Patents Represented by Attorney Richard John Bartz
  • Patent number: 7441750
    Abstract: A deck and stair railing has top and bottom rails joined to upright posts and upright tubes extended between the rails. Ball knobs mounted on plates or the rails are secured with deck screws to the rails to retain the tubes in assembled relation with the rails. The ball knobs have circumferential ribs located in force fit relation with inside surfaces of the tubes. The tubes have projections that engage the ball connectors to prevent the tubes from rotating relative to the ball connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Inventor: Willard J. Harder
  • Patent number: 7438282
    Abstract: A deck and stair railing has top and bottom rails joined to upright posts and upright tubes extended between the rails. Ball knobs mounted on plates or the rails are secured with deck screws to the rails to retain the tubes in assembled relation with the rails. The ball knobs have circumferential ribs located in force fit relation with inside surfaces of the tubes. The tubes have projections that engage the ball connectors to prevent the tubes from rotating relative to the ball connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Inventor: Willard J. Harder
  • Patent number: 7409789
    Abstract: A pair of sign support frames connected to a sign with upright member has upright reinforcement bars secured to arch or base members. The bars are associated with the upright members to reinforce the upright and arch members in motor vehicle impact areas above the arch members. When the upright members are hit with a motor vehicle the sign support frames move upwardly and rearwardly into engagement with the bumper or front frame of the motor vehicle to limit rearward movement of the sign toward the motor vehicle and reduce bending and breaking forces on the upright members and sign support frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Inventor: Paul A. Lang
  • Patent number: 7389547
    Abstract: An athletic underpants having a body and legs with protective shields attached to the legs with releasable hook and loop fastener that allow the positions of the shields on the legs to be adjusted and the shields to be selectively removed from and attached to the legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Inventor: Joel J. Wiens
  • Patent number: 7334363
    Abstract: Index tab holders are movably mounted on top portions of file folders or data separation sheets to locate the tab holders in selected lateral locations without removing the tab holders from the file folders. Linear rails associated with the top portions of the file folders cooperate with ribs on the tab holders to mount and laterally guide the tab holders on the file folders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Inventor: Merrill J. Hansen
  • Patent number: 7318431
    Abstract: A biomass pellet burning stove has a hopper storing biomass pellets which are transported from the hopper to a feeder tube with a rotating disc having slots for holding biomass pellets and allowing the biomass pellets to move from the slots into a feeder tube which directs the biomass pellets to a burn pot. The burn pot has first and second biomass burning chambers that separately burn biomass pellets by an efficient, environmental and economic compatible process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: BixBy Energy Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark N. Holtan, Ross C. Embertson
  • Patent number: 7260913
    Abstract: A fishing jig lure has a fish hook mounted on a glass body with an epoxy resin. Light emitting particulates mixed with the epoxy resin emit visible light when subjected to an external light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Glow Optics, LLC
    Inventor: Damion D. Becker
  • Patent number: D553302
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Inventor: Joel J. Wiens
  • Patent number: D559471
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Inventor: Gordon S. Dye, Jr.
  • Patent number: D564182
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Inventor: Joel J. Wiens
  • Patent number: D570769
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Inventor: Brad J. Holin
  • Patent number: D571533
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Inventor: Joel J. Wiens
  • Patent number: D571665
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Inventor: John M. Sanders
  • Patent number: D572415
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Inventor: Gordon S. Dye, Jr.
  • Patent number: D572416
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Inventor: Gordon S. Dye, Jr.
  • Patent number: D574614
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Inventor: John M. Sanders
  • Patent number: D575007
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Inventor: Gordon S. Dye, Jr.
  • Patent number: D579628
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Inventor: Joel J. Wiens
  • Patent number: D585991
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Inventors: Lonnie J. Helgeson, Michael W. Larson
  • Patent number: D586524
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Inventor: Anthony J. Mertes