Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm William Nitkin
  • Collapsible container
    Patent number: 5524789
    Abstract: A collapsible container with four side faces, a top portion, a bottom and multiple score lines defined in each of the four side faces so that a one-quarter rotation of the top portion of the container while the bottom is held stationary causes the side faces to collapse and fold inward upon themselves along score lines on each side face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Inventor: Paul D. Jackman
  • Game utilizing a chance selection device
    Patent number: 5524896
    Abstract: A game using a chance selection device being a circular disk having an outer rim and an open circular central portion in which central portion are disposed cross hairs extending perpendicular to one another, the intersection of the cross hairs corresponding to the center of the circular disk, the disk in use being spun on an indicia selection surface having a plurality of indicia arrayed thereon, such disk slowing down, falling over and coming to rest on such surface with the intersection of the cross hairs indicating the randomly selected indicia located immediately below the intersection of the cross hairs. The indicia selection surface can be on a planar sheet, a planar board or a substantially circular concave game board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Inventor: Gregory R. Brotz
  • Heating coil element repair member
    Patent number: 5514835
    Abstract: A cylindrical heating coil element repair member for joining the two ends of a broken electric heating coil element wire wherein the broken wire ends are inserted, respectively, into apertures formed in each end of the cylindrical repair member until they make contact with the solid central portion of the repair member and where the end portions with wire ends therein are crimped onto each wire end to retain them therein to provide electrical continuity through the repaired wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1996
    Inventor: David A. Wing
  • Canopy for stretcher
    Patent number: 5511259
    Abstract: A collapsible canopy structure for attachment to a stretcher, such canopy having non-transparent first and second side panels and a transparent central panel, such side panels affording privacy to an individual being transported on the stretcher while at the same time medical personnel can view such individual through the transparent central panel of the canopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Inventor: Joseph R. Tarara
  • Method of large sphere production at zero gravity
    Patent number: 5507982
    Abstract: A method of creating large hollow spheres and other shapes and structures produced according to such method, such method including suspending in a zero gravity environment a molten material mixed with a blowing agent which is caused to foam, expanding into a mass wherein the exterior sphere wall is solidified and the interior is hollowed out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Inventor: Gregory R. Brotz
  • Illuminated clipboard
    Patent number: 5502623
    Abstract: An illuminated clipboard having a transparent body with a light-emitting, light-diffusing upper surface and a curved bottom surface wherein the bottom surface curves upward at its sides to meet the top surface with a light source disposed within the transparent body of the clipboard to reflect light off the curved bottom which causes the light within the transparent body of the clipboard to be reflected off the bottom surface to the light-emitting, light-diffusing upper surface to illuminate what is positioned on the light-emitting, light-diffusing upper surface of the clipboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Inventor: Gregory R. Brotz
  • One-step test device
    Patent number: 5501837
    Abstract: A testing device having a lower cup for receipt of a fluid specimen and a cover lid containing a strip chamber having one or more reagent strips disposed therein and having a test chamber for each of the reagent strips, such test chamber receiving the end portion of the reagent strip, with each of the reagent strips having a color change testing area along its length. The cover lid is attachable to the cup in fluid-tight relationship with the device to be inverted for the fluid specimen to reach the reagent strips in the test chambers and react therewith, and for the device to be set upright for the reading of the color change testing areas through windows in the cover lid above the color change test areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Inventor: Philip W. Sayles
  • Variable motion dampener
    Patent number: 5497861
    Abstract: A motion dampener to dampen the movement of an attached object such dampener having a flexible container holding electro-viscous fluid with at least two electrodes therein such that when electric current passes between the electrodes within the electro-viscous fluid, the fluid becomes more viscous to limit the range of movement of the container and the attached object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Inventor: Gregory R. Brotz
  • Vacuum cleaning and shampooing system having high-pressure air means
    Patent number: 5485651
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaning system utilizing a small-mouthed nozzle on a vacuum hose member, such nozzle having an air outlet member disposed therein for the directing of a high-pressure air stream out of said nozzle at selected times onto the surface to be cleaned while vacuuming is occurring through said nozzle. Shampoo fluid can optionally be delivered to the surface to be cleaned with such high-pressure air stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Inventor: Daniel R. Payeur
  • Pneumatic hog ring gun
    Patent number: 5483815
    Abstract: A pneumatic hog ring gun utilizing a pair of pivoting jaws to catch and retain a hog ring for application when a power wedge spreads the rear of the jaws apart, clenching the hog ring, with a lock piston that retains tension on the rear of the jaws before spread by the power wedge to aid in retention of the hog ring. The pneumatic hog ring gun also includes an improved trigger mechanism utilizing air pressure to open and close valves within the hog ring gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Inventor: Robert J. West
  • Hand protection device
    Patent number: 5471755
    Abstract: A hand protection device formed of a single piece of clear plastic material forming a base portion, the front end of which is bent upwardly and rearwardly at 45 degrees thereto to form a shield portion with the the top of the shield portion bent downwardly and rearwardly toward the base portion at a 90 degree angle to form a hand retainer portion, such device for receipt of a user's hand therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Inventor: Arlene C. Haskell
  • Nautical fuel overflow protection device and method
    Patent number: 5469800
    Abstract: A device and method for use when filling the internal fuel tank of a boat having an air outlet vent in fluid communication with the fuel tank with the air outlet vent exiting from a side of the boat's hull with the structure of the device disposed in proximity to the air outlet vent for the collection and proper disposal of any overflow fuel exiting the air outlet vent to prevent its discharge into the water surrounding the boat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Inventor: Gregory R. Brotz
  • Illuminated book
    Patent number: 5460414
    Abstract: A book having at least one page with a base sheet and a cover sheet disposed thereon with illustrations on the cover sheet with at least one aperture formed in the cover sheet corresponding to a pictorial element in the illustration and at least one fiber optic strand extending between the base sheet and the cover sheet with one end of the fiber optic strand disposed under the aperture and the other end disposed at a light source, causing light to be transmitted through the fiber optic strand such that it is visibly illuminated within the aperture to form part of the pictorial content of the illustration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Inventor: Richard A. Sargis
  • Mirror-moving system
    Patent number: 5455706
    Abstract: A mirror-moving system having a mirror mounted on a support member able to be repulsed by a superconductor, the mirror being suspended above a superconductive material and a ferromagnetic material around the outer periphery of the support member with a plurality of field coils positioned around the periphery of the ferromagnetic material, each of the field coils being independently operable to attract the ferromagnetic material to cause quick, frictionless movement of the mirror, depending upon which of the field coils is activated, by attraction of the ferromagnetic material to the activated field coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Inventor: Gregory R. Brotz
  • Process for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped product
    Patent number: 5437820
    Abstract: A process for creating a three-dimensional shaped object by providing a container having a fluidized bed of fusable particles therein and a base plate disposed within the particle bed below an upper level of the particles. A heat beam is directed in a desired pattern onto the upper level of particles above the base plate to fuse certain of the particles together to form a formed shape with the base plate then being lowered. A new upper level of fusable particles from the particle bed covers the formed shape, selected of which particles are then heated by the heat beam in a desired pattern to fuse the thus-heated particles to one another and to fuse the particles to the previously fused formed shape of particles with the process continuing until the desired three-dimensional shaped product is formed and removed from the particle bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Inventor: Gregory R. Brotz
  • Flexible sports goal
    Patent number: 5433433
    Abstract: A sports goal made of a generally unitary, elongated, flexible wire member formed into a vertically disposed U-shaped portion, bending at a substantially right angle to a horizontally disposed U-shaped portion. A strap can join the bent portions of the wire member to be in a spaced apart relation to one another. A net member can extend from the vertically disposed U-shaped member to the horizontally disposed U-shaped member, forming an open mouth to receive a game playing object therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Inventor: Robert S. Armell
  • Knife
    Patent number: D363422
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Inventor: William P. Bachant
  • Object dislodger for choking individual
    Patent number: D363554
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Inventor: George C. Psaros
  • Golf ball placement marker
    Patent number: D367512
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Inventor: Daniel S. Whelan, Jr.
  • Portable automobile interior light
    Patent number: D369872
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Inventor: Frederick C. Pink