Patents Represented by Law Firm Woodling, Krost, Granger & Rust
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Patent number: 4183898Abstract: A liquid base makeup composition primarily for use by children to simulate various things, for example, blood. This composition is relatively inexpensive and is quite safe for children's use. The composition consists essentially of 96.48% water, 2.0% cellulose, 0.15% ethyl and propylparaben, 1.34% chlorine dioxide and 0.03% phosphoric acid.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1978Date of Patent: January 15, 1980Inventor: Lawrence J. Liff
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Patent number: 4164881Abstract: The present application discloses a die cutter assembly which includes in combination a plurality of flat wood layers which support a steel rule die for cutting paper such as cardboard and like material. Metal hinge members are secured to opposed sides of the flat wood layers and each hinge member has a portion which overhangs the wood layers. A pivot member extends from each overhanging portion. A cover is provided which is capable of moving between a closed and an open position and this cover member comprises a flat surface which is adapted to engage the steel rule die for cutting paper interposed between the steel rule die and the flat surface of the cover member. The cover member has four downturned edges to fit around the top edge of the wood layers in the closed position of the cover member.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 1978Date of Patent: August 21, 1979Inventor: Henry H. Jenkins
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Patent number: 4161639Abstract: A safety switch mechanism mounted on the handle of a power driven appliance such as a snow-thrower, lawn mower, garden tiller and the like having a motor or engine mounted thereon, the operator walking behind the appliance for holding a backwardly extending handle, the switch mechanism being adapted to short out or ground the electrical circuit of the motor or engine, or alternatively to open the contacts of a solenoid connected in series with the energizing circuit of an electric motor so as to stop the operation of the same upon the operator discontinuing to grasp the switch mechanism on the handle. This is an abstract only of the specific illustration of the invention given by way of example and is not to be used in the interpretation of the claims nor as a limitation on the scope of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1977Date of Patent: July 17, 1979Assignee: MTD Products Inc.Inventor: Thomas J. Nofel
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Patent number: 4150959Abstract: The present disclosure relates to improvements in dust collection apparatus, which apparatus has a dividing wall, which serves to define a high pressure side and a low pressure side. The wall comprises a plurality of filter bags which bags are mounted in a generally vertical plane and with each bag having an open end defined by two flaps. The flaps on adjacent bags are mounted on vertically extending support members commonly referred to as mullions and other means are provided for supporting the closed ends of the bags. The disclosed improvements herein include a new spacer member for insertion into the bags from the open end thereof to keep the bags from collapsing during operation of the dust collection apparatus. An additional improvement is that of a protective shield which has a generally U-shaped cross section which is adapted to fit over and around flaps on adjacent filter bags which flaps are supported by a given mullion between adjacent bags.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1976Date of Patent: April 24, 1979Inventor: Frank A. Bielak
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Patent number: 4146806Abstract: A flywheel magneto generator is disclosed, which includes a flywheel rotor, a stator disposed in the flywheel rotor and a signaling stator disposed outside said flywheel rotor. The flywheel rotor comprises a bowl-like flywheel, a plurality of arcuate permanent magnets engaged at the ends thereof with each other and aligned on the inner surface of the peripheral wall of the flywheel, and securing means for securing the magnets to the flywheel. The invention is characterized in that the securing means comprises a single wedge-like magnetic member interposed between the opposing ends of a pair of the permanent magnets and a screw coupling for coupling said wedge-like magnetic member to the peripheral wall and for urging said wedge-like magnetic member radially outwardly. The screw coupling is provided with an extending member of a magnetic material extending through the peripheral wall of the flywheel, magnetically insulated from the peripheral wall and having an outer end exposed outside the flywheel.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1977Date of Patent: March 27, 1979Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mitsuo Katsumata
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Patent number: 4146900Abstract: A printing system is disclosed wherein ink is emitted from a nozzle as entrained in a jet of air. The ink is introduced onto an ink wall from an ink passageway and a fluid passageway has an outlet directing air at an angle onto this ink wall to cause ink to flow along the wall and form into ligaments and eventually part from that wall as droplets. The droplets part from the ink wall primarily at a tip wall which diverges out of the air stream. In a preferred embodiment there are two such ink walls and the two flows of ink droplets converge to form a single stream. A printing head contains a plurality such as seven such nozzles in a row and then relative movement of the printing head and the printing surface together with controlled pulses of the emitted ink will cause alphanumeric characters to be imprinted on the printing surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1977Date of Patent: March 27, 1979Assignee: St. Regis Paper CompanyInventor: Gary A. Arnold
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Patent number: 4143700Abstract: A molding machine is disclosed which has a parting line of the molds at an acute angle to the horizontal. A continuous molding machine is disclosed wherein particulate matter such as sand and a binder is used to provide a succession of molds with cavities therebetween into which molten metal is poured to make a casting. The sand mold is constructed using a molding chamber and first and second pattern plates carrying patterns which face in opposite directions relative to the molding chamber. The sand is invested and the mold cured or hardened, then the pattern plates are withdrawn along opposing paths which are non-coincident. The completed sand mold is moved from the molding machine into a core setting area whereat cores are moved along the axis of the cavity which is at an acute angle to the horizontal for easy setting of these cores in prints of the mold cavities. Sprue and vent openings may also be drilled in this core setting area.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1977Date of Patent: March 13, 1979Assignee: Acme-Cleveland CorporationInventor: Leszek R. Drobnik
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Patent number: 4139790Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor for a permanent magnet synchronous-run induction-state motor is disclosed. The rotor has Rare Earth magnets disposed in apertures in unitary laminations and parallel to a tangent to the shaft. The magnets are magnetized outwardly so that the direct flux of the magnets is additive to the direct axis flux of the stator at no load. The rotor has a squirrel cage winding and the ends of each magnet aperture are in communication through a flux barrier space to the inner end of an adjacent conductor bar aperture of the squirrel cage winding. The unitary laminations each have an even plurality of radially directed reinforcing ribs disposed along the magnetic neutral axes. The flux barriers are wide relative to the circumferential width of the reinforcing ribs for a minimum of circumferential leakage flux. The leakage flux from one magnet radially through a rib is in opposition to the leakage flux through that rib from the adjacent magnet for substantially zero net leakage flux therein.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1977Date of Patent: February 13, 1979Assignee: Reliance Electric CompanyInventor: Charles R. Steen
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Patent number: 4138634Abstract: An automatic voltage regulator for an excited AC generator comprising at least one controlled rectifier for conducting the field current of the generator, a trigger signal supplying means for supplying a trigger signal to the controlled rectifier when the controlled rectifier is forward biased, a voltage detection circuit for detecting the output voltage of the generator, an inhibiting circuit for inhibiting turn-on of the controlled rectifier when the instantaneous value of the voltage detection circuit exceeds a predetermined voltage, characterized in that the voltage detection circuit comprises a phase shifting circuit receiving and shifting the phase of the output voltage of the generator. The amount of phase shift may be selected so that the inhibiting operation terminates and hence the turn-on of the controlled rectifier is effected at any angle within a wide range to adjust to the load being energized.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1977Date of Patent: February 6, 1979Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideki Yukawa
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Patent number: 4136582Abstract: The present application discloses structure which produces area contact in place of point or line contact between a cylindrical shaft and a cylindrical bore. When the area of contact is increased, the unit pressure is reduced which results in less wear and longer life. The combination of the present invention includes a shaft having an external surface and a member in the nature of a gear or the like which has a bore surrounding the shaft and which bore includes an internal surface. The present invention involves the situation wherein one of the shaft and member is fixed and the other of the shaft and member is rotatable. The improvement of the present invention involves the situation wherein the surface of the rotatable one of the two above mentioned members is provided with a first cooperating surface portion which has a constant radius and which extends through an angle 360.degree..Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1976Date of Patent: January 30, 1979Assignee: Fairfield Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventor: Francis H. Boor
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Patent number: 4135261Abstract: A block of water soluble deodorant in a holder held substantially above the level of a body of water in a urinal or the like by a buoyant member supporting the holder and block.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1977Date of Patent: January 23, 1979Assignee: The State Chemical Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Harold Uhrman
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Patent number: 4135569Abstract: A molding machine for use with quick setting and cold setting sticky mold material, a mixture of sand and self-setting adhesive, is provided with a device to clean out the machine during each cycle and after the blow operation is completed. The sand and adhesive is mixed with the catalyst to a condition so that it will set up in a matter of seconds, e.g. ten to sixty seconds, and as it is mixed, a predetermined quantity is immediately deposited in a magazine. The magazine is closed by a valve and air pressure is applied to blow the sticky mold mixture from the magazine through a blow head into a mold cavity wherein it immediately starts to set. A diverter is provided with a diverter passage just outboard of the blow apertures of the mold box and this diverter passage is next enabled and air pressure is again applied through the magazine and blow head to blow any small amount of excess sticky mold mixture out the diverter passage into a receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1977Date of Patent: January 23, 1979Assignee: Acme-Cleveland CorporationInventors: Leszek R. Drobnik, Edward J. Rebish
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Patent number: 4132208Abstract: An ignition system for an internal combustion engine wherein ignition timing is retarded when the engine speed exceeds a predetermined value. The ignition angle retardation is effected by an angle retarding circuit for by-passing at least part of an AC ignition signal. The angle retarding circuit is actuated responsive to an output of a phase-advanced signal generating circuit for generating an AC signal in advance in phase of the ignition signal. The utilization of the phase-advanced signal generating circuit enables the ignition angle to be varied over a wide angle.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1977Date of Patent: January 2, 1979Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideki Yukawa
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Patent number: 4126929Abstract: A tube fitting assembly is disclosed comprising a fitting having a first orifice through a portion of the fitting and a second orifice larger than the first orifice and coaxial with and through a portion of the first orifice. The second orifice extends from an outside surface of the fitting. One of the first and second orifices contains a shoulder defining areas of different cross-sectional areas within that orifice. The shoulder includes a shoulder surface facing axially inwardly relative to the outside surface of the fitting. A tubing having a diameter substantially equal to the first orifice occupies the first and second orifices with a first deformed portion formed from a radially expanded tubing wall engaging the other of the first and second orifices. The tubing has a second deformed portion formed from continued radial expansion of the tubing wall engaging the shoulder surface to seal the tubing to the fitting and preventing axial separation of the tubing from the fitting.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 1976Date of Patent: November 28, 1978Inventor: Ralph G. Ridenour
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Patent number: 4122597Abstract: A tool storage mechanism is disclosed wherein a tool storage magazine is mounted by a pivotal connection to a vertically movable tool slide. The tool slide also carries a horizontally movable tool slide carrying a rotatable tool for operating on a workpiece which moves in the third mutually perpendicular direction. The carried tool slide retracts to a tool change position whereat a tool changer will interchange a tool in the tool spindle with one in a socket of the tool storage magazine. Accordingly, the tool storage magazine moves up and down vertically with the first tool slide but has its own second drive means separate from the first drive means of the first slide. This second drive means is close to the nominal center of mass of the tool storage magazine but this center of mass changes as the magazine moves to present selected tools to the tool changer.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1977Date of Patent: October 31, 1978Assignee: The Monarch Machine Tool CompanyInventors: Nagle V. Gusching, Ralph E. Prescott
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Patent number: 4119896Abstract: A sequencing control circuit is provided for a door operator motor which is connected to open and close a garage door as controlled by signals from manual switches and load switches. The sequencing control circuit includes time delay means with a first time delay period in the order of six to eight seconds. This permits a person to hold a push button switch closed for about six to eight seconds so that a slab door may be opened against a snow drift which otherwise would have so much torque requirement on the motor that an overload switch would stop the motor. Enabling means is provided to enable the motor during this time period yet to disable the constant signal from the push button for periods longer than this time delay period so that the door operator motor then is responsive to signals from the load switches.The sequencing control circuit also includes a latch circuit having an output in a feed back loop to maintain the latch circuit latched upon a momentary input control signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1976Date of Patent: October 10, 1978Assignee: The Alliance Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventors: Bay E. Estes, III, Richard A. Nedbal
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Patent number: 4119076Abstract: An ignition system for an internal combustion engine having an AC generator compriss an ignition coil energized by an output from the generator. At an angle in advance of ignition timing, a first thyristor connected across the generator output terminals is turned on to permit a short-circuit current therethrough. A capacitor is charged by an output from the generator, and is discharged through a second thyristor which is triggeed at the ignition angle. The discharge current is reversely applied to the first thyristor and the first thyristor is turned off. Interruption of the short-circuit current through the first thyristor leads to a large current through the primary of the ignition coil, causing a high voltage in the secondary with resultant spark in the ignition plug.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1976Date of Patent: October 10, 1978Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroo Sato
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Patent number: 4117298Abstract: An electronic control unit is disclosed for a stud welding device having a movable electrode mounted on a solenoid armature, for moving the electrode away from the workpiece. The control includes a timing circuit providing a plurality of timer outputs in accordance with the preselected time intervals. A pilot arc circuit and an electrode movement circuit connected to the solenoid are activated by a timer output for establishing a pilot arc between the electrode and the workpiece and for moving the electrode from the workpiece. A welding power circuit is activated by another one of the plurality of timer outputs to establish welding current between the electrode and the workpiece. The electrode movement circuit is deactivated by another one of the plurality of timer outputs to enable the electrode to contact the workpiece by the urging of a spring. Means are provided for terminating the welding current. The control is suitable for use in a direct current welding power circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1976Date of Patent: September 26, 1978Assignee: Tru-Fit Products CorporationInventor: Robert J. Raycher
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Patent number: RE29996Abstract: An upflow filter adapted to be used with a home sewage treatment plant which includes a container which has a wall extending thereacross to divide the container into first and second filtering chambers. First and second gratings are located in the first and second chambers respectively and serve to divide each filtering chamber into top and bottom portions and each grating has filtering media covering the same. The container has an inlet and an outlet with the outlet located at a lower level from the inlet. .[.First liquid conduit means are connected to the wall and provides for fluid communication from the inlet to the bottom portions of each of the first and second filtering chambers. Second liquid.]. .Iadd.A vertical opening is cast into the dividing wall and has lateral exit portions that communicate with the bottom portions of the first and second filtering chambers. The liquid inlet communicates with this vertical opening. Liquid .Iaddend.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1977Date of Patent: May 15, 1979Assignee: Jet Aeration CompanyInventors: Edward J. Jordan, John R. Snyder
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Patent number: D252243Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1977Date of Patent: July 3, 1979Assignee: The AAV CompaniesInventor: Morton L. Reitman