Patents by Inventor James M. Dudley

James M. Dudley 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: 6050626
    Abstract: A manually-operated trash harvester system includes a trash retrieval assembly that consists of a rod with a spike on one end and a handle for a user's hand and an arm strap for the user's forearm at the other end and a movable tubular scraper mounted slidably over the rod and the spike. The scraper includes a flange for forcing impaled trash off the spike. The system also includes a trash collection assembly consisting of a trash bag frame mounted on wheels and includes four upstanding posts secured at the lower end thereof and movable to accommodate bags of various sizes in the interior space defined by the posts. A strap connects the bag frame to the user via a belt-like fastener to allow for hands-free movement of the collection assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Inventor: James M. Dudley
  • Patent number: 5025620
    Abstract: A rolling apparatus to be pushed by hand to roll over ground where nuts have fallen, pick up the nuts, and collect them in a bag; the apparatus including a roller assembly of a plurality of thin wheel units each having a flexible wall member which contacts the ground and is spaced from the wall member of the next adjacent wheel unit so as to clamp nuts between adjacent walls and carry the clamped nuts around the roller assembly to a comb-like stripper which pries the nuts from the wall members and guides them into a collection bag or other collection devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Inventor: James M. Dudley
  • Patent number: 4324516
    Abstract: A lug nut attachment is provided for detecting the removal of a wheel lug nut, a device that serves as a tire security cap. The cap comprises a breakable shroud and means for mounting the cap to one lug nut of a wheel. When mounted thereto the cap encloses the lug nut and prevents access thereto until the shroud is broken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1982
    Assignee: Trailer Marine Transport Corporation
    Inventors: Bernard S. Sain, James M. Dudley
  • Patent number: D402430
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Inventor: James M. Dudley