Patents Issued in September 9, 1980
  • Patent number: 4221037
    Abstract: The dislosure relates to fluid flow control devices, particularly for use in connection with valves used in the control of fluids under high pressure. In the new structure, the valve trim includes a novel and advantageous form of flow restrictor, which serves to limit flow velocity and which causes the fluid pressure to be reduced in a sufficient number of discrete stages to minimize noise and cavitation. The new flow restictor comprises an axial stack of annular discs, each provided with a plurality of annular baffle ribs projecting from its opposite end faces. The annular baffle ribs on one side of the disc are slotted along a number of equally spaced radii, and the ribs on the opposite side of a disc are similarly slotted, but along radii offset from the first set of radii. When a series of these discs is assembled in a stack, downwardly facing ribs of one disc fit between upwardly facing ribs of a disc next below, providing a series of annular passages interconnected by radial slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Copes-Vulcan, Inc.
    Inventor: Fritz O. Seger
  • Patent number: 4221038
    Abstract: A method for forming a frame from an elongate strip of formable material and products formed thereby are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of notching the side edges of an elongate strip and providing slots in one edge; thereafter deforming the strip along four parallel lines which become the interior corners of frame members having a substantially rectangular cross section. A pair of complementary corner notches, each formed of a particular shape, allow the strip to be folded or deformed transversely of its length dimension, thereby forming a pair of intersecting frame members each having a substantially rectangular cross section defined by a front wall, parallel inside and outside side walls and a pair of flanges. The inside flange and side wall of each frame member provide a plurality of slotted openings spaced equal distances apart to receive the ends of steel rods which are interlaced and form a wire meshed screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Kane Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Richard M. Singer, Charles H. Seidl
  • Patent number: 4221039
    Abstract: A gasket holder clip and method for using the clip to attach a gasket through holes in an underlying flange or the like to maintain alignment of the gasket holes and flange holes. The gasket holder clip is constructed of spring steel wire or other material of high degree of elasticity and rigidity and has a substantially V-shaped configuration with legs of the V-shaped structure having short outwardly turned arms. The clip is employed to hold a gasket having a plurality of holes against an underlying flange, as in an oil pan flange, having holes for registry with the gasket holes by inserting the clip with the legs pressed together through the bottom of the flange hole up and through the gasket hole and then releasing the pressure against the legs of the clip and drawing it down to engage the arms against the top surface of the gasket. The clip maintains the gasket against the flange by the bearing and biasing action of the legs of the clip against the interior walls of the flange hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Harman S. Smith
  • Patent number: 4221040
    Abstract: The specification discloses a compact, dense, economical, metal pellet for charging melting furnaces to recycle the metal and a method for making the pellet especially from scrap cans and pieces of scrap metal including borings, turnings, punchings, chips, shavings, and chunks. The pellet includes a container having compressed, permanently deformed sides and a quantity of compressed metal pieces therein which overlap and engage one another. The container sides include a plurality of folds, wrinkles and corrugations which tightly and firmly engage and clamp the metal pieces to retain them within the compressed container. The pellet may have open or closed ends since the clamping engagement of the metal pieces by the compressed container sides retains the pieces in either case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Lewis D. Good
  • Patent number: 4221041
    Abstract: A rivet for joining fiber reinforced plastic laminates has an alloy of titanium columbium. The rivet is semi-tubular in shape. The tubular portion is shaped with an outwardly tapered inner wall to provide for expansion of the tubular section without expanding the balance of the shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Boeing Commercial Airplane Company
    Inventors: Gerhart Hufnagl, Clark R. Zehnder
  • Patent number: 4221042
    Abstract: A covered wire wrapping tool comprising a covered wire-cutting and cover-stripping device for cutting an elongated continuous covered wire into covered wires of a predetermined length and for stripping covers from a leading and trailing end portions of a severed covered wire, and a wrapping bit device including a single bit having therein an eccentric groove into which the cover-stripped leading and trailing end portions formed by the covered wire-cutting and cover-stripping device are successively loaded. The bit with the cover-stripped leading or trailing end portion loaded in the eccentric groove is rotated to wrap and connect the cover-stripped leading or trailing end portion about and to a terminal of an electrical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Aida, Takashi Kobayashi, Yukinori Taneda, Noboru Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 4221043
    Abstract: Two pairs of crossed tool change arms are mounted adjacent to four spindles which are rotatably mounted on a common spindlehead. Each pair of crossed tool change arms is mounted on a common shaft which is rotatable and is movable along its axis and is positioned to simultaneously insert a pair of tools into or remove a pair of tools from the corresponding pair of spindles. A tool storage chain carrying a plurality of tool storage sockets is movably mounted on a frame in position to interact with the tool change arms which are operable to transfer tools from the tool storage sockets to the spindles and vice versa. Each tool storage socket is pivotally mounted for movement between a vertical storage position and a horizontal tool change position. Four tool storage sockets are pivoted from the vertical storage position to the horizontal tool change position for each tool change operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Kearney & Trecker Corporation
    Inventor: Frank E. Dailey
  • Patent number: 4221044
    Abstract: A process for producing VLSI (very large scale integrated) circuits employs techniques of self-aligned gates and contacts for FET devices and for both diffused conducting lines in the substrate and polysilicon conducting lines situated on isolating field oxide formed on the substrate. Mask alignment tolerances are increased and rendered non-critical. The use of materials in successive layers having different etch characteristics permits selective oxidation of only desired portions of the structure without need for masking and removal of selected material from desired locations by batch removal processes again without use of masking. There results VLSI circuits having increased density and reliabilty. The process allows the simultaneous doping of two or more regions resulting in uniformity of device characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon C. Godejahn, Jr., Gary L. Heimbigner
  • Patent number: 4221045
    Abstract: A process for producing VLSI (very large scale integrated) circuits employs techniques of self-aligned gates and contacts for FET devices and for both diffused conducting lines in the substrate and polysilicon conducting lines situated on isolating field oxide formed on the substrate. Mask alignment tolerances are increased and rendered non-critical. The use of materials in successive layers having different etch characteristics permits selective oxidation of only desired portions of the structure without need for masking and removal of selected material from desired locations by batch removal processes again without use of masking. There results VLSI circuits having increased density and reliability. The process allows the simultaneous doping of two or more regions resulting in uniformity of device characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventor: Gordon C. Godejahn, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4221046
    Abstract: A brush cage for an electric motor wherein the brush sets are mounted on two assemblies. One assembly is mounted to the frame and the second assembly is mounted to a removable frame end plate, which when removed, provides access to the first assembly and commutator. Each assembly includes an electrically conductive ring upon which the brushes are mounted. The brushes are electrically interconnected through the ring upon which they are mounted. The rings are in a spaced relation to each other along the commutator rotational axis and are on substantially parallel planes which are perpendicular to that axis. The brushes on one ring fit between the brushes on the other ring so as to be disposed around the commutator in an inter-leafed pattern within the space between the two rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Eltra Corporation
    Inventor: Clyde M. Hayes
  • Patent number: 4221047
    Abstract: A method for fabricating an interconnection package for a plurality of semiconductor chips which include the fabrication of a multi-layered glass-ceramic superstructure with a multi-layered distribution of conductors on a preformed multi-layered glass-ceramic base, by the repeatable steps of depositing a conductor pattern on the base and forming thereon a crystallizable glass dielectric layer which is then crystallized to a glass-ceramic prior to further additions of conductor patterns and crystallizable glass layers to form a monolithic compatible substrate all through. Semiconductor chips can be electrically connected to expose conductor patterns at the top surface of the resultant glass-ceramic package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bernt Narken, Rao R. Tummala
  • Patent number: 4221048
    Abstract: A hand-grip tool for cutting, crimping, swaging or gripping is disclosed, having a multi-stroke action provided by a ratchet and pawl operating arrangement whereby sufficient mechanical advantage to permit one-handed performance of heavy duty tasks can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: National Research Development Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas S. Parramore
  • Patent number: 4221049
    Abstract: A hair clipper comprising a fixed blade and a movable blade which performs a sliding movement in a pressed contact with said fixed blade, wherein each cutting tooth of said movable blade moves to cross accurately its corresponding cutting notch of the fixed blade, so that the hair caught between said notches of the fixed blade can be cut perfectly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Hamashima
  • Patent number: 4221050
    Abstract: A shear is disclosed in a preferred form which is particularly suited for cutting and trimming hair and which includes means for varying the length of stroke of the cutting blade or blades which reciprocate generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the handle, so that the unit can be manipulated in a manner similar to a comb or brush. The blade drive includes a transmission comprising a pair of eccentrics which are selectively phaseable to provide full range of stroke by addition and subtraction of their eccentric throws. The eccentrics are retained in their selected phase relationship by spring and frictional means which provide an overload release permitting the eccentrics to rephase to zero stroke when the imposed load overcomes the phase-retaining means. Control of the unit is effected by a rotatable and depressable button which controls the drive motor, adjusts the blade stroke by phasing of the eccentrics, and lowers the cutting blade or blades from a retracted position into a cutting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Clairol Inc.
    Inventors: Henry J. Walter, William Mack
  • Patent number: 4221051
    Abstract: A portable, power operated circular saw having a housing or frame and a base plate pivotally connected at its forward end to the saw housing or frame for swinging movement about an axis parallel the axis of rotation of the blade mounting shaft is provided with new and improved base plate inclination adjustment means comprising an adjustment arm having an elongated arcuate portion provided with an elongated arcuate slot generally concentric the pivotal axis of the base plate and a clamping member extending through the arcuate slot for clamping the adjustment arm selectively at a fixed position relative the saw housing or frame, the clamping member being actuated by relative rotation between a pair of camming members having opposed cooperating interacting inclined ramps or cam surfaces, at least one of the cam members being adapted to be rotated by an operating lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: The Singer Company
    Inventor: James L. Glass
  • Patent number: 4221052
    Abstract: The invention pertains to apparatus for forming signs with a motor driven router. A frame defines a surface for supporting the sign panel to be routed, usually wood, and for supporting the letter forming templates. A carriage linearally movable upon the frame supports a polygonal, four-sided linkage, a template follower is mounted upon one of the links, and the router is also link-mounted. By varying the position of the linkage pivot points relative to each other, and the location of the template follower, a variety of letter styles can be produced from a single template, and a characteristic of the apparatus lies in the excellent visibility provided of the router during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Quality Industries
    Inventor: James E. Wagoner
  • Patent number: 4221053
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus for determining the contours of sheet material, particularly glass sheets, comprising a checking fixture having a plurality of probe assemblies for determining the exact position of points along the sheet and the deviation, if any, of such measured points from reference points constituting the ideal contour. The probe assemblies generate linear signals transmitted to a controller which, in turn, converts such signals into data displayed on a video screen in selectively different forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Libbey-Owens-Ford Company
    Inventors: Robert J. Bobel, II, Richard H. Blausey, Jr., Edward D. Floyd, Donald B. Hopings, Russell C. Retzloff, Andrew W. Rudolph
  • Patent number: 4221054
    Abstract: A comparison plate has an irregularly shaped hole which is used for comparison and matching with the cross-sectional size and configuration of the free end of the split-lock ring component of a multi-piece tire rim. The comparison plate for a two-piece rim has, at a portion of its peripheral edge, a contoured edge used for comparison and matching with the annular gutter and peripheral lip portion of the rim base of the multi-piece tire rim to determine whether the rim base and split-ring are mating components of the same multi-piece rim. The comparison plate for a three-piece tire rim also has, at an additional or second portion of its peripheral edge, a second contoured portion for matching and mating with the contoured surface of the non-split annular side ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Lester P. Schaevitz
  • Patent number: 4221055
    Abstract: A drafting instrument comprising a central plate member, and first and second drafting plates, each including two sides having first and second angularly related straight edges forming an angle therebetween and a third hypotenuse edge spanning the first and second edges, and mechanism pivotally coupling the first and second plates to the central plate member for swinging movement relative thereto and relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Randy D. Delgado
  • Patent number: 4221056
    Abstract: A universal parallel ruler is disclosed. The ruler includes two digital read-out displays for displaying the displacement of the ruler in the x and y directions. In displaying the position of the ruler along the directions, the ruler compensates for the displacement of the movable rail relative to the stationary rail. It further compensates for the displacement of the head relative to the movable rail and for the x and y scales relative to the head. A reset is provided by which the position of the x and y reference axes may be changed. In addition, the ruler may be set to operate in a reduced or multiplied scale, and the digital display will, in either case, display the actual reduced/increased dimensional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Asahi Seimitsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Koenuma
  • Patent number: 4221057
    Abstract: This invention relates to a device for counting typographical characters on a page of typed material. The disclosed invention includes a transparent first member which may be oriented along a line of typographical characters. A transparent second member is slidably mounted in a perpendicular relationship to the first member. There are provided on the first member a plurality of sets of parallel lines, each of said sets being disposed from one end of said transparent first member to another end, the lines in each of said sets being consecutively numbered. There are further provided on the first member a plurality of sets of discrete spaces also disposed from one end of the transparent first member to another end, the width of the spaces corresponding to a particular type size, and the width of said spaces being uniform within a particular set, such that said spaces are superimposable upon a line of typographical characters of a particular type face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Walter W. Luikart
  • Patent number: 4221058
    Abstract: An improved control system, especially for dryers, adapted to sample dryer air, in a sample taking circuit, determine the moisture content of said air, and control the flow of make-up air to the dryer and exhaust air from the dryer in response to said moisture content. Means are provided for reducing the temperature of the dryer air in the sample taking circuit to one that can be handled by a signal producing means responsive to sample air moisture content. The flow of dryer air through said circuit is maintained by an aspirator and compressor combination, the compressor being adapted to provide purge air to the circuit before and/or after periods of sample taking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: SCM Corporation
    Inventor: Peter E. Zagorzycki
  • Patent number: 4221059
    Abstract: A box-shaped housing has side and end walls together with a back wall, leaving an opening at its front. A cover of material transparent to sunlight removably closes the front. Inside are a plurality of shelves mounted so as to be tilted at an angle with respect to the end walls. The housing is supported in a stationary position with its back wall tilted backwardly from the top so as to orient the removable shelves substantially in a horizontal position. A plurality of apertures in the housing enable air flow upwardly therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Solar Saver International
    Inventor: Stanley K. Everitt
  • Patent number: 4221060
    Abstract: A children's dental instructional kit which comes with its own toothbrush, "toothpaste", floss, mirror and disclosure tablets, and with a doll's head on a pedestal. A non-toxic stain is provided for coating the simulated teeth of the doll, and the ingredients of the "toothpaste" are of a composition such that when brushed over the teeth of the doll neutralize, or otherwise change, the stain imparted. The kit can be provided with an instructional booklet, designed to give the teaching center an overall fun-type effect in order to increase its attractiveness to younger children.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventors: William Moskowitz, Francine Moskowitz
  • Patent number: 4221061
    Abstract: A set of alphabetical letters in material form for composing words with word pronunciation clued by structural distinctions between members of the set in addition to structural differences denoting alphabetic distinctions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Carl L. Settle
  • Patent number: 4221062
    Abstract: Device for simulating passage of neurochemical transmitters from a presynaptic neuron across a synaptic cleft to a postsynaptic neuron and simulating the effect of an antidepressant drug, comprising a pair of elongated non-magnetizable members each having a bulbous end portion, each end portion having a substantially flat face, means exerting a magnetic field in each bulbous end portion, the means being so oriented that the magnetic fields oppose one another when the flat faces are brought into approaching relation, one of the magnetic fields being stronger than the other at the flat face, and a flat magnetizable disc. When the magnetizable disc is held on the flat face having the weaker magnetic field, and the flat faces are brought into approaching face-to-face relation, the disc is attracted by the stronger magnetic field and traverses the gap between the faces, clinging to the face having the stronger magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Bruce E. Turner
  • Patent number: 4221063
    Abstract: A tamper-resistant, identification device employing a myriad of modes of identifying indicia placement, wherein the device comprises a flexible band having opposed first and second ends wherein one of the ends has at least two apertures and the other end has corresponding rows of apertures wherein by placing the device in encircling configuration, so as to obtain alignment and coincidence of selected apertures, the two ends may be securely fastened together by a variety of fastening means. Additionally, the availability of a choice of identification means and fastening means provides an identification device of high, temper-resistant character especially useful in high security risk applications. Other selective combinations of identification means and fastening means also provides an identification device which is highly versatile having a plurality of applications of end uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Precision Dynamics Corporation
    Inventors: Stanley E. Charles, Donald A. Long, Arthur H. Schimmelman
  • Patent number: 4221064
    Abstract: A device for displaying indicia is provided comprising:(a) at least one cover member having at least one visual display means on at least one surface thereof; and(b) at least one display member slidably movable by gravity with respect to at least one of said cover members within a predetermined area underlying said cover member, said display member having at least one prepositioned indicium on at least one surface thereof, said indicium registering with at least one of said visual display means, whereby said display member slidably changes position with respect to said cover member under the force of gravity in response to rotation of said device in a substantially vertical plane to change the registry of said indicium with respect to said visual display means.In preferred embodiments of this invention a perpetual and yearly calendar is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: James A. Sebastian
  • Patent number: 4221065
    Abstract: Disclosed is a firing mechanism for revolvers having a firing pin and a limit pin each movable by the hammer to engage the cartridge and cooperable to limit the extent of penetration of the firing pin into the cartridge. The limit pin engages the rim of the cartridge casing substantially simultaneously as the primer cup is struck and the cartridge is fired. The extent of penetration of the firing pin into the primer cup is predetermined and does not vary between long and short cartridges. The limit pin further retains the cartridge casing in the revolver chamber initially upon firing to permit maximum radial expansion of the casing while the cartridge casing lies fully seated in the forwardmost position in the chamber. Upon postfiring rebound, the cartridge casing elastically recovers sufficiently to provide a clearance space between the walls of the casing and the cylinder chamber to prevent jamming of the casing in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Bangor Punta Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger J. Curran
  • Patent number: 4221066
    Abstract: Non-metallic grip panels slidably received within recesses in opposite sides of a pistol handle are releasably retained in assembly with the handle by a flat retaining spring. Each panel carries an associated retaining spring which has a free end portion biased into an associated cavity in the handle. The retaining springs are wholly concealed when the grip panels are assembled with the handle and are accessible through a magazine well formed in the handle to facilitate release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Wildey Firearms Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert L. Hillberg
  • Patent number: 4221067
    Abstract: A stationary spool reel having a cylindrical spooling portion at the forward end and a handle at the back. The spooling portion exhibits a forwardly-open cavity, preferably of circular cross section, whose cross-sectional dimensions and configuration are adapted to the external configuration and dimensions of a casting implement, such that the casting implement can be inserted into the cavity and retained therein in an easily detachable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Sverre Thorvaldsen
  • Patent number: 4221068
    Abstract: A fishline holder for down rigger fishing. The holder has a body with a first clamp in the form of a rotary shaft with a flattened side for clamping the body to control line or cable, to hold the body at the desired elevation in the water. A second clamp on the body has a jaw for clamping the fishing line and toggle links for operating the clamping jaw. A trigger has a recess for receiving the fishing line, and is so arranged that the trigger will be actuated to operate the toggle links to open the clamping jaw, either by rearward pull on the part of the fishing line which passes through the recess in the trigger, as when a fish takes the bait, or by an upward pull on another part of the fishing line also passing through the recess of the trigger, as when the fisherman in the boat pulls upwardly on his line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Leonhard J. Roemer, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4221069
    Abstract: A bait harness for use with an elongated shank fishhook, the harness having first and second sets of arm members which define bait-receiving openings, each set of arms being of lengths of resilient wire or ribbon material oriented in a bait-conforming configuration. The length of material associated with each set of arms is formed into a bight for securement of the harness to the shank, there being a length of the material interengaging the sets of arms to maintain the sets of arms in spaced-apart relationship on the shank. The harness effectively and safely secures live bait, such as a minnow in swimming positions on the fishhook adjacent its barbed hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Jack N. Esses
  • Patent number: 4221070
    Abstract: A trap for crustaceans and fish comprising a plastic mesh forming walls in the shape of a hollow hexagonal prism, made up of two trough shaped parts and end walls. End walls contain frusto conical inlets and interchangeable end walls are closed. Ballast in the shape of elongate extruded hollow square section plastic tubes filled with concrete is fixed to one trough shaped part, an opening in the other trough shaped part can have a frusto conical pipe extending into the trap or a lid, for removing the catch. Tongue and socket connectors for the trough shaped parts have a cross sectional shape for the tongue like a capital letter E with the middle web longer than the outer webs. A bait basket is in two halves which are threaded onto a pin which has a handle at one end and a detent at the other end to clip into a socket in the inner surface of the trough shaped part which carries the ballast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Samuel Swindell
  • Patent number: 4221071
    Abstract: A conventional crab trap having improved means for preventing crabs from escaping from the trap and for adapting the trap to catch differing species of crab. Crabs enter the trap by crawling through a tunnel formed by four net panels terminating in a rectangular opening normally inaccessible to the crabs inside the trap. In practice, many of the crabs are able to reach the opening by crawling along the net panels. In order to prevent crabs from escaping in this manner, a triangularly shaped baffle is placed between the opening and one of the panels. The size of the opening may be varied as required by law when fishing for different species of crab by pivoting an edge mounted panel across part of the opening. The crab trap also includes several net panels supported by rectangular frames which are releasably secured to each other and to the trap in order to cover the escapement end of the trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Roger E. Sjolund
  • Patent number: 4221072
    Abstract: A toy reproducing the driver's section of a motor vehicle retained in position with the child's thighs and equipped with at least an extension on which a steering wheel is mounted, in order to simulate driving of the motor vehicle by the child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Andre Monin
  • Patent number: 4221073
    Abstract: An amusement device for young children having a six-sided open frame with four sides thereof providing handles to orient three closed and separate chambers located between the other two sides, each chamber containing a fluid or material of different viscosity than that contained in any other chamber and having a pair of enlarged volume ends connected by restricted passageways. The chambers are transparent such that observation of the different flow rates can take place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Donna J. Malczewski
  • Patent number: 4221074
    Abstract: A hoop toy including an elongated rod having a pair of spaced abutment members adjacent one end and adapted to be held at the opposite end for twirling gyratory movement, and further including a large hoop and a coupling ring member adapted to encircle a portion of the hoop and the portion of the rod between the abutment members to permit the hoop to twirl about the rod only between the abutment members.The hoop toy is further characterized by various means for holding the opposite end of the rod for twirling movement, such as a head-supported socket member, a hip-supported socket member, and a hand-held socket member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Reymundo Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 4221075
    Abstract: A simplified combination animal call has a casing divided into identical upper and lower half sections held together by a securing elastic band. Symmetrical channels of different widths spaced longitudinally along half sections provide airways through the casing whose openings act interchangeably as mouthpiece openings along one side of the casing and sound-emitting bells on the opposite side. Air blown through any such airway vibrates a second elastic band which spans each airway to produce an animal-like sound. Multiple airways of different widths make available several different pitch ranges at once. Changing either the size or tension of the vibratory elastic band changes the pitch that is available at each slot. Finally, the pitch produced may be dynamically varied either by changing the tension on the vibratory elastic or by compressing the mouthpiece side of the casing while the device is in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: H. Dan Gallagher
  • Patent number: 4221076
    Abstract: An amusement device consisting of a toy wheeled vehicle and a trackway on which the vehicle moves. In the preferred embodiment, the wheeled vehicle has at least rotatably driven rear wheels, rotatably driven gears and at least one rod extending from the vehicle. The trackway includes six different track sections which, when cooperating with the vehicle, impart different types of movements to the vehicle as the vehicle moves along the trackway. In one track section, for example, the front end of the vehicle is elevated into an upwardly extending position. The vehicle is movably driven on the track section by the rear wheels in the upwardly extended front end position until it reaches a portion of the track section which returns the front end of the vehicle to a normal position. In another track section, there is provided a double-inclined tower which imparts a rocking movement to the vehicle as the vehicle moves upwardly on one side of the tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Tomy Kogyo Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Shoji Ozawa
  • Patent number: 4221077
    Abstract: A toy racing car is provided which may be steered from one slot to another on a multi-slotted wide track. The car is electrically energized through electrically conductive strips extending along both sides of the slots either internally or externally of the slots, and the car has a solenoid operated pin which extends down into the slot to hold the car on course. The car may be turned in one direction or another by selecting the polarity of the voltage applied to the electric motor in the car, and the pin may be released from the slot by a high voltage pulse, or, alternately by the interruption of a high voltage, thereby permitting the car to be steered either to the left or to the right to the next adjacent slot on the track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Emil H. von Winckelmann
  • Patent number: 4221078
    Abstract: A flexible rubber disk serving as a base for a transparent globular display container adapted to be filled with liquid, and as an effective seal for a circular opening in the latter bounded by a flared lip. The upper face of the base is provided with a central socket for a cylindrical block of yieldable porous plastic material in which are seated the components of a natural or artificial floral arrangement, or any other desirable ornament. The block is secured against displacement by arcuate ribs at the edge of the socket which impale substantially the entire lateral wall of the block. An annular recess in the upper face of the base permits the insertion thereinto of said flared lip at said circular opening, to form a liquid seal at the base of the annular slot and at the convexity of the flared lip against the inner lateral wall of the central portion of the disk delineated by the annular slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventors: John F. Latham, Elaine L. Latham
  • Patent number: 4221079
    Abstract: A window lifting arrangement for an automotive vehicle and the like includes a support which defines the axes x, y, z of a system of rectangular coordinates. A window pane is mounted for movement relative to the support, the movement having a principal component in the direction of the y-axis, the pane and its direction of movement being arcuate about an axis of curvature transverse to the y-axis. A guide rail elongated in the direction of the z-axis is secured to the pane. An operating arm is mounted on the support for angular movement about a pivot axis and has a free end drivingly connected to the guide rail for movement of the free end longitudinally of the guide rail. The pivot axis is inclined relative to the plane defined by the y- and x-axes at a small acute angle, and preferably relative to a plane defined by the x- and y-axes at another small acute angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Metallwerke Max Brose GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Herbert Becker
  • Patent number: 4221080
    Abstract: The grinding machine essentially comprises a frame on which a grinding-wheel slide is capable of moving towards a workpiece carried by a sliding table designed in two separate parts or table components, one of which is adapted to carry a headstock while the other carries a tailstock. The two table components are provided with means for controlling their movements in opposite directions and the tailstock table component is subjected to the action of a restoring spring for urging it towards the headstock table component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Constructions de Clichy
    Inventor: Paul Favrot
  • Patent number: 4221081
    Abstract: A dust collecting system for belt sanders and the like which prevents dust and grit produced during the sanding of objects from entering the air which the operator breathes. The system serves as the closed base or stand for the belt sander, contains a powered air moving device, a baffle to trap larger particles of grit, a standard furnace filter to remove dust and smaller particles of grit, a control switch to start and stop the sander, a filter examination and removal plate and a cleanout plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Charles T. Everett
  • Patent number: 4221082
    Abstract: A device for holding precious stones during cutting and polishing the facets thereof comprises a rod having a mounting tip at one end for mounting the stone, a positioning collar loosely received on the rod so as to be movable both axially and rotatably thereon and including a plurality of flat faces on its outer surface each adapted to be pressed against a locating surface of an aligning fixture for positioning the stone with respect to a cutting or polishing disc, an indexing collar having a plurality of indexing positions, and spring means for fixing the positioning collar to the indexing collar and the latter collar to the rod at desired preselected positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Hargem Ltd.
    Inventor: Ilan Weissman
  • Patent number: 4221083
    Abstract: A heat shield and blocking disc for use in lens grinding which comprises a carrier layer of flexible optical transparent plastic having transparent adhesive coatings on both sides thereof, one of which is adapted to stick to a plastic lens blank but to be stripped therefrom with a minimum of residue with the other adhesive compatible with the normal alloy used in blocking glass lens blanks, permitting a simpler blocking of plastic lenses and the use of the normal alloy, thereby reducing the cost of the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Valley Industrial Products
    Inventor: Thomas J. Carroll
  • Patent number: 4221084
    Abstract: An abrasive tool having a base portion with etched metal abrasive thereon and a handle portion adapted to snap onto the base in two alternate positions, one position being tight for using the etched metal abrasive and the other position being raised slightly to accomodate, between the handle and the base, a piece of sandpaper wrapped around the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Minnesota Micro Metal, Inc.
    Inventor: John J. Frantzen
  • Patent number: 4221085
    Abstract: A cover for a mound of stored bulk material, such as a round bale, which has an outer surface and ends, has sufficient dimensions to cover more than 50% of the outer diameter of the round bale. The terminus of the cover closest to the ground or storing place contains a tie rope for passing around the bale below its diameter to secure the cover. An added feature is an end flap devised to cover both ends of the round bale. The flap includes provisions for tightening as the stored bulk material shrinks or changes in shape through storage. The flap will also contain a plurality of openings to secure the flap to the bulk material with a tie tool. The cover can be utalized on a mound of hay by the above method and including a tie tool which passes through a portion of hay with a rope threaded through the hay with the tie tool. The rope is secured to a plurality of openings in the cover to further secure the hay cover to the hay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Inventor: Bill F. Conaghan
  • Patent number: 4221086
    Abstract: Credit card operated, automated teller machines are located in the vestibule of a bank where they may be accessed during normal banking hours. During off hours, a partition system segregates the vestibule from the remainder of the bank. Off-hour access to the vestibule is advantageously controlled by a customer activated door lock operated by the credit card and reader located at the bank door. Thus, access to the vestibule and the automated teller machines are controlled by the customer own credit card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: Citibank, N.A.
    Inventor: James S. Berman