Patents by Inventor Joseph C. Taylor

Joseph C. Taylor 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: 6745549
    Abstract: The attachment comprises a resilient member in communication between the wheel of the attachment and the weed trimmer shaft, which reduces vibration experienced by the weed trimmer operator. The resilient member further allows the operator to tap the trimmer head against the ground to release additional trimming line in a normal fashion as if the wheeled attachment were not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Inventor: Joseph C. Taylor
  • Patent number: 5454610
    Abstract: A door security device comprising a floor plate and a removably interlocking member, with the floor plate having a slot for receiving a leg projection, extending at a right angle, from the removably interlocking member. The floor plate is fastened securely to the floor, in close proximity, and in the path of swing of an inwardly swinging door, so that the disposed removably interlocking member will block the door from opening at all or past a predetermined point. With a first preferred embodiment having a floor plate formed with a plurality of openings for receiving screws for securely fastening it to the floor, and a removably interlocking member having two leg projections extending at right angles, in the same direction, and parallel to each other, either of which to be engaged with the slot in the floor plate, while the other facilitates handling of the removably interlocking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Inventors: Joseph C. Taylor, Jack R. Taylor
  • Patent number: 5432954
    Abstract: An oil filter change glove (8) comprises a tubularly shaped, flexible, outer glove member (10) having a flexible pocket (22) with a pocket-rim end (28) thereof attached to a filter-receiving end (20) of the outer glove member to form a pocket interior (30) in a tube interior (12). The pocket is shaped and sized for receiving a filter (44) inserted through the pocket-rim end into the pocket interior and the outer glove member is shaped and sized for receiving a hand inserted through a hand-receiving end (16) into the tube interior for gripping the pocket and the filter enclosed therein for manipulating the filter. A pocket wall is attached to the outer glove member at two seams (36a and b) running longitudinally of the tubularly shaped outer glove member for forming a finger slot (38).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Inventor: Joseph C. Taylor