Patents by Inventor James G. Abraham

James G. Abraham 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: 4979516
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive mouth piece has a pressure detector-sound unit assembly mounted on or embedded in the molded bite guard. When a patient clenches or bruxes his teeth, the pressure detector senses that condition and activates the sound unit to emit a tone audible to the patient. The patient is thereby alerted that he is clenching or bruxing his teeth so he can stop. Alternatively, a mechanical clicker can be embedded in the mouth piece and will emit an audible tone when the patient clenches or bruxes his teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Inventor: James G. Abraham, II
  • Patent number: RE29539
    Abstract: In offshore platforms and the like of the type comprising a structure, such as a hull, and a plurality of upright legs for supporting the structure on the floor of a body of water, the invention provides an improved rack-and-pinion type jacking apparatus for connecting the structure to the legs in vertically adjustable fashion. For each leg, at least one dual rack bar is employed, the rack bar having two opposed sets of rack teeth each extending along a different one of the two edges of the bar. A jacking unit is mounted on the structure adjacent each rack bar and includes at least one pair of drive pinions with the pinions of the pair each meshed with a different one of the two sets of rack teeth, so that the two pinions are opposed across the rack bar. When the legs each comprise a number of tubular column members, one of the dual rack bars is provided for each of a plurality of the column members of each leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1978
    Assignee: Armco Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Herbert L. Willke, James G. Abraham