Patents Examined by S. Rimell
  • Patent number: 5004442
    Abstract: Improvements in figure toys, such as dolls which are configured, decorated, clothed and provided with toys and accessories to educate and entertain, to simulate growth and provide the appearance of the same living being or person at different stages of growth and development. In one form, a series of lifesize or scaled dolls or figure toys are each constructed and facially shaped to represent the same living being or person at a different age or stage in its development. In a particular form, baby dolls are designed and constructed to represent the same person shortly after birth, six months old, twelve months old, two and three years old. In such form, all dolls are manufactured and constructed approximately to scale if not full size. The facial features of one doll are substantially those of the other dolls at their respective simulated ages. Clothing and accessories for each doll are those which would normally be provided to dress a baby or child of a similar age.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1991
    Inventors: Jerome H. Lemelson, Dorothy Lemelson
  • Patent number: 4970972
    Abstract: A mobile seedling transplanting machine adapted to transfer growing seedlings from propagating containers to a field in proper position for further growth. The machine includes indexing apparatus for indexing the seedling propagating cells in sequence past a transfer mechanism which ejects the seedlings and transfers them to a handling device having two pairs of rotatable discs, the first pair of which grips each seedling by its root end and moves it part way toward the ground and the second pair of which subsequently receives each seedling from the first pair, grips it by its foliage end, and moves it closer to the ground. The second pair of discs releases each seedling in succession to a prepared planting ground formed by a plough shoe or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Williames Hi-Tech International Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Geoffrey A. Williames
  • Patent number: 4971593
    Abstract: A supporting device for stuffed toys or other similar items in the form of a generally vertically disposed support post or pole having a plurality of areas of hook and loop pile fabric material sold under the trademark "Velcro" mounted thereon which will effectively support stuffed toys with a "plush" surface that will"stick" to the "Velcro" areas. The vertical post is supported on a base for rotation about a generally vertical axis and handles are provided on the post to facilitate its rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Sheerman B. Wood
    Inventors: William E. Mayhall, Rebecca A. Wood
  • Patent number: 4967848
    Abstract: Harvesting apparatus comprising a chassis, apparatus for loosening the roots of a crop from the ground, conveyor apparatus for engaging crops and transporting them to a first location, and haulm cutting apparatus engaging the crops at the first location and being operative for separating the haulm from the remaining portion of the crops, the haulm cutting apparatus comprising a pair of cooperating, counter-rotating, generally parallel disposed augers, having screw threads formed thereon, the augers being configured to define a broadened entrance region wherein the screw threads of the pair of augers are separated from each other by a separation which exceeds the separation between the solids of rotation defined by rotation of the augers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Inventor: Boris Frankstein
  • Patent number: 4966569
    Abstract: A radio controlled type two-wheeled toy vehicle provided with a pivotable battery case at its lower part and steerable by swinging right and left with respect to a running direction, the weight of the battery case with the battery case being swung right and left with respect to the running direction by a radio control and with the front wheel supporter being more inclined together with the battery case in the direction of swinging of the vehicle than the toy vehicle body to change the running direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Assignee: Green Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyoji Asano
  • Patent number: 4954115
    Abstract: A game call for simulating the cry of an owl that is effective in attracting wild turkeys at long range is disclosed. The call includes a hardwood body having a closed cylindrical chamber and a passage through a wall of the body angled at 45 degrees relative to the longitudinal axis of the chamber in a direction toward a flow of air directed across the inlet to the passage wherein the passage has a square outlet into the closed chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Inventor: Dru G. Metiva