Patents Examined by Joseph Falk
  • Utility cabinet for mounting on sloping walls
    Patent number: 5080453
    Abstract: Utility cabinet for mounting on sloping walls, for instance on boats, has front and rear members, a top member and a bottom member, which form an enclosure. The plane of the rear member is at an angle to the plane of the front member to accommodate mounting on sloping walls. A plurality of shelves are mounted in said enclosure. The front member is hinged at the bottom member for use as a desk or table. A pair of adjustable chains are connected from the top of the front member to the top member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Inventor: Guy D. Miller
  • Drawer guide fitting
    Patent number: 5080451
    Abstract: A drawer guide fitting with a pull-out track (2) on the drawer and a support track (4) on the body, at each side of the drawer (6). The weight of the drawer (6) is transmitted by the pull-out tracks (2) by means of runners (1, 3) to the support tracks (4). A retraction device for the drawer is provided, which comprises a linear motor (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Eberhard Brunnert
  • Portable work station
    Patent number: 5078460
    Abstract: A portable work station that can be folded into a compact unit with the appearance of a briefcase. The unit is designed to give the user the comfort and efficiency of an office environment by providing easy access to supplies used in the course of his or her work. The unit opens up to form a rigid desk top for writing and supporting portable equipment, such as computers, and provides various shelves for holding supplies and work material during use. A set of drawers function as regular desk drawers for storage and access to needed material. During transportation of the unit, the same drawers provide storage like a standard briefcase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Inventor: Melvin L. Holsinger
  • Bracket for a can dispenser
    Patent number: 5078459
    Abstract: A can dispenser bracket for use in a modular shelf display; each can dispenser bracket includes a recurvant guide for dispensing an individual can, planar side-end surfaces, an entrance opening, an exit opening, and a back-end surface having a metal bracket attached thereto. The can dispenser bracket may be mounted side-by-side in a modular shelf display which is particularly adapted to stores which have high shelf-space costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: United States Tobacco Company
    Inventor: William C. Sclater
  • Drawer railing
    Patent number: 5076652
    Abstract: Drawer railing having a railing rod to be disposed above and parallel to a drawer side with its front and back end releasably fastened to an associated coupling which can be affixed to the drawer front or drawer back, the rod being adjustable in length at least at one end. The threaded shank of a screw device which can be hung in the associated coupling is driven into at least one end of the railing rod which is of a tubular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Horst Lautenschlager
  • Cart for collection and disposal of low-level radioactive waste
    Patent number: 5076650
    Abstract: A cart for collection and safe disposal of low level radioactive wastes (LLRW) comprised of a compartment which is shielded to protect against exposure to radioactivity. The unique construction of the cart includes a sandwich construction of the compartment walls and ceiling wherein a thin layer of lead is sandwiched between coextensively bonded layers of methyl methacrylate polymer (Lucite).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: The Rockefeller University
    Inventors: Robert C. Klein, Edward L. Gershey
  • Golf bag storage rack
    Patent number: 5076651
    Abstract: A storage rack particularly suited for the secure temporary deposit of golf bags or other large and/or cumbersome items. The rack includes one or more cages or compartments with a moveable lid or cover at the top thereof. In addition to closing the upper portion of the cage, the lid includes a coin-operated locking mechanism. The locking mechanism includes a key which is obtained by inserting coins therein. At a minimum, the lid and cage sufficiently restrain a golf bag to prevent the bag and/or the contents thereof, especially the golf clubs, from being removed except by the holder of the key. Additional enclosing walls, bars or platforms can be selectively added to the cage for additional security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Variety International Inc.
    Inventor: Daryl White
  • Counter support
    Patent number: 5076648
    Abstract: An improved counter support fashioned to a vertical surface such as a wall is disclosed. The improved counter support includes a wall rail having a plurality of pairs of oblong throughbores and being attached to the wall by a plurality of pairs of the oblong throughbores, respectively, the oblong throughbores being 16" and 24" on center so that the holding power of the counter support is doubled and the plurality of pairs of the oblong throughbores line up with the wall studs, a cantilever positioned anywhere along the wall rail, the cantilever being placed down onto the wall rail and being snapped into place by the hook-up so that additional adjustable flexibility is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Inventor: Jesse K. Makainai
  • Cabinet assembly
    Patent number: 5076649
    Abstract: A cabinet assembly is provided which comprises inner and outer cabinet structures adapted so that the inner cabinet can be diagonally raised or lowered with respect to the fixed outer cabinet. Motorized means facilitate the movement of the inner cabinet; moreover, limit switch mechanisms are utilized to activate and deactivate said motor means. A latch mechanism provides additional support for the inner cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Inventor: Adam Therkelsen
  • Desk-type computer work station
    Patent number: 5071204
    Abstract: A desk-type work station for a computer-type system apparatus is provided wherein a generally flat top panel having a central transparent portion is supported on a pair of laterally spaced apart supports to define a work space therebetween and beneath the central transparent portion so that a display screen movably supported beneath the central transparent portion may be readily viewed and a central drawer is provided on which is supported a keyboard-type input apparatus and wherein one component of the computer-type system apparatus is located in one of the supports and another component thereof is located in the other of the supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Engineered Data Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Macy J. Price, Matthew P. Drabczyk
  • Environmental housing for supporting video monitor outdoors
    Patent number: 5071203
    Abstract: An environmental housing is described and is especially adapted for supporting a video monitor outdoors in connection with a video merchandising system. The video merchandising system advantageously provides point-of-purchase advertising and promotion of various goods or services as a retail establishment such as a gasoline service station. The housing preferably comprises a substantially rectangular cabinet having first and second sides, a top, a bottom and a back. A door is attached to the cabinet and includes a chemically-treated glare-resistant window. A video monitor is supported in the cabinet for displaying television commercials or like programming material under the control of the merchandising system. The housing includes a vent slot in at least one of the sides or back of the cabinet for venting the inside of the cabinet and substantially preventing water from entering the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Inventor: Donald F. Boyd
  • Knock-down furniture assembly
    Patent number: 5069506
    Abstract: A knock-down furniture assembly comprises a joint construction between furniture components wherein a rod has a slip fit engagement with a bushing. The rod is affixed to one component and the bushing to another. In one embodiment, the rod has a head which fits within a hole in a first wood component and is captured by means of cured epoxy resin introduced into the hole around an immediately adjacent portion of the rod's shank. The remainder of the rod projects from the first wood component and when the first wood component is moved into assembly with a second wood component, the rod slip fits within the bushing on the second wood component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Assignee: R. M. Wieland Company
    Inventor: Roy M. Wieland
  • Panty hose storage device
    Patent number: 5069514
    Abstract: A storage device for panty hose that can be placed in a dresser drawer and will hold a plurality of panty hose in a compact, orderly and attractive fashion. The storage device includes perpendicular partition members which form compartments and which members can be collapsed when not being used to store panty hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Inventor: Laura Sherman
  • Door safe apparatus
    Patent number: 5066079
    Abstract: Apparatus in combination with a door is provided wherein a cavity within a door includes a panel mounted retractably within the door to expose a cavity within the door. The cavity includes a slidably mounted cabinet wherein the cabinet includes a plurality of compartments each compartment including a latch member to secure each compartment within the cabinet for storage of valuables therewithin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Inventor: James L. Lawrence
  • Tambour door and method of making
    Patent number: 5066080
    Abstract: A tambour door includes a plurality of elongated elements having front and back surfaces of rectangular transverse cross-section placed in abutting side-by-side relationship including a flexible backing material overlaying and adhesively secured to the back surfaces of the elongated elements. The front surface of the elongated elements are formed with a design which extends over a plurality of adjacent elements. A cabinet including such tambour doors includes side pockets in which the doors move on tracks when the doors are moved to the open position. When the doors are in the closed position, they are planar and extend across the opening into the cabinet. When the door is in the closed position, the interface between adjacent elements if virtually invisible because of the abutting relationship of the elements and because of their rectangular cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Assignee: National Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Woodward, James Hall
  • Furniture top insert featuring landscape
    Patent number: 5066078
    Abstract: A furniture top insert holds a scale model of a familiar landscape within a recess and is protected by a double layer of transparent material. The furniture top is constructed to be inserted within the edges of a table, cabinet, credenza or the like and lie flush with the supper surface of the furniture. Within the recess, miniature trees, shrubs, ponds, turf, walkways or driveways, and other replicas of landscape features are placed so that they accurately depict a known landscape, such as a particular hole at a famous golf course. The frame for the landscape is made primarily of wood, reinforced with braces to support the weight of the scale model and its protective transparent bilayer. Exposed regions of the frame are constructed from finished wood, or may comprise a veneer of a variety of materials to provide a variety of ornamental appearances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Inventor: Michael Wurst
  • Opening/closing device of a door member
    Patent number: 5064255
    Abstract: An opening/closing device of a door for a refrigerator or the like will open/close the door member at a desired side, namely, at the right side or at the left side, without requiring a movable operating handle. The device is simple in construction, has a high adiabatic efficiency, and can be easily incorporated in the door member. Therefore, no special mechanism is necessary in the door member and no structural change is required inside the door member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshio Inui, Masayoshi Osaka, Mitsuo Tanaka, Masao Miyamoto, Tooru Hasegawa, Masuo Kamitaka, Hidekazu Kai, Hiroshi Kamikubo
  • Flexible anti-tipping mechanism
    Patent number: 5062678
    Abstract: A latching mechanism for stacked drawer arrangements comprises operating parts for each drawer which are mounted on the drawer slide for the respective drawer. Such an arrangement may allow any arrangement of drawers of different depths in a cabinet because no actuating parts are provided at fixed intervals on the cabinet. A flexible band having slack length therein is provided on the cabinet over its height. The band is deflectible by the actuating parts when a drawer is withdrawn to take up the slack length. Thus, when one drawer is withdrawn, no slack length is available to allow withdrawal of another drawer. Guides are provided on the drawer slides to maximize deflection of the band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1991
    Assignee: Pundra Indostries Limited
    Inventor: Florian Westwinkel
  • Microscope accessory equipment container
    Patent number: 5061018
    Abstract: The microscope accessory equipment container is mounted on a surgical stand having an upright post mounted on a supporting member with one or more microscopes and supporting apparatus pivotably mounted on an upper portion of the post. One or more microscope accessory equipment containers are mounted below the microscopes. Each container has a ceiling two side walls, a front and rear wall and a floor. A hinged lid on a front edge of the ceiling descends downwardly to rest on a top edge of the front wall to form an enclosure for storing microscope accessories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1991
    Assignee: Time Surgical, Inc.
    Inventors: Jane M. Pederson, William R. Johnson
  • Telephone terminal bases
    Patent number: 5061023
    Abstract: A telephone terminal base for vertical mounting and with a front closure that is movable about a horizontal hinge axis to open and close the base. The hinge structure is formed by cooperable hinge parts on front and rear closures, the hinge parts slidable one upon the other along an arc of a circle centered upon the hinge axis. The hinge axis is positioned forwardly of the base and with the hinge parts spaced from the hinge axis, they are disposed entirely within the base. The front closure is preferably hinged to move downwardly from a vertical closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1991
    Assignee: Northern Telecom Limited
    Inventors: Marc P. Soubliere, Edward J. Foster