US PAT NO: 5,618,305 Abstract A forceps for grasping and manipulating tubular vessels of tissue, such as the vas deferens and the vagus nerve, comprises a needle-nose style grasping end with a clamping loop at the extreme tip. The hole has a beveled rear edge that aids in grasping an rotating tissue held in the loop. Arms of the forceps distal from the grasping end but ahead of a pivot point are serrated and interlock with one another when the forceps is closed. An alternate embodiment of the invention has the same novel tip, but has longer handles and is suitable for manipulation of the vagus nerve. Also provided is a method of using the forceps for performing a vasectomy.

Biblio • INVENTOR: Fritz Lolagne • TITLE: Forceps with v-shaped grasping tips • DATE ISSUED: Apr. 8, 1997 • DATE FILED: Jan. 18, 1995 • Other Pat:

US PAT NO: 4,835,029 Abstract sheath structure (10) for use as a backrest for a chair or as a seat, envelope, wallet, purse, handbag, panel, etc., comprising pliable sheet material (32) stretched on a frame (20)and presenting spaced-apart front and rear exterior surfaces (33, 39). The frame is made up of at least two spaced-apart front and rear frame elements (26, 24), each corresponding to the front and rear exterior surfaces (33, 39). The frame elements define an intermediate space therebetween. The sheet material (32) forms the front and rear exterior surfaces (33, 39), extends over the frame elements (26, 24), and is tucked in within the intermediate space, and tension means, such as elastics (38), cooperate with respective tucked-in portions of the sheet material (32) so as to stretch the sheet material on the frame.

Biblio • INVENTOR: Sacha Thebaud et al. • TITLE: Sheath structure ... • DATE ISSUED: May 30, 1989 • DATE FILED: Apr. 29, 1988 • Other Pat: 4,322,109; 4,325,577; 4,278,288

US PAT NO: 4,660,830 Abstract A game ball for use as a conventionally sized baseball or softball comprises an inner core of a first material characterized by at least high durability; at least one locator pin of the first material extending radially outwardly from and affixed to the inner core; and a spherical outer core of a second material, characterized by at least high durability and conventional rebound. Preferably, the inner core has four integrally formed locator pins extending radially outwardly therefrom. These pins are positioned 90.degree. apart on an imaginary plane through the equator of the inner core. The first material is selected from the group consisting of cork, kapok, rubber, or a thermoplastic resin such as an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, an ethylene acrylic acid copolymer or a blend of both. The second material for the outer core, preferably polyurethane foam, consists of 100 parts of a resin mixture, a blowing agent, and either 51 or 60 parts isocyanate. The resin mixture comprises between about 95 or 97 percent polyether polyol and small amounts of silicone and a catalyst.

Biblio • INVENTOR: Julius Tomar • TITLE: Baseball or softball • DATE ISSUED: Apr. 28, 1987 • DATE FILED: Feb. 4, 1985 • FRN-PRIOR: Haiti 1-J Jan. 24, 1985 • Other Pat: 4,498,667; 4,211,407

US PAT NO: 4,498,667 Abstract A process for forming a rubber or vinyl coated baseball or softball is comprised of supporting a baseball or softball core within a mold cavity to position the exterior of the core uniformly equidistant from the mold cavity wall to provide a space between the core exterior and the cavity wall. A thermoplastic rubber or plasticized vinyl resin is injected into the mold cavity to flow into and fill the space between the core and the wall. The thermoplastic rubber or plasticized vinyl resin is allowed to solidify and a rubber or vinyl coated baseball or softball is removed from the mold

Biblio • INVENTOR: Julius Tomar • TITLE: Process for coating ball cores • DATE ISSUED: Feb. 12, 1985 • DATE Apr. 12, 1979 • Other Pat: 4,211,407; 4,660,830; 4,364,565; 4,144,297;

US PAT NO: 4,364,565 Abstract A game ball is comprised of a single spherical core and a cover. The core is comprised of a single spherical mass of partially blown copolymer of ethylene and at least one unsaturated monocarboxylic acid having from 3 to 8 carbon atoms. The copolymer contains up to 30 percent by weight of the acid copolymerized therein with foam at the center of the core and having a skin with the density substantially equal to the density of the copolymer. The game balls are baseballs and softballs.

Biblio • INVENTOR: Julius Tomar • TITLE: Game ball • DATE ISSUED: Feb. 12, 1985 • DATE FILED: Jul. 31, 1981 • Other Pat: 4,660,830; 4,211,407; 4,144,297; 4,498,667

US PAT NO: 4,325,577 Abstract A foldable chair comprising a seat portion made of a sheet of flexible material such as canvas, fabric, leather or plastic supported by a pair of rectangular support frames hinged relative to each other and crossing each other along an intermediary hinge line such as to form a figure X when supported from the ground and viewed from the front. The flexible seat portion is frictionally held at its ends as a result of being wrapped around and passed between a pair of parallel lateral tie members forming part of each support frame or, alternatively, forming part of an armrest in chair structures including a back supporting portion. The end flap of canvas, fabric, leather or plastic wrapped around and passed between the anchoring tie members is held in position between the surfaces in engagement and, in structure provided with a back portion, a length of pliable material is held in position in the same manner by having each end wrapped around and passed between support tie members formed integral with the chair armrest structures.

Biblio • INVENTOR: Sacha Thebaud • TITLE: Foldable chair • DATE ISSUED: Apr. 20, 1982 • DATE FILED: May 22, 1980 • Other Pat: 4,835,029; 4,322,109

US PAT NO: 4,322,109 Abstract Contoured furniture, such as chairs and tables, made of elongated profiled slats disposed substantially parallel to each other in at least two separate groups. The profiled and contoured slats in each group are attached together in spaced relationship at least at one of their ends, and the two groups of slats are interlaced along a crossing hinge area, such as to form an X-shaped piece of furniture when viewed from a side. Tension rod members are provided for rigidly holding the two groups of interlaced contoured slats relative to each other.

Biblio • INVENTOR: Sacha Thebaud • TITLE: Modular contoured furniture • DATE ISSUED: Mar. 30, 1982 • DATE FILED: Nov. 19, 1979 • Other Pat: 4,835,029; 4,325,577; 4,278,288

US PAT NO: 4,278,288 Abstract A structure for a chair comprising a pair of substantially identical modular units each consisting of at least a pair of parallel bowed arcuate ground support members each shaped substantially as an arc of a circle and maintained in spaced relationship parallel to each other at their end by a cross-bar member to which are attached spaced apart stretched elongated flat bands or straps of plastic material, leather or fabric disposed substantially along the chord of the circular arc formed by the support members. Two basic modular units are longitudinally intermeshed together and angularly disposed to form a chair having a back supporting area and a seat supporting area defined by the exposed chordal straps of each modular unit. The angular position of the back supporting area relative to the seat supporting area may be pre-established or adjustable depending on whether the bowed arcuate support members of one modular unit are fixedly interconnected or removably and adjustably interconnected to the bowed arcuate support member of the other modular unit. In structures wherein the bowed arcuate support members are pivotally interconnected, in addition to the seat area being angularly adjustable relative to the seat area, the two areas are adjustable relative to each other such as to form a single substantially co-planar body supporting surface in the form of a hammock, and further facilitating transportation of the chair. The relative longitudinal position of the two modular units permits to obtain at will a stable chair or a rocking chair. The manner in which the diverse elements are assembled together may be such that all the elements may be disassembled and reassembled to facilitate transportation and packaging.

Biblio • INVENTOR: Sacha Thebaud • TITLE: Chair provided with interlacing and intermeshing seat and back portions supported by arcuate support members • DATE ISSUED: Jul. 14, 1981 DATE FILED: Jun. 26, 1979 • Other Pat: 4,835,029; 4,325,577; 4,322,109; 4,186,959

US PAT NO: 4,211,407 Abstract Baseballs and softballs are comprised of a spherical core and a two-piece cover. The core consists essentially of a single spherical mass of partially blown ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer having 12 percent to 30 percent by weight of polymerized vinyl acetate units therein. Foam is in the center of the core which gradually reduces in cell size radially outwardly to a skin having a density substantially equal to the density of said copolymer.

Biblio • INVENTOR: Julius Tomar • TITLE: Game ball • DATE ISSUED: Jul. 8, 1980 • DATE FILED: Sep. 18, 1978 • Other Pat: 4,498,667; 4,364,565; 4,660,830; 4,144,407;

US PAT NO: 4,186,959 Abstract A foldable chair made of four separate frame members mounted hingeable around a common axis. One of the frame members is provided with a length of stretched fabric, such as canvas, and forms the seat of the chair. Another of the frame members is similarly provided with a length of stretched fabric, such as canvas, and forms the back of the chair. The other frame members form the feet of the chair. When the chair is in normal use, the four frame members are held in angular position relative to each other about their common hinging axis by means of tension cables. The chair is folded by rotating the diverse frame members around their common hinging axis to a position wherein the diverse frame members nest substantially within each other and are disposed substantially coplanar with each other.

Biblio • INVENTOR: Sacha Thebaud • TITLE: Foldable chair • DATE ISSUED: Feb. 5, 1980 • DATE FILED: Mar. 27, 1978 • Other Pat: 4,835,029; 4,325,577; 4,322,109; 4,278,288

US PAT NO: 4,144,297 Abstract A method of forming a ball core is disclosed. A flowable homogeneous mass of a thermoplastic resin and a blowing agent is injected into the spherical cavity of a mold under temperature and pressure conditions sufficient to activate the blowing agent. The mold is cooled to 32.degree. to 65.degree. F. so as to form a skin on the surface of the mass. The mass is held within the mold cavity for a sufficient time so that the skin has adequate strength to prevent its rupture by blowing agent contained within the mass, upon removal of the mass from the mold cavity. The mass is cooled at an exterior temperature of 32.degree. to 65.degree. F. A ball core for baseballs and softballs is also disclosed.

Biblio • INVENTOR: Julius Tomar • TITLE: Method of injection molding a foamed thermoplastic resin ball core having an integral skin • DATE ISSUED: Mar. 13, 1979 • DATE FILED: Dec. 7, 1977 • Other Pat: 4,498,667; 4,364,565; 4,660,830; 4,211,407;

US PAT NO:3,981,867 Abstract An improved process for obtaining sapogenins, mainly hecogenin, from plants. This improved process involves collecting, undiluted, the juice of sisal leaves and subjecting this juice to acid hydrolysis at elevated temperature and pressure. The sapogenin fraction is then recovered as crude hecogenin, which constitutes a water insoluble reaction product in the hydrolyzate. This is further purified by extraction with an appropriate organic solvent to yield a high quality crystallizable mixture of hecogenin and tigogenin. From this mixture of sapogenin the hecogenin is separated further from the tigogenin by preferential acetylation and recrystallization.

Biblio • INVENTOR: Max G. Beauvoir • TITLE: Process for obtaining sapogenin particularly hecogenin from plant material such as agave sisalana leaves • DATE ISSUED: Sep. 21, 1976 • DATE FILED: Mar. 17, 1975 • Other Pat:

US PAT NO: 5,128,844 Abstract A signal helmet for use by individuals of limited physical and sensory capacity, such as loss of vision and hearing, is provided to include a padded helmet shell formed with a strobe thereon. A modification of the invention includes translucent reflector blades rotatably mounted adjacent the strobe light to effect illumination to enhance strobe effect, wherein further use of the blades includes a plurality of mirror blades mounted coaxially and above the translucent blades to further enhance strobe effect for a signalling procedure.

Biblio • INVENTOR: Andre M. Landais • TITLE: Signal helmet apparatus • DATE ISSUED: Jul. 7, 1992 • DATE FILED: Aug. 28, 1991 • Other Pat: