John A Carlotto

US Patent:

20060172065, Aug 3, 2006

Filed:

Jan 31, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/343686

Inventors:

John Carlotto - Barrington RI, US

International Classification:

C23C 16/00
B05D 7/00
H05H 1/24

US Classification:

427212000, 427569000, 427248100, 118726000, 118719000

Abstract:

A powder material moved and mixed by the application of a mechanical force. The moving of the bed of powder in a container while the container is in a vacuum under a vapor source produced by magnetron sputtering, thermal evaporation, or other means of producing a coating vapor such as plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), provides a means of coating the particles of powder with a material which will impart certain other desirable characteristics to the base material of which the powder is composed. The range of and combinations of coatings include a pure metal, co-deposited metals, and non-metals formed by reactive magnetron sputtering, evaporation or PECVD, or a sequentially deposited coating of both metals and non-metals. The mechanical means may be by striking, stirring or a piezoelectric transducer may be used. The mechanical force may be imposed on an open moving container of the bulk material in a vacuum or an open stationary container of the bulk material in a vacuum.

US Patent:

47964430, Jan 10, 1989

Filed:

Feb 2, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/009964

Inventors:

A. Karen Bannister - West Warwick RI
Kristen Brandriff - Brooklyn CT
John A. Carlotto - Barrington RI
Richard J. DiDonato - North Providence RI
Virginia Haigh - Bronxville NY
Edmond Sirois - Providence RI

Assignee:

Trifari, Krussman & Fishel, Inc. - East Providence RI

International Classification:

A44C 700

US Classification:

63 145

Abstract:

A support device for an earring which includes a back support. A back ear clamping member carried by the back support is adjustable to a forward and rearward position with respect to a front ear clamping member. The back ear clamping member is free to move limitedly in both a horizontal and vertical direction when either in forward or rearward adjusted position, but when in an intermediate position is substantially restrained from movement.