Patents by Inventor Allen Numerick

Allen Numerick has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6216910
    Abstract: An article dispenser for individually dispensing a plurality of articles on a timed basis. A plurality of modules, each containing a magazine having a plurality of circumferentially spaced, open top and bottom ended article storage compartments and a rotatable disk having an aperture successively alignable with each storage compartment in the magazine, are vertically stacked in a column. A drive motor and timing dial rotates the disks through interlocking timed lugs mounted on each disk in a staggered, angular offset, timed relationship in which the apertures in each disk are angularly offset through the stack so that the articles in the storage compartments are successively transferred through the storage compartments of each successive module to the next lower module and from the lowermost module to a circular track disposed below the lowermost module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Inventor: Allen Numerick
  • Patent number: 4794725
    Abstract: An electrical motorized fan creates an airstream in a hollow housing to draw insects past a pivotal closure member at one end of the housing into a trap receptacle removably mounted within the housing. The fan is driven by an electric motor powered by a battery mounted within the housing. An electrical switch selectively connects the battery to the motor to energize the fan. The switch is coupled to the pivotal closure member such that movement of the switch between "off" and "on" positions simultaneously causes movement of the closure member between a first position closing the first end of the housing to air flow to a second position opening the first end of the housing to air flow. A mesh screen is mounted within the trap receptacle to trap insects drawn into the receptacle through the first end of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Inventor: Allen Numerick