Patents Issued in March 15, 1988
  • Patent number: D294750
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventor: Frank W. Atchley
  • Patent number: D294751
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventor: Ming-Jin Shaiu
  • Patent number: D294752
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventor: David G. Palier
  • Patent number: D294753
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventor: Henry C. Otterbein
  • Patent number: D294754
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Carolon Company
    Inventor: Donald J. Parashyniak
  • Patent number: D294755
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: The Scott & Fetzer Company
    Inventors: John R. Lackner, Juergen Rathgeber, J. Parks Newby
  • Patent number: D294756
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co., Cryovac Div.
    Inventor: Frederick S. Fonville
  • Patent number: D294757
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventors: Robert D. Kahane, Rosalind Q. Kahane, Ernest S. Kahane
  • Patent number: D294758
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Hills Industries Limited
    Inventor: Ronald G. Meade
  • Patent number: D294759
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Better Electrical Products Factory Limited
    Inventor: Bing Y. Chan
  • Patent number: D294760
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventor: Edward N. Vanderdoes, Sr.
  • Patent number: D294761
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventors: Daniel J. Gallery, Stanley A. Gallery
  • Patent number: D294762
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Goran Abbestam, Leif Lachonius
  • Patent number: D294763
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Marsellus Casket Co.
    Inventor: Michael L. Beardsley
  • Patent number: D294764
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Compusafe, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerald B. Fincke
  • Patent number: PP6127
    Abstract: The new cultivar Moonshadow is especially characterized by its broadleaf evergreen foliage which has pronounced yellow centers that cover the entire leaf except for narrow dark green margins, with the leaves inside the plant being of the same variegated color as the stem tips, thereby giving the plant as a whole a distinctive and striking light yellow appearance, accented delicately by the narrow green curled leaf margins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Dugan Nurseries, Incorporated
    Inventor: Thomas F. Dugan
  • Patent number: PP6128
    Abstract: The new cultivar Thunderbolt is especially characterized by its broadleaf evergreen foliage which has pronounced irregular yellow centers that cover an area of the leaf around the midvein, with the leaves inside the plant being of the same variegated color as leaves on the stem tips, thereby giving the plant as a whole a distinctive and striking dark green appearance with jagged stripes and spots of yellow accenting the foliage. The plant is further characterized by its profuse display of yellow-green flowers in May.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Dugan Nurseries, Incorporated
    Inventor: Thomas F. Dugan
  • Patent number: PP6129
    Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named Pink Arola particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; red-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 6.5 cm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height when grown as a pinched spray pot mum, and spreading branching pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Yoder Brothers, Inc.
    Inventor: Cornelis P. VandenBerg
  • Patent number: PP6130
    Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named Togos particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; greyed-orange ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 8 cm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown single stem, and 8 to 13 cm. peduncles on open, terminal sprays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Yoder Brothers, Inc.
    Inventor: William E. Duffett
  • Patent number: PP6131
    Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named Theme particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; red ray floret color, with excellent color retention under high light conditions; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 10 cm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height when grown as a pinched disbudded pot mum; and spreading branching pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Yoder Brothers, Inc.
    Inventor: William E. Duffett
  • Patent number: RE32621
    Abstract: The frame girder for underground drift construction comprises three or more retainer bars (3a, 3b) whose cross sections form a polygon, the retainer bars being affixed to one another by stiffener elements (4). Each stiffener element (4) comprises a number of cross struts (5) bent in their centers and inclined with respect to the retainer bars. The outer ends (9) of the struts (5) are each attached to one of the retainer bars. The stiffener element may be formed symmetrically with respect to a central plane extending obliquely to the retainer bars. The frame girder may be made from conventional round irons. It resists bending, torsion and buckling at very high loads, and no undesirable injection shadows are produced during concreting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Pantex-Stahl AG
    Inventor: Edgar Arnold
  • Patent number: RE32622
    Abstract: In order to make casting sand or another moldable mixture, a pressure surge wave is used which has upper and lower limit values which values have been established by an optimal selection of a pattern of pressures. The other moldable mixture comprises particles of raw material, binder, water, and, if need be, additives. The rise in pressure takes place with an increasing pressure gradient, dp/dt, of at least 50 atmospheres (absolute)/second. A minimum pressure of at least 2 atmospheres (absolute) is maintained for at least 0.01 second. The pressure drop takes place at a decreasing pressure gradient,--dp/dt, of up to about 2.0 atmospheres (absolute)/second. The disclosed values represent an optimalization, in view of a simple design and economy of operation, with a surprisingly good compacting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: George Fischer Foundry Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Christoph Landolt
  • Patent number: RE32623
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for producing hydrocarbons from a subterranean hydrocarbon-bearing formation located beneath the floor of a body of water. A platform structure is installed on the floor over the formation and well conductors are extended down the structure and penetrate into the floor of the body of water. The conductors may include an upper vertical portion, then continually curve downwardly and outwardly through the structure above the floor in a manner maintaining a relatively smooth bore throughout the entire extent of the conductors. The conductors are extended into the floor of the body of water and wells are drilled, via the conductors, down into communication with the formation. Formation fluids are then produced from the formation via the conductors.This is a Reissue of a Patent which was the subject of a Reexamination Certificate No. B1 Re. 28,860, dated Sept. 3, 1985, Request Nos. 90/000,412, June 27, 1983 and 90/000,607, Aug. 13, 1984.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Peter W. Marshall, Peter Arnold, Francis P. Dunn
  • Patent number: RE32624
    Abstract: A shock-reducing lamp assembly adapted for mounting on a vehicle. The assembly includes a housing defining a cavity having an open end and a lens connected to the housing enclosing the open end. An integral resilient mount includes a tubular central portion having a first end and a second end, with a pair of spaced mounting feet disposed adjacent to the first end and a second pair of spaced mounting feet positioned adjacent the second end. Each of the feet has a mounting aperture and the first pair of feet extends in a first plane and the second pair of feet extends in a second plane, with the first and second planes being spaced and being substantially parallel. The assembly further includes a metallic socket telescopically received in the central portion. The housing includes components for positioning the mount so that a lamp held in the socket is in operative relationship to the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Triplex Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Sam A. Myles, Paul C. Katz
  • Patent number: RE32625
    Abstract: A technique is described that permits direct and accurate evaluation of a thin film conductor's reliability which requires only a few hours to carry out. The technique involves a temperature ramp procedure which dynamically exposes a conductor operating under constant current stress to a linear (in time) rise in temperature. Changes in resistivity of the conductor provides kinetic data that is directly related to both the electromigration process and the reliability of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Syracuse University
    Inventors: James A. Schwarz, Robert W. Pasco
  • Patent number: 4730354
    Abstract: A sporting glove adapted to extend over the hand of a human being, the glove including finger covering portions, a thumb covering portion, a palm covering portion, a wrist covering portion and a portion for covering the back of the hand wherein all of the portions are interconnected together. The glove has a pair of slots on the front and back adjacent to the thumb and a strap having one end with a metal "D" ring attached thereto which is positioned adjacent the wrist covering portion and such one end extends around the base of the thumb covering portion and leads to one of the pairs of slots on the back of the glove, over and between the thumb covering portion and the adjacent finger covering portion and through the other pair of slots on the palm covering portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventor: Edwin T. Saito
  • Patent number: 4730355
    Abstract: A four-way air directional valve assembly is disclosed in combination with apparatus employed for pneumatically generating waves in a wave pool having a plurality of wave generating chambers arranged side-by-side and extending across the width of a pool at one end thereof. Each of these wave chambers has a below the water passageway in communication with the pool and a sealed portion located above the normal water level of the pool. Each chamber has an inlet-outlet passageway above the water level with the passageway serving in one mode as an inlet for directing forced air into the wave chamber and in a second mode as an outlet for exhausting air therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventors: Mark L. Kreinbihl, Randall L. Mosher, Kevin D. Pramer, Robert P. Miller
  • Patent number: 4730356
    Abstract: A novel bed having a horizontal support frame affixed to a plurality of vertical legs and providing a stretchable mat made of a porous support surface which may be subjected to selected tension by a plurality of springs and spring adjustment bars whereby to selectively adjust the sag resistance of the support surface to the user's various body portions. The stretchable mat of the present invention is readily removed for washing and reinstalled by simply releasing the tension on the springs. The stretchable mat is of a porous nature which allows the body surfaces in contact with the mat to "breathe" and which also allows liquids to pass through the mat whereby to provide a means for avoiding unnecessary discomfort to an incontinent user or patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventor: George R. Suzuki
  • Patent number: 4730357
    Abstract: A bedding mattress support foundation comprises a base frame, a plurality of formed wire springs mounted upon the base frame, and a wire grid mounted atop the formed wire springs. Each formed wire spring comprises a generally S-shaped horizontal load supporting portion and a pair of vertically extending yieldable end portions extending downwardly from opposite ends of the load supporting portion. Two parallel wires of the wire grid are secured to curvilinear portions of the S-shaped horizontal load supporting portion of each spring and three other parallel wires extending perpendicular to the first two parallel wires and rest atop but are unsecured to the S-shaped horizontal load supporting portion of each spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Leggett & Platt, Incorporated
    Inventor: Thomas J. Wells
  • Patent number: 4730358
    Abstract: A box spring assembly includes a base frame, a top wire grid and a plurality of sinuous wire springs interconnecting the top wire grid and the base frame. The sinuous wire springs each comprise a sinuous wire strip formed into a U-shaped configuration with the bottom of each U-shaped spring attached to the base frame and the free ends at the top of the U-shaped spring attached to the wire grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Leggett & Platt, Incorporated
    Inventor: Henry Zapletal
  • Patent number: 4730359
    Abstract: A device for controlling the spacing of the plates on a bridging arrangement for expansion joints in bridges or the like, in which device one or more plates run parallel between edge beams defining the expansion joint and are mounted on cross-members bridging the expansion joint. The plate is coupled to the two edge beams, or each plate is coupled to an edge beam and an adjacent plate or to two adjacent plates, by means of resilient members arranged to act in shear. Each resilient member is secured by one end to an edge beam or a plate and by the other end to a connector that is resilient to bending. Each connector connects the resilient members of an edge beam and a plate or of two plates to one another. All the plates are connected to one another and to the edge beams by one or more continuous control chains comprising shear springs and connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Kober AG
    Inventors: R. Huber, W. Koster
  • Patent number: 4730360
    Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus by which a thorough cleaning free of wrinkles is achieved for any type of slats (A) in that the lower brush roller (15) of the brush roller pair (14,15) is mounted to dip into a fluid bath (B) in the container box (1) and that the conveyer means comprises cooperating conveyer belt pairs (12,13;16,17) which form with the guide members (23-26) a non-deviating guide channel for the slats (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventor: Peter Brugelmann
  • Patent number: 4730361
    Abstract: This invention relates to a hairbrush that comprises bristles or bunches of bristles arranged in parallel rows. The length of the bristles in each row differs from row to row in the direction in which the brush is moved through the hair of a person whose hair is being brushed so as to have the row of longest bristles lift or fluff each successive increment of hair it engages and have the successive rows of successively shorter bristles smooth down each successive increment of hair that has been lifted by the longer bristles in the previous rows that engage the hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventor: Henry Koffler
  • Patent number: 4730362
    Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner is provided comprising a lightweight motor housing containing a revolving brush. A bag assembly is selectively separable from the housing and is sealable to the housing with an elastomeric retaining ring including a sealing and retaining bead for reception in a recessed slot area of a housing bag attachment collar. A fan is mounted to the motor on a motor shaft locking surface including a wall portion tapering towards the fan. The shaft is in locking cooperation with a mating fan bore locking surface including a wall portion tapered for close reception of the motor shaft locking surface. A shaft extension is threadedly received on the motor shaft and is urged into engagement against the fan by resistance of a revolving brush operated by a belt received on the shaft extension which continually tightens the shaft extension to the motor shaft and fixes the fan to the motor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Royal Appliance Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: John F. Sovis, Robert M. Smith, George H. Bramhall
  • Patent number: 4730363
    Abstract: A wiring grommet comprised of three components. A retractable lid is carried by a cylindrical cover which is shaped to closely nest within a cylindrical sleeve body. The retractable lid is attached to the cover by means of protrusions formed at each end of the lid. A recess formed in the underside of the cover and lid is shaped to receive a flange on the cylindrical sleeve body so that the profile of the assembled grommet is smooth and inconspicuous. The lid retracts to an open position which is similarly low in profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
    Inventor: Ahmad A. Asbaghi
  • Patent number: 4730364
    Abstract: A combined flush hinge and hold-open is described for hinging a panel flush with respect to a surface, such as may be used for hinging a liquid crystal display to a portable computer. The panel is connected to the surface through a pair of hinges, which are mounted on spring-activated follower parts which lie flush with the surface when the panel is closed. Upon rotation of the panel from the closed position, a cam surface on the panel, shaped in the form of an outward spiral, cooperates with an involute surface within the recess to displace the hinge outwardly, which permits the panel to rotate past the upper edge of the recess to opening angles greater than 90 degrees relative to the closed position, including up to 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Bondwell Holding Ltd.
    Inventor: Chan Tat-Kee
  • Patent number: 4730365
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a neck breaking assembly for a poultry processing operation wherein the bird's neck is first aligned and positioned into an identifiable location adjacent to a breaker block. The breaker block is then projected towards the bird breaking the neck of the bird against a V-shaped aligning and positioning assembly which serves as an anvil for the breaker block. The projected breaker block is then withdrawn downwardly separating the severed neck from the bird and stretching the remaining neck skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventor: Lacy Simmons
  • Patent number: 4730366
    Abstract: An apparatus for conveying pasty substances, for example sausage stuffing, is designed as a radial displacer piston conveyor for a rotary angle-proportional delivery of substance portions. This is made possible by designing a control cam section controlling the substance discharge as a circular involute. It is proposed to reduce the large and theoretically infinitely high acceleration forces acting on each displacer piston at the instant of the start of its discharge action by designing the involute section of the control cam with a run-up section and a run-off section, each, whose courses are designed mirror-inverted to each other. The arrangement thereof is such that at the instant when one displacer piston runs onto said run-up section, the preceding piston enters the run-off section, so that, during the passage of those two cam sections, two displacer pistons, each, participate in the substance discharge. The acceleration values thereof add up to become zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Nordischer Maschinenbau Rud. Baader GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Manfred Mette
  • Patent number: 4730367
    Abstract: In an apparatus and a method for producing sausages, an apparatus comprising a tubular member for feeding a flowable meat mass and a roll of a strip like film mounted thereon, bending means axially mounted around said tubular member for converting the strip-like film into a tubular film with the side edges of the film in overlapping relationship, welding means adjacent the outlet of the bending means for welding the overlapping side edges, said tubular member having an ejector end for supplying meat into the casing, while the tubular member, the film during shaping and the welding means simultaneously rotate, to thus rotatably feed the casing containing the meat-mass into rectilinearly moving clamping means to form a string of sausages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Envaril, S.A.
    Inventor: Isaac Vinokur
  • Patent number: 4730368
    Abstract: A meat skinning machine and method for skinning wherein a shelf means is adjustably positioned between a meat support surface and the cutting edge of a skinning knife just beyond the periphery of the teeth of a gripping roll wherein the meat is supported immediately adjacent the cutting edge at a position beyond the periphery of the gripping roll just prior to the time the meat moves into contact with the cutting edge to permit the meat to move in an angular direction towards the roll and into contact with the edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Townsend Engineering Company
    Inventor: Ray T. Townsend
  • Patent number: 4730369
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for recovering sulfur from an aqueous slurry. The slurry is passed downwardly through a shell-and-tube heat exchanger having vertically arranged tubes, wherein it is heated sufficiently to melt the sulfur. The liquid mixture leaving the heat exchanger is discharged into a first separation zone, in which a phase separation between the lighter aqueous phase and the denser liquid sulfur occurs. The upper aqueous phase is then transported to an intermediate point in the height of a vertically elongated second separation zone, while the molten sulfur is transported from the lower end of the first separation zone to a point adjacent the lower end of said second separation zone, in which an interface between the phases is maintained at a point below the entry point of the aqueous liquid phase into the second separation zone. The aqueous liquid is discharged from the top of the second separation zone, while molten sulfur is discharged from the bottom of said zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: ARI Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary J. Nagl, Leslie C. Hardison
  • Patent number: 4730370
    Abstract: A casket and method for manufacture are disclosed according to which a shell or base, having outwardly flared walls, is constructed of corrugated fiberboard by a technique in which a planar sheet of corrugated fiberboard is cut to form a blank having interconnected portions corresponding to the areas of the flared side and end walls. A domed lid is also provided, being formed of corrugated fiberboard with a reinforcing marginal frame, provision being made for utilization of the lid either as a single unitary piece or as a split lid having two halves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Vandor Corporation
    Inventor: Bruce E. Elder
  • Patent number: 4730371
    Abstract: A stuffer box crimper wherein the crimper roll surfaces comprise a hard wear resistant coating between opposite edge portions of the parent metal of the roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Clarke R. Broaddus
  • Patent number: 4730372
    Abstract: An apparatus for fabricating a blind. This blind fabricating apparatus is constituted by: input devices for inputting a height of the blind and a length of a slat; an arithmetic and logic means for computing the number of steps of the slats which corresponds to the inputted height of the blind and positions at which insertion holes for an ascending-descending cord are formed in the slats on the basis of output signals of the input devices; and a slat inserting device for cutting the slat material to a predetermined length, forming the insertion holes for the ascending-descending cord in the slats, and inserting the slats through a plurality of ladder cords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Tachikawa Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 4730373
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine tool for multiple surface machining having a work supporting device provided on a base and having a work supporting portion which is freely rotatable and freely adjustable in a vertical position, a slide base freely adjustably movable on the base in a horizontal direction toward and away from the work supporting device, a tool supporting table provided on the slide base, the tool supporting table being freely adjustably movable in a horizontal direction orthogonal to the direction of movement of the slide base, a vertical machining device mounted on the tool supporting table to perform machining from the upper direction on a workpiece that is supported by the work supporting portion, and a plurality of horizontal machining devices mounted on the tool supporting table to perform machining on the workpiece from the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Washino Engineering Company, Limited
    Inventor: Atsushi Senoh
  • Patent number: 4730374
    Abstract: In a heatable glazing or calendering roll having a cylindrical hollow body with flange necks for each end of the cylindrical hollow body, a displacement body disposed in the cylindrical hollow body and supply and discharge lines for a fluid heat carrier flowing through the annular gap between the displacement body and the cylindrical hollow body, by selecting a suitable material for the flange necks and/or by corresponding thermal insulation between cylindrical hollow body and flange necks it is achieved that the flange necks on heating up of the cylindrical hollow body expand less than the cylindrical hollow body and thereby bending moments are generated in the cylindrical hollow body which counteract the oxbow deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Schwabische Huttenwerke
    Inventors: Hans-Friedrich Neuhoffer, Erich Vomhoff
  • Patent number: 4730375
    Abstract: A scroll-type apparatus having an improved radial seal and a method for the assembly thereof is disclosed. The spiral wrap of a moving scroll and a stationary scroll are provided with gap adjusting means for providing a gap of a desired size between the top surface of the spiral wrap of each scroll and the top surface of the base plate of the opposing scroll. The gap adjustment means comprises a spiral-shaped elastic element which fits into a groove formed in the top surface of a spiral wrap or on top of a protrusion formed on the top surface of the spiral wrap, to form a nonpressurized seal. The elastic element is supported by the spiral wrap by friction, bonding, or solvent welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakamura, Masahiro Sugihara, Tsutomu Inaba, Masahiko Oide, Tadashi Kimura, Norihide Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4730376
    Abstract: A blade removal apparatus for a changeable blade scalpel in which a blade is removably mounted on a scalpel handle by fitting a mounting hole formed in the blade over a blade mounting part having a narrow width provided on the tip end of the scalpel handle. The blade removal apparatus has a box part having an open top and a side wall and an acceptor part projecting laterally from the upper part of the side wall, and a cover part closing the open top and having a visored part extending over the acceptor part. A guide edge on the acceptor part defines a lower gap tapered so as to become narrower as it extends to the inside of the box part and into which blade mounting parts of changeable blade scalpels of various types can be inserted. The cover part has a stopping stepped part defining an upper gap between the lower surface of the visored part and the guide edge and into which upper gap a blade on a scalpel is insertable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Feather Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsumi Yamada
  • Patent number: 4730377
    Abstract: A duct heater includes end brackets by frame bars. The end brackets are formed into a geometric shape whereby only corners of the bracket engage an inner suface of the duct. Assembly is facilitated by providing the end bracket as thin, flat strips having narrower and wider sections. The frame bars are attached to the wider sections, and when the strips are bent to form a closed geometric form, the thinner sections are curved to form duct-engaging corners while the wider sections remain substantially straight. Insulating supports are attached to the frame bars, and a heater coil is attached to the insulating supports. The structure may be easily slid into a duct because only the corners of the end brackets contact the duct. Thus, a method for forming the heater brackets and attaching heater elements is set forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Tutco, Inc.
    Inventor: Jimmy L. Sherrill
  • Patent number: 4730378
    Abstract: An integrally moulded device for applying pressure to screen material or a retaining bead, to force same into a groove of a frame member is disclosed. The tool has a central body graspable by the human hand and a thin blade member at each end, each blade member having a straight edge surface extending from the body and a convexly arcuate edge surface extending from the outer end of the straight edge surface back to the body. One arcuate edge surface is transversely rounded for preforming screen material into the groove. The other arcuate edge surface is transversely V-shaped for pushing a flexible bead into the groove to retain the screen material therein. The shape of the blade members permits the application of pressure completely into corners defined by abutting grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Swenco Limited
    Inventors: Henry D. Sweeny, Antonio D. Sabbadin