Jon Ray Conway

US Patent:

59841397, Nov 16, 1999

Filed:

Jul 31, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/126850

Inventors:

Jorge E. Moran - Nashville TN
Gary L. Lowrey - Nashville TN
Jon Conway - Olive Branch MS
Greg Bigham - Hernando MS
Paul Bartholomew - Memphis TN

Assignee:

Megatrade International, Inc. - Nashville TN

International Classification:

B67B 700

US Classification:

222 1

Abstract:

An air pressurized liquid decanter is disclosed, which is generally comprised of a pump unit, an external handle, an insulated container body which includes an interior vessel and a base unit. The pump unit is contained within a pump housing which has radially disposed apertures. A cam shaft residing within the pump housing extends through the horizontally disposed apertures and is affixed in rotatable engagement to the external handle. The cam shaft is maintained in mechanical communication with a vertically-movable check valve residing within the pump housing. The vertically-movable check valve is, in turn, placed in mechanical communication with a support disk residing within the pump housing. The support disk overlays a flexible bellows unit, which has an open upper end in atmospheric communication with the vertically-movable check valve and pump housing. The flexible bellows unit also has an open lower end in atmospheric communication with a bulkhead, and with the insulated container body.

US Patent:

63277808, Dec 11, 2001

Filed:

Dec 2, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/452801

Inventors:

Gregory Bigham - Hernando MS
Jon R. Conway - Olive Branch MS
Gary L. Lowery - Southhaven MS

International Classification:

B26B 108

US Classification:

30162

Abstract:

A safety mechanism for a utility knife, including a razor blade mounted in a blade holder slideably mounted in a blade chamber in the housing. The blade holder includes a tab protruding therefrom and is adapted to move between a retracted, blade-stowage position in the housing and a deployed position wherein the blade at least partially protrudes from the housing. The safety mechanism comprises a foreshortened safety channel adapted to engagingly receive the blade holder tab when the blade holder is retracted into the stowed position. The motion of the tab is restricted by the safety channel, thereby restricting the motion of the blade holder. The tab may be disengaged from the safety channel by simultaneously pushing it away from the deployed position and into the blade chamber. Once the tab is disengaged, the blade holder may be moved into the deployed position by pushing it towards the deployed position while maintaining the pushing force into the blade chamber.