Patents Represented by Attorney William T. Hough
  • Patent number: 5991132
    Abstract: A tape cassette having a feed reel and a takeup reel with tape on the reels and a mounting cassette casing for enclosing the feed reel, the takeup reel and the tape. The mounting cassette casing having an exterior perimeter with a permanently removable nonreattachable blocking physical structure affixed to and protruding beyond the exterior perimeter of the mounting cassette casing to break upon insertion in a tape cassette apparatus unable to receive the permanently removable nonreattachable blocking physical structure revealing an altered appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Inventor: Frank C. Scerbbo, III
  • Patent number: 5938369
    Abstract: A cathedral ceiling beam support combination of identical first and second elongated support elements each extending along longitudinal axes thereof, each having opposite first and second ends and having intermediate structure extending along an imaginary upright plane between and interconnecting the first and second ends, pivot structure and thereof pivotably connecting the first and second support elements through the intermediate elongated structure, each of the first and second support elements further including a laterally-extending flange having a downwardly-facing support surface adapted to press against a surface of a support beam, and beam-attachment structure and mechanism thereof on the laterally-positioned flange for securing the laterally-positioned flange to a support beam, the laterally-extending flange and the downwardly-facing support surface each extending at an angle of about 90 degrees relative to the upright plane, the beam-attachment structure including a plurality of through-space apert
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Inventor: Donald E. Peters
  • Patent number: 5922124
    Abstract: An additive for, a method of adding thereof to uncured mixes for and resulting cured cement-type concreations such as cured embodiments of concrete, marcadam, and roof-top shingles each exhibiting improved heat and freeze-thaw durability resulting from reduced efflorescence and stability against sun ultraviolet light exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Inventor: William W. Supplee
  • Patent number: 5853264
    Abstract: An elongated narrow bulk delivery and depositing bouyant conveyor belt device is operable to shore up bridges, docks and/or piers in environments having operating space confined by low overhead and narrow berths between adjacent spaced apart pilings. The bouyant conveyor belt structure is alternately extendable and retractable in each of shallow and deep water. The bouyant conveyor belt structure is stabilized by one or between two linear axially extending substantially parallel sides of spaced apart floating platform barges. The barge(s) typically mount hopper and vibratable chute structure receivable of bulk typically rip rap fill material and feedable thereof onto the bouyant conveyor belt structure, thereafter deposited by a revolving of the conveyor belt structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Inventor: Ronald Treveloni
  • Patent number: 5787639
    Abstract: For a prehung door unit of door and door frame, a locking assembly lock together the prehung door units irreversably until after permanent final installation, a portion of the assembly is removable from the door's latch bore through the doors lockset bore. The assembly achieves its benefits by thus allowing factory "bench" final settings of accurate door mounting parameters of plumbing and leveling fixed relationships relative to its mounting frame. The fixed factor bench plumbing and leveling settings are maintained by the installed assembly before, during and subsequent to artisan mounting the fixed immobilized movement of the frame within a door jamb, precluding heretofore necessity of artisan time-consuming and costly plumbing and leveling a frame mounted door during installation of the frame and its door of heretofore prehung door units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Inventor: Larry Lamore, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5700087
    Abstract: For specialized use to secure reliable standardized complete distribution or solution of aggregate mixed into a liquid diluent, a vessel having an interior hemispherical concave bottom having extending upwardly centrally from the concave bottom an arcuate conical member having upright concavely-shaped circumscribing sides. The vessel is taken in conjunction with a stably mounted mixing structure having a downwardly-extending shaft and mixing blades thereof. The shaft on a lower portion thereof supports balanced mixing blades extending radially outwardly from the mixing shaft. The mixing blades are positioned to be substantially spaced below a predetermined liquid level of liquid diluent containing a dissolvable or suspendable aggregate and to be substantially spaced above an upper end of the centrally upwardly arcuate conical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Inventors: Arnold H. Beckett, James E. Swon, Henry Z. Hofer
  • Patent number: 5650794
    Abstract: A visually displayed message is repeated by reinitiation of an electronically progressively displayed message prior to the completion of the initial message while the initial message continues to move along the traveling path of observing persons moving in a common direction. The reinitiation of the message allows following observing persons moving in the common direction to see the beginning and remainder of the visually displayed message even though they could not see the message when forwardly located observing persons saw the message. The reinitiation of the visually displayed message occurs after a predetermined amount of time occurs from the initiation of the visually displayed message but before completion of the visually displayed message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Inventor: William F. Walsh
  • Patent number: 5608195
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a disk-shaped wafer insertable into a three-way bulb-socket, thereby becomes an insertable and removable switch converter-device to convert a three-way socket to a one-way bulb-socket and/or back-to a three-way bulb-socket, includes an annular insulation ring and mounted on an upper radially inward face portion of the annular insulation ring, is located an electrically conductive disk having a raised central portion and having opposite upper and lower surfaces thereof. The lower radially outward conductive disk surface is contactable with a bottom-of-socket radially-outward electrical contact of the three-way bulb-socket. The upper conductive disk surface at the raised or electrically-insulated central portion is contactable with a three-way light bulb's role socket insertable member's lower-end bulb's two electrical contacts, one central, the other a concentric ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Inventor: Frank E. DeMotte
  • Patent number: 5603676
    Abstract: A crawl swim exerciser includes a substantially horizontal elevated beam supported on and between spaced-apart head and foot supports, supported above a supporting substrate supportable of lower ends of the head and foot supports, with a roller mechanism being supported on and rollable along the elevated beam. Supported on the roller mechanism and slung below the beam is a support harness positioned to intermittently suspend a person's horizontally-positioned body lengthwise in a swim-position substantially lengthwise parallel with the beam while leaving legs and arms of a suspended person substantially free for making swimming leg kicks and swimming arm strokes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Cymbalisty
  • Patent number: 5583790
    Abstract: For system providing a storage and feed source of a particular liquid, and providing a conduit flow of one or more lines to one or more outlet valves separately controllable and operateable and concurrently controllable and operateable for simultaneous flow through any one or more combinations of the plurality of outlet valves, a computer mechanism for separately measuring and storing separately time of flow for each separate one of outlet valves and for each of diverse possible combination of concurrent operations of the outlet valves, and for the computer when activated to do so, to cause a repeat flow for any one of stored one of the outlet valves or for any stored combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Inventors: Dongping Lan, Henry Hofer, James F. Swon
  • Patent number: 5577945
    Abstract: A portable toy-assembly set that in a disassembled state is of a sufficiently miniature size as to be transportable by a child and assembled by a child, as water tank-like vessel having a sufficiently large upper water addition opening as to enable a child to add water thereto, drainable therefrom by a lower positioned drainage port connectable by disassembled joinable transparent conduits, with water-head pressure providable by disassemble support structure joinable with the tank-like vessel to support the tank-like vessel at selectable elevation. The conduits are connectable to a water-drivable accessory. A handle is mounted on the tank-like vessel or a vessel lid secureable to the tank-like vessel, enabling a child to more easily transport the portable toy-assembly set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Inventor: Michael LaBelle
  • Patent number: 5546124
    Abstract: A composite of an audio and/or video recorder mounted and securable on a handgun holster having a holster-mounted recorder-activation switch activatable of the recorder upon withdrawal of the handgun from the holster, remaining activated until return of the handgun to the holster. Other weapon holsters also each with a recorder activation switch in each holster are activateable when the weapon is withdrawn, mounted in parallel electrical circuitry with the handgun-activation switch, for additional weapons such as mase and a baton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Inventor: Frank C. Scerbo, III
  • Patent number: 5540496
    Abstract: A combination of a flow-cell with a rate of flow controllable and set to obtain and maintain a solvent or diluent predetermined low flow pressure from the flow-cell's inlet to the flow-cell's outlet, in which at-least an outlet thereof is alternately raised to a height above the inlet thereof sufficiently relative to mass of individual solute(s) and/or individual bead(s) (or other insoluble mass(es)) as to permit the mass of the individual solute(s) and/or individual bead(s) to move by gravity from a direction of the outlet end toward the inlet end of the flow-cell as part of a mechanism ascertainable of improved dissolving of solute and/or suspension of particles of insoluble matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Inventors: Arnold H. Beckett, James F. Swon, Henry Z. Hofer
  • Patent number: 5519459
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, glasses or spectacles of identical polarized lenses have an additional matching pair of detachably mountable separate other identical polarized lenses variably rotatable to vary intensity of the polarized light when intermittently mounted by insertion past depressable resilient locking structure and dismountable by withdrawing past the depressable resilient locking barrier structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Inventor: Carlos Moglianesi
  • Patent number: 5502877
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a device for securing an electrical elongated cord in a compacted state, of an electrical utensil, in an anchored state intermittently anchored to the electrical utensil is an elongated elastic strip having opposite flat faces extending between opposite ends, with a large hole (through-space) in one end and with an elongated slit in the other end, with spaced-apart apertures located one at each of opposite ends of and continuous with opposite ends ends of the elongated slit, with narrow strip width at the other end and along a intermediate-portion between the one and other ends, and with a broader width at the other end embodying the large hole, and with at-least one barb-shaped intermittent enlarged portion along opposite edges of the intermediate portion, and with enlarged widths on each of opposite edges of the strip aligned with each of the spaced-apart apertures, and the remaining end of the strip having diminishing width suitable for insertion through the larger hole, for prac
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Inventor: Michael S. Yocum
  • Patent number: 5486135
    Abstract: Accressory burnishing-treatment apparatus for treatment, namely deburring, turning corners, polishing or cleaning of elements, namely metal, plastic, or ceramic (typically glass) elements. The apparatus is a self-contained hollow sphere, preferably made from substantially abrasion-resistant plastic, that works in conjunction with typically any traditional vibratory tumbling machine. The apparatus preferably has a screw-in port lid or closure member which opens to spherical inner space allowing insertion and later removal from the spherical inner space each of elements after treatment thereof, and removal of that was media necessary for the treatment. Liquid and/or dry or wet media may be used with the elements in combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Inventor: Jerry Arpaio
  • Patent number: 5416932
    Abstract: An above-ground outdoor circular swimming pool having the typical outer circumscribing support walls with a through-space as symbolic porthole-like window there is placed within space circumscribed by the outer circumscribing support walls, a water-retaining translucent or transparent liner mounted at and suspended circumscribingly from upper securing structure at the top of the circumscribing support walls. Thereby the secured and suspended transparent liner wall when containing water is pressed toward the porthole-like window, such that there is provided a line-of-sight view from each of the inside and the outside through the transparent liner. The liner itself if sufficiently rigid or sturdy in part or in whole, and/or alternatively a separate supporting transparent sheet-like transparent rigid and sturdy solid and/or mesh structure overlaps the through-space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Inventor: Raymond J. Ventrice
  • Patent number: 5408865
    Abstract: In a transdermal cell, a matter volume-adjustment male device includes the lower opening end of the through-space structure having inner wall female threads mateable with first male threads of a screwable matter volume-adjustment male member alternately adjustable upwardly and downwardly between opposite upper and lower female threads-termination points. The screwable matter volume-adjustment member has opposite first upper and lower male threads-termination points, and the inner wall female threads are further concurrently mateable with a bottom closure member having second male threads having opposite second upper and lower male threads-termination points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Inventors: Charles C. Collins, Amy C. Little, Pradeepkumar P. Sanghvi, Henry Hofer, James E. Swon
  • Patent number: 5407162
    Abstract: Two separate tubular elbows are each mountable on upright inward upright surfaces below an arch of an arched door or arched window, with a free open-end of each tubular elbow directed upwardly toward the arch. One end of a plastic tube of polyvinyl chloride is detachably mounted rigidly within the open-end of of one of the tubular elbows, and an opposite end of the plastic tube is detachably mounted rigidly within the open-end of the other remaining one of the two separate tubular elbows. Between the spaced-apart mounted ends of the plastic tube, an intermediate portion thereof is bent into a bow-shape corresponding the approximate shape of a lower surface of the upwardly located arched door frame or window frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Inventor: Gerald H. Manger
  • Patent number: D403050
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Inventor: Bernard Schlick