Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Bontems

Thomas A. Bontems 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).

  • Publication number: 20070045452
    Abstract: A misting system includes a continuous conduit and a plurality of misting elements. Each element includes a tubular body designed to receive the continuous conduit therethrough, a compression member affixed to the body and movable between a body positioning mode in which the body is movable along the conduit and a body fixing mode in which the body is fixedly positioned on the conduit, a radially extending opening through the tubular body, and a nozzle positioned in the radially extending opening. Each of the plurality of elements is positioned in spaced apart relationship on the continuous conduit with the compression member of each element in the body fixing mode. Holes are formed in the conduit in each of the radially extending opens through the tubular bodies and the nozzle of each element is positioned in the radially extending opening and in communication with the hole in the conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventor: Thomas Bontems
  • Patent number: 7114667
    Abstract: A nozzle coupling includes a connector having an attached nozzle and opposing ends. The connector is capable of receiving fluid and conducting it to the nozzle and the nozzle is capable of receiving fluid from the connector and spraying it outwardly therefrom. Facets of the connector extend longitudinally of the connector from one of the opposing ends to the other of the opposing ends, and each of the facets are capable of being borne against a surface to locate the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Inventor: Thomas A. Bontems
  • Patent number: 6772967
    Abstract: A misting nozzle includes a nozzle body defining a conduit with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet end. The nozzle also includes an aperture member having an opening therethrough with an aperture at one end. The opening is designed to receive the fluid outlet end therein. External threads on the nozzle body and mating internal threads in the opening releasably attach the aperture member to the nozzle body. A circumferentially extending surface is formed on the nozzle body adjacent the outlet end so as to abut a mating surface in the opening of the aperture member to prevent fluid flow between the fluid outlet and the aperture. Offset slots extend between the mating surfaces to provide fluid flow and are positioned to impart turbulence to the fluid prior to flowing through the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Inventor: Thomas A. Bontems
  • Patent number: 6473908
    Abstract: Disclosed is a garment having a buttocks covering portion and a buttocks cleavage-revealing portion disposed at the buttocks covering portion. The buttocks cleavage-revealing portion is an opening and see-through material is disposed at the opening. The garment is a pant having leg portions depending from a waist, and the opening is disposed below the waist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Inventor: Thomas A. Bontems
  • Patent number: 5441202
    Abstract: A misting system including a locking T coupler with an elongated tubular body having a first end defining an axially extending chamber therein with sidewalls that taper radially outwardly from adjacent the first end toward the center of the body. A tubular ferrule is designed to axially nest within the first end of the body with a first end of the ferrule positioned in the chamber for receiving a supply tube coaxially in a second end thereof. The first end of the ferrule further including axially extending fingers with radially outwardly extending portions positioned to engage the tapered sidewalls of the chamber and force the fingers radially inwardly into a tube gripping position as the ferrule is partially withdrawn from the body so as to tightly grip a supply tube positioned therein and prevent the withdrawal of the supply tube from the ferrule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Inventors: Gary F. Wintering, Thomas A. Bontems
  • Patent number: 5203082
    Abstract: A plastic pipe with an insert, to which attachments can be coupled, installed therein, so as to cause the plastic of said plastic pipe to bond to said insert by surface flow and a method of installing a metal insert in a plastic pipe using pressure and friction to cause a surface flow of pipe material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: Arizona Mist Outdoor Cooling Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas A. Bontems