Patents by Inventor Woodrow W. Welborn

Woodrow W. Welborn 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: 5938070
    Abstract: A product dispenser which comprises a somewhat rectangular housing having front and rear walls, integral with a side wall, a top wall portion and a bottom wall portion and a removable side wall. The top wall is provided with a slot perpendicular with the side wall and the front wall has a slot therein. A product holder is fixed to the side wall in an area below the slot in the top wall. A take-up reel is secured on an axle molded to the fixed side walls below the fixed top portion. The take-up and dispenser reel includes outer flanges which extend below the side walls so that the flanges can roll on a surface below the side walls in order to take-up a backing sheet while simultaneously dispensing the product from the product holder. The removable side wall is removed to load the product in the product holder and to remove the backing sheet from the take-up reel. If there is no backing sheet, the product is fed via the slot in the top wall by hand in order to dispense the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Woodrow W. Welborn
    Inventors: Woodrow W. Welborn, David J. Buck
  • Patent number: 5768869
    Abstract: An okra pod harvester and cutter which is of a piece of material bent to form two arms with their ends spaced from each other. One arm has a portion bent at a 90.degree. angle which is formed with a V-shape cut out and a cutting blade is secured across the V-shape cut out and held in place. The other arm is cut across its end at a 90.degree. angle and has a length such that when the two arms are pressed toward each other, the one arm passes close within the bent end portion and passes the position of the cutter. As the one arm passes the bent end portion an okra pod placed in the V-shaped end of the bent portion is cut from the bush and is held between the two arms until the cut okra pod is placed into a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Inventor: Woodrow W. Welborn
  • Patent number: 5496025
    Abstract: A ball propelling machine for propelling a ball at a desired speed and in a desired direction including an air pressure tank, a control valve, a device for admitting a ball into a chamber for propelling the ball and a housing with a barrel therein through which the ball is propelled. The machine has a frame for securing the machine in place and adjusting bolts related to the frame for adjusting the direction of propelling the ball. The barrel is operative within the housing for closing off the chamber for propelling the ball and has one end that extends beyond the housing for movement of the barrel into a loading position and into a firing position. The ball is propelled by air pressure which is controlled by a control valve and the speed and distance of travel is determined by the air pressure directed through the control valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Inventors: Wiley Phillips, Woodrow W. Welborn
  • Patent number: 5162021
    Abstract: An improved separator outlet member for a pea sheller which includes a plurality of square passageways aligned side-by-side along the length of a base member. The peas are collected in the square openings as the pea sheller rotates and the peas drop onto a bottom plate spaced from the passageways from which the peas pass to a shaker for collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Inventor: Woodrow W. Welborn
  • Patent number: 4848117
    Abstract: An attachment for a shopping cart for securing a grocery list, shopping coupons, etc. The attachment includes a base member upon which spaced bars are secured by spring loaded holders. The base member is secured to the cross-handle of the shopping cart by use of a clamp having the general inner shape of the handle. The bars are lifted in order to place the grocery list or coupons under the bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Inventors: Woodrow W. Welborn, Vernon W. Harlow
  • Patent number: 4579356
    Abstract: A chuck key storage attachment for use with an electric drill for conveniently storing a chuck key. The attachment is retained against the body of the drill itself by a chuck key retention means which in turn retains the chuck key in the attachment. The chuck key storage attachment provides for several sizes of aperture for accommodation of the various sizes of chuck keys available in the market place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Inventor: Woodrow W. Welborn
  • Patent number: 4269450
    Abstract: Apparatus for removing old, deteriorated and worn out asphalt shingles, roofing paper, tar paper and roofing tacks from roof decking prior to replacing and installing new shingles, said apparatus having an electric motor-powered, self-propelled frame 12 with motor 62 driving the frame forward and with front mounted rotary cutter heads 20 disposed from a reversely turning, rotatably driven shaft 40 for removing the shingles, and a reversing motor 16 driving the rotatably driven shaft 40 and reversing drive wheels 54. The reversing motor 16 provides drive for a flapper head 18, cutter heads 20, and shaft 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1981
    Inventor: Woodrow W. Welborn
  • Patent number: 4172320
    Abstract: An improved vegetable and flower snip apparatus for cutting the vegetable okra and thorny type flowers which includes a scissor-type snip having a mating set of nose elements at the terminal end thereof from the handle portion so that there are blade cutting elements and which provide for holding the stem in place while being snipped or sheared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1979
    Inventor: Woodrow W. Welborn
  • Patent number: 4155408
    Abstract: Apparatus of a dual wheel, engine driven garden plow for breaking up soil, then distributing the soil in rows and plowing out between the rows during the growth of a crop. Such apparatus includes an engine powered tractor, dual wheel front frame construction and a counter weight stabilizer bar in the rear for permitting riding of the apparatus. A lever system provides the adjustment structure for the plow itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1979
    Inventor: Woodrow W. Welborn
  • Patent number: 4024877
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for shelling vegetable peas and separating the hulls from the pea, in which the method and apparatus includes a tumbler and agitator for displacing the pea from the hull, agitator which shells the peas, and a separator of novel design and function for separating the hulls therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Inventor: Woodrow W. Welborn