Patents Issued in June 16, 1981
  • Patent number: D259570
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Hishino Gakki Ten, Inc.
    Inventor: Masao Hoshino
  • Patent number: D259571
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: The Mosler Safe Company
    Inventors: Stanley J. Arasim, Jr., Edward J. Voitas
  • Patent number: D259572
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: Jean-Claude Renaud
  • Patent number: D259573
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: Jean-Claude Renaud
  • Patent number: D259574
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Anson Incorporated
    Inventor: Olof V. Anderson
  • Patent number: D259575
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Larry R. Nagode
  • Patent number: D259576
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: Joseph J. Clement
  • Patent number: D259577
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: Armando Baeza
  • Patent number: D259578
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: Ronald Carreiro
  • Patent number: D259579
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Irving Kaye Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Arnold Kaye
  • Patent number: D259580
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Irving Kaye Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Arnold Kaye
  • Patent number: D259581
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: Eric H. Kretschmer
  • Patent number: D259582
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: Amon Aquarian
  • Patent number: D259583
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: Dennis L. Mulee
  • Patent number: D259584
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Hydro Service & Supplies, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles D. Riley, Charles G. Waddell
  • Patent number: D259585
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Pacific Fireplace Furnishings, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas V. Metz, W. James Sirois
  • Patent number: D259586
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: McGraw-Edison Company
    Inventor: Dennis E. Johnson
  • Patent number: D259587
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Proto Plant Inc.
    Inventor: Philip E. Jergenson
  • Patent number: D259588
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Rowenta-Werke GmbH
    Inventor: Franz A. Stutzer
  • Patent number: D259589
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Goodway Manufacturing Limited
    Inventor: Bing-Yiu Chin
  • Patent number: D259590
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Knut O. Yran
  • Patent number: D259591
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Knut O. Yran
  • Patent number: D259592
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: Albert E. Ostermaier
  • Patent number: D259593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: David A. Gross
  • Patent number: D259594
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
    Inventor: Mark R. Weitzman
  • Patent number: PP4741
    Abstract: The presently described apple tree originated as a generic bud sport on a Hannaford Spur Granny Smith apple tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,453) in the Calvin L. Cooper orchard located in Brewster, Wash. The new apple tree and its fruit are characterized by the desirable properties which characterize the parent Hannaford Granny Smith. In addition, it is characterized by significantly increased bloom set, by significantly higher setting of double and triple apple clusters, by sharply increased productivity, and by materially reduced internodal distances on the terminal growth of its branches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Auvil Fruit Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Calvin L. Cooper
  • Patent number: PP4742
    Abstract: A begonia plant known by the cultivar name Harmony having large, double, light orange flowers and dark green foliage; a relatively great number of pistillated flowers; early flowering and floriferous habit; excellent keeping quality; adaptability in a controlled environment to year round flowering and varying pot size; sturdy, upright and compact growth habits, and excellent vigor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Mikkelsens Inc.
    Inventor: Cornelis P. Van den Berg
  • Patent number: PP4743
    Abstract: A begonia plant known by the cultivar name Ballet having clear yellow flowers and dark green foliage; double flowers, with the tepals in the center being relatively small and ruffled and the outside tepals being relatively large thereby giving the impression of a flower having a relatively small center enframed by the two outside tepals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Mikkelsens Inc.
    Inventors: James C. Mikkelsen, Cornelis P. van den Berg
  • Patent number: PP4744
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of kalanchoe plant particularly distinguished by its unique orange-yellow flowers supported by rigid upright stems in tightly clustered panicles above and between shiny dark green leaves. This plant is intended for year-around four and six inch pot production and has a ten to twelve week flowering response to photoperiod control. It has a rapid and vigorous growth habit with caespitose branching, abundant foliage, and a profuse production of flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Pan-American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP4745
    Abstract: A new kalanchoe cultivar developed for year-around four or six inch pot production and distinguished by its profuse display of closely massed flowers which are of a light red color upon first opening and which quickly turn to a bright pink, giving the head of flowers a pleasing two-tone appearance. This plant has a vigorous and rapid growth habit and an abundant production of large leaves spreading outwardly below the large and bright clusters of flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Pan-American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: RE30645
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically cutting wrappers or the like from metal sheets. A metal sheet is conveyed in the x-direction to a cutting position wherein a pair of cutting blade (i.e., shears) assemblies cut edge portions from the metal sheet to form a cut wrapper or the like having longitudinal edges. The cutting assemblies are movable in the y-dimension--transverse to the x-direction--and are also angularly movable. From the cutting position the cut wrapper is continuously conveyed to a notching position wherein notching assemblies also movable in the y-dimension may form notches in the longitudinal edges of the cut wrapper. At a further point in the x-direction, an edge deforming position may be provided including edge deforming apparatus that also is movable in the y-dimension. Flexible elongated members or the like support the metal sheet spaced from its conveyor during conveying to prevent damage to the conveyor by the cutting or notching assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Potomac Applied Mechanics, Inc.
    Inventor: James H. Stubbings
  • Patent number: RE30646
    Abstract: A machine, operable on a shoe assembly formed of a last having an upper mounted thereon and an insole located on its bottom, that applies cement in the corners between the side and heel portions of the upper margin and the peripheries of the corresponding portions of the insole prior to wiping the side and heel portions of the upper margin against the insole and attaching the wiped margin portions to the insole by means of the cement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: International Shoe Machine Corporation
    Inventors: Walter Vornberger, Karl F. Vornberger
  • Patent number: RE30647
    Abstract: A pipe joint includes pin and box members having interengaged threads characterized as producing hoop tension in the pin member and hoop compression in the box members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Hydril Company
    Inventor: Thomas L. Blose
  • Patent number: RE30648
    Abstract: A chair for dental patients has a lower portion and an upper portion including a swingable back and a seat movable when the back is swung. The seat is connected at its rear end by a hinge with the lower end of the back. The invention is particularly characterized in that the seat is mounted upon the lower portion so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction of the chair, while the back is guided over a rigid guide which is connected with the lower portion and the back. Means are provided in the part of the seat free from the hinge between it and the lower portion which are operable when the back is swung to tip the seat about a horizontal axis toward the back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wilhelm Ohlrogge, Walter Hetz
  • Patent number: RE30649
    Abstract: The lid support member for the lid of a high speed food processing apparatus supports a mixing baffle blade through the center of the lid. The mixing baffle blade drive shaft is hollow for introducing liquids into the mixing bowl directly over the food processing blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Hobart Corporation
    Inventor: James W. Thompson
  • Patent number: RE30650
    Abstract: Dispersions of pigments, disperse- or vat-dyestuffs, wherein the dispersing agent is formed either by cocondensation of a phenolic component, formaldehyde and an alkali metal sulfite or of a sulfonated phenolic component and formaldehyde. These dispersions are characterized in that the dispersing agent used shows an improved dispersing effect. Furthermore, they can also be used when being neutralized for the dispersing alkali sensitive dyestuffs and they show no tendency to soil the fabrics so that also clean shades may be dyed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhold Deubel, Helmut Diery, Wolfgang Klinner, Karl-Hermann List, Heinz Uhrig
  • Patent number: RE30651
    Abstract: In abstract, a preferred embodiment of this invention is an improved roasted type peanut product and the process by which it is produced. The process includes precooking the peanuts in boiling water with a color additive ingredient, removing the peanuts and placing them in hot vegetable oil for a predetermined period of time, removing the same, coating with a light film of oil and salting the same. The product has a longer shelf life and is of a much more palatable taste than what would ordinarily be expected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Carolina Peanuts of Robersonville, Inc.
    Inventor: William M. Green
  • Patent number: RE30652
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for constructing a thermoelectric module, as well as to the module so obtained. The method according to the invention comprises the steps of construction a reference shoulder on the semiconductor bar, assembling the semiconductor bars in series by using an insulating cement, cleaning the surfaces, gold plating, nickel plating, brasing copper electrodes, machining the regions between the elements which have to remain insulated, protecting the copper electrodes by nickel or chromium plating. The thermoelectric module so obtained consists of a matrix of semiconductor elements with all the mechanical and electrical connections incorporated, including the input and output terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Snamprogetti S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giovanni Germano, Francesco Losciale, Roberto Falesiedi, Ferruccio Daclon, Nicola Merzagora
  • Patent number: 4272847
    Abstract: A lightweight baseball catcher's chest protector that permits circulation of air to the user's body, one that does not absorb perspiration even after prolonged useage, has a minimum restrictive action on the movement of the user thereof, and minimizes the tendency of a missed baseball that strikes the chest protector to bounce therefrom in an unpredictable direction. The chest protector is adapted for use not only by a catcher but also an umpire. The protective pad of the present invention is of sufficient size to at least cover the chest of a user, and is defined by an organic foamed material that is pliable and laterally deformable when a portion thereof is struck by a baseball. The foam material after being struck by a baseball returns but slowly to its initial configuration and as a result there is no tendency of a missed baseball to strike the protector to bounce therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: William J. Buhler
  • Patent number: 4272848
    Abstract: A spunlaced fabric composed of random-arrayed polyester fibers is formed into a single-layer or double-layer fabric arrangement which is used to make an undergarment. The undergarment is worn by an individual and fits snugly about a selected portion of the body. For example, the undergarment could be designed to fit around the torso of the body from beneath the armpits to the hips. A rigid or semirigid outergarment, such as an orthepedic brace, is worn about the same body area, and over the undergarment, to correct a body-growth deficiency such as curvature of the spine. Relatively large beads of perspiration moisture generated beneath the brace by the individual wearing the brace are absorbed into the undergarment. The random-arrayed nature of the fibers of the fabric causes the relatively large beads of perspiration to form into mirco-droplets which migrate over the fibers and facilitate removal of the bulk of the moisture from beneath the brace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: Shirley B. Hoofnagle
  • Patent number: 4272849
    Abstract: A glove for being worn by a workman, the glove including stainless steel plates positioned against the backhand side so to protect the hand against being crushed during various work; the glove being made of a flexible material with steel plates located between an outer layer and inner liner so that the glove can be bent at the joint of the fingers; the steel plates accordingly being placed over the rigid segments of the fingers and hand between the joints thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventors: Jay D. Thurston, George Spector
  • Patent number: 4272850
    Abstract: A protective pad for use in cushioning the body has a resilient organic foam polymeric material with body cushioning properties. The pad has an undersurface facing the body and a scored top surface forming an increased flexibility in the pad to better enable it to conform to the joint or other body area which it is protecting. This increased flexibility and body conforming property is obtained without substantial loss of body cushioning and protective properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: W. H. Brine Company
    Inventor: Robert J. Rule
  • Patent number: 4272851
    Abstract: In a protective garment for insulating a worker from a hazardous environment, a suit manufactured from weldable or bondable material having a double overlapping zipper construction and welded or bonded seams having a binding stitched to the outside of the seams whereby the needle holes from such stitching do not extend to the interior of the garment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Durafab Division of Texel Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Lynn E. Goldstein
  • Patent number: 4272852
    Abstract: An outer garment having means affixed to the shoulders for removably securing a knapsack at either the front, the rear, or knapsacks at both the front and rear of the garment is disclosed. A pair of shoulder straps, each extending over one of the shoulders of the garment from the front to the rear, has free ends adapted to secure and remove the knapsack or knapsacks, the securing means comprising a loop connecting the strap to a ring. The knapsack is equipped with a pair of hook-type snap fasteners, such as a snap hook, arrnaged on the knapsack to permit attaching to the rings at the ends of the shoulder straps on the front of the garment, or the rings at the end of the shoulder straps at the rear of the garment. Alternatively, two knapsacks so equipped can be so attached, one at the front and one at the rear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Mighty-Mac, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard S. Bell
  • Patent number: 4272853
    Abstract: A knitted hood for use with hard hats to provide cold weather protection for a wearer. The hood is tubular, including an upper portion adapted to be stretched over a hard hat and lower face mask portion capable of being extended over a wearer's face and neck. The face mask portion has at least one elastic-bordered face opening and is also provided with at least one laterally-elongated slit above the level of the face opening(s) for receiving a portion of the brim of a hard hat to anchor the hood against unintentional detachment from the hat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Inventor: Walter E. Schuessler
  • Patent number: 4272854
    Abstract: A heart valve prosthesis having an annular valve body defining a central passageway which is closed by a pair of pivoting leaflets. Projections extending laterally from each of the leaflets are received in socket means provided at generally diametrically opposite locations in the interior wall of the valve body. Slot portions of the socket means guide the pivotal movement of the leaflets. The pivotal axis of each leaflet is eccentrically located and moves relative to the valve body during opening and closing motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Carbomedics, Inc.
    Inventor: Jack C. Bokros
  • Patent number: 4272855
    Abstract: The anchoring surface of the bone implant is provided with villi (depressions or projections) devoid of corners and edges. The villi are of generally conical shape with transition surfaces merging into the base level of the anchoring surface. The villi allow implanting in a bone without cement since bone tissue is allowed to grow into or around the villi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Sulzer Brothers Limited
    Inventor: Otto Frey
  • Patent number: 4272856
    Abstract: A thin flexible film bag, oriented horizontally or integral therewith and preferably bearing an absorbent material chuck on its upper wall, forms a plenum chamber. A lower wall underlying the chuck and including small diameter perforations to create an air bearing for supporting the patient mover. The patient borne thereby lies on the chuck, some distance from an underlying fixed planar support surface. This permits the patient to be readily moved in a frictionless manner when air under pressure fills the plenum chamber and escapes through the perforations. Air enters the plenum chamber through an outer tube of thin, flexible material. Paired, opposed, flat and less flexible tongues define a short inner tube, being positioned within the outer tube, to permit airflow entry to the plenum chamber with the tongues being deflected away from each other. The tongues are pressed against each other and one side of the outer tube wall, due to elastic memory, to prevent air escape from the chamber at that point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Jack Wegener
    Inventors: Jack Wegener, Raynor A. Johnson
  • Patent number: 4272857
    Abstract: A lifejacket has an inflatable body defining a head receiving opening having a closed periphery. The opening is elongated to reduce the stress tending to open the seam at the periphery of the body when inflated. Restraints join the periphery of the opening on the side remote from the head end of the body to the head end of the body on opposite faces respectively of the body. These restraints are so dimensioned that, when the body is deflated, they lie loosely across the opening and do not impede insertion of the wearer's head therethrough and when the body is inflated, they are stretched taut across the opening and inhibit the wearer's head slipping back through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Beaufort Air-Sea Equipment Ltd.
    Inventor: Walter Oldham
  • Patent number: 4272858
    Abstract: A moccasin shoe is proposed to be made by a method which comprises cutting the parts of an upper including a vamp, preparing the underside of the vamp for fusing, assembling the back part of the shoe, placing and fixing the thus formed and prepared upper, which does not include a plug, in a mold which is injected with polyurethane or other suitable thermoplastic material to form a sole which is bonded to the underside of the upper and also, by means of an upstanding peripheral flange to the side margins of the upper, removing the upper from the mold and thereafter stitching a plug portion to the upper margin of the vamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: K. Shoemakers Limited
    Inventor: John Hlustik