Patents by Inventor Arlen E. Ingram

Arlen E. Ingram has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Sanding tool
    Patent number: 4694618
    Abstract: A band-type abrasive strip and hand tool holder which utilizes the resilience of the holder to enable the band to be applied to the holder or removed and also the same resilience to maintain tension on the band. Modified holders allow difference size bands and a longitudinally split band allows transverse deformation to reach crevices and contours on a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1987
    Assignee: Arlen E. Ingram
    Inventors: Edward Eberhart, Arlen E. Ingram
  • Tennis ball pocket
    Patent number: 4301549
    Abstract: A tennis ball pocket for fastening to the garment of a player which holds an extra ball in readiness and designed to release the ball through a hole in the outer wall of the pocket upon finger pressure either outside the pocket or against the ball inside the pocket to cause the ball to pop into the hand of the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1981
    Inventor: Arlen E. Ingram
  • Tennis ball holder
    Patent number: 4294386
    Abstract: A holder for tennis balls which can be worn on the person playing tennis by attachment to a garment having a cage to retain the ball, the cage having a top opening for receiving and restraining the ball from escape at the top and having resilient retaining fingers that restrain the ball at the bottom but which allow the ball to be pushed out when needed by thumb pressure of one hand at the top of the ball, the fingers of the same hand receiving the ball so that it may be put in play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1981
    Inventor: Arlen E. Ingram
  • Scrubber for golf balls
    Patent number: 4084287
    Abstract: A washer device for golf balls and other devices of a similar diameter which includes a toroidal housing open at the center with radially inward exposed sponge and retention surfaces to wet and scrub a ball as it is retained and rotated centrally of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1978
    Inventors: Arlen E. Ingram, Norman H. Ingram