Patents by Inventor Ray Haapala

Ray Haapala 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: 4502241
    Abstract: A fishing reel has a one-way break which can be pre-set to stop let-off of the line after a pre-determined number of turns of the reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1985
    Inventor: Ray Haapala
  • Patent number: 4364437
    Abstract: A cultivating tool propelled by a walking attendant has sheet metal tines mounted on a rotating axle for rotation therewith. The tines are channel-shaped with axle-accommodating apertures through the flanges and also through the webs. When the axle is engaged through the flange apertures, the ends of the web engage the soil flatwise so as to provide a hoeing action; and when the axle is engaged through the web apertures, the ends of the web engage the soil edgewise so as to provide a chopping action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1982
    Inventor: Ray Haapala
  • Patent number: 4359104
    Abstract: A plate has on its under side a V-shape keel of decreasing depth from end-to-end, a handle mounting on its upper side, and upwardly flared soil flattener at the ends of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1982
    Inventor: Ray Haapala
  • Patent number: 4101232
    Abstract: A leg for supporting a pallet is provided with means at one end for engaging in an aperture in the pallet and for clamping against opposite pallet surfaces surrounding the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1978
    Inventor: Ray Haapala
  • Patent number: 4074656
    Abstract: A turntable for supporting a cake is supported on an axis which can be tipped so as to facilitate the application of decoration to the side of a cake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1978
    Inventor: Ray Haapala
  • Patent number: 4069772
    Abstract: Pallets are supported in spaced relation above and upon one another to provide level tiers, to relieve cake lower tiers from the load of superior tiers, and to permit individual rotation of tiers to co-ordinate decorations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1978
    Inventor: Ray Haapala
  • Patent number: 4051600
    Abstract: A bowed resilient strip having a toothed edge is slidably supported in slots on two slides which are slidable along a graduated rod. Adjustment of the distance between the slides per the graduations determines the even number of garlands which can be scribed by the teeth into the icing on a cake side, and adjustment of the length of the strip between the slides determines the depth of the bow of the inscription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1977
    Inventor: Ray Haapala
  • Patent number: D270132
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Inventor: Ray Haapala