Patents Examined by Kimberly Smith
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Patent number: 8028661Abstract: An enclosure is provided having openings for entry of rodents within the enclosure. There is arranged one or more applicators in the form of a suspended flexible web configured to contact rodents entering the chamber and having a chemical on the web for application to the rodents.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignees: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bayer Cropscience S.A., B & G Equipment CompanyInventors: Gary O. Maupin, Marc C. Dolan, Nicholas Hamon, Eric J. Snell
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Patent number: 8028468Abstract: A bait station system has a bait station mounted to a base. The bait station has the general shape of a box with a locking hinged lid. The box has side walls with openings so that rodents can enter into the box and gain access to poison bait or a mechanical trap. The base has a lower tray for receiving a weight. The lower tray has a lower surface which may be glued, attached by a screw, bolt, or earth anchor to a planar surface. The bait station is releasably mounted to the base by a locking mechanism which can be unlocked only by gaining access to the interior of the box forming the bait station.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2009Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Bell Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: James R. Walsh, Daniel C. Johnson
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Patent number: 8025031Abstract: An aquarium snail collection system and method, including a collector that is void of any enclosing structure and having a base and a substantially continuous and substantially permeable sidewall that extends upwardly from a central portion of the base to define an interior bait cavity. An upper portion of the sidewall is left open to permit easy access to the bait cavity and also to provide a structure that does not trap air that might cause the collector to float upwardly from the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2009Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Inventor: Robert O. Fox
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Patent number: 8015745Abstract: A fishing device for indicating a lure strike from fishes is disclosed. The device may be a strike indicator that may include a hollow body filled with trapped air, where the strike indicator includes a tab having an opening formed therein and a grommet made from a hard, durable material seated in the opening. Alternatively, the device may be a fishing lure that may be attachable to a fishing hook and having a hollow body filled with trapped air and an attachment mechanism for attaching the lure to the fishing leader and/or fishing line. For example, the fishing lure may be a fishing fly having a hollow body filled with trapped air. In either embodiment, the device may be made from a lightweight, resilient material, for example ethylene vinyl acetate or other similar thermoplastic material.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2007Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Inventor: Brian Spencer Westover
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Patent number: 8001716Abstract: A fishing rod having improved strength and durability to weight characteristics is provided using a thermoplastic toughened epoxy resin. The method of manufacturing this fishing rod includes the use of an insulating layer around rod blanks during a high temperature cure stage.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: The Orvis Company, Inc.Inventors: James B. Lepage, James B. Logan, Steven M. Hemkens
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Patent number: 7992342Abstract: The balanced fishing rod support and leverage device comprises an angled rod engaging portion extending upwardly from a balanced pivotable base at a centered position along the base. A free end of the rod engaging portion is adapted to receive a butt of a fishing pole therein and the base is adapted to be engaged under the feet of a user, with the rod engaging portion extending upwardly therebetween. The device is pivotable toward and away from a user to be used to leverage a fish toward the user without allowing for horizontal buckling of the rod and device.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2005Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Inventor: James R. Ziober
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Patent number: 6408796Abstract: A plastic resin hutch has rigid ends spanned by a flexible cover disposed in grooves along the inside perimeter of the rigid ends. In one embodiment, the flexible cover is supported by metal rods attached to the rigid ends. In another embodiment, the cover is supported at the top by a channel and at the bottom by a radius both formed by flexing the cover along longitudinal kerf grooves on one side of the cover. The rigid ends are formed by a twin-sheet vacuum thermo-forming, blow molding or roto-molding process so as to include a door panel. The door panel includes a door that is partially cut free from the door panel so as to be integrally hinged to the door panel. The resin hutch may be transported in two shipping packages within the weight and size restrictions of common commercial couriers.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1999Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Inventor: Lance T. Hampel
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Patent number: 6302061Abstract: The present invention consists of a pet carrier with two compartments. The first compartment, in which the pet is placed, consists only of side walls and a bottom. The second compartment consists only of side walls and a top. The second compartment is configured to be placed, in telescopic fashion, directly over the first compartment. In this manner, the second compartment moves up and down in a vertical plane from a lowered position in which it substantially covers the first compartment, representing the smaller or collapsed configuration of the carrier, to a raised position over the first compartment, representing the carrier's larger or expanded configuration. The two compartments are locked in the raised and lowered positions by manually operated spring snap locks. Releasing the snap locks simply and instantaneously allows the carrier to be collapsed or expanded.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2000Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Inventors: John Weatherby, Mabel Hinds
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Patent number: 6289625Abstract: A gun scope overlay device for diminishing the parallax affect when using a gun scope. The gun scope overlay device includes a panel. The panel has a front side and a back side. The panel is substantially transparent. The panel has a generally circular shape. The panel has a medial portion having a generally opaque mark thereon. The opaque mark has a generally circular shape. The opaque mark has a hole therein. The hole is positioned in a central portion of the opaque mark. The panel comprises a flexible material. The back side of the panel is adapted for removably securing to a lens. The panel is coupled to the rear lens of a gun scope.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2000Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Inventor: Mark G. Phares
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Patent number: 6286432Abstract: A primer assembly includes a head loading assembly including a frontward throughbore, and a rearward throughbore having a stop. A closing plug assembly includes a conically bored open frontward end and an open cylindrical rearward end including an outer flange between the frontward and rearward ends. The closing plug assembly is press fitted into the head loading assembly frontward throughbore. An ignition element assembly is press fitted into the head loading assembly rearward throughbore. The ignition element assembly has an ignition element portion that bears against the stop. The closing plug assembly and the ignition element are located to be captivated by threading a flashtube into a head loading assembly threaded portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1999Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: Alliant Techsystems Inc.Inventor: John L. Reider
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Patent number: 6272994Abstract: A flashtube liner for a primer assembly including a head loading assembly. A flashtube containing an ignition charge has an open rearward end connected to the head loading assembly. A closing plug assembly includes a conically bored open frontward end and an open cylindrical rearward end that may include an optional outer flange between the frontward and rearward ends. The closing plug assembly is attached to the head loading assembly located rearwardly of the flashtube. A flashtube liner has a flange at an open rearward end. The flashtube liner is inserted into the flashtube to line the inner wall of the flashtube. The flashtube liner is held in place by the flashtube impinging the flashtube liner flange between the head loading assembly or the optional flange, and the open rearward end of the flashtube. The flashtube liner is constructed of an extruded plastic material.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1999Date of Patent: August 14, 2001Assignee: Alliant Techsystems Inc.Inventor: John L. Reider
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Patent number: 6250253Abstract: A fish resuscitating apparatus includes a container of pressurized oxygen-rich fluid medium such as a gas or liquid. A valve controllably couples the fluid medium to a dispensing tip which is dimensioned to fit within the mouth of the fish. The dispensing tip is porous or perforated to allow the fluid to enter the mouth of the fish for aiding the fish in recovering from being caught. A kit of parts includes a container, a valve, and a plurality of tips of different dimensions, for use with different types of fish.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2000Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Inventor: David Jonathan Margulis
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Patent number: 6250254Abstract: An animal chew including a plurality of fibers which are wound together to form rope strands. Two or more rope strands are twisted together to form a rope segment. A ribbon baring indicia is either interlaced with the rope segments or helically twisted around the perimeter of the rope segment. The indicia printed on the ribbon can either be of a fun nature, a commercial nature, or a public safety nature.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1999Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Inventor: Charles Weinacker
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Patent number: 6244214Abstract: A method of injecting a plurality of bird eggs comprises: (a) orienting a plurality of avian eggs in a predetermined position; (b) forming an opening in the shell of each of the eggs; (c) extending an elongate delivery device through each of the openings and into the eggs, each of the delivery devices comprising a detector and an injection needle, with the injection needle having a lumen formed therein; (d) detecting with the detector information from the interior of each of the plurality of eggs; and (e) injecting a substance into each of the plurality of eggs through the lumen of said injection needle. The detected information can be used for a variety of purposes, including adjusting the depth of penetration of the injection needle to more precisely control the location of the injection, identifying the gender of the eggs for subsequent sorting of the eggs, distinguishing viable from non-viable eggs, etc.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Embrex, Inc.Inventor: John H. Hebrank
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Patent number: 6202562Abstract: An anti-personnel projectile launched from a 12 gauge shotgun shell required at impact to have a low lethality consequence, in which the projectile is fitted in the shell in a shape characterized by a blunt end in the direction of flight and maintained in this shape by oppositely directed air resistance and propelling forces to obviate a change of shape during flight that might cause a serious injury.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1999Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Inventors: Michael Brunn, Jacob Kravel