Patents Examined by P. Thibodeau
  • Patent number: 4210694
    Abstract: Laminated composite structural fitting is a joint fitting for transfer of mechanical loads from one member to another. The fitting has a bottom and an end, each for attachment to adjacent members and one or more sides to serve as a structural joining gusset. A flat sheet of composite material is shaped to form one bottom, one or more sides and two or more end pieces and is folded so as to form a laminated structure comprised of a plurality of interleaved layers arranged so that portions of the end pieces overlap at the corners between the ends and the sides of the composite structure to provide a multi-layer, strong corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1980
    Assignee: Lockheed Corporation
    Inventor: Lawrence D. Fogg, III
  • Patent number: 4204421
    Abstract: A laminated veneer hammerboard for a drop forge press comprised of a series of plies of hard, high density wood preferably of the order of a peeled hard maple veneer with the grain of at least most of said veneer plies running along its length, each of said plies of the hammerboard having a thickness in the range of 1/32" to 3/16", and glue deposited between the plies securing the plies together and providing a relatively large number of hard glue surfaces enhancing the wearability of the board, said plies having opposite vertical edges positioned for edgewise engagement with lift rollers on a drop forge press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Assignee: Marion Plywood Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas E. Rogers, Richard J. Rogers, Peter T. Rogers, James G. Rogers
  • Patent number: 4204420
    Abstract: A laminated veneer hammerboard for a drop forge press comprised of a series of plies of hard, high density wood preferably of the order of a peeled hard maple veneer with the grain of at least most of said veneer plies running along its length, each of said plies of the hammerboard having a thickness in the range of 1/32" to 3/16", and glue deposited between the plies securing the plies together and providing a relatively large number of hard glue surfaces enhancing the wearability of the board. Vertical edges of each ply being disposed at opposite ends of the hammerboard rather than along the width thereof, thus enabling each roller to engage an outer side surface of the outermost ply on each side of the hammerboard rather than directly against opposite vertical edges of each ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Assignee: Marion Plywood Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas E. Rogers, Richard J. Rogers, Peter T. Rogers, James G. Rogers
  • Patent number: 4204016
    Abstract: Wire reinforced paper products wherein wires are affixed to a paper layer or included within a paper structure with at least one paper layer conforming to the contour of the wires to supplement the rigidity produced by the wires and a corrugated paper structure including wires disposed therein. The paper products are manufactured in continuous processes which enable the use of one or two sets of parallel wires, the latter producing a wire grid structure. In the manufacture of corrugated structures one or two sets of wires may be included in the corrugated portion and the overlying layer or layers and in so doing the structural strength and moisture resistant characteristics of the resultant corrugated board may be increased several fold without materially increasing the cost of the board as compared with board using relatively heavy paper in order to achieve increased strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1980
    Inventor: Marc A. Chavannes
  • Patent number: 4199631
    Abstract: A design is fabricated by placing an outline of the design on a surface and covering the outline with fragments of material such as mother-of-pearl so that the fragments extend beyond the outer periphery of the outline. An opaque mask is placed on the fragments and the surface surrounding the fragments in registry with the outline to insure that the mask is properly aligned with the fragments. The mask conceals the fragments extending beyond the periphery of said outline as well as the surface to which the fragments are secured. The mask may include a pattern covering the fragments in the design for simulating a line between adjoining mother-of-pearl fragments which have been precisely cut to match each other as in a conventional mother-of-pearl design. Finally the fragments and the surrounding surface are covered with a clear sealant to protect the design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1980
    Inventor: Yong-Duek Cheon
  • Patent number: 4197341
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cellular core structural panel, comprising a plurality of bonded stacked segments, each segment being formed from a sheet characterized by a top portion having repeating peaks and troughs and sidewalls integral with the troughs. The cut-to-length segments are successively aligned so that each peak contacts the trough of the segment above it to form a cellular core panel with integral face sheets formed from the sidewalls of each segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1980
    Assignee: Hexcel Corporation
    Inventor: Edwin L. Rule
  • Patent number: 4192116
    Abstract: A taped and double cemented or glued rubber joint for use in connecting together the lapped cemented ends of adjacent cured rubber membranes in a roof construction, and for giving protection thereto. The lapping ends of the cured rubber membranes are sealed together by means of cement or the like, providing an adhesive contact system sealing the seam between adjacent membranes. An additional sealing means is provided which is premade and is adapted to be caused to adhere to both portions of both of the overlapping adjacent rubber membranes. This tape or additional sealing means is a composite structure and is applied over the seam between adjacent membranes providing double sealing structure and the tape comprises a lower uncured gum rubber strip which is applied over a portion of one rubber membrane which laps over a portion of the other rubber membrane and also includes a portion which extends over and is cemented to a part of the other membrane and adjacent to the end edge of the rubber membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1980
    Inventor: Thomas L. Kelly
  • Patent number: 4192494
    Abstract: A cutter mat for use as a cushion or support to be laid under a sheet of paper or synthetic resin when the sheet is cut or cut off by a cutter. The mat comprises a base plate of hard synthetic resin, an intermediate layer of semihard synthetic resin and a surface layer of soft synthetic resin which are laminated to each side of the base plate. The surface layer is formed on its surface with projections or indentations to prevent slippage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1980
    Assignee: Miwa Gomu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Rikichi Mima
  • Patent number: 4188415
    Abstract: A baseboard having through-holes for a printed circuit board which baseboard is made from a metal as a substrate, comprising at least one resin coat layer formed on the overall surface of the metal substrate including the inner wall surfaces of the through-holes and having, at the circumferential angular portions of the through-holes, a thickness larger than that on said upper and said lower surface of the metal substrate, and featured by its increased insulation characteristics at the circumferential angular portions of the through-holes, and a method of producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1980
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takahashi, Kiyoshi Nakao, Masaaki Katagiri
  • Patent number: 4186508
    Abstract: A line guide for a fishing rod having a circular laminate (14) of resin-impregnated graphite fibers and a linear foot laminate (13) of resin-impregnated graphite fibers. The foot is attached to the circular laminate by winding some of the fibers (14) of the circular laminate underlying the foot and others (14') overlying the foot, and then heat-curing the assembly to produce a monolithic line guide and foot structure (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignee: Shakespeare Company
    Inventor: Arthur M. Howald
  • Patent number: 4187341
    Abstract: In a magnetic recording tape having a total thickness of 4.0 to 14.5 microns, the base thickness to magnetic layer thickness ratio is from 2:3 to 3:2, the base Young's modulus to magnetic layer Young's modulus ratio is from 1:2 to 2:1 and the tensile strength at 0.5% elongation is .sqroot.d/16 Kg or more to the total thickness d (micron).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Suzuki, Osamu Suzuki, Goro Akashi
  • Patent number: 4187340
    Abstract: A paste comprising particles of an inorganic oxide and a vehicle is printed on portions of a substrate which are not to be coated with a transparent electro-conductive film. A low valence oxide film of an electro-conductive metal oxide is deposited on the printed substrate by a vacuum deposition process. The resulting substrate is heated in an atmosphere containing oxygen, whereby the film is oxidized to form a transparent, highly electro-conductive film and the vehicle present in the paste is decomposed to yield a patterned, transparent electro-conductive film on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rokuji Oishi, Yasuharu Okajima, Satoshi Noguchi, Kazuyuki Akeyoshi
  • Patent number: 4184589
    Abstract: A dimensionally stable synthetic internal support conveyor belt which comprises (a) at least one homogeneous, flat tape of a molecularly oriented plastic with a modulus of elasticity of 15,000 to 25,000 kp/cm.sup.2. This tape has a fixed profile on both of its large area surfaces and includes reinforcement ribs arranged with their components extending predominantly in the longitudinal direction of the tape. Binding layers are composed of an elastic material with a modulus of elasticity of 800 to 1,000 kp/cm.sup.2 and interlock with the profile on both sides of the tape. Each of the binding layers may be covered with a synthetic fabric. Each of the two binding layers with each of the two synthetic fabrics may be covered with a cover plate of elastomers or thermoplastics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1980
    Assignee: Habasit AG
    Inventor: Fernand Habegger
  • Patent number: 4181548
    Abstract: A three layer laminated plastic cushioning material having a substantially flat central layer with sealed air pockets formed on both sides of the central layer between the central layer and layers positioned on opposite sides of the central layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1980
    Inventor: Joseph L. Weingarten
  • Patent number: 4181763
    Abstract: A non-chemical, mechanical process for antiquing wood applying a high temperature flame to the surface of a variety of woods for short periods of time, is provided. The processed pieces of variously shaped wood can be coated and are useful as decorative articles and home furnishings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1980
    Inventor: Robert L. Shellenberger
  • Patent number: 4181556
    Abstract: Composite panels that include a metal skeleton of two superposed metal plates or sheets having groups of protruding bridge-shaped elements that extend into the interspace between the plates or sheets and overlap in a manner to form one or more elongated cage-like columns; a coherent matrix material made of a flowable or pourable mineral and/or organic matrix precursor is provided to substantially fill the interspace to form a substantially rigid compound structure of the panel constituents due to the plate-interlocking function of the cage-like columns. The panels can be flat or curved and are suitable as structural materials, notably as load supporting walls for buildings. Methods for producing such composite panels in a batchwise or continuous operation are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1980
    Assignee: Loewe Anstalt
    Inventor: Hans-Beat Fehlmann
  • Patent number: 4180611
    Abstract: A nonwoven fabric having a smooth surface, especially for use as support material for semipermeable membranes, comprising a support mat into which at least one surface thereof, an open-structured, continuous covering layer of fine, thermoplastic particles is calendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1979
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Wolfram Schultheiss, Klaus Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4179319
    Abstract: A laminated sealing article comprising a layer of adhesive sandwiched between a pair of cross-linked, dimensionally heat unstable wafers of polymeric material. The article is provided with a plurality of apertures adapted to receive a corresponding plurality of substrates. The gaps between the plurality of substrates are sealed by heating the article to the recovery temperature of the wafers. This heating causes the layer of adhesive to bond to the substrates and the wafers to recover around the substrates thereby forming a seal between all of the substrates and the article. The heat recoverable article of the invention is particularly well adapted for use in a method of environmentally sealing the rear of an electrical connector of the type having a plurality of individually insulated electrical conductors extending from a tubular rear portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1979
    Assignee: Raychem Corporation
    Inventor: Clyde A. Lofdahl
  • Patent number: 4177306
    Abstract: Laminated sectional girders having webs and flanges may be formed to incre the shear stresses thereof by including as a structural part of the girder at least one connecting layer extending through both the flanges and webs of the girder and made of prefabricated sections with additional girder layers being arranged adjacent the sections of the connecting layer. The additional adjacent layers may comprise both fiber-reinforced material layers forming the laminated flanges of the girder as well as the webs thereof. The additional layers may be arranged either between prefabricated sections of the connecting layer or they may be arranged outside of the prefabricated sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1979
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Ralf-Thilo Schulz, Klaus Brunsch, Ludwig Lemmer
  • Patent number: 4176479
    Abstract: A label manufactured from sheet-shaped material, comprising a first part destined for bearing information and a second part connected with the first part and destined to be secured to an article, characterized in that the second part consists of a strip of sheet-shaped material provided with a plurality of incisions extending substantially in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1979
    Assignee: B. V. Etikettenfabriek Gebroeders Mogendorff
    Inventor: Paul A. L. l'Hoir