Patents Examined by Louis G. Mancene
  • Composite balloon figure and method of making the same
    Patent number: 4213267
    Abstract: The method of forming a composite balloon figure having a small balloon within a parent balloon and the resultant product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1980
    Inventor: Eugene E. Curtis
  • Amusement vehicle
    Patent number: 4213269
    Abstract: A toy tank is disclosed having tracks and a cannon supported on a turret. The tracks consist of multi-element, hingeable links forming a chain type loop supported by tensioned rollers and idlers such that the tracks are articulated realistically in accordance with the contours of the surface on which the tank travels. The turret carries a cannon for dispensing bullet-like projectiles in a realistic fashion. Atop the turret is a projectile containing and feeding mechanism which automatically loads the breech of the cannon when the cannon ram rod or plunger is fully withdrawn therefrom in order that same is cocked for the next firing sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1980
    Inventor: Charles J. Grogg, Sr.
  • Poultry cages
    Patent number: 4212269
    Abstract: An array of vertically spaced rows of poultry cages are mounted on opposite sides of A-frame end supports with the uppermost rows engaging and secured to one another along a corner to provide additional stability to the frame. Load transferring hooks are coupled between vertically spaced cages to provide support for the inwardly projecting ends of the cages while the cages at opposite ends of the subassembly are mounted to the legs of the A-frame by brackets. Longitudinally formed struts extend and are coupled along the top edge of each row of cages for providing longitudinal strength to the cages while simultaneously compressively gripping a manure shield draped over a rear inclined surface of each of the cages. Improved integrally formed tab means are formed in a support bracket at the end of each row of cages for interlocking subassemblies in an installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1980
    Assignee: U.S. Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles A. White, W. Ronald Williams
  • Dental handpiece
    Patent number: 4212640
    Abstract: A dental handpiece having a sleeve, an axial drive shaft in the sleeve for driving a dental instrument at one end of the handpiece, a first coolant supply line in the handpiece, a second coolant supply line extending axially towards the dental instrument, and a coolant duct in the wall of the sleeve which intercommunicates the first and second coolant lines. The coolant duct extends rectilinearly and generally radially between an inner end which faces the interior of the sleeve and which communicates with the first coolant line, and an outer end which communicates with and is releasably connected to the second line at a location in the wall of the sleeve and which permits manipulation externally of the handpiece for releasing and connecting the duct and the second line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1980
    Assignee: Kaltenbach & Voigt GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hans Loge, Eugen Eibofner, Bernhard Kuhn, Heinrich Reich
  • Machine for cutting and conditioning forage
    Patent number: 4212144
    Abstract: A machine for cutting and conditioning forage comprises a main frame having, pivotally connected thereto, a cutter platform carrying a cutter bar and two counter-rotating transverse rolls for crushing the forage cut by the cutter bar; the cutter platform is attached at each side to the main frame by an upper side arm and a lower side arm the latter being a hydraulic actuator, the arrangement being such that when the hydraulic actuators are extended from the fully retracted position the upper side arms first turn about their pivots, allowing preliminary forward movement of the cutter platform with respect to the main frame, before they meet respective abutments which prevent further movement, whereupon the cutter platform turns about the pivots fixing it to the upper side arms and is raised from the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1980
    Assignee: Pietro Laverda S.P.A.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Raineri
  • Framing means for framing a picture or other object
    Patent number: 4212122
    Abstract: Framing means for pictures and like objects includes a frame having a substantially L-shaped cross-section to define a front flange for supporting a picture holding set assembled of a transparent plate, a picture or the like object, resilient insert and a relatively rigid back board; the rear face of the frame is formed with juxtaposed pairs of inwardly directed, V-shaped projections which are spaced at such a distance from each other and from said front flange as to receive and hold in a fixed position said picture holding set while said resilient insert is in compressed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1980
    Inventor: Paul Reim
  • Engine compartment label
    Patent number: 4211021
    Abstract: This invention relates to a pressure sensitive adhesive label which can be used under severe service conditions such as those found in an automobile engine compartment.The label comprises a laminate comprising a temperature stable woven or non-woven fabric having an ink receptive coating on a first side and a high performance pressure sensitive adhesive coating on the other side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1980
    Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Amprim, Frederick P. Williams
  • Fish raising
    Patent number: 4211183
    Abstract: Raising food fish utilizing apparatus including a fish tank having a biological filter submerged in it, by recirculating water through the biological filter to remove ammonia, the water in the fish tank being intermittently recirculated and returned to the tank to add oxygen and the fish periodically being fed until they reach marketable size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1980
    Inventor: David P. Hoult
  • Dental treatment chair assembly
    Patent number: 4209907
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a dental treatment chair assembly wherein the assembly is detachably positioned inside the backrest of the chair and comprises a number of cartridge boxes; each of the boxes contains therein an instrument and an extensible connecting pipe and means for assisting manual extension and reeling-in of the pipes from the top of the shoulder part of the backrest, whereby a dentist can arrange the type, number and position of dental instruments in compliance with his convenience and desire by arranging the cartridge boxes. Any instrument can be removed and repaired by withdrawing the cartridge box that contains the defective instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1980
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Morita Seisakusho
    Inventors: Naonobu Tsukada, Katsuyoshi Nishimura
  • Labeling tab for hanging folders
    Patent number: 4209925
    Abstract: A plastic tab for labeling hanging files and folders provided with slots along the upper edges thereof, comprises a U-shaped label section, a flap extension section connected to the U-shaped label section and which abuts the outer face of one of the flaps, and a tongue extending from the flap extension section and inclined out of the plane thereof so as to engage the edge of a slot in the hanging folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1980
    Inventor: Dirk A. Brugmann
  • Dental apparatus
    Patent number: 4209909
    Abstract: Styluses defining a hinge axis in a dental articulator are received in guide block pathways defined by side walls and a curved upper wall. The blocks are rotatably mounted to vary the slope of the upper wall. A supply of guide blocks is provided having a medial wall with a rear curved portion which varies for different blocks based on average values. The user selects the blocks having the desired medial wall to provide the desired side shift. In one arrangement, the side walls are formed as a unit and removeably mounted on the upper wall and the user selects the side wall unit from a supply of units providing different degrees of side shift movement. In another form, the medial wall is transversely adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1980
    Inventor: Robert L. Lee
  • Toy ejector apparatus
    Patent number: 4209940
    Abstract: A novel toy apparatus includes a base having a pair of spaced apart, opposite, upstanding, hollow bodies open at the upper end for containing a projectile. An ejector tongue is provided in each body for propelling the projectile out of the open top of one body toward the open top of the opposite body. A manually rotated operator is provded for sequentially activating the ejector tongue in the respective bodies so that the projectile is propelled back and forth during play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1980
    Assignee: Marvin Glass & Associates
    Inventors: Burton C. Meyer, Leonid Kripak, Fritz Fauser
  • Set of artificial molar teeth
    Patent number: 4208794
    Abstract: A set of artificial molar teeth composed of two respective upper and two respective lower premolars and two respective upper and two respective lower molars, wherein at each pair of superimposed teeth the one tooth has a mastication furrow or groove and the other tooth at the side of the gum possesses a protuberance coacting with the mastication groove of the one tooth. In order to realize successive contact of the teeth of the first premolars to the second molars there is provided a stepped reduction of the tooth angle and/or a stepped reduction in the size of the friction path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1980
    Assignee: Dentalgerate "Condylator" Peter T. Gerber
    Inventor: Albert Gerber
  • Air bearing for a dental handpiece
    Patent number: 4209293
    Abstract: This invention relates to a driving mechanism of an air bearing journaled handpiece for dental treatment, the mechanism being improved in that even when a load contrary to the direction of rotation of a tool shaft such as cutting of the teeth acts upon the tool shaft in a dental operation, rotation of the tool shaft does not stop because of load resistance but enables the heretofore, unmaterialized medium-speed cutting (hereinafter referred to as "extension to medium-speed rotation") and makes it possible to obtain improved torque during high-speed rotation in addition to the extension to medium-speed rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1980
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Morita Seisakusho
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugai, Shoji Nakayama
  • Movable sound producing model
    Patent number: 4207704
    Abstract: A movable model of an animal is described in which a driving mechanism adapted to operate synchronously with generation of a sound by a control circuit is incorporated in a simulated animal-like body portion formed of a soft foamed urethane block which has been shaped to the external configuration of a human or animal, and an operating end of said driving mechanism is joined to a part of said soft foamed urethane block forming the body portion of the model so as to induce movement of the moving parts of said body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1980
    Assignee: Tokyo Design Kogei Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mineo Akiyama
  • Beehive
    Patent number: 4207637
    Abstract: A beehive of generally circular configuration including a continuously wound combination of a resilient cellular strip and a plastic strip corrugated transversely of its length, the corrugations being spaced less than about one-half inch and having a depth less than about one-half inch, the wound strip combination being disposed on a common backing surface with one edge of the cellular and plastic strips in contact therewith, and retaining structure maintaining the wound strip combination against the common backing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1980
    Inventor: Mark J. Niebur
  • Frame with convertible easel support
    Patent number: 4207694
    Abstract: For greeting card display an inexpensive, novel, centrally apertured, end-insertion, one-piece frame with attractive front design or coloring, employing a standing/hanging back triangular easel of wire or a double triangle back easel of frame backing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1980
    Assignee: Dickey, Inc.
    Inventor: Avis M. Dickey
  • Game call
    Patent number: 4207703
    Abstract: A game call or the like whistle which includes a housing member with a mouthpiece and two air chambers with one of the air chambers having a constant volume and the other air chamber having a variable volume containing therein a piston arm for changing the volume of the variable chamber. The game call is formed by the cooperation of a top portion and a bottom portion which when placed together form the two air chambers and mouthpiece with a common wall separating the two chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1980
    Inventor: Michael Saso
  • Bird feeder
    Patent number: 4207839
    Abstract: A bird feeder having an opened topped hemispherical bird feed container suspended below a hemispherical cover which extends laterally beyond the perimeter of the container, the suspension for the container being pivotally mounted closely adjacent the innermost central portion of the hemispherical cover whereby upon tilting of the cover, at least the lowermost portion of the cover will overlap the adjacent portion of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1980
    Inventor: Bernard R. Barry
  • Mechanical writing instrument
    Patent number: 4207695
    Abstract: A mechanical writing instrument is provided with conversion equivalent displayed from within the instrument. An outer casing has a plurality of slots through which conversion tables around an inner shell may be selectively viewed by turning an adjustment cap which also protracts and retracts the ballpoint pen tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1980
    Inventor: Carmine Penza, Jr.