted for receiving at least one of the two projections therein. A method of connecting ramp members is also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Superior Manufacturing Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael W. Dolinski
  • Patent number: 6952907
    Abstract: A method for shipping a piece of furniture having a base section removably secured to a seat section that involves removing the seat section from the base section and inserting the seat section and the base section into a shipping container. A packaging apparatus suitable for overnight delivery which includes a shipping container and at least one shipping sleeve capable of receiving an edge portion of the seat section of the furniture with the at least one shipping sleeve positionable within the shipping container to abut a side wall of the shipping container is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: The Ultimate Back Store, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc A. Levin, Barry L. Donahue
  • Patent number: 6939462
    Abstract: A wastewater trickle tower has at least one biomedia grate including pairs of upper hanger bars, pairs of lower hanger bars, and spaced-apart rows of biomedia strands, preferably looped cord strands, connecting the upper and lower hanger bars. Upper ends of the strands are secured between pairs of the upper hanger bars, and lower ends of the strands are secured between pairs of the lower hanger bars. A base receptacle to collect wastewater is disposed below the grate. The upper hanger bars are secured together as a unit, the lower hanger bars are secured together as a unit, and a tensioning arrangement is provide for tensioning the strands by influencing the upper and lower hanger bars apart. The grate may be mounted in and surrounded by a rigid casing so forming a self-supporting filter unit. Two or more such casings may be stackable one upon the other to form a trickle tower two of more filter units high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Bioprocess Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: John W. Haley, III
  • Patent number: 6922847
    Abstract: A multipurpose ballistic and stab resistant garment is provided having a ballistic and stab resistant pad. The pad has puncture resistant sheets of woven aramid fibers that are formed from a weave of at least sixty warp fibers per inch and 60 weft fibers per inch. The pad has ballistic resistant sheets of woven lyotropic liquid crystal polymer fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Second Chance Body Armor, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas E. Bachner, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6896599
    Abstract: A high torque turbine rotor for a lightweight hand held tool for grinding and polishing having a rotor that includes two separate high pressure air chambers separated by a common housing wall, each air chamber having peripheral air expelling nozzles in a tangential direction to the rotor periphery. The rotor housing is lightweight and increases torque without generally increasing the overall size and weight of the tool housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Air Turbine Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Kemma S. Dodds
  • Patent number: 6896958
    Abstract: A film-forming composition contains surface-treated nanocrystalline particles dispersed in a cross-linkable resin. A substantially transparent, abrasion-resistant film is formed from the film-forming composition. Processes for preparing the film-forming composition and for preparing a substantially transparent, abrasion-resistant film are also included. The surface-treated nanocrystalline particles may be obtained by treating nanocrystalline particles with one or more siloxane species, such as a siloxane star-graft polymer coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Nanophase Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Roger Cayton, Richard W. Brotzman, Jr., Marc Kullberg
  • Patent number: 6884342
    Abstract: A wastewater trickle tower has at least one biomedia grate including pairs of upper hanger bars, pairs of lower hanger bars, and spaced-apart rows of biomedia strands, preferably looped cord strands, connecting the upper and lower hanger bars. Upper ends of the strands are secured between pairs of the upper hanger bars, and lower ends of the strands are secured between pairs of the lower hanger bars. A base receptacle to collect wastewater is disposed below the grate. The upper hanger bars are secured together as a unit, the lower hanger bars are secured together as a unit, and a tensioning arrangement is provide for tensioning the strands by influencing the upper and lower hanger bars apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: BioProcess Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: John W. Haley, III
  • Patent number: 6881340
    Abstract: A wastewater treatment apparatus has a manifold interconnecting two or more trickle towers to enable wastewater to be sequentially moved through the trickle towers in different selective sequences. One or more sensors may sense the growth of biogrowth in the trickle towers, and when the sensed growth reaches a predetermined value, valves or other parts change the interconnection of the manifold to the trickle towers to change the sequence in which the wastewater moves through the trickle towers. A method of treating wastewater includes changing the sequence of flow through the trickle towers to achieve manual or automatic grooming of the biogrowth on the biomedia, so both improving the overall efficiency of the system and also prolonging its running time between maintenance shutdowns. Another embodiment has one or more trickle towers with suspended strands of biomedia down which the wastewater passes; a sensor senses increase in growth of biomass on at least a portion of the biomedia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: BioProcess Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: John W. Haley, III
  • Patent number: 6875344
    Abstract: A trickle tower for treating wastewater has a support structure containing biomedia, preferably strands of looped cord biomedia. A spray arrangement for spraying wastewater onto the biomedia has the combination of at least one rotatable device with nozzle openings movable along circular paths as the device rotates, and stationary nozzles. A continuous flow of wastewater is supplied to the rotatable device, and intermittent pulses of wastewater are supplied to the stationary nozzles. By strategically locating the stationary nozzles, different shaped cross-sectional areas of biomedia can be adequately sprayed. In place of the rotatable device can be an oscillating manifold extending across the biomedia and having a slot nozzle for cascading wastewater downwardly onto the biomedia with or without the stationary nozzles. A base receptacle below the biomedia receives wastewater falling from the biomedia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Bioprocess Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: John W. Haley, III
  • Patent number: 6872677
    Abstract: A brick additive and methods for using the brick additive are disclosed. The additive may include an internal porosity. The internal porosity may display an intra-granular internal porosity in which at least some of the pores are interconnected via an open network of pore spaces. In some embodiments, the additive is capable of maintaining its internal porosity after undergoing thermal modification via calcination, for example. In addition, brick additives of the present invention may display a large surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Oil Dri Corporation
    Inventors: Verlyn R. Roskam, Marc A. Herpfer, Allan S. Lee
  • Patent number: 6863440
    Abstract: A apparatus is described for positioning the head of a patient for taking various x-ray images of the head. The head-positioning apparatus contemplates an arm member rotatably mounted to a pivot member for rotating the arm about an axis of rotation and at least one ear locating member coupled to the arm member in which the ear locating member rotates with the arm member and in alignment with the axis of rotation. The apparatus also contemplates an x-ray emitting source and an indicator coupled to the x-ray emitting source to provide the indicator and x-ray emitting source to rotate in conjunction and same direction with each other, in which the indicator locates a plane alignable with an ear of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: B.F. Wehmer Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Sildve, Randall Wick
  • Patent number: 6835304
    Abstract: A coolant regeneration system having a housing with an inlet port and an outlet port adapted to be in flow communication with a coolant stream and a filter positioned in the coolant stream. A regeneration canister containing a corrosion inhibitor is positioned in the coolant stream and a monitoring device to monitor the operation of the system. The monitor device includes a temperature sensing element. The monitor device includes a regeneration canister deterioration sensor. Methods of the invention are also included. The invention further includes an integrity probe positioned against a wall of the regeneration canister and a non-corrosive coating positioned on the wall of the canister and between the canister and the integrity probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignees: The Penray Companies, Inc., Parker Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Todd A. Jousset, Edward R. Eaton, IV, Steven R. Knight
  • Patent number: 6820301
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cleaning implement with a removable cleaning element comprising a base member having a first end with an annular toothed edge and at least one resilient retention member positioned intermediate the toothed edge and a second end of the base member, each resilient retention member having a stop surface facing the second end. An annular locking member is movably mounted on the base member, the locking member having an inner wall surface and at least one ledge projecting from the inner wall surface and adapted to abut the retention member stop surface. The inner wall surface of the locking member further includes a threaded portion intermediate an end of the locking member and the ledge. Also included is a cleaning element mounting member having an annular toothed edge for complementary engagement with the toothed edge of the base member and an outer wall surface with a threaded portion for threaded engagement with the threaded portion of the locking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Quickie Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Robert E. Petner
  • Patent number: 6813806
    Abstract: A device for attaching a hose to a housing. The device comprises first and second arms that are attached to the hose. The first arm extends outward from the hose toward the second arm and the second arm extends outward from the hose toward the first arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Koblenz Electrica, S.A. De C.V.
    Inventor: Jesus Fernandez-Grandizo Martinez
  • Patent number: 6807706
    Abstract: A locking system for a vacuum cleaner having a top portion and a bottom portion where the bottom portion has an opening. The locking system includes a shoulder extending from an inside surface of the bottom portion, a boss protruding from an outside surface of the bottom portion, a first locking latch secured to the top portion, the first locking latch adapted to extend in to the bottom portion of the vacuum and abut a bottom section of the shoulder and a second locking latch secured to the top portion, the second locking latch adapted to engage the boss. A method for locking the top portion of the vacuum to the bottom portion is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Koblenz Electrica, S.A. de C.V.
    Inventor: Jesus Fernandez-Grandizo Martinez
  • Patent number: 6804938
    Abstract: A method for shipping a piece of furniture having a base section removably secured to a seat section that involves removing the seat section from the base section and inserting the seat section and the base section into a shipping container. A packaging apparatus suitable for overnight delivery which includes a shipping container and at least one shipping sleeve capable of receiving an edge portion of the seat section of the furniture with the at least one shipping sleeve positionable within the shipping container to abut a side wall of the shipping container is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: The Ultimate Back Store, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc A. Levin, Barry L. Donahue