Patents Represented by Attorney Wm. Jacquet Gribble
  • Patent number: 4680918
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for folding cohesive coated material like corrugated paper and coated film about three dimensional solids like paper products, toys, machinery and books for transport is accomplished by a framework supporting a roll or other supply of the cohesive coated material, a guide for the material, a platform for a cutting blade and an end frame or mandrel and a movable U-shaped crimping frame for forcing the leading sheet of coated paper or film back into contact with itself around the object to be packaged.The apparatus may support horizontally a roll or other supply of cohesive coated paper or film that is conducted over a horizontal shelf beneath a restraining strip and then passed over a rounded mandrel until a proper length is beyond the mandrel so as to encompass the object to be wrapped or packaged, the paper being pulled over the mandrel by contact with a crimping frame of rounded tubing that is articulate with respect to the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Inventor: Robert C. Lovell
  • Patent number: 4658894
    Abstract: A Pipe Guide Stripper Rubber stripper of modified Shaffer design has a resilient, molded frusto-conical stripper unit that mounts within a conventional standing compression shell supported on the drill or production platform. The molded stripper unit has an internal cavity with walls designed to strip sludge, mud and other grime from the pipe string periphery as the pipe is raised from the well bore, confining the muck to the well pit rather than having it fall to the work platform. A mounting plate is removably attached to the stripper unit by separable fasteners so that the plate may be recovered from a worn out molded stripper unit for further use without burning or abrading the stripper unit from the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1987
    Inventor: Paul M. Craig
  • Patent number: 4633691
    Abstract: A flat strip is bent into a discontinuous loop with an end of one limb slanted to contact the inner side of the other limb so that two semi-circles are separated by one continuous limb length and one discontinuous limb length. The continuous length is slotted for at least one-half of its long dimension, with a wider aperture at the upper end. Key hooks, preferably for individual keys, that have a large head and a large closed circle at opposite ends of a small shank fit into the slot, retained by the end of the discontinuous limb that slants across the space between limbs. The loop provides passage for a belt or other support above a thruster that affords a way of separating the limbs to move key hooks in and out of the loop past the slanted limb end or lock.More than one key hook may be used and one way of separating hooks includes a small disc or drum rotatably seated at the bottom of the slot in the continuous limb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Inventor: Gilbert F. Hardy
  • Patent number: 4618419
    Abstract: A storage tank for liquids, such as a fuel tank, has inlet and outlet ports that liquid lines connect to input and output ports of a liquid pump, and a filter is connected between the pump outlet and the tank so that liquid from storage may be constantly or periodically passed through the filter and back to the tank. The liquid may be withdrawn from the tank to be used at any time since the liquid or recirculating pump is independent of the supply pump or pumps from the storage to the use.The filter has an outer cannister with opposed ends and a paper filter core with a hollow center. One cannister end has input and outlet ports and a collector volume between the end and the paper core. The core may divided into sequential elements about a fluid entry tube connected to the cannister input port and penetrating a manifold cavity within the cannister between the core end and the cannister end wall. A restrictive port in the entry tube diminishes cannister pressure to protect the paper core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1986
    Inventors: Clive Hollinshead, Marion A. Willbanks
  • Patent number: 4568901
    Abstract: Elongate magnets are arranged about a copper fuel duct with each magnet having a like pole adjacent a flattened or faceted portion of the duct. Each magnet has a flat pole face and bevelled end edges with the bevelled end edges being in contact with the similar end edge of each adjacent magnet to define a tunnel through which the fuel duct runs. The duct is continuous through the magnet tunnel and terminates at each of its ends outside the tunnel in a peripheral bead or other attaching arrangement for coupling of the duct between a fuel source, such as a fuel pump, and a fuel consuming apparatus, such as a carburetor. The ducted fuel is thus exposed to flux lines of the magnets that are arranged about the fuel line to concentrate the lines of force at the fuel duct. The magnets and the fuel duct are held together by a surrounding capsule of non-magnetic material such as polypropylene plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: A Z Industries
    Inventor: Harley J. Adam
  • Patent number: 4550951
    Abstract: A latch housing attachable to a side wall of a vehicle frame holds a vertically movable cradle having a spring mounted sensing roller over which a loop or bight of a shoulder harness belt passes. The cradle is also spring mounted in the latch housing. The bottom portions of the facing walls of the cradle cavity in the housing converge to define a downwardly diminishing chamber into which a latch wedge fixed to the bottom of the cradle is movable by belt motion against the cradle spring force. The harness belt extends from each each end of the bight or loop to the take-up reel fixed to the vehicle and to the conventional lap belt near the lap belt buckle. The harness belt passes between the wedge faces and the adjacent faces of the Latch housing lower slanting walls so that swift momentum forces drive the wedge surfaces into binding contact with the belt runs but slower changes in belt momentum are absorbed by the roller mount springs, which are preferably adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Inventor: Edward W. Apri
  • Patent number: 4534132
    Abstract: A rectangular frame set into the concrete surround at the head of a shaft supports one or more slab doors that are hinged to the frame. Adjacent each hinge line brackets fixed to the frame support a fixed spindle upon which a helical spring is secured. The spring has an extending limb at one end that bears against the under surface of the door. The other end of the spring is engaged with a winding bushing rotatable on the fixed spindle, and the bushing has a hollow hub for accepting a detachable winder so that the spring may be pretorqued to the proper loading to raise the door from its horizontal closed position to a substantially vertical attitude for access to the shaft or other opening.The frame defines a drip trough to collect moisture passing the door edges and when two doors are used a channel extending along the butt line of the doors collects water passing between the adjacent edges of the doors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1985
    Assignee: Red Plastic Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Russell D. Smith
  • Patent number: 4508352
    Abstract: A game board with a top surface divided into zones of differing colors radiating from a central release spot has downward apertures near the outer edge of each zone adjacent a fence that surrounds the board. A trap cup seals off each aperture to prevent the escape of a rodent or other small animal used in the game as a random selector. The cup may be transparent so all players may see into which cup the rodent runs. Around the game board, which may be rotatable, are banks of players' segments, each segment being colored to match a color zone of the game board, with the exception of a "house" color. A transparent hood is secured above the players' segments by hinges, while the inner frame of the segments gives access to a monitor within the area defined by the banks of segments and the game board. Odds placards may be posted on each segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1985
    Inventor: William C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 4502727
    Abstract: A cycle seat with a back is moulded of either plastic or metal material and is fixed to a conventional cycle seat post with a standard racheting clamp and an unique spring cradle. The cradle accepts a horizontal pivot bolt journalled in the forward portion of the cradle and secured in spaced rails on the seat bottom. A spring bears against the seat bottom from a spring cup of the spring cradle, biasing the front contacts or limbs of the cradle against the seat bottom in front of the pivot bolt.The seat rails and the cradle may have other rail and cradle apertures or slots to adjust the seat and cradle horizontally with respect to the seat mount post of the cycle. If the seat is of moulded plastic a metal shell with side rails and matching apertures may be positioned between the seat bottom and the cradle and its spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1985
    Assignee: Stephen A. Holcomb
    Inventors: Stephen A. Holcomb, Johnny E. Aker
  • Patent number: D276299
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1984
    Inventor: Patrick O. Reardon
  • Patent number: D277446
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Inventor: Clive Hollinshead
  • Patent number: D278940
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Inventor: Peter A. Incando
  • Patent number: D279852
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1985
    Inventor: Chester L. Yokoyama
  • Patent number: D285518
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Inventor: Clive Hollinshead
  • Patent number: D286493
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1986
    Inventor: Arthur G. Floyd
  • Patent number: D288879
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Inventor: Albert L. Peggs
  • Patent number: D290057
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Inventor: Robert J. Licher
  • Patent number: D297105
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Inventor: Clive Hollinshead
  • Patent number: D297856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Inventor: Clive Hollingshead
  • Patent number: D301048
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1989
    Inventor: Clive Hollinshead