Patents Assigned to O
  • Patent number: 4319377
    Abstract: An interproximal toothbrush comprises an elongated metal handle terminating at one end in a threaded section. The stem of a twisted wire brush passes through a hole in said threaded section, humps up above the threads, and then passes down into a groove in the handle. A nut travels on the threads until it encounters and seizes upon the hump in the twisted wire. This way, the brush is securely locked into position, but the nut never touches the stem in the area of the brush. Thus, the brush is not damaged by the locking nut. A second hole in the handle receives a toothpick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1982
    Assignee: John O. Butler Company
    Inventors: Emanuel B. Tarrson, Dane Maric
  • Patent number: 4318682
    Abstract: A hydraulic press having upper and lower hydraulically operated plates whereby the upper plate is movable with a long stroke cylinder and the lower plate is movable wth a short stroke cylinder. The press has a grooved load bearing rod which is attached to the upper moving plate and passes through the upper fixed plate of the press with a series of slots machined in the rod. A split ring and an especially ground shim are located on a bushing in the upper plate and in one of the ground grooves. A locking plate is attached to the lower part of the upper fixed plate and using a hydraulically operated cylinder has locking plates which move into and out of engagement with the grooved rod to accurately locate the position of the upper moving plate when the machine is stroked. This method of adjusting the horizontal position or parallelism of the plates enable very accurate positioning of the mold or dies which are mounted between the plates of the press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1982
    Assignee: Ex-Cell-O Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick R. Larson, Rodger L. Dangremond, Donald L. Reuschel, James I. Moore
  • Patent number: 4318479
    Abstract: The accompanying description and drawings disclose a liquid carrying paperboard carton having straw opening means formed in a side wall panel thereof. The straw opening means includes a tear strip formed by cuts through the carton wall beginning at the edge of the side panel adjacent the usual underlying fifth panel. A tab is formed from material available from the adjacent blank during the scoring and cutting process, and serves as an extension of the tear strip. The formation of the tab automatically provides a cut-out portion on the edge of the side seam flap of the adjacent blank while being cut from a roll of paperboard, thus providing an opening for a straw hole when the tear strip of a completed container is peeled back from the underlying fifth panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1982
    Assignee: Ex-Cell-O Corporation
    Inventor: Robert E. Lisiecki
  • Patent number: 4317874
    Abstract: High energy density, self-healing cathodes for use in solid state or quasi-solid state electrochemical cells having active metal, e.g. lithium, one or more of materials existing in the solid or liquid state at ordinary temperatures and selected from the group of oxides of phosphorous and boron, halides of phosphorous and boron chalcogenides of phosphorous and boron and oxyhalides of phosphorous and boron, said mass having induced therein a useable degree of electronic conductivity. One example of a means of including a useable amount of electronic conductivity is the inclusion in the cathode mass of a charge transfer complex of a polymer of the type of poly-2-vinyl pyridine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1982
    Assignee: Ray-O-Vac Corporation
    Inventors: Ashok V. Joshi, Albert L. Gillotti, William P. Sholette
  • Patent number: 4316463
    Abstract: A hypodermic injection device including an injector and a medicament and needle ampule wherein the needle is initially isolated from a possibly corrosive medicament, but wherein the needle is movable to a position in flow communication with the medicament only at the moment of injection, and an injector device into which the ampule can be loaded under controlled conditions of needle entry force and depth, medicament entry into tissue being accomplished while the needle is moving in its penetration of tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1982
    Assignee: Vac-O-Cast, Inc.
    Inventors: William L. Schmitz, John B. Schmitz
  • Patent number: 4316963
    Abstract: A leadless glaze composition having properties that make lead oxide containing glazes so widely used as ceramic glazes. The glazes according to this invention are prepared to analyze more than about 0.53 to about 1.5 weight percent molybdenum trioxide with the source of the molybdenum trioxide either in the frit or as a mill addition being alkaline earth molybdenate, for example, calcium molybdenate (CaMoO.sub.4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1982
    Assignee: The O. Hommel Company
    Inventors: Richard O. Hommel, David Klimas
  • Patent number: 4316076
    Abstract: A welding machine for use in connection with seam welding a pair of metal parts which are positioned to form a welding groove, and wherein the groove width undesirably varies at random due to improper part positioning or deviations from desired tolerance. The weld head is moved along the groove by a drive motor and is preceeded by a pair of fixedly connected sensing probes. The primary probe follows the groove wall portion of one of the parts, while an auxiliary probe follows a surface on the other part. Variations in groove width cause variations in the distance between the two probe tips, said latter variations being utilized to automatically change the speed of the weld head drive motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1982
    Assignee: C-R-O, Inc.
    Inventor: Fredrick J. Balfanz
  • Patent number: 4315478
    Abstract: In a labeling machine the combination with a glue applying roll, pickers and a label magazine from which labels are picked by the picker when the latter has on its surface a layer of glue of a doctor blade supported with an edge at a distance from the surface of the glue applying roll which will provide adequate glue for labeling and pneumatically-operable means operable to retract the label magazine from the path of movement of the pickers when there is a gap in the procession of containers or no containers and simultaneously to move the doctor blade closer to the surface of the glue applying roll to reduce the amount of glue on the surface of the glue applying roll available to the pickers without removing all of the glue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1982
    Assignee: A-T-O Inc.
    Inventor: Sidney T. Carter
  • Patent number: 4314515
    Abstract: A seed singulator uses two opposing surfaces, one of which has a groove extending across it dimensioned to receive seeds in a single file. The two surfaces are moved relative to each other, with the groove having an angled relationship of less than 90.degree. with the relative direction motion of the two surfaces. Variation of the angle controls spacing between seeds independently of the velocity of relative movement between the surfaces. The surfaces are preferably flat with a centrally disposed seed containing area and the groove extending from that area to the periphery of the surfaces for discharge of the seed. In this form, the relative motion between the surfaces is preferably rotary to provide continuous operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1982
    Assignee: Patrick O. Griffin
    Inventors: Miguel A. Jimenez, Manuel M. Saucedo
  • Patent number: 4313553
    Abstract: The drawings and description disclose a container having the usual fold-in end panels and roof panels interconnected by front and rear sets of fold-back panels, with inner sealing rib panels extending vertically from the fold-back panels and confined between oppositely disposed outer sealing rib panels extending vertically from the roof panels, supplemented by fold-over lip panels attached to and folded over onto the inner sealing rib panels, serving to provide a stiffer spout to facilitate the opening process, while eliminating a raw edge on the pouring lip and greatly diminishing fiber tear and delamination of the pouring surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1982
    Assignee: Ex-Cell-O Corporation
    Inventor: Robert E. Lisiecki
  • Patent number: 4309939
    Abstract: Fully automatic brewing apparatus is disclosed for economically and efficiently brewing large quantities of beverage. Beverage concentrate is first brewed from a dry, beverage-making material, such as granulated tea leaves contained in a rotatable funnel which may be pivoted for emptying the concentrate into selected one of a pair of large reservoirs. The concentrate is then automatically diluted to an acceptable strength and temperature by the timed addition of water to the reservoir in a stream which provides complete mixing of the concentrate with the diluting water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1982
    Assignee: Bunn-O-Matic Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth W. Stover
  • Patent number: 4307163
    Abstract: A solid-state electrolyte capable of lithium ion transfer comprising and interdiffused combination of a lithium metal oxide and a metal halide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1981
    Assignee: Ray-O-Vac Corporation
    Inventors: Ashok V. Joshi, William P. Sholette
  • Patent number: 4305743
    Abstract: A method and system for quenching, drying, and elevating glass compositions comprising an incline reciprocating conveyor arranged to receive a stream of molten glass. The reciprocating conveyor has deep side and lower end walls in order to hold a pool of quenching liquid which is constantly replenished. The reciprocating action of the incline conveyor moves the quenched and shattered glass up out of the quenching pool to the higher end of the conveyor where it is drained and then delivered to a second conveyor. The second conveyor preferably comprises a helical vibrating conveyor surrounded by infrared heaters. The infrared heaters can be adjusted to supply just enough heat to the shattered glass on a helical vibrating conveyor surface to provide drying of the glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1981
    Assignee: The O. Hommel Company
    Inventors: Richard O. Hommel, Dominick Battistone, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4304058
    Abstract: Articulation of an excavator shovel at a pivot point arranged at the free end of the stick. A cap is mounted on the free end of the stick, the cap facing the rear wall of the shovel. The surface of the cap defines a radius with a center point at the pivot point of the shovel. A scraper plate with a width corresponding to the width of the stick on the rear wall of the shovel facing the stick is arranged parallel to the upper edge of the bearing bracket and cooperates with the cap so that only a clearance which assures free passage is present between the cap and the scraper plate. The imaginary extension of the scraper plate intersects the radius of the cap at a point located on the upper flange of the stick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1981
    Assignee: O&K Orenstein & Koppel Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Dieter Schwappach
  • Patent number: 4304344
    Abstract: A spreader for distributing particulate material, particularly adapted for use as both a package for particulates and as a disposable spreader, comprises a dispenser, a pair of wheels mounted at opposite ends of the dispenser and a handle for advancing the spreader along a given path as the dispenser rotates. The dispenser has inner and outer chambers, the inner chamber adapted to act as a reservoir for particulate material, the outer chamber adapted to provide a circumferential passageway for particulate material passing from the inner chamber to the exterior of the spreader. A one-way valve arrangement in the passageway restricts particulate flow to the exterior when the dispenser is rotated in one direction but permits flow when rotated in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1981
    Assignee: O. M. Scotts and Sons Company
    Inventors: John D. Vogel, Carl E. Bochmann
  • Patent number: 4304764
    Abstract: A method for preparing stable non-stoichiometric cathode material to provide cathodes useful in non-aqueous electrochemical cells having an active metal (eg. lithium) anode. The method comprises reducing the non-stoichiometric cathode material (eg. manganese dioxide) with the active metal or a precursor compound of said active metal to form a compound of the active metal and stoichiometric active cathode material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1981
    Assignee: Ray-O-Vac Corporation
    Inventor: Ashok V. Joshi
  • Patent number: 4303525
    Abstract: A funnel is disclosed for use in brewing beverages such as coffee, tea and the like and for discharging the beverage into either of a plurality of spaced reservoirs below the funnel. The funnel includes an upstanding side wall, a bottom wall, and flow channel means associated with the bottom wall which communicates between the interior of the funnel and a discharge port spaced from the center of the funnel for selective discharge of liquid into alternate reservoirs by turning the funnel. Stop means provided at a selected radial position on the funnel cooperate with limiting switches or the like on the brewing machine to prevent brewing unless the funnel is in the proper location for discharge into a reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1981
    Assignee: Bunn-O-Matic Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth W. Stover
  • Patent number: D262236
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1981
    Assignee: John O. Butler Company
    Inventors: Emanuel B. Tarrson, Steven Tisma, Robert B. Staubitz
  • Patent number: D262315
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1981
    Assignee: John O. Butler Company
    Inventors: Emanuel B. Tarrson, Steven Tisma, Robert B. Staubitz
  • Patent number: D262316
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1981
    Assignee: John O. Butler Company
    Inventors: Emanuel B. Tarrson, Steven Tisma, Robert B. Staubitz