Patents by Inventor Robert F. Murray

Robert F. Murray 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: 5078297
    Abstract: The disclosed partitioned wastebasket has component pieces including an outer receptacle, one or more partition inserts, and a cover, operatively interfitted relative to one another. The outer receptacle has a bottom wall and a side wall upstanding therefrom to an open upper top, and opposing handles are formed adjacent the open upper top. Each partition insert is sized to fit closely adjacent the outer receptacle walls, and has front and rear hooks that thereupon become operatively interfixed to the outer receptacle to hold each partition insert within the outer receptacle and to hold the outer receptacle side wall against outward flexture. Hinge structure between the cover and each partition insert movably supports the cover for opening and closing the outer receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Inventors: Frank C. Howard, Mohamed K. Wagdy, Robert F. Murray
  • Patent number: 4491724
    Abstract: A course and heading computer for use with marine charts which includes a transparent planar baseplate having a semicircular edge at one end joined with rectangular edges at the opposite end, the straightedge parallel to the shorter dimension of the baseplate being equal in length to the diameter of the semicircle, a 360.degree. circular scale imprinted on the baseplate with its center at the center of the semicircle, and a printed scaled grid to assure quick, accurate alignment, on the marine charts, and a transparent disk member rotatably attached at its center to the center of said semicircle, and having a 360.degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Inventor: Robert F. Murray