Patents Represented by Law Firm Willian, Brinks, Olds, Hofer, Gilson & Lione
  • Apparatus for temporarily storing articles and for a new delivering same
    Patent number: 5242080
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for forming a buffer store of articles, including stackable or restable articles such as cups, plate-or disc-shaped objects, or covers. The apparatus includes supply means for feeding the articles, at least one storage tube for receiving the articles, and discharge means for discharging the articles. The bottom end of the storage tube is selectively connectable to the supply means and the discharge means. Preferably, the storage tube is supported by a pivotable suspension so that it can be swung between a first position proximate to the supply means and a second position proximate to the discharge means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Machinefabriek "CSW" B.V.
    Inventors: Frits Kroon, Hendrik C. Vrind
  • Shallow nose platform trailer
    Patent number: 5242185
    Abstract: A shallow nose platform trailer provides improved load carrying capability due to its reduced platform height and thus increased volume capability. The trailer includes a pair of parallel, longitudinal main I-beams and a pair of channel beam side rails defining a height of about three and one-half inches (89 mm) at the forward portion of the trailer adjacent the kingpin. The webs and lower flanges of the I-beams curve downwardly to the rear and define a height of approximately twenty-five inches (635 mm) along the central and rear portion of the trailer. An apron plate extending between the forward portions of the I-beams carries and disperses the forces imposed on the trailer and longitudinal I-beams by the kingpin and fifth wheel. The apron plate defines a V-shaped notch at its rear. A plurality of transverse beams support a deck having an upper surface flush with the longitudinal I-beams and side rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Fruehauf Trailer Corporation
    Inventors: Kimm L. Carr, Donald W. Ray
  • Border stabilizing and reinforcing member for use in mattresses, cushions and the like
    Patent number: 5239715
    Abstract: A rhomboid-shaped member of resilient material for use in the innerspring of a mattress, cushion or the like, is inserted between adjacent springs rows with its major cross sectional axis extending perpendicular to the support surface. When placed as a beam between springs defining the innerspring perimeter and interior springs adjacent thereto, this arrangement results in an assembly with a border of greater firmness, without a significantly harsh transition between compression of the border area and the innerspring interior area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: The Ohio Mattress Company Licensing and Components Group
    Inventor: Robert F. Wagner
  • Image forming apparatus in which the order of printing in duplex-printing is controlled in accordance with memory storage capacity
    Patent number: 5241397
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus in accordance with the present invention forms images on the opposing planes of a sheet of paper based on image data sequentially transmitted on page-by-page basis, and includes a memory for storing image data on page-by-page basis, an image forming device for forming an image on a sheet of paper based on image data read out from the memory, a face up tray attachable and detachable to and from the body of the apparatus and capable of receiving a sheet of paper with its plane on which an image is formed last facing upward, and a controller changing the order of reading image data from the memory based on the storage capacity of the memory and whether or not the face up tray is mounted to the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsutoshi Yamada
  • L-shaped channel wiring method
    Patent number: 5241455
    Abstract: To minimize the area of an L-shaped channel wiring region between VLSI circuit blocks, a trunk 1 is formed in the direction along L-shaped sides A and B in the wiring region interposed between the L-shaped sides A and B of circuit blocks CB1 and CB2 having terminals on their sides. The trunk 1 is converted into a polygonal line so as to occupy two tracks. The polygonal line is obtained by combining a line segment in the direction along the L-shaped sides A and B with a line segment parallel to the middle angle direction D of an L-shaped angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Fukui, Yoshiyuki Kawakami
  • Medical waste treatment device and method
    Patent number: 5240187
    Abstract: A cart-mounted or counter-top-mounted cabinet encloses a processing flask assembly located in an upwardly opening tub portion of the cabinet and which supports a drive motor below the cabinet. A blade-mounting impeller in the flask assembly is received on a motor output coupling when the flask assembly is installed in the tub. The motor, when operated, drives the blades in rotation to move and cut waste materials inserted through the open top of the flask. After a batch of waste has been processed, the flask assembly is removed from the tub and the minced and disinfected contents are dumped into suitable waste receivers with absorber material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Ecomed, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph H. Wilson
  • Method of producing a sealing system for a reclosable webbed-wall package, and system made
    Patent number: 5238306
    Abstract: A closure system for a film wall package includes profile strips having a reclosable seal of the interlocking type, flange elements and, adjacent the reclosable seal, an adhered strip of peelable material. The peelable material and the profile strip may be co-extruded. With packaging film attached to the profile strips, typically to the flange elements, the resulting product may be used in a horizontal form, fill and seal operation, at which time the reclosable elements are mated and a peel seal is formed. The peel seal may be disposed on either side of the reclosable seal with respect to the interior of the package. The benefits of both peel seals and reclosable seals may be obtained by using optimum materials for those elements while, at the same time, allowing the use of a different material for the walls of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Reynolds Consumer Products, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Heintz, Steven H. Simonsen, Wayne M. Wegner
  • Encapsulated sling
    Patent number: 5238279
    Abstract: An encapsulated sling including a sling formed in one piece or in multiple pieces or sections joined end to end by a pin at a juncture between adjacent ends, the sling having a spaced apart pair of eyes adjacent its opposed ends to permit the sling to be suspended from a hoist or other structure and possibly one or more intermediate eyes between its ends to permit the suspended length of the sling to be reduced, the sling being surrounded by a sleeve fabricated from a flexible, polymeric material, such as PVC or a PVC coated material, which covers the entire length of the sling between its eyes, including the edges of the slings. The sleeve further comprises pockets positioned to cover the top and bottom surfaces of the eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Inventor: Paul D. Anteau
  • Scoring mechanism for a pinball machine
    Patent number: 5238248
    Abstract: A pinball machine which includes a scoring mechanism is provided such that the player corresponding to the game element that last struck the ball is credited with all subsequent points. Such scoring mechanism can be repeatedly biased to allocate points to different players throughout the play of the game. Scoring elements that bias the scoring mechanism in favor of one of the players may include active elements, which also propel the ball, or passive scoring elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Alvin G. & Co.
    Inventor: Alvin J. Gottlieb
  • Method and apparatus for inducing the permeation of medication into internal tissue
    Patent number: 5236413
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for selectively treating a targeted portion of internal body tissue of a patient by providing an internal electrode at a point adjacent the tissue to be treated and electrodes external to the patient's body. Fluid containing Ionic molecules is supplied to a location between the internal electrode and the external electrodes and an electric field radiating outwardly from the internal electrode to the external electrodes is created so that said fluid flows outwardly away from said internal electrode into the tissue to be treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Inventor: Andrew J. Feiring
  • Decoder circuit with a differential amplifier and applications thereof
    Patent number: 5237217
    Abstract: There is disclosed a decoder circuit applicable to a decoding circuit of a DRAM which is comprised of a differential amplifier, first and second differential amplification lines connected to the differential amplifier, a pair of P-channel transistors connected between the first and second lines to precharge them up to a predetermined voltage in response to a clock signal applied to gates thereof, and one N-channel transistor connected between the first line and a ground line the gate of which is connected to either of non-reversible and reversible address signal lines. There is also disclosed an address selection circuit as an application of the above mentioned decoder circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junko Hasegawa, Toshio Yamada
  • Medical waste treatment system
    Patent number: 5236135
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the treatment of contaminated medical waste, including solid and non-solid, potentially infectious materials, permits the collection of such medical waste at the point and at the time of its generation in a solid container, which is subsequently transported for pulverization, disinfection and safe disposal. A separate portable processing chamber, with an integral means to treat medical waste, is used at locations remote from its power unit for the collection of medical waste and then moved to the location of the power unit to drive the waste-treatment means within the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: ECOMED, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph H. Wilson, David B. Mennel, Jeffrey C. Rapp
  • Forced circulation oven door
    Patent number: 5235962
    Abstract: An oven door that provides forced circulation of the heated air within the interior of an oven chamber is presented. The oven door includes an outside door wall, an inside door wall, and a plurality of interior walls disposed between the outside door wall and the inside door wall that form an air-directing plenum carried within the oven door. The inside door wall has a plurality of openings providing air circulation between the air-directing plenum and the interior of the oven chamber. A motorized fan assembly, located within the oven door, forcibly circulates air through the plurality of openings in the inside door wall, the air-directing plenum and throughout the interior of the oven chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Maytag Corporation
    Inventors: Roger F. Doty, Edwin H. Strain
  • Chewing gum and other comestibles containing purified indigestible dextrin
    Patent number: 5236719
    Abstract: Chewing gums and other comestible are made with an indigestible dextrin that has been purified to remove fermentable components. The purified indigestible dextrin has a human plaque acidity test pH response of 5.7 or greater. The purified indigestible dextrin comprises at least in part, and in some instances, all of the bulking agent in a non-cariogenic chewing gum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
    Inventors: Marc A. Meyers, David W. Record
  • Compositions of electrically conductive polymers derived from substituted or unsubstituted pyrrole and process for obtaining them
    Patent number: 5236627
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition of electrically conductive polymers chosen from polypyrrole and/or substituted polypyrrole and ionic groups containing a 2-ethylhexylsulphate group.The invention also relates to a process for obtaining this composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Solvay & Cie (Societe Anonyme)
    Inventors: Etienne Hannecart, Elise Destryker
  • Looper throw-out safety catch device
    Patent number: 5233935
    Abstract: A looper throw-out device containing a latch for catching the release lever of the looper throw-out device when the release lever is left in the unlocked position. The latch is mounted on the inside portion of the sewing machine cover. If an operator fails to lock the release lever before sewing, the latch catches the unlocked release lever when the operator attempts to close the sewing machine cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Assignee: Union Special Corporation
    Inventor: Frank F. Winter
  • Stepped end rotary furnace
    Patent number: 5235611
    Abstract: The invention is directed to improved centrifugal rotary electric furnaces which are used for the heating and or fusion of minerals, such as quartz, and other materials having a high melting point. The furnace includes a generally cylindrical furnace shell and a decreasing diameter stepped end member attached to each end of the shell which is intended to more closely conform the end of the furnace to the shape of fused ingot or melted charge formed inside the furnace, while still providing a sufficient depth of unmelted charge between the fused or melted material and the end member to insulate the end member from excessive heat and the warpage and other damage caused thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Assignee: Tennessee Electro Minerals, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Jones, Charles G. Armstrong
  • Container/lid assembly
    Patent number: 5234159
    Abstract: A package of the type having a container with a bottom surface, a peripheral wall, and a peripheral lip includes a seal secured to the peripheral lip and a cover positioned to overlie the seal and the peripheral lip. The cover includes two oppositely disposed side flaps oriented to extend away from the peripheral lip toward the bottom surface, and two bottom flaps each secured to a respective one of the two side flaps and to the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Assignee: Conagra, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew W. Lorence, Brian D. Hopkins, James E. Grace
  • Support bracket
    Patent number: 5230492
    Abstract: A bracket assembly includes a first bracket having a plurality of spaced apart anchor members extending outward therefrom for insertion into a plurality of corresponding apertures in a vertical member of a wall panel, and a second bracket having a plurality of spaced apart anchor members extending outward therefrom for insertion into a plurality of corresponding apertures in the vertical member. The anchor members are adapted to cooperate with the vertical member to restrain the corresponding bracket from horizontal movement. Locking means are adapted to move one of said brackets relative to the other such that the anchor members cooperate with the vertical member to secure the bracket assembly thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Assignee: Integrated Metal Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald A. Zwart, Michael J. Veihl, Lawrence J. O'Keefe, Michele D. Bekins
  • Advertising product dispaly sign
    Patent number: D338241
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Assignee: Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
    Inventor: Alfred Landa