Patents by Inventor James A. Berzina

James A. Berzina 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).

  • Paint can hanger
    Patent number: 4899970
    Abstract: A paint can hanger having a pair of outwardly extending paint can support arms, each having a top opening slot adjacent the free end thereof for pivotally receiving a bail socket of a paint can. The opposite ends of the support arms include open bottom hook means for placement onto either a step or rung of a ladder. Downwardly extending stabilizer legs engage the next adjacent lower step or rung to prevent downward pivotal movement of the hanger about the step or rung on which it is supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Inventor: James Berzina
  • Retaining strap for pre-hung doors
    Patent number: 4483101
    Abstract: An elongated flexible strap member is provided including a lateral projection on one end portion thereof. The projection equipped end portion of the strap member is insertable into the transverse lock body bore of a door with the projection on the strap member received within the end of the lock bolt bore of the door opening into the lock body bore. When the door is pre-hung within a door frame, the end portion of the strap not equipped with the projection is deflectable across one side surface of the door between the lock body bore and the free swinging edge of the door, across the interface between the door edge and the opposing door frame portion across the frame portion and thereafter deflectable across and securable to the surface of the door frame portion opposite the surface thereof which opposes the free swinging edge of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1984
    Assignee: Spelts-Schultz Lumber Co.
    Inventor: James A. Berzina
  • Router adjustment attachment
    Patent number: 4239428
    Abstract: A router assembly including a router sub-assembly vertically adjustable relative to a supportive base plate through the utilization of a sub-assembly supported rack gear and a pinion gear meshed with the rack gear and journaled from the base. The base includes a handle portion for horizontal directional control of the router assembly during routing operations and oscillatably supported from the base. Connecting structure operatively connects the handle portion and the pinion gear for oscillation of the latter in response to oscillation of the former, whereby adjustable oscillation of the handle will be effective to vertically adjust the router sub-assembly relative to the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1980
    Inventor: James A. Berzina