Patents Represented by Attorney Robert E. Kleve
  • Patent number: 7621076
    Abstract: The invention comprises a compact barber shop structure having the exterior shape of a barber pole of sufficient height and size allow adults to enter and move about standing up and has a barber chair in its interior with barbering accessories to enable a barber groom a person's hair while seated in the barber chair. The structure has a door to allow persons to enter the structure for the grooming. The structure has a cylindrical exterior and has spiral stripes applied to the cylindrical exterior of the color common to a barber pole. A large globe is located on top of the cylindrical exterior of type common to a globe of a barber pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Inventor: Everette Blaisdell
  • Patent number: 7610866
    Abstract: The invention comprises a radio controlled tree planter. The planter has four hydraulically controlled tree spades mounted on vehicle, with hydraulic cylinders to position the spades in a storage, position, a vertical digging position, and a actual digging action. A tv size radio transmitter has button controls for transmitting radio signals to a radio receiver mounted on the planter, which receiver in turn transmits signals to solenoids operating the hydraulic cylinders to thereby control the movement of the spades in the three positions of its operation to thereby control the digging operations of the spades within the range of the receiver from a remote location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Inventors: Michael J. Pierce, Kevin J. Pierce, Austin M. Pierce, Megan A. Pierce
  • Patent number: 7598493
    Abstract: A method of identifying different brands of peat moss including the steps of separation of the peat and sand by first adding water to the peat and sand mixture to enable the peat to float to the top of the water and the sand to gravitate to the bottom collecting the peat at the surface of the water and drying the peat there after grinding the peat to pass thru a sieve of small mesh then mixing the ground peat with Potassium Bromide (KBr) at a ratio in the neighborhood of 1:20 then grinding said mixture with a mortar and pestle then loading to a sample cell; then loading a ground pure KBr to a reference cell, then scanning and collecting wave spectrums of the references and samples in the range of 4000 to 600 cm?1, collect said spectrums directly from said peat/sand mixtures and dry said peat/sand mixtures in the neighborhood of 105 degrees centigrade for a 24 hour period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Inventor: Michael J. Pierce
  • Patent number: 7540103
    Abstract: The invention is related to an attachment to a front end loader. The invention comprises a dual blades having a rear frame which is fixed to the movable arm means at the front of the front end\ loader. The rear frame has a pivotal left arm and a pivotal right arm with a left blade mounting frame pivotal mounted to the forward end of the left arm and a left blade spring mounted to the forward end of the left mounting frame. A right blade mounting frame is pivotally mounted to the forward end of the right arm and a right blade spring mounted to the forward end of the right blade mounting frame. A pair of hydraulic cylinders with one mounted between the left arm and the rear frame and with the other mounted between the left arm and the left blade mounting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Inventor: James O. Broten
  • Patent number: 7281347
    Abstract: A gun support for precision shooting comprising a main support pole serving as a main stand having three adjustable legs. A rear gun stock support mounted at the top of the pole an extending laterally away from the pole for receiving the rear of the gun stock of a rifle. A pivotally mounted flange extends forward out from the rear gun stock support having a forward V-shaped rest thereon to receive the forward portion of the gun stock of the rifle, rotary adjustment means to adjust the pivotal position of the forward flange relative to the rear gun stock support for changing the generally vertical positioning of the forward portion of the rifle, while resting on the front and rear support. A seat is provided on the pole for the gun operator to sit upon while aiming and or firing his rifle while the gun stock of the rifle in resting in the front and rear gun stock supports. The seat is adjustable about a 360 degree range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Inventor: John T. Carpenter
  • Patent number: 7267346
    Abstract: The invention comprises a snowboard having an elongated plastic plank as its body with up curved remote ends. A pair of circular plates are fixed to the top of the plank spaced toward the opposite end of the plank to serve as base for mounting bindings thereon and to raise the bottoms of the bindings a narrow distance or height above the plank. A metal elongated steel bar is fixed along the length of the plank along top of the plank to give the plank added strength and rigidity for additional control of the plank by the operator of the plank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Inventors: Donald A. Zejdlik, Adam S. Zejdlik
  • Patent number: 7103944
    Abstract: The invention comprises a decorative lid strap for securing the cover of a casserole to the top of the casserole or container so that the casserole can be transported safely while food and etc. is in the casserole. The lid strap has an elongated elastic strap with hooks mounted to the outer ends of the elastic strap so that the strap may be stretched over the top of the cover of the container and the hooks attached to the opposing handles of the container to secure the cover to the casserole or container. A decorative sleeve is removably mounted over the strap while the strap is mounted over the cover of the casserole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Inventor: Gary M. Johnson
  • Patent number: 7014413
    Abstract: The invention comprises a door attaching apparatus for positioning and aligning a door for attachment to a doorway. The apparatus has a mobile frame adapted to be moved upon a surface. The mobile frame has a first frame. The first frame is movably mounted to the mobile frame to move upward and downward and forward and rearward relative to the mobile frame with a door mounted thereon. A second frame is pivotably mounted to the mobile frame behind the first frame and is handle operated to move forward and rearward on the mobile frame and to engage the first frame to cause the first frame and door thereon to move forward and rearward with the second frame to align the door in a doorway in one direction for attachment of the door to the doorways. A handle operated cam mechanism is mounted between the first and second frames to cam the first frame and thereby the door upward and downward on the mobile frame align the door in another direction for its attachment to the doorway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Inventor: Roland O. Young
  • Patent number: 7004405
    Abstract: The invention comprises a golf course treatment platform having a frame with a spool of garden hose wound onto the spool, control piping on the platform, and a chemical tank whereby water may be introduced into the control piping a valved directly into the garden hose whereupon the water may be directed by the hose onto the golf course for treating the course with water or the water in the control piping may be valved through a mixing chamber to mix the water with a chemical from the tank and then directed into the garden hose on the spool where the mixture may be directed by the hose onto the golf course for treating the course with a water and chemical mixture, said platform having adjustable engaging means for adjustably mounting the platform to a trailer for transporting the platform on the golf grounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Inventors: Scott Elmore, Kevin Pierce
  • Patent number: 6988559
    Abstract: The invention comprises a beet harvesting device. The device has a first plurality of pairs of laterally positioned harvesting discs, and a second pair of laterally positioned harvesting discs, with the second pair being spaced longitudinally from the first plurality of pairs of discs and laterally between the paths of the first plurality of pairs of harvesting discs so that beets may be harvested in a path between the first plurality of pairs of discs, to thereby provide a novel apparatus for more readily harvesting beets in paths narrower than customarily harvested with a first plurality of pairs of laterally positioned harvesting discs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Inventor: Mark Holy
  • Patent number: 6968877
    Abstract: The invention comprises a remote controlled power chain saw which can be remotely operated and remotely positioned to different heights and at different angles. The chain saw has a front and rear assembly with an endless chain with cutting teeth thereon which is pivotally mounted on a main frame of the front assembly and powered by a hydraulic cylinder to pivot downward about an axis out of the bottom of the assembly for using the chain to cut with power means to power the endless chain. The front assembly is pivotally mounted to the rear assembly about an axis perpendicular to the first mentioned axis and is power operated to pivot thereby pivot the chain to two different angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Inventor: Curtis Stokkeland
  • Patent number: 6939099
    Abstract: The invention comprises a hook attachment having a frame with a plurality of hooks pivotally mounted to the frame. The attachment has a engaging flange and eyelets for receiving the attaching flange and engaging pins, respectively on the front of the arms of a front end loader. The attachment has an attaching flange and engaging pins mounted on the front of the frame of the attachment for engaging an attaching flange and eyelets on the rear of a bucket, whereby the hook attachment may be attached directly to the front of a front end loader and used alone with the front end loader, or the attaching flange and engaging pins on the front of the frame of the locking attachment may engage the attaching flange and eyelets on the rear of the bucket to attach the bucket to the flange of the hook attachment so that the hook attachment and bucket may be used together on the front end loader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Inventor: Curtis Stokkeland
  • Patent number: 6923635
    Abstract: The invention comprises an adjustable frame for a the concave mold of a pre formed two piece mold having a convex mold and a concave mold adapted to be closed to mold a product. The adjustable frame has surrounding sides and a bottom with an open top to removably receive and support the preformed concave mold of the two piece mold, said surrounding sides and bottom with the surrounding sides have a plurality of elongated pins extending inward toward one another, and with the bottom having a plurality of pins extending upward to thereby support the surrounding sides and bottom of a concave mold, with the pins being adjustable along their length inward toward one another and upward to enable the same frame to support different concave molds of different shapes and sizes therein in connection with the convex molds to form products of different sizes and shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: VEC Industries, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Jeffrey S. Burgess
  • Patent number: 6854147
    Abstract: A loading ramp having an elongated frame with guideways along its length on opposite side thereof. A moving panel having rollers at its front and rear adapted to roll along die guideways of the ramp to roll the panel along the length of the elongated frame. A table mounted at one end to the moving panel and support means to support the table at its other end out away from the panel. A loading bracket for mounting in the doorway of an aircraft and adapted to receive the upper end of the elongated frame to provide a ramp from the ground to the doorway of the aircraft. A power mechanism for powering the panel and connecting table upward and downward along the frame from adjacent the ground to the doorway of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Inventor: George E. Ahlsten
  • Patent number: 6848734
    Abstract: The invention includes a sealing mechanism device for sealing the front overhang for the cover of a roll type cover device for the truck box of a pick up truck when closing the cover over the truck box. The mechanism device has a cam structure on spiral ridges for caming the cover when closing the cover. The cams on the spiral ridges cooperate with rollers on the front edge of the cover to cam the front edge of the cover sharply up) against an overhang at the front of the truck box mechanism device to close the front edge of the cover flush to the overhang of the mechanism in substantially watertight relation to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Inventor: Tim Mulvaney
  • Patent number: 6832883
    Abstract: The invention comprises a wheeled vehicle having a vehicle frame with rear wheels and a detachable frame mounted to the vehicle frame. The detachable frame is adapted carry a bin, with a conveyor to convey material rearward along the bottom of the bin and spinners at the rear of the bin and at the rear of the conveyor to spin and spread material from the bin onto the conveyor from the conveyor. The wheeled vehicle has a hydraulic piston and cylinder for raising the forward portion of the detachable frame from the vehicle frame and a pair of front and rear legs detachably mounted to the front and rear of the detachable frame to support the detachable frame independently of the vehicle frame, along with the bin, conveyor, and spinners. The rear legs are upwardly adjustable in cooperation with the piston and cylinder to raise the front and rear of the detachable frame to facilitate removal and attachment of the legs to the detachable frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Inventor: Kevin J. Pierce
  • Patent number: 6786503
    Abstract: The invention comprises a panel carrying cart having an elongated overall frame formed of a pair elongated frame sections pivotally mounted about a horizontal axis at their inner ends. The frame sections are each formed of a pair of parallel rods and upright end frames. A plurality of lateral frame rods are adjustably mounted along the length of the parallel rods of the front and rear frames so that the lateral rods may be moved to different locations to better accommodate loads carried on the lateral rods of the cart. A pair of L shaped lateral rods each have one end mounted in the lateral rods with their other ends extending upward to hold panels or other objects on the lateral frames on the cart. Wheels are mounted to the front and rear frames for moving the cart about to different locations with panels or other object thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Inventor: Larry P. Young
  • Patent number: 6715696
    Abstract: The invention comprises a towable trailer having a first frame and a bin, conveyor, and spinners mounted on a second frame. The bin carries materials which are conveyed by the conveyor to the spinners at the rear of the bin which spin and spread the material on the ground as the trailer is towed along the ground. The trailer is towed by a powered vehicle. A remote control device has an electrical connection to the mechanism on the trailer for operating the conveyor and spinners. The remote control device can be mounted on the trailer and operated or by cable from equipment or mechanism on the trailer to the remote control device, the remote control device may be operated on the control panel of the powered vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Inventor: Kevin J. Pierce
  • Patent number: 6637713
    Abstract: The invention comprises a log supporting apparatus for a fireplace having three supporting legs converging upward at an angle toward one another to form a tripod. The apparatus has an upper and lower bracket fitted within the confines of the legs with the legs at 120 degree intervals about a circle and with the brackets having pins projecting outward into bores in the legs to support the legs and brackets with the legs at their inclined angle. The lower bracket is spaced above the bottom of the legs and acts to support the bottoms of the logs with the upper portions of the logs resting at an inclined angle toward one another against the upper bracket whereby ignitable material may be placed beneath the logs and the logs may be easily burned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Inventors: Robert Bruce Kleve, Mark Jones
  • Patent number: 6594849
    Abstract: The invention comprises a drain cleaning apparatus having a flexible forward tubular portion and a rigid real-ward tubular portion. The flexible portion is coupled to a drain pipe of a building connected to the sewer line, after the elbow connection between the drain pipe section and the drain in a sink in the building has been removed. The rearward tubular portion has a bowl with an open top and a spout is mounted over the bowl with a fluid connection connecting the spout to a spout of the faucet to fill the bowl and apparatus and drain pipe up to any blockage in the drain pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Inventor: Jon Nimens