Patents Assigned to Joseph B. Taphorn
  • Patent number: 6033676
    Abstract: A process and product restoring hair to bald-headed men involves massaging the scalp with a commercially available ointmenmt known as BAG BALM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Joseph B. Taphorn
    Inventor: Joyce A. Cortright
  • Patent number: 5437758
    Abstract: A "green" sheet manufacturing method and apparatus contemplates perforating the "green" sheet with through-holes as it is calendared, rolled or extruded by rollers. To this end, the rollers are each machined with punches of a length one-half the thickness of the "green" sheet and that mate with punches on the other. Any flash or diaphragm obtaining in the through-holes are removed by subsequently exposing the "green" sheet to new mechanisms providing fluid pressure or vibration, or spiking. The bosses or punches may be supplemented with enlargements and other bosses providing for pads and counterholes and grooves in the "green" sheet. The through-holes may be shaped to have a smaller diameter interiorly than at the outer edges to lock in place solder or other conductive media squeegeed into them. The locking action may be enhanced by slightly off-setting bosses or mating punches to produce through-holes whose top and bottom halves are slightly off-set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Joseph B. Taphorn
    Inventor: Thomas J. Walsh, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5410960
    Abstract: Stiff ink in a ink fountain of a high-speed printing press or the like is maintained at the viscosity necessary to wet a printing roller by vibrating a rod placed in the ink in the fountain. The rod is mounted on arms pinned to trunnions, one of which trunnions is fixed to an air turbine oscillator. The oscillator when activated, transmits vibrations to a trunnion to which it is fixed. The vibrations pass on to the associated arm and on to the rod to agitate the ink. The trunnions are mounted on vibration isolators on the cheeks of the ink fountain. The rod being mounted via the arms on the trunnions, is swingable in and out of the fountain for cleaning purposes as on ink changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: Joseph B. Taphorn
    Inventor: Willie Adsett
  • Patent number: 5342052
    Abstract: A golf putter is formed with a hollow box open towards its striking face which is tautly covered with a layer or two of leather. The cavity in the box behind the leather is filled with a displaceable material such as sand or liquid. The leather indents on striking a golf ball to provide more "feel" and accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Joseph B. Taphorn
    Inventor: Peter Costa
  • Patent number: 5323735
    Abstract: A bird-feeder, which precludes gray squirrel access to seeds therein, mounts on a rectangular platform gnaw-resistant, hollow, 3/8" aluminum bars across the front and partially back along the sides and whose surfaces are spaced from adjacent bars 11/4". The upper ends of the bars are received in an open frame closed off by a plexiglass roof. A generally interior hopper extends across the back of the feeder to constitute its rear wall and to gravity feed seed onto the platform surface constituting the floor of the feeder. The hopper is pivoted to the platform for swinging movement outward to a loading position. Solid panels on the rear portions of the two sides present resistance also to wind action and seed scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Joseph B. Taphorn
    Inventor: Heinz Meng