Patents Examined by Kurt C. Rowan
  • Patent number: 5256095
    Abstract: An electrode of a discharge lamp which has an improved adhesion between an emitter material and a filament is formed in accordance with the following method. That is, a Fe-Cr-Al alloy is used as the filament. The filament is placed in a heated oxidizing environment to precipitate an aluminum oxide layer uniformly in a surface thereof. Thus precipitated aluminum oxide layer has good adhesion with the filament without flaking thereof. The aluminum oxide layer is coated with triple carbonates consisting of barium carbonate, calcium carbonate and strontium carbonate, so that a carbonate coated filament is obtained. And then, the coated filament is heated in vacuum to reduce the carbonates to their alkaline earth oxides of the emitter material, and also to form a complex oxide consisting of the aluminum oxide and the alkaline earth oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Takegawa, Shigetoshi Sakon, Shuji Yamada
  • Patent number: 5255467
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic fishing sinker attached to a fishing line and leader to which a lure is connected. The sinker comprises a plate member having upper and lower surfaces, a fin attached to the upper surface at one end thereof, and weights attached to the lower surface at the opposite end thereof. An arm is pivotally connected at one end to the plate member, the opposite end thereof being connected to a fishing line. The arm is movable towards the plate member when the latter assumes a diving attitude. A clip assembly is fixed to one of the plate member surfaces and lockingly engages a latch assembly carried by the arm, to hold the sinker in set position. The clip assembly is disengaged from the latch assembly under force exerted on the arm by a fish striking the lure or by a fisherman pulling on the fishing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Inventor: Robert K. Haskell
  • Patent number: 5255468
    Abstract: An insect attracting and capturing apparatus particularly suitable for capturing and killing mosquitoes. The apparatus has a light source for attracting insects. A fan establishes an air current into an insect receiving opening, and establishes turbulent air flows in the vicinity of the apparatus. An air flow directing flange directs air into the insect receiving opening and into the fan. The insect receiving opening leads to a narrow channel that directs air into the fan. Insects having an upward flight reflex to sensed changes in air flow direction and/or velocity will detect the air flow created by the fan, fly upwardly, and be captured in the air flow. An electrified grid is provided inside the passageway for electrocuting admitted insects. The position of the electrified grid inside the channel and in the inward air flow muffles sound from electrocution of insects. One embodiment uses ultraviolet light as an attractant, and another embodiment uses light, heat and motion to attract insects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Bugvac U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph M. Cheshire, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5253446
    Abstract: A fishing lure apparatus is disclosed which includes a substantially elliptical or tear-drop shaped ring or rings defining a central opening, the ring corresponding generally in profile and size to a fishing bait. The ring allows fluid to flow transversely through the center opening as the ring is drawn through a body of water in a direction perpendicular to fluid flow in the body of water. The lure also includes a fishing hook mounted to a projection extending out from the ring. Attached to another projection are means for attracting fish, which may include spinners and the like. The rings are made from metal wire, or from solid or hollow polymeric material. Skirts, spoons and other optical attracting devices are contemplated as fish attracting elements of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Inventor: Donald E. Ogle
  • Patent number: 5253450
    Abstract: An insect trap is made by cutting and folding blanks of a pliable material. The insect trap is comprised of two pieces: a multifaceted, hollow chamber and a tubular inlet. The chamber is made from a blank of cardboard having tabs and slits which can be folded and the tabs inserted into the slits to form, in a preferred embodiment, a frustum of a hollow, pyramid having a port at a truncated apex. The port is open to the hollow interior. The tubular inlet is made from a blank cut from paper having an adhesive side and folded in a revolute manner to form a shape of a frustum of a tubular pyramid that has a plurality of tongues extending outward from an open base of the pyramid. The insect trap is assembled by inserting the inlet into the port of the multifaceted chamber and pressing the adhesive side of the tongues down against the facets of the chamber thereby joining the facets together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Inventor: Scott Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 5253795
    Abstract: A plate of a battery is positioned so that a strap connected to the plate is located on a side of the plate, and a pedestal of a resin-wrapped post is fit in a notch formed in the strap. A first protection plate is installed between a contact portion of the pedestal with the notch and a resin portion of the resin-wrapped post, and a second protection plate is installed between the contact portion and the plate. A flame of a burner is applied onto the contact portion from above the strap and the pedestal at a spot between the both protection plates so as to weld the pedestal to the strap without causing the resin portion to become molten or the post from becoming misshapen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Yuasa Battery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakazu Sato
  • Patent number: 5253448
    Abstract: An adhesive ribbon for catching flies comprising:a band-shaped adhesive paper having two sides and an upper part and a lower part, the upper part having a groove thereon for folding the upper part and the upper part also having a vent therethrough;a floral design printed on each side of the paper;a transparent adhesive agent coated on both sides of the adhesive paper except for the upper part;a millboard attached to the lower part of the adhesive paper; andan oiled paper removably attached to both sides and the upper part of the adhesive paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Inventor: Gilgyu Byom
  • Patent number: 5253444
    Abstract: A bird repellent apparatus having a base member and a plurality of top members, each of which holds a plurality of prongs. The base member, by means of a plurality of tabs having holes for receiving screws or other fasteners, can be affixed to virtually any desired surface with little or no risk of injury to the installer. The top member comprises a prong holder, each having a plurality of prongs with sharp tips presenting an impossible barrier to birds that would otherwise land or perch on the surface to which the present invention is affixed. The top members are adapted to be press fit onto the base member after the base member has been installed on the underlying surface. In an alternative embodiment, the base member is an extruded plastic structure that provides countersunk holes to secure the base member to the underlying surface without the need for tabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Inventors: Bruce A. Donoho, Richard V. Wells
  • Patent number: 5253447
    Abstract: A fishing jig having special utility in trolling or drift fishing for bottom feeding fish, such as walleye, is constructed of a metal wire or rod. The wire or rod is bent so as to form two depending legs of unequal length having a loop formed at the juncture of the legs. The shorter leg is provided with a wound eye through which the longer leg passes. One or more sinkers can be placed on the longer leg before insertion of the leg into the eye. An alternative embodiment includes the provision of a trailing arm extending from the proximity of the loop for attaching lines and/or leaders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Inventor: Lavern R. Rhinehart
  • Patent number: 5251396
    Abstract: A fishing tackle comprising a line, an attachment member comprising a sleeve rotatably mounted on the line, the sleeve having an attachment means to which an intermediate member is secured for movement of the intermediate member relative to the attachment member and the intermediate member being connected to a snood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1993
    Assignee: Entaco Limited
    Inventor: Leonard Haigh
  • Patent number: 5252098
    Abstract: A method of high voltage treatment for a cathode ray tube having a neck including one end closed with a stem and housing an electron gun and stem pins for a focus electrode, and other electrodes of the electron gun, establishes a high pressure gas atmosphere around the neck, and establishes a voltage which is sufficiently higher than the operating voltage of the cathode ray tube between the stem pins when the high pressure gas atmosphere. In order to prevent a creeping discharge due to the voltage applied to the stem pins, the temperature of the neck is maintained above the temperature of said high pressure gas atmosphere during the voltage application. In an alternative method, the dew point of the high pressure gas atmosphere is set at, at most, 25.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1993
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kinjiro Sano, Wataru Imanishi, Yoshihisa Nakajima, Maasaki Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 5251395
    Abstract: Durable, colorfast elastomer fishing lure dressings and lures including same wherein silicone based colorants are printed onto the dressing material. In a preferred construction, a planar, elastomer substrate is printed on desired upper and lower surfaces with a silicone based colorant in desired patterns. The colorant is permanently fixed in a subsequent thermal curing step. Metalized, accent foils may be bonded to the colorant before curing. The colorant comprises a liquid vinyl silicone carrier which may include varieties of colored pigments, scents, glitters and chromatic particulates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1993
    Inventor: Craig Wicklund
  • Patent number: 5251397
    Abstract: An illuminated flea trap having a tray and a cover injection-molded of thermoplastic material, one a duplicate of the other, each having support members formed integrally therewith are mounted in spaced vertical relation to one another using the support members, the cover having an electric light mounted thereto. The cover is formed of a lightly colored translucent material allowing the cover to act as a light diffuser providing a glowing surface for enhanced flea attraction, and sheet material having an adhesive on one surface thereof is placed in the tray for trapping fleas that are attracted to the light and leap into the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1993
    Assignee: Happy Jack, Inc.
    Inventors: Joe Exum, Jess Mellenthin
  • Patent number: 5249388
    Abstract: A storage container for fish. The container has at least one receiving slot for accepting fish and an insert is provided with a mouth and a flange that corresponds in shape to the slot. The insert includes a rearwardly and downwardly projecting tongue, which projects from the rear side of the flange and into the interior chamber, thereby providing a passageway to the interior chamber for the fish deposited into the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Outboard Marine Corporation
    Inventor: Cleo G. Crabtree
  • Patent number: 5247760
    Abstract: A cutting tool and clamp for cutting a fishing rig or lure from the end of a fishing line and holding the line threaded through the line guides on the fishing rod in a ready condition for the next use. Removing the hooks from the end of the line prevents tangles and injuries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Inventor: Kirt E. Lowry
  • Patent number: 5245781
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a spinning fish lure having a rigid plastic helical shaped spinner body mounted on a braided strand wire lanyard about which is the axis of rotation. The helical spinner body is disposed on the wire lanyard through hubs in the body proper coincident on the longitudinal centerline of the helix pattern. The spinning body bears on a bead displacably mounted on the lanyard. The lanyard provides a line connection at the fore end and has a hook connected at the aft end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Inventor: Jeffrey B. Helmuth
  • Patent number: 5245782
    Abstract: The invention is a fishing lure having a lure body supporting a fish hook, the lure body having an exterior surface bearing a blood-splattered pattern, a pair of downward wings and a reflective eye in each of the wings, the fish hook extending in a direction corresponding to that of the drooping wings, whereby the eyes are visible to an observer from either side of the lure as well as from the top or bottom, light transmissive chambers extending from the rear of each of the eyes to a back surface of each of the wings, whereby to admit light rearwardly into each of the eyes, and a concave bottom surface on the lure body. A brush feather extends upwardly from the lure body in a plane of the hook and extending away from the hook, whereby to provide a rudder stabilization function during travel of the lure body through water. A flexible fish model is preferably impaled on the hook, the fish model having plural tail tips which flutter in response to water flow past the lure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Inventor: William E. Pahle
  • Patent number: 5245783
    Abstract: A fishing jig and methods of manufacturing a jig. The fishing jig comprises a shaft and a hook formed at one end of the shaft. A translucent bead is connected at an opposite end of the shaft so as to form a head thereon. An eyelet is connected to the second end of the shaft and is arranged adjacent to the translucent head. In a method of manufacturing a fishing jig, a passageway is cut within a translucent bead so that a shaft of a jig can be placed within the bead so that the bead forms a translucent head of the jig. The translucent head is then secured to the shaft by filling the passageway with an adhesive filler, preferably a transparent adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Inventor: Dennis M. Cumiskey
  • Patent number: 5243780
    Abstract: The present invention includes a fishing float having three or more vanes extending radially from a longitudinal axis. The vanes provide the floatation section with a large profile relative to the cross-sectional area of the float. The vanes can be selectively detached from the center stem of the float. Also included is a line retention system that allows switching between a slip mode and stationary mode with minor modification in the placement of a sleeve fitted over a slot formed in one end of the float. Also disclosed is the ability of the present invention to be adapted for use with known pencil bobbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Inventor: Everett B. Christensen
  • Patent number: 5243781
    Abstract: A fly trap has a housing body with an entry conduit mounted within the housing body and supported therein. A lure holding tray is supported by the legs underneath the open bottom of the entry conduit and is adapted to receive a fly attractant mixture therein. The bait is formed from organic, non-toxic, non-hazardous material, which can be safely exposed to the environment for the purposes of attracting the flies into the fly trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Inventor: Danny B. Carter