Patents Represented by Attorney Boniard I. Brown
  • Patent number: 7387316
    Abstract: A portable tank apparatus has a yoke pivotal on a transverse member between a service towing position and a raised position, and a pair of hingedly connected brace members at the rear of the apparatus and operable by an actuator to retract the wheels or lower the wheels to the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Inventor: Keril M. Keiser
  • Patent number: 7287651
    Abstract: A fuel-water separator for diesel engines has a coalescing media and baffle plates through which diesel fuel and water pass upwardly, separation thereof being effected by reducing emulsification of water with fuel, and by passing of heavy particulates to the bottom of the separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignees: Vortox Company, RCI Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin J. Myers, Kenneth F. Slaughter, Robert R. Randle
  • Patent number: 7247278
    Abstract: An automated computer controlled ground water system for monitoring and analysis for an analyte, has a sampling device in a well casing with a valve and sensor to provide a predetermined sample volume, a treatment assembly to prepare a calibration standard, a calibration assembly to provide a standard of known concentration and volume, an analytical assembly to analyze for analyte concentration, and a communication system to receive analysis data and transmit it to a cognizant agency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Inventors: Scott R. Burge, Russell W. Burge, David A. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 7210272
    Abstract: A trim assembly for interior walls of buildings has a cornerpiece configured for retention in a corner between intersecting walls, a trim strip extending from each opposite side of the cornerpiece, a tang extending from each opposite side of the cornerpiece and extending into slots in respective trim strips, a block member at each opposite side of the cornerpiece, at least one post extending from at least one of the block members and into a slot in a decorative member, and a clip device disposed about the post to retain it in the slot to retain the decorative member relative to the block member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Inventor: Robert E. Friday
  • Patent number: 7189671
    Abstract: Improved glass fibers compositions, typically useful for fire resistant blankets or containers to provide high burn-through resistance at high temperatures of 2,400° F. and higher, and typically comprising silica, sodium oxide, potassium oxide, calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, ferrous+ferric oxide, and titanium oxide; the improved glass compositions may further include alumina, lithium oxide, and boron oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Glass Incorporated
    Inventor: Albert Lewis
  • Patent number: 7111651
    Abstract: An engine cooling system liquid insertion and removal system has an adapter disposed in a vehicle radiator service opening via which old coolant is removed from the engine system by partial vacuum applied to an old coolant container via a conduit. New coolant is introduced via the adapter by atmospheric pressure from a portable container. Conduits interconnect the engine cooling system, the old and new coolant containers, and a source of partial vacuum applied to conduits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Inventor: Robert E. Flynn
  • Patent number: 7004350
    Abstract: A toothpick and tablet dispenser has two housing halves force-fitted together and guide walls in at least one of the halves to guide toothpicks and tablets to different outlets to dispense a single toothpick or tablet at a time. A gate at each outlet provides manual access to the outlets and insure sanitary interior conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Oroumieh
  • Patent number: 6998361
    Abstract: Improved glass compositions for glass fibers typically useful for fire resistant blankets or containers to provide high burn-through resistance at temperatures of 2,300° F. and typically comprising 10.23% to 81.81% silica, 2.0% to 26.00% alumina, 3.0% to 15.0% calcium oxide, 0% to 10.50% magnesium oxide, 1.0% to 18.0% ferrous+ferric oxide, and 0% to 4.0% titanium dioxide; the improved glass compositions may include 0% to 9% lithium oxide, 0% to 9% boron oxide, 0% to 6.0% manganese oxide, and 0% to 4.0% phosphorous oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Glass Incorporated
    Inventor: Albert Lewis
  • Patent number: 6925961
    Abstract: A pet litter apparatus has an upper screen to retain litter and debris, a plurality of upper bars, a lower plurality of bars, mechanism for lowering the lower plurality of bars to define spaces for passage of particulate matter between the upper and lower bars, by rotating rods on sprockets to lower the second plurality of bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Inventor: Dennis M. Langdale
  • Patent number: 6854939
    Abstract: A winch bar has an insertion portion adapted to fit in openings of a winch drum of non-circular cross-section, typically square or hexagonal, whereby the winch bar cannot rotate relative to the openings to present hazards of injury to persons or property which can result with prior art circular drum openings and circular cross-section bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Inventor: Darryl Im
  • Patent number: D504943
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Vortox Company
    Inventor: Lynn A. Dudley
  • Patent number: D512759
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Inventor: Abraham Carattini
  • Patent number: D524365
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Inventor: Alan J. Hamu
  • Patent number: D536882
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Inventor: Donald D. Sheley
  • Patent number: D538538
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Inventor: Gil Espinosa
  • Patent number: D549567
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Inventor: Alan J. Hamu
  • Patent number: D572492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Terra Furniture, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Mainville
  • Patent number: D572498
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Terra Furniture, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Mainville
  • Patent number: D575172
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Inventor: Victor Yuan
  • Patent number: D582483
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Inventor: Usman M. Awan