Patents by Inventor Gordon J. Cook
Gordon J. Cook 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).
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Patent number: 9364037Abstract: A limited durability fastening for a garment. The garment is provided with fastening members which engage to close the fastening and the fastening members are provided with means for controlling the degradation of the closure strength of the fastening as it is opened and closed and thus the number of permissible closures of the fastening having a pre-determined closure strength. The garment is particularly useful when fitted to a foot where short life is desirable at low cost or to a garment where re-use is to be discouraged for either clinical or commercial reasons.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Covidien AGInventors: Gordon J. Cook, David Portsmouth
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Publication number: 20140166184Abstract: A limited durability fastening for a garment. The garment is provided with fastening members which engage to close the fastening and the fastening members are provided with means for controlling the degradation of the closure strength of the fastening as it is opened and closed and thus the number of permissible closures of the fastening having a pre-determined closure strength. The garment is particularly useful when fitted to a foot where short life is desirable at low cost or to a garment where re-use is to be discouraged for either clinical or commercial reasons.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Covidien AGInventors: Gordon J. Cook, David Portsmouth
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Patent number: 8539647Abstract: A limited durability fastening for a garment. The garment is provided with fastening members which engage to close the fastening and the fastening members are provided with means for controlling the degradation of the closure strength of the fastening as it is opened and closed and thus the number of permissible closures of the fastening having a pre-determined closure strength. The garment is particularly useful when fitted to a foot where short life is desirable at low cost or to a garment where re-use is to be discouraged for either clinical or commercial reasons.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2006Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Covidien AGInventors: Gordon J. Cook, David Portsmouth
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Patent number: 7677605Abstract: A hose-clamp system for securing a hose to an air connector that engages an inflation port of a garment for use in pump therapy for enhancing venous and arterial blood flow of a human foot. The system includes a fitting having an internal stem and an external stem, the internal stem configured to engage an inside diameter of an end of the hose, a cradle configured to received the internal stem and the end of the hose and having opposing locking protrusions, and a seal positioned from the locking protrusions at substantially the length of the internal stem and configured to engage the external stem.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2008Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Novamedix Distribution LimitedInventors: Gordon J. Cook, Graeme Follett, David G. Portsmouth, Ben Davies
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Publication number: 20090121480Abstract: Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of an impulse therapy garment for use in pump therapy for enhancing venous and arterial blood flow. The garment may be advantageously fitted to a human foot, and may include a rotationally positionable heel-strap, an air inlet connector, separate dorsum straps, or other features. For example, other garments may include a washer having a center hole locatable around the stem and configured to be forcibly retained against the outer surface of the fabric by snap-fit using annular stem protrusions extending from an external surface of the stem. In further embodiments, a garment may include a bladder retention fastener configured to retain an end of the bladder to the fabric to allow substantially differential movement between the fabric and non-retained portions of the bladder during inflation and deflation of the bladder.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: NOVAMEDIX DISTRIBUTION LIMITEDInventors: Gordon J. Cook, Graeme Follett, David G. Portsmouth, Ben Davies
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Patent number: 7452340Abstract: Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of an impulse therapy garment for use in pump therapy for enhancing venous and arterial blood flow. The garment may be advantageously fitted to a human foot, and may include a rotationally positionable heel-strap, an air inlet connector, separate dorsum straps, or other features. For example, other garments may include a washer having a center hole locatable around the stem and configured to be forcibly retained against the outer surface of the fabric by snap-fit using annular stem protrusions extending from an external surface of the stem. In further embodiments, a garment may include a bladder retention fastener configured to retain an end of the bladder to the fabric to allow substantially differential movement between the fabric and non-retained portions of the bladder during inflation and deflation of the bladder.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2004Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: Novamedix Distribution LimitedInventors: Gordon J. Cook, Graeme Follett, David G. Portsmouth, Ben Davies
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Publication number: 20080234615Abstract: A limited durability fastening for a garment. The garment is provided with fastening members which engage to close the fastening and the fastening members are provided with means for controlling the degradation of the closure strength of the fastening as it is opened and closed and thus the number of permissible closures of the fastening having a pre-determined closure strength. The garment is particularly useful when fitted to a foot where short life is desirable at low cost or to a garment where re-use is to be discouraged for either clinical or commercial reasons.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2006Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: NOVAMEDIX DISTRIBUTION LIMITEDInventors: Gordon J Cook, David Portsmouth
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Patent number: 5626234Abstract: A sifting screen having a rigid frame, a first woven cloth of hard wearing metal wire, stretched thereacross and secured thereto, and a second woven cloth having a coarser mesh than the first cloth and being woven from an elongate material of greater cross-section than the first, also stretched across the frame, and secured thereto, below the first cloth, to support the latter against sagging. In accordance with the invention, at least the wearing surface of the material from which the lower cloth is woven is selected to be significantly less hard wearing than that from which the upper cloth is woven, so that wear due to rubbing and vibration during use, occurs to a greater extent in the lower cloth than in the upper cloth. In one example the upper cloth is woven from stainless steel wire and the lower from phosphor bronze wire. In another example the lower cloth is of wire having a coating of an epoxy based material, or TEFLON.TM., or Molybdenum Disulphide.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1995Date of Patent: May 6, 1997Assignee: United Wire LimitedInventors: Gordon J. Cook, Andrew Hughes
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Patent number: 5354260Abstract: A one-piece slipper construction, into which an inflatable foot-pump bag or bladder is permanently integrated and wherein a thin reinforcement panel is fully contained and located within a flat-foldable wrap, for selective completion of the circumferential tie that is needed for assurance of stimulated foot-pump action. In the preferred embodiment, the wrap is so further devised as to provide a flexibly reinforced, non-stretch backing reference for a laterally extending portion of the inflatable bag, for active stimulation of the adjacent dorsi-medial region, where further blood accumulates as part of the pool from which venous return flow can be driven.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1993Date of Patent: October 11, 1994Assignee: Novamedix, Ltd.Inventor: Gordon J. Cook
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Patent number: D513324Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2004Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: Novamedix Distribution LimitedInventors: Gordon J. Cook, Ben Davies, Marcus J. Sandeman