Patents Examined by Daniel Stein-freer
  • Patent number: 4903741
    Abstract: A pneumatic action dispenser for filling bottles with soda and carbon dioxide according to alternate mixing sequences, where each bottle has a normally closed closure valve in its neck, said dispenser being engageable with the neck of the bottle and provided with a pneumatically and coaxially activated mobile body which contains another body mobile with respect to the other, said second mobile body having a mouthpiece engageable with the bottle which is provided with a central opening for a member capable of opening the valvular closure of the bottle and which is in communication with an inlet and/or outlet connector for carbon dioxide and soda. The main pneumatically activated mobile body includes a member for opening the valvular closure of the bottle, the activation of which opens a closure valve within the dispenser between the main and second mobile bodies in the communication line for the fluid feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1990
    Assignee: Industrias Marsel S.A.I.C.I.A.
    Inventor: Alberto A. Ibanez
  • Patent number: 4877165
    Abstract: A fishing rod holder having a tubular receptacle to receive the shank of the rod holding device, the tubular receptacle being notched to accommodate a nodule on the fishing rod holder device to prevent its rotation about the axis of the tube, the tubular receptacle being welded to a hose clamp that can be readily secured about a horizontal rail member about the gunwales of a boat. A reinforcing strip is secured across the hose clamp to prevent its being pulled apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Inventor: William L. Behrle
  • Patent number: 4858251
    Abstract: A pressurized flushing cistern for a water closet comprising a container with a bottom discharge opening, a liquid inlet conduit for admitting liquid into the container, the inlet conduit having an outlet disposed within the container at an upper portion of the container, an opening having an outlet valve seat connecting a lower portion of the container to the discharge opening, a flushing valve for closing the valve seat, the flushing valve comprising a floating valve member disposed in a chamber, the chamber closed at one end thereof where the chamber is connected to the bottom discharge opening and a manually operable activating means for unseating the flushing valve, the activating means comprising a lever device to raise the floating valve member within the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Inventor: Alfredo de Belaunde
  • Patent number: 4858257
    Abstract: A boby brush shower stall in which a body brush is vertically oriented and supported from a single bearing, and driven through a clutch mechanism from a gear box and electrical motor at a speed range greater than about 90 rpm and below about 120 rpm. The body brush is mounted on the vertical drive shaft and has soft flexible bristles which hang and droop downwardly at speeds below 90 rpm and which extends substantially horizontally when rotated at speeds above 90 rpm and a spray bar sprays liquid on the elongated body brush at spaced points along the length thereof to maintain the lubricity of the bristles at a certain level. The bristles are soft and flexible and conform to body contours to provide the unique massage, clean and scrubbing action to cleanse the skin surfaces of dirt, scale and provide a certain invigorating action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Inventor: David J. Bivens
  • Patent number: 4852191
    Abstract: An improved toilet with a bowl and a flusher wherein the improvement includes a toilet water tank which contains an insert for creating a first compartmemt filled with a deodorant and a second compartment filled with a fluid, and an actuator which is pivotally mounted on the insert and has an opened position for allowing a predetermined amount of the deodorant to pass from the first compartment into the second compartment and a closed position for preventing the deodorant from passing from the first compartment into the second compartment so that when the actuator is in the opened position the predetermined amount of the deodorant passes from the first compartment into the second compartment and mixes with the fluid in the second compartment to provide deodorizing for the toilet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Inventor: Felicino Giglio
  • Patent number: 4846384
    Abstract: A flexible top opening holster for semi-automatic and other pistols which prevents or inhibits the unauthorized removal of the pistol from the holster by means of a restraining device contained within the holster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: Gould & Goodrich Leather, Inc.
    Inventor: Wilbert O. Perry
  • Patent number: 4839928
    Abstract: A first embodiment of a toilet seat lowering device is provided for coupling to the toilet handle of a toilet system to lower a vertically positioned toilet seat. The device consists of a tubular member which is positioned over the handle of the toilet system and a spaced wedge member for sliding between the toilet lid and seat. The sleeve and wedge member are connected together by a wire member. Upon operation of the toilet handle, the wedge slides between the toilet lid and toilet seat to lower the latter to the toilet commode. In a second embodiment of the invention, the toilet lowering device consists of a pair of holding members for holding the toilet lid and a wedge for causing a vertically positioned toilet seat to be lowered when the toilet handle is operated. A plastic connector connects the toilet handle to the toilet lowering device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Inventor: Timothy C. Probasco