Billy K Jensen

US Patent:

47954450, Jan 3, 1989

Filed:

Mar 27, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/041011

Inventors:

Billy M. Jensen - Sandy UT

Assignee:

Becton, Dickinson and Company - Franklin Lakes NJ

International Classification:

A61M 5325

US Classification:

604240

Abstract:

This disclosure is a hub which includes a resilient means designed to engage the shank of a needle, cannula or stylet and resist axial movement therebetween while holding same therein. The configuration of the hub allows the axial relationship between the needle, cannula or stylet and the hub to be set and maintained during further assembly operations. Disclosed also is a method for assembling the needle, cannula or stylet to the specifically configured hub.

US Patent:

50657542, Nov 19, 1991

Filed:

Jun 6, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/534079

Inventors:

Billy M. Jensen - Sandy UT

Assignee:

Ballard Medical Products - Draper UT

International Classification:

A61M 1600

US Classification:

12820026

Abstract:

A novel aspirating catheter tube inserter, and related methods, which provides for incremental, facile, safe, and efficient unidirectional delivery of an aspirating catheter to the lung of a patient. The disclosed inserter comprises a movable housing which is non-compressibly reciprocally moved relative to a stationary housing to urge the catheter tube to move incrementally into the patient. The inserter comprises resiliently compressible, seizing and releasing washers which accommodate distal displacement of the catheter tube into the patient when the movable housing is linearly moved toward the patient, but seizes and holds the catheter tube from movement when the movable housing is retracted. The catheter seizing and releasing washers also release the catheter from further progress into the lung, when there is an impeding force of a predetermined magnitude which is caused by tissue engagement, to prevent injury. The seizing and releasing washers allow the catheter tube to be physically grasped and pulled proximally from the lungs of the patient.

US Patent:

D2738686, May 15, 1984

Filed:

Oct 5, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/308459

Inventors:

Jaime E. Dorman - Holladay UT
Billy M. Jensen - Sandy UT

Assignee:

Micro Peripherals, Inc. - Salt Lake City UT

US Classification:

D14114

US Patent:

42743311, Jun 23, 1981

Filed:

Jun 10, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/478111

Inventors:

Billy M. Jensen - Sandy UT
Ronald H. M. Brunner - Salt Lake City UT
Lang S. Wong - Salt Lake City UT

International Classification:

A47J 3700
A21B 500

US Classification:

99373

Abstract:

A machine for baking thin wafers of the type which are foldable to form fortune cookies includes an oven, a parallel chain conveyor that moves continuously in a plurality of horizontal runs through the oven, and a plurality of baking units carried by the conveyor. Each baking unit consists of two associated platens mounted in movable face-to-face parallelism. The wafers are baked in cupped containers which are carried by one of the platens and which are sealed by the other platen during baking. Following a baking period, the platens are inverted. A mechanism is provided to remove baked wafers from the inverted platens. Finally, a mechanism is provided to carry the removed wafers to discharge from the machine.

US Patent:

39832627, Sep 28, 1976

Filed:

Jul 14, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/595873

Inventors:

Ronald H. M. Brunner - Salt Lake City UT
Billy M. Jensen - Sandy UT
Lang S. Wong - Salt Lake City UT

Assignee:

China Bazaar, Inc. - Salt Lake City UT

International Classification:

A21D 600

US Classification:

426502

Abstract:

Flat circular wafers are folded into the shape characteristic of fortune cookies in a machine which includes a turntable whereon a flat wafer is located and carried to a predetermined position, a reciprocating plunger operable to press the wafer through a pair of gates which define a slot below the predetermined position thereby to make a first fold in the wafer along its diameter so that it has a semicircular shape, two pairs of pincers which grasp the once-folded wafer at opposite ends of the first fold line, and means to operate the pincer pairs to move toward one another to bring the midpoint of the first fold line against a stationary edge and to make the second fold over that edge, and a pair of juxtaposed endless belts that grip the twice-folded wafer on edge therebetween and carry it to discharge. Also, a device is described for laying a fortune slip on the flat wafer after it is located on the turntable.