Patents by Inventor J. Edward Brown

J. Edward Brown 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).

  • Patent number: 5184477
    Abstract: The portable cart a cooler is made by having a vinyl roller on one of its carry handles. There are two roller handle stops or locks that are in the walls of the cooler body, they are on direct opposite sides from each other. They allow for the locking of the roller handle in position for the carting or towing feature of this invention. The pull or tow handle of the cooler is longer in length than the roller handle to allow user to walk in an upright position and to keep cooler from striking users heels when towing. As stated earlier ordinary portable coolers, ice chests do not have the features of this cart a cooler invention, therefore the cart a cooler could be classified a new and useful improvement over older objects considered to be portable coolers, ice chests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1993
    Inventors: J. Edward Brown, Jenny Ciaccio
  • Patent number: 5156112
    Abstract: A bird feeder having a metal feed container located inside a concentric, coaxial, metal shroud cover that rotates. The metal prevents the feeder from being chewed into by undesirable animals, as well as prevents the birds from seeing the feed in the feeder, therefore the birds curiosity keeps them coming to the feeder to cause its rotation, therefore aiding in the rotation of the feeder cover to cause the feeder to cycle its open to feed mode to its closed no feed mode, allowing the feeder to feed intermittently, as the feeding windows of the cover become misaligned and back to alignment in their relationship to the orifices of the feed container, a cycling of the feed, no feed modes is attained. When the feeder is in its no feed mode, no animals can access the feed in the feeder, including the birds themselves, this is approximately one half of the time of a complete cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Inventor: J. Edward Brown