Patents Represented by Attorney Loyd W. Bonneville
  • Patent number: 7987535
    Abstract: A shower corner seat assembly is made up of a seat plate and supporting bracket frame. To fit in the corner, the seat is generally triangular like most others, but with the corner tip of the triangle cut away leaving a four-sided shape. Other minor modifications to true triangularity may also be present. The frame follows the contour of the seat and it, too, is formed to match the corner opening of the seat plate, leaving the framework to be more or less “U”-shaped with the arms of the “U” bent inward tending to somewhat follow the sides of the seat plate. Their ends are, in fact, bent even farther inward so they have to be forced or sprung outward to attach the frame to the shower wall. The openness of the frame near the shower corner makes this possible. The seat plate is then attached to it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Inventor: Theodore Allen Tesch
  • Patent number: 7818919
    Abstract: A concrete construction block is formed with a large cavity toward the exterior side of the wall of which it becomes part. The cavity, or protrusion, is shaped to extend outward at the top but angled or recessed back at the bottom to coincide with the foremost edge of the block's rectangular bottom. The cavity may be shaped in any of several ways but the top portion extends forward more or less in the manner of a flowerpot so it may be filed with soil to support plants planted therein. Drainage is provided so that water descending from one block flows into the plant bed of a block below. A large number of these planter-blocks economically provide a cooling effect upon the building's interior for scientifically established reasons related to botanical function of the plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Inventors: Claudio Betances Maxwell-Merrill, Gloribed Rivera-Torres, Joseph Alan Werla
  • Patent number: 7484699
    Abstract: A tubular staff has sections which can be collapsed one into the other down to a very small size. The sections are held together by peripheral clamps snap-tightened by a small lever. There is a ground spike at the bottom of the staff which itself can be removed and stowed within the staff. A firearm cradle can be on top and one end of a small elbowed rod goes either into the top of the staff or into the cradle, if one's there. The rod's other end attaches to a hole in a hunting bow to support it until game arrives. Instead of the elbowed rod, an accessory supporting structure can likewise be set into the staff or cradle. The linkage of the accessory support is a bendable length of ball and socket joints available from certain industrial sources so that the camera angle or telescope can be properly manipulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Inventors: Rick Lee Ziegler, Wayne Allen Ziegler
  • Patent number: 7431680
    Abstract: The operator exercises by gripping a palm bar in each hand. Each end of a static or non-stretchable line or cord is run through a tunnel within a respective palm bar and secured therein, usually with a knot. A pivoting impinger is installed within the palm bar so that its head swings into the bottom of the tunnel against the static line to keep it from slipping out of place. Each end of a different cord, a stretchable one, is anchored within the ends of the palm bar with its mid-portion, usually padded, arranged to snugly encircle the back of the operator's respective hand for support. The mid-portion of the static line runs through a pulley system which has an impingement strap connected to it for anchoring to a wall or door in any one of several ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Inventors: Robert Sylvester Hinds, Loyd William Bonneville
  • Patent number: 7356960
    Abstract: Height and length are adjustable at several points. There is a special type of vise for holding the gunstock. As usual, the vise bolt pulls the movable plate toward the fixed one but, like some of the vise's predecessors, traces out an arc at the top, pivoting from the bottom as the bolt, situated just above the pivot, is turned. Within the movable plate a special cylinder is situated which gives and turns freely in response to the bolt's advance and withdrawal in passing through a threaded tunnel within it. This action prevents the biting down or binding upon the bolt which would otherwise occur because of the plate's pivoted travel as the bolt is advanced or withdrawn. The support's framework, best made from economical tubular bar-stock, is adjustable for leveling and leaning corrections and include anchoring blocks within the structure through which leveling bolts pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Inventor: Curt Thomas Knitt
  • Patent number: 7316636
    Abstract: Three types of exercise grips provide for pivot-anchoring of an impinging body within them so that the impinger heads engage stretchable or non-stretchable exercise media extending upward through their tunnels. The first is a handgrip, the second, an exercise spool used in the manner of cross-country skiing or vigorous walking and the third, an ankle crescent-shaped grip for lateral repetition exercises of the legs. An impinger is caused to swing down to press against exercise media emerging from the grip's tunnel to provide a reliable of connection. Proper anchoring of the impinger within the grip assures its continuing presence to make adjustments and avoids its loss or misplacement. The handgrip permits of anchoring either within the body's interior or at its exterior, in which case, the impinger stem is caused to extend through a window cut therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Inventors: Robert Sylvester Hinds, Loyd William Bonneville
  • Patent number: 7147592
    Abstract: A handgrip is modified to have a tethering window cut through one of its upright prongs so that the stem of an impinger can be extended through it to anchor the impinger at the outside portion of the handgrip. Anchoring is accomplished either by the extension of the impinger's tether pegs into sockets or apertures or by trapping the tether within a channel formed there. Once anchored, the impinger's head is positioned within the handgrip's cord tunnel where it becomes forced against stretchable or non-stretchable exercise media including stretchable exercise sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Inventors: Robert Sylvester Hinds, Richard Michael Hegge, Loyd William Bonneville
  • Patent number: 6988978
    Abstract: An exercise bar cord impingement assembly permits exercise in two modes, defined in terms of how cord anchoring is arranged. There is a tunnel or, alternatively, a nest at each end of the bar where snug connection—a direct one—with a conventionally stoppered cord end is made. Handgrips may be employed with the assembly instead, in which case, each cord end is impinged not within the bar's body but within the grips—an indirect connection. A tunnel may have shared emplacement wells within it, preferably situated concentrically, one for the impinged cord, the other for an emplaced handgrip connection block. A handgrip's connecting block may be shaped in any of several ways for rotational positioning advantages. Cord emplacement slots are preferably present in both the bar and the block. In models having nests instead of tunnels, a cord emplacement channel is necessarily provided to get the impinged cord seated into place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Inventors: James Edward Nault, Robert Sylvester Hinds
  • Patent number: 6941620
    Abstract: A pair of cam-buckles properly disposed in a back-to-back manner may be slid along an anchoring strap passed through it and yet reliably kept in place to accommodate loads depending from it regardless of the direction the load is tethered from without danger of slippage along the strap. While this arrangement may be used in a general way for various tasks, it has particularly beneficial application for tethered physical exercise activities. With it, the anchoring strap may be vertically secured around a door and the paired buckles may be moved to any point-high or low-upon the strap, thereby providing variation in tethering direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Inventor: Robert Sylvester Hinds
  • Patent number: 6923750
    Abstract: An anchor block having within it one or more tunnels through which exercise cords are run and an equal number of slots connected to the tunnels, each slot extending from either the face or the backside of the block. In certain cases, some of the slots may extend from the face while others do so from the backside. In other cases, to enhance strength, all of the slots extend solely from the face or from the backside. This slotted arrangement is useful for a solid handgrip, strapped handgrip assembly, ankle exercise cuff assembly or anchoring door impingement assembly so that stoppered elastic exercise cords may be quickly and easily interchanged. The slot may be shaped in any of several ways including straight, zig-zag or curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Inventor: Robert Sylvester Hinds
  • Patent number: 6866073
    Abstract: A forage loading assembly substitutes a large reciprocating piston for the traditionally employed auger to impel and compact the forage into a huge bag. The forage is preferably transferred to a point above the piston action by a conveyor, the bottom of which is suspended to avoid being dragging along the ground during widely recognized forward creeping assembly phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Inventors: James Martin Meixelsperger, Jared James Meixelsperger
  • Patent number: 6862833
    Abstract: An aligning cap is fitted rotationally and coaxially over one of a firearm scope's ends and has pointer-like directional indicator indicia. A set of scope reticulate components—cross-hairs and the like—or a scope alignment reference true to those components—is then brought operably into alignment with the aligning cap's reticulate means and the scope and cap together are re-set into alignment with the firearm bore's center or a firearm alignment so as to eliminate a canted disposition between scope and firearm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Inventor: Frederick Wilhelm Gurtner
  • Patent number: 6860842
    Abstract: An intermediate section is inserted into the mid-portion of an exercise bar's body to increase its effectual length. The section is locked in place at each end thereof by the protrusion of a separation release button in one of the connecting members through a button opening in the member it is joined to. The button is retained in place either by a grasshopper leg spring supported upon a spring seat or a plastic memory resilient integral finger as snap-fit connection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Inventor: Robert Sylvester Hinds
  • Patent number: 6770011
    Abstract: An elastic exercising wand which can be squeezed, bent, twisted or pulled to benefit certain muscles; and having an elastic band snugly encircling its length under which the exercising operator may repetitively flex the hand or fingers in expansion exercises against its elastic resistance. A tension adjusting ring and attached anchoring hook are optionally present to control the band's resistance and provide tethering means, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Inventor: Robert Sylvester Hinds
  • Patent number: 6711847
    Abstract: A hinged flexible plastic shell in which barbed fishing lures and fish-hooks in general may be kept to avoid injury connects to a fishing rod merely by an operator's closing of its lid upon the rod by pop-open and pop-shut manipulation of certain nodes atop the shell's lid. To close, he or she depresses a pop-shut node against an enclosure ridge on the underlying storage portion. To open, either of the pop-open nodes may be depressed against notch shoulders to cause the lid to flex outward to position it for co-engagement with the lower portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Inventor: Gerald Wilson Udelhoven
  • Patent number: 6575883
    Abstract: A wheel and axle exercising assembly with which the operator is positioned horizontally, either face up or face down and moves the assembly forward and backward either feet first, having the feet at the assembly, by thrusting the legs forward and then retracting them; or hands first, having the hands at the assembly, by thrusting the arms forward and then retracting them. Adjustment means are present to position the foot emplacement assemblies either closer to or farther from the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Inventor: Robert Sylvester Hinds
  • Patent number: 6572324
    Abstract: A free-floating hydraulic piston cylinder situated in side-to-side orientation in which the piston rod advances from the cylinder which it causes to move in the opposite direction. To the piston rod as well as to the opposite end of the cylinder is connected linkage which changes the direction of force and pushes a moveable frame with attached spears in a forward ready-for-work direction. This arrangement permits the attachment of a great number of the spears because the moving frame can be efficiently acted upon all the way along its length rather than just near its middle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Inventor: Jason Tory Ihm
  • Patent number: 6497641
    Abstract: An anchor block having within it a slot as to provide a solid handgrip, strapped handgrip assembly, ankle exercise cuff assembly or anchoring door impingement assembly all of which permit quick and easy interchangeability of a stoppered elastic exercise cord. The slot may be shaped in any of several ways including straight, zigzag or curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Inventor: Robert Sylvester Hinds
  • Patent number: 6485281
    Abstract: The invention relates to repair devices for repairing impact resistant glass such as windshields and vertical glass. The repair device can be used to repair many types of damage to glass including cracks, bulls-eye breaks, star breaks, and angle wing breaks. For repairing breaks, the repair device removes air from the break before the resin is applied to the air-evacuated break. For repairing cracks, the repair device pushes resin into the crack while the device is slid along the crack. The repair device has a piston assembly including a piston, a piston casing, and a piston casing receiver; a mounting bracket; and a suction unit, including a manual vacuum pump. A resin is loaded into the piston assembly and delivered to the break or crack by hydraulic pressure, pneumatic pressure, and/or vacuum mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Inventor: Michael J. Curl
  • Patent number: D661759
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Inventor: Jeffrey Anthony Calawerts