Patents Examined by Christopher Trainor
  • Patent number: 5076500
    Abstract: A nozzle jet cartridge assembly for whirlpool bathtubs and the like in which an eyeball or spherical nozzle jet is mounted in a cylindrical housing. The spherical nozzle jet is positioned in the housing by a retaining ring and spring and the housing is closed by a locking ring. This assembly provides a nozzle jet cartridge which can be easily installed in a socket provided by a coupling fitting a hole in the wall of a whirlpool tub. An interchangeable trim ring and a locking nut secure the nozzle jet cartridge assembly to the tub wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Hydr-O-Dynamic Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles L. Daniels
  • Patent number: 4997997
    Abstract: A coiled article retainer assembly comprising a generally planar rectangular body, including a main body portion having an outlet member secured thereon for an electric cord, garden hose, or other like transmission member for initial power, fluid, or signal sources, secured thereon. The retainer assembly has two arms, spaced from and generally parallel to opposite side margins of the main body portion, defining an upper handle and a lower coiled article retaining slot. The retainer assembly is provided with a hook or hole at each opposite end margin for convenient storage by hanging on a nail, hook, rafter or the like. A keeper assembly, comprising a two way flap-type valve, is disposed at the open end of the retainer slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1991
    Inventor: Edward K. Moore
  • Patent number: 4953472
    Abstract: A rail vehicle, particularly a monorail, has several vehicles or cars, each of two adjacent or neighboring ones of which are connected by way of an associated coupling device. Between each two adjacent vehicles or cars there is mounted a bogie with an axle suspension for supporting wheels and guide wheels running on a track. A guide arrangement is provided between the adjacent vehicles or cars. This guide arrangement together with a connecting joint of the coupling device forms a single substantially vertical steering axis. This single substantially vertical steering axis passes in a vertical median longitudinal plane of the vehicles or cars both through the connecting joint and through bogie-side guide rod bearings and through a wheel axle of the supporting wheels, so that, particularly with regard to quiet travel and straight line passage, the dynamics of vehicle travel or movement are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: Von Roll Transportsysteme AG
    Inventor: Peter Tutzer
  • Patent number: 4948053
    Abstract: An improved spray nozzle for use with air atomizable liquids wherein the spray pattern created by the atomizing nozzle may be adjusted from a circular pattern to a flat pattern or alternatively to an open oval, the open end facing in preselected directions, the adjustments being capable of occurring during the continuous operation of the nozzle. A pattern adjusting plate may be movably aligned with the pattern adjusting nozzles thereby creating the appropriate combination of pattern adjusting nozzles to create the desired pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignee: AccuSpray, Inc.
    Inventor: John W. Hufgard
  • Patent number: 4821930
    Abstract: The device consists of a cylindrical body divided into an upper filling chamber and a lower overflow chamber by a moveable component which increases or decreases the size of the filling chamber and determines the amount of liquor to be dispensed. Once the upper chamber is visually determined to be filled a rearward pumping action of the outer body opens the releasing cap and at the same time shuts off the flow of liquor into the filling chamber. The device is attached by insertion into the neck opening of a bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Inventors: George J. Luine, John L. Luine