Richard F Lowe

US Patent:

43948340, Jul 26, 1983

Filed:

Jul 13, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/282670

Inventors:

Richard D. Lowe - Windsor Locks CT

International Classification:

B30B 932

US Classification:

100245

Abstract:

A can crusher having continuous incremental crushing action for reducing cans or similar containers to a compact size is disclosed. The crusher consists of a housing having a cylindrical configuration with a cylindrical cavity disposed therein enclosed at one end by a mounting fixture for horizontal attachment to a wall or the like and enclosed at the other end by a front plug which provides a crushing surface. Disposed within the cylindrical cavity is a ram slidably engageable therein having ratchet arms attached in a spaced-apart relationship thereto adapted for attachment to a handle for propelling the ram through the cavity in a continuous incremental manner toward the front plug. The housing includes a can insertion opening disposed in a top portion thereof for enabling a can to be inserted into the cavity between the ram and the plug and a can ejection slot disposed in the bottom portion thereof proximate the front plug for passing a can which has been crushed out of the housing. A handle pivotally attached to the front portion of the housing is connected to the ratchet arms.

US Patent:

53483057, Sep 20, 1994

Filed:

Dec 17, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/991728

Inventors:

Richard D. Lowe - Windsor Locks CT

International Classification:

A63B 5700

US Classification:

273201

Abstract:

A golf ball teeing apparatus for continuous teeing of a supply of golf balls for driving or the like is presented. The golf ball teeing apparatus includes a platform, a housing having two chambers, a reciprocable pair of camming plates with angular upper camming surfaces, a piston with a tee mounted thereon and an actuator. Each of the reciprocable camming plates are adapted for sliding through one of the two chambers. The housing also includes an input which communicates with a first of the two chambers wherein a first of the two reciprocable camming plates is located. Located within a second chamber is the piston which is adapted for slideably engaging the upper camming surface of a second camming plate. After entering the housing through the input and upon actuation of the first and second reciprocable camming plates, a golf ball is slid upwardly along the upper camming surface of the first camming plate within the first chamber of the housing as the piston and tee slides downwardly along the upper camming surface of the second camming plate within the second chamber of the housing. Once the golf ball reaches the apex of the upper surface of the first camming plate, it rolls downwardly onto the tee.