Patents by Inventor Joseph Oquendo

Joseph Oquendo 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: 4620410
    Abstract: An apparatus for feeding hypodermic needles into corresponding recesses of a mold cavity in the bottom mold plate of a plastic injection molding machine. The bottom mold plate can be shifted from a molding position to a loading position at one side of the machine. At that side of the machine, a magazine holding two stacks of hypodermic needles is slidably adjustable horizontally with respect to a shuttle plate mounted on that side of the machine. The magazine at the bottom has lower and upper plates slidable respectively across the bottom and top of the shuttle plate. In one position of the magazine, openings in its upper bottom plate register with corresponding openings in the shuttle plate to pass individual needles by gravity into the shuttle plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1986
    Assignee: Medicore Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Chiodo, Gaylord R. Shirley, Joseph Oquendo