Patents by Inventor Thomas S. Gabhart

Thomas S. Gabhart 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: 5632386
    Abstract: An elongated body having front and rear sides and upper and lower margins as well as opposite end margins. The body defines endwise outwardly opening slots between the front and rear sides thereof and the slots also open upwardly and downwardly through the upper and lower margins, respectively. The slots include wide upper end portions and narrow lower end portions and downwardly receive the handles of a pair of inverted table tennis paddles therein with the handles projecting upwardly from the upper margin and the head panels of the paddles projecting downwardly from the lower margin. The opposite end slots are spaced apart longitudinally of the body and the latter defines a pair of upwardly opening ball receiving recesses spaced between the slots. A pair of forwardly and upwardly opening access slots are defined by the body in registry with and opening rearwardly into the recesses and through the front side of the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Inventor: Thomas S. Gabhart
  • Patent number: 5485699
    Abstract: An improvement for a standard hospital bed having a guard rail which provides for gap space, such improvement being a closure mounted on the bed rail at a gap and movable between a first position maintaining the gap and a second position closing the gap to prevent patient movement through such gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Product Strategies, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas S. Gabhart
  • Patent number: 5381571
    Abstract: An improvement for a standard hospital bed having a guard rail which provides for gap space, such improvement being a closure mounted on the bed rail at a gap and movable between a first position maintaining the gap and a second position closing the gap to prevent patient movement through such gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Inventor: Thomas S. Gabhart