Vertical Displacement Of Back Disengages Holder Patents (Class 297/357)
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Patent number: 9321381Abstract: An armrest device for a vehicle seat, in particular for a flight passenger seat, having an armrest that is connected to a seat component via a joint unit such that said armrest can be swiveled about a swivel axis. The armrest device comprises a locking unit for locking the joint unit, which has a bearing unit that is provided for the mobile mounting of the armrest.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: RECARO AIRCRAFT SEATING GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Andreas Itzinger
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Patent number: 8186754Abstract: A worker's body support includes a base assembly which is preferably made of two spaced channel members. An upright assembly also preferably made of two spaced channel members is pivotally mounted at its lower end to the base assembly. An angular adjustment structure is pivotally mounted to the base assembly and is selectively mounted to one of a number of different locations to the upright assembly to adjust the angular orientation of the upright assembly. A seat is mounted to the upright assembly and is movable to a plurality of different locations and orientations.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2010Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Inventor: Steven Sharrow
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Patent number: 7967388Abstract: A backrest structure capable for a vehicle having seats that are supported on a vehicle body frame via a seat frame as a seat support member. Each of the seats includes a seat back as a backrest supporting a back of a driver. The seat back is removably mounted in the seat frame, thereby permitting positional adjustments in vertical and longitudinal directions to fit a body type of the driver. The resulting configuration makes driving of the vehicle easier.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Kobayashi, Masahiro Inoue
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Patent number: 7717514Abstract: A chair designed for outdoor use, in particular various hunting applications. The chair is independently adjustable in the seat platform, the legs and the seatback to meet the different requirements for hunting various types of game, such as reclining for fowl flying above, or upright for land animals. It is also mounted on a swivel for quickly pivoting to follow the movement of game. The invention can be used in conjunction with blinds, or can include a pop up tarp for partially concealing the hunter. The seat is not just useful for hunters, but other outdoor enthusiast that want to view wildlife easily and in comfort.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2007Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Inventor: Dean Redmann
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Patent number: 7654496Abstract: A backrest for a motorcycle includes a base plate including an upper portion, and a lower portion including first and second opposing ends. A frame and/or pad are attached to the support portion. The lower portion includes a first vertical recess in the first end, and a second horizontal recess in the second end. A bracket is slidably mounted to the base portion, the bracket being slidable along a transverse axis between open and closed positions. In the closed position, a third recess in the bracket at least partially encloses the second recess for securing a pin within the second and third recesses. A locking arm is pivotally mounted to the bracket member for releasably securing the bracket member in the closed position. The bracket member and locking arm allow the backrest to be quickly attached to and released from a motorcycle.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2006Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Summit Industries, Inc.Inventors: Robert Sharpe, Gary Chez
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Publication number: 20100001565Abstract: A cover is provided for a chaise lounge pad that is so constructed as to fit pads of varying thicknesses.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2008Publication date: January 7, 2010Inventors: Clare L. Gray, Patsy A. Adams
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Patent number: 7632191Abstract: A seat for amusement apparatus, unusually suitable for allowing the user to adopt a new position on the apparatus, comprising a support and means for immobilising the user on the support. The immobilising means comprise at least one support in front of the user and opposing means suitable for acting on the user's back. The opposing means comprises an arm which can move between a lowered position in which the user can sit down on the support and a raised position in which one end of the arm abuts against the user's back.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2003Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Antonio Zamperla S.p.A.Inventors: Giambattista Zambelli, Alberto Zamperla
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Patent number: 7364235Abstract: A chair includes a positioning unit that is provided in a receiving portion of an armrest and that includes shorter and taller stop portions. A positioning member is retained movably on a rear side of a backrest, and has one end extending into the receiving portion to abut against a selected one of the stop portions. An operating unit is connected to and is operable to move the positioning member for selectively disengaging and engaging the stop portions. A safety mechanism is provided on the backrest and the operating unit, and is operable in either a limiting state, where the positioning member is unable to move past the taller stop portion, or a non-limiting state, where the positioning member is able to move past the taller stop portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2006Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Wonderland Nursery Goods, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shun-Min Chen, Hong-Bin Xu
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Patent number: 7188902Abstract: A backupholstery adjustment device for a wheelchair includes a wheelchair having a horizontally and/or obliquely adjusted backupholstery which has a pair of upper positioning rods and a pair of lower positioning rods spacedly secured to a plurality of V-shaped linking plates on inward arcuate lateral sides thereof, a pair of upper and a pair of lower adjustment pieces respectively secured to the upper and lower portions of a pair of L-shaped handles through a plurality of clamping plates. The upper adjustment pieces each has a slit abutting a stopping portion in the top insertable by the pair of upper positioning rods and a plurality of grooves formed inside for selectively engaging the upper positioning rods. The lower adjustment pieces each has a slit abutting a stopping portion, too, insertable by the pair of lower positioning rods and a single groove engageable within the lower positioning rods.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2005Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Inventor: Chao-Jen Chen
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Patent number: 6983992Abstract: A backrest of a motorcycle is provided with a pair of angle-adjusting units. In each angle-adjusting unit, a metal arm of the backrest is pivotally connected, by a connecting shaft, to an inner side of each of a seat stay mounted along a side of a seat. A retaining unit selectively and detachably retains a lower end of the metal arm at a plurality of retaining positions. The retaining unit is biased by a biasing member in a retaining direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2004Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Honda Access Corp.Inventor: Hiroyasu Oomori
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Patent number: 6860567Abstract: A lounge chair with ergonomic features. The lounge chair includes frame, a contoured seat section and an adjustable contoured back section that can be angularly biased relative to the seat section. The mechanism that permits the angular positioning between the seat and back sections includes a biasing member (such as a spring) and an actuator that can be operated with one hand, thereby promoting ease of use. A variable-position aperture formed into the back section can accommodate users of different heights. The contouring can be bowed upward to provide additional ventral or dorsal support to a user depending on whether the user lying prone or supine on the chair. In one embodiment, the lounge chair is of predominantly wooden construction, preferably from a dense hardwood.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2004Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Inventor: Bo Bauer
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Patent number: 6402247Abstract: A boat helm steering seat includes a multi-angle positionable seat back in which the seat back frame is pivotally connected to the frame of the seat by a pivotal connection that includes a clevis having a stem that slidably supports the vertically oriented legs of the seat back frame. A pivot control mechanism formed as laterally opposed sector plates having an arcuate slot with a center of curvature at the pivotal connection between the seat and seat back frames. Pins projecting outwardly from the seat back legs are engageable with notches formed in the sector plates extending downwardly from said arcuate slot to correspond to pre-selected pivoted positions of the seat back. Pivotal movement of the seat back is accomplished by vertically lifting the seat back to effect a sliding movement over the stems of the clevises and re-positioning the pins on the seat back legs into the notch corresponding to the position desired for the seat back.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2000Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Inventors: Gervase A. Schmitt, John L. Conroy, II
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Patent number: 6334652Abstract: A seat is configured to comprise a plurality of notches on the arm of seat portion and two shaped shrouds of backrest each covered on the arm. Whereby raising the shrouds will cause the shrouds to disengage from the notches so as to freely move above along the notches and release of the shrouds will cause the shrouds to move downward to engage with the notches. By utilizing this, an angle adjustment of backrest with respect to seat portion is effected.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2000Date of Patent: January 1, 2002Assignee: Link Treasure LimitedInventors: Er-Jui Chen, Ling-Chuan Chang, Cheng-Fan Yang
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Patent number: 6257667Abstract: A pivot bracket for a convertible boat lounge seat and a bracket in combination with a convertible boat lounge seat having connections for attaching to a pivot bracket beneath and spaced inward of the horizontal seat side edges of the horizontal seat, the bracket having a vertical slot, the bow of a back pivotally and slidably connected to the bracket within the slot for movement of the back into a forward facing position, a rearward facing position, and an upward facing lounge position, the bow pivoting in movement in a slot in the horizontal seat spaced inward from the side edge of the horizontal seat, and bow retaining members spaced forward and aft on the bracket to retain the bow in its forward and rearward facing positions.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1999Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: Bayliner Marine CorporationInventors: Kelly LaMarr Boren, John Harley Canada
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Patent number: 6102479Abstract: A locking pivot connector for a cot-chair back rest and a swivel joint for a sun shade supported by the back rest are disclosed. The locking pivot connector permits longitudinal placement of the back rest on the cot-chair with selective angular adjustment of the back rest on the cot-chair to allow its use as a cot, chair or chaise lounge. The sun shade swivel connection permits almost 360.degree. angular rotation of the sun shade by a spring-loaded ratchet assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1999Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Inventor: William J. Wallace
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Patent number: 5603682Abstract: A back pad cushion adjusting device for use on a multi-station gym. The device includes a bracket (20) defining a mounting face (22) and a pair of parallel outwardly extending arms (24) each having upper and lower slots. Each of the slots receive a threaded fastener such as a shoulder bolt (34) that is screwed into the gym frame upright (40). The fastener is smaller than the slot permitting the bracket and an attached back pad cushion (26) to be lifted up and repositioned into a different part of the slot or combination thereof. Two embodiments of the slot provide the back-pad cushion with different horizontal and angular adjustments.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1995Date of Patent: February 18, 1997Inventor: Sherman P. Grider
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Patent number: 5518296Abstract: A bleacher recliner assembly for use as a chair or in combination with existing rows of collinear bleacher seats having a forward row and a rearward row of backless bleachers. The bleacher recliner assembly includes a back rest portion and a seat portion hingedly connected to secure the back rest relative to the seat in a first upward position or any number of reclining positions. A hinge device formed from slots in the seat portion and adjustable pins mounted on the back rest permits angular adjustment of the back rest.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1994Date of Patent: May 21, 1996Inventor: Fred Compardo
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Patent number: 5451095Abstract: A juvenile seat cradle bouncer apparatus of the type having a base portion and a back support member operably attached to the base portion. The back support member is pivotally positionable relative to the base portion between a substantially collapsed orientation and one or more upright angular orientations. Retention members are associated with the base portion for releasably retaining the back support member in a desired one of the upright angular orientations. A foot support member is operably associated with the back support member, and is pivotally attached to the base portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1993Date of Patent: September 19, 1995Assignee: Sassy, Inc.Inventor: Richard Riback
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Patent number: 5449014Abstract: An individual temporary shelter apparatus is an apparatus which can act as a bed, lounge or chair with a complete enclosure including windows for cross ventilation, capable of withstanding wind and precipitation. The apparatus seals against insects and noxious fumes. The apparatus is portable in that it is entirely collapsible to a frame like that of a backpack and includes pockets and shoulder straps and a belt for supporting the frame on the back of the user much like a conventional backpack.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1994Date of Patent: September 12, 1995Inventor: Tang Yan-ho
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Patent number: 5253885Abstract: A carriage for rescuing patients is formed by a flat bottom rectangular frame having upstanding side walls, a rear wall, and a forwardly and upwardly inclined front wall. The frame is transversely divided by a partition to form a rearward seat area and a forward leg supporting area. A series of hingedly connected panels extending longitudinally of the frame define a back support portion, seat support panels, and flexed leg position supporting panels at the forward end of the frame. Flexible straps connected with the frame secure a patient therein and provide frame controls for an operator moving a carriage down a stairway at a selected rate of descent.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1992Date of Patent: October 19, 1993Inventors: Jamie L. McCracken, Kathy L. Goff
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Patent number: 5116102Abstract: A bracket and a fighting chair for a fishing boat incorporating the bracket. The bracket includes a first part which can be attached to the seat of a fishing chair, and which has two removable pins and a fixed pin extending between two walls, and a rotating part which has a near end with a slot which is inserted between the two walls of the fixed part to engage the pins. The rotating part has a far end which can be attached to the back of the chair. With the bracket incorporated in the chair, the seatback has an upright position, an intermediate reclining position, a down position underneath the seat of the chair where the seatback is entirely out of the way, and a locked position just beyond the down position.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1990Date of Patent: May 26, 1992Inventor: Robert L. Chaundy
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Patent number: 5054854Abstract: An inflatable bladder or plurality of bladders has a connection for a flexible strap-like position member having a portion constrained in a pocket affixed to the bladder and is adjustably positionable along the length of the positioning member and securable thereto by frictional engagement by tensioning extension of the wall of the bladder resulting from inflation to a tensioned condition wherein the strap is repositionable in an untensioned condition of the bladder.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1990Date of Patent: October 8, 1991Inventor: John D. Pruit
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Patent number: 4813743Abstract: A chair or sofa has a reclining back connected to a base by a mechanism which has a user-lockable, vertically oriented gas spring mounted behind the seat surface. The upper and lower ends of the gas spring are connected to upper and lower transverse members which are, in turn, connected to mounting plates on the back and base of the chair or sofa. The mounting plates are pivotally interconnected to provide reclining movement of the back.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1987Date of Patent: March 21, 1989Inventor: Ned W. Mizelle
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Patent number: 4709965Abstract: A seat reclining apparatus including a lower bracket for seat cushion, an upper bracket for seat back, a hinge pin connecting the lower and upper brackets allowing the relative rotation, a rack member form on the lower bracket, a pawl member formed on the upper bracket for engagement with the rack member and a locking member operatively connected to the pawl member to control the engagement between the pawl and rack members.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1984Date of Patent: December 1, 1987Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushika KaishaInventors: Kenichi Kazaoka, Hiroshi Okazaki
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Patent number: 4525009Abstract: An article of furniture is convertible between first and second positions of use as a chair and as a lounge, respectively. A base structure includes two generally U-shaped frameworks each having first and second legs. The frameworks are connected together in spaced parallel planes by a rod connecting the first legs and by a rigid panel extending between and connecting the second legs. The base structure is movable between a first position of use whereat the rigid panel is a seat of the chair and the first legs form one support of the chair, and a second position of use, whereat the first and second legs form two supports of the lounge. A first U-shaped frame has arms pivotally mounted to respective frameworks about a first axis about which the first frame is rotatable between a first position, whereat the first frame forms another support of the chair, and a second position, whereat the first frame forms a seat of the lounge.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1983Date of Patent: June 25, 1985Inventor: Alejandro de la Sota Martinez
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Patent number: 4521054Abstract: A chaise lounge has a supporting unit whose longitudinal members are provided with rollers and are slotted to receive arms of a backrest which have pins selectively engageable in notches along these slots and whose free ends are engageable by abutments on the underside of the supporting unit to cantilever the backrest on the latter.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1983Date of Patent: June 4, 1985Assignee: Allibert S.A.Inventor: Didier Deconinck
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Patent number: 4475770Abstract: A backrest for use with devices having cycle-type seats mounted on support posts, such as exercise machines, bicycles, tricycles, stools and the like, in which the back support is pivotally attached to a support frame and the support frame is selectably adjustable in height and in angle with respect to the seat of said machine. The support frame is adjustably secured to a yoke which in turn is clamped to the support post of the seat.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1981Date of Patent: October 9, 1984Assignee: Persons-Majestic Manufacturing Co.Inventor: Charles Persons, II
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Patent number: 4458941Abstract: A two position seat assembly is disclosed for use on a material handling vehicle. The seat assembly has a seat back section which pivots to be used as a back rest or as an elevated seat for facing the rear of the vehicle. This permits the vehicle operator to face forward to operate forward mounted equipment or to face backward to operate rearward mounted equipment.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1981Date of Patent: July 10, 1984Assignee: J. I. Case CompanyInventor: Phillip G. Venable
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Patent number: 4435012Abstract: A seat assembly for baby carriages comprising a backrest and a head guard which are connected to each other, and a seat shaping member abutting against the back surface of the backrest. The seat shaping member is installed so as to be turned as the angle of inclination of the backrest is changed. The seat shaping member controls the position of the backrest such that when the backrest is in its relatively raised state, substantial alignment between the backrest and head guard is obtained, with the head guard being relatively lowered. If it is deformed into a bed form, the bent state of the backrest and head guard is obtained and the head guard performs its inherent function as a head guard.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1981Date of Patent: March 6, 1984Assignee: Kassai KabushikikaishaInventor: Kenzou Kassai
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Patent number: 4371183Abstract: This folding wheel-chair is characterized by a rigid seat and a rigid back-rest and that is nevertheless of simple construction and operation. This folding wheel-chair comprises a pair of opposite sides, each including an upper portion upwardly slidable relative to a corresponding lower portion, a pair of braces articulated to each other intermediate their ends and to the lower and upper portions at their opposite ends about fore and aft axes, a pair of offsetting arms pivotally supporting one side of the rigid seat on the upper portion of one side of the wheel-chair, supporting members removably resting on the upper portion of the other side of the wheel-chair, and a rigid back-rest foldable over the rigid seat for bodily pivoting therewith to an upwardly edgewise position between the opposite sides of the wheel-chair upon folding of the latter.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1980Date of Patent: February 1, 1983Inventor: Jean-Paul Dion
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Patent number: 4341417Abstract: An article of furniture having a seat of a generally constant orientation but a back which can be tilted at various angles has a generally X-shaped relationship of the seat and back and, on each side a pair of horizontally spaced pins, affixed to the seat, one of which rides on the upper surface of a cooperating member of the back while the other can be selectively fitted into notches of a rack structure on the lower edge of the respective member. The upper edge or surface of these members have a cam configuration and the distance separating this edge from the bottoms of each of the respective notches is progressively increased downwardly along the rack so that the seat inclination is substantially constant for all positions in which the pins engage the notches.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1980Date of Patent: July 27, 1982Assignee: Allibert ExploitationInventor: Didier Deconinck
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Patent number: 4322111Abstract: A seat, in particular for a tractor, has a shoulder support mounted at the upper end of a backrest of the seat on a hinge device. The hinge device, when locked, holds the shoulder support in an upright position but, when released, allows the shoulder support to be tilted downwardly to a horizontal position to support an arm and shoulder of the seat occupant when plowing or reversing the tractor.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1979Date of Patent: March 30, 1982Assignee: UOP Inc.Inventors: Geoffrey W. Barley, David Moorhouse
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Patent number: 4106809Abstract: A seat base unit and a seat back unit are pivotally supported on a vehicle body. The units are movable between seat-forming positions wherein the units comfortably accommodate passengers and load-carrying positions wherein they protectively close a load-carrying space. A foldable floor is interconnected with the seat base unit for movement between a stowed position when the units are in the seat-forming positions and a floor-forming position when the units are in the load-carrying positions. A spring is used for counterbalancing the weight of the units and the foldable floor and thereby to facilitate the movement of the units and the foldable floor between the respective positions thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1977Date of Patent: August 15, 1978Inventor: Karlis Minka
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Patent number: 4065177Abstract: Disclosed herein is an infant carrier assembly having an infant carrier which is mounted to the carrier frame by means of brackets and pins such that the infant seat may rest in a variety of positions or in some embodiments may be removed from the carrier frame to be used to carry the infant about.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 1976Date of Patent: December 27, 1977Assignee: California Strolee, Inc.Inventors: Richard E. Hyde, Lee T. Carmichael
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Patent number: 4045082Abstract: A first separable pivot is at the height of the pelvis of an occupant and has a guide for supporting a back rest while the support thereof is being transferred from the first separable pivot to a second separable pivot near the bottom of the back rest. A pin secured to the back rest is positioned in a toothed slot for different positions of tilt while the first pivot is engaged and during folding is positioned in an adjusting arcuate slot for maintaining the second pivot engaged.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1976Date of Patent: August 30, 1977Assignee: Sears Manufacturing Co.Inventors: Allen C. Egert, L. John Koutsky, Dale R. Ropp
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Patent number: 4015878Abstract: A chair construction including lower and upper back parts, wherein the latter is selectively positionable vertically relative to the former and carries a torso girding belt, thereby enabling a user's torso to be elevated at least partially from the seat for increased comfort during long usage.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 1976Date of Patent: April 5, 1977Inventor: Charles M. Perkins