Patents Represented by Attorney Charles C. Logan
  • Patent number: 4981232
    Abstract: An improved laundry basket having a detachable divider wall that divides the laundry basket into a clothes compartment and a clothes washing products compartment. A top wall panel extends laterally from the top edge of the divider wall toward the closest side wall so that it spans the clothes washing products compartment. A lip on the outer edge of the top wall panel mates with the lip of the respective side wall. An aperture is formed in the top wall panel and it detachably receives a cup having an outwardly extending annular flange at its top edge. Raised indicia structure on the outer surface of the cup provides markings for measuring contents in the cup. With the divider panel removed, a plurality of laundry baskets may be stacked in a nested fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Inventor: Paul M. Wynn
  • Patent number: 4979240
    Abstract: The therapeutic footrest is designed for use while sitting on a toilet seat. The footrest is in the form of a stool having a planar shaped front leg and a planar shaped rear leg that support a horizontally oriented top wall member. A pair of longitudinally spaced apertures are formed in the top surface of the top wall member and a pair of reflex point massage rollers are mounted on shafts in the respective spaced apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Inventor: William F. Welles
  • Patent number: 4977010
    Abstract: The elongated strips of came have a U-shaped cross section or an H-shaped cross section. An elongated strip of resilient cushion layer having an adhesive coating on its top surface is pressed into mating contact with the inside surface of the came. The resilient cushion layer functions to prevent chatter or rattle of glass panes that have their edge surface inserted into the came strips. The came acts like a bony skeleton to hold individual pieces of glass pane together in an assembly such as found in book cases and stained glass windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Inventor: John G. Washa
  • Patent number: 4976531
    Abstract: The novel eyewear retainer strap is usable with all spectacle frames and sunglasses. It has an elongated strip of stretchable neoprene material. The respective ends of the elongated member are folded back upon themselves to form a loop that passes through a slot on the rear end of a triangularly shaped connection member. Snap assemblies secure the end of the elongated member to itself. A tubular sleeve is detachably received on the front ends of the respective triangularly shaped connection members and the forward end of the tubular sleeves detachably receive the ear retainer portions of the temple members of a pair of eyeglasses. When the ear retainer portions of the eyeglasses have an aperture in them, the snap assemblies may be detachably secured therein without the use of the rubber sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Inventor: Alan Kahaney
  • Patent number: 4974397
    Abstract: The anti-stress saddle pads have been designed to relieve the pressure, shock forces and stress on a horse's spine, back muscles and top of its shoulders. The basic structure of the saddle pad is formed of multiple layers of material that from top to bottom are as follows: a sheet of felt, a sheet of visco-elastic polymer, and a sheet of open-celled polyurethane foam. The sheet of visco-elastic polymer functions to absorb shock forces transmitted to its top surface by a horseback rider and to dissipate this force laterally throughout the layer of material. The sheet of open-celled polyurethane foam absorbs impact shocks and vibrations and it has the ability to allow its bottom surface to conform to the contour of a horse's back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Inventor: Jim Ricken
  • Patent number: 4972857
    Abstract: A fingernail polish protector that can be detachably connected to the fingers of a person who has just had a fresh coat of nail polish. A separate fingernail polish protector would be attached to each finger. The fingernail polish protector has the configuration of an elongated tubular sleeve that is frusto-conical in shape. It's front end and rear ends are both open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1990
    Inventors: Lou A. Stewart, Doris I. Fortner
  • Patent number: 4965892
    Abstract: A syphonic flush toilet having a conventional water tank having a drain outlet in its bottom wall. The tank has a lid having a plunger aperture therein. A syphon assembly formed of a floating top housing member and a stationary bottom housing member are located in the tank. The floating top housing member has a top wall having a downwardly extending annular outer side wall and the bottom housing member has a bottom wall having an upwardly extending annular outside wall. The annular outer side wall and the annular outside wall of the respective members are matingly telescopically connected to each other about a vertical axis. An air chamber is formed in the floating top housing member. A discharge pipe has its bottom end passing through the bottom wall of the bottom housing member and its lower end is secured in the drain outlet of the tank. The top end of the discharge pipe extends upwardly into the interior of the neck portion of the floating top housing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Inventor: James B. McDonough
  • Patent number: 4955093
    Abstract: An elongated shelf member that may be positioned across the width of a bath tub. A reading easel is pivotally hinged to the top surface of the shelf member and it may be collapsed into a recess formed in the top surface of the shelf member so that it's top surface is flush therewith. The bottom surface of the shelf has a grid-like reinforcing frame integrally formed therewith to provide sufficient strength to the shelf member so that it may be used as a bench to sit upon while bathing in the bath tub. Position securing assemblies are attached to the bottom surface of the shelf member adjacent its opposite side edges and they are slidable inwardly and outwardly so that they may be positioned against the lateral side walls of bath tubs having different widths. Suction cups are attached to the position securing assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Inventor: Lorraine J. Klassen
  • Patent number: 4955708
    Abstract: The novel sunglasses have temple assemblies that are adjustable to fit the heads of different persons. Each temple assembly has an elongated member having a sleeve portion at its rear end. A plurality of apertures are formed in the sleeve portion on its inner surface. A leg having a head portion configured to telescopically mate with the sleeve portion is removably inserted therein. The inner surface of the head portion has a plurality of protrusions that mate with the respective apertures on the inner surface of the space portion. This allows the temple assembly to be adjusted to multiple lengths. The leg member has a flexible wire core extending its length that allows its ear engagement portion to be bent to various configurations in order to closely engage the ear of the wearer. The brow bar is detachably received on the top edge of the single curved lens of the sunglasses which allows brow bars of various colors to be interexchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Inventor: Alan Kahaney
  • Patent number: 4951577
    Abstract: A wall safe assembly that is designed to be secured to a vertically oriented stud such as that positioned behind a sheet of drywall or paneling in the structure of a building. Generally the wall safe assembly would be mounted in a closet in one of its corners. The major components of the wall safe are the safe housing and the mounting block. The safe housing has a cylindrical configuration and it has a top wall or cover that is threadably received in the top end of the cylindrically shaped safe housing. An integrally formed ear extends horizontally from the bottom wall of the safe housing and also from the top wall. These ears are removably received in horizontal slots formed in the front wall of the mounting block. A pair of vertically spaced eye lag slots are also formed in the rear wall of the mounting block for receiving the ring portion of the heads of eye lags that have been screwed into the wall studs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Inventor: James K. Bentley
  • Patent number: 4948128
    Abstract: A pool table designed to allow various poker games to be played using card values visibly marked on the balls and/or using plain unmarked balls. The plain unmarked balls have a unique electric name tag encoded therein which is read by an electronic reader system mounted beneath the table top. A ball mixing assembly is also mounted below the table top and there is structure for delivering specific or random pool balls upwardly through any of the various pockets of the table where they are then ejected onto the top of the table itself. An electronic circuit is connected to a computer which controls the instructions that are delivered to the various mechanical assemblies so that a variety of poker games may be played. A visual or private display is also connected to the computer to record the poker hands that are being obtained by each player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Inventors: George B. Emery, II, George B. Emery, III, Charles Conner
  • Patent number: 4945790
    Abstract: A multi-purpose hand tool having novel structure that allows it to partially function in the manner of a revolver. It has a multi-chamber revolver-like cylinder which revolves and holds various sizes of screw drivers, Phillips head drivers, Allen wrenches, sockets, screw starters, etc. The tool has a primary shaft whose rear end is connected to the drive shaft of a D.C. electric motor mounted in the rear body assembly. The drive shaft passes through an aligned bore hole in the front body assembly that is mounted immediately behind the revolver-like cylinder. The rear body assembly is mounted in a track formed along the top edge of the handle assembly so that the rear body assembly may be reciprocally moved rearward to disengage the primary shaft from one driver tool to the next driver tool that the user desires to place on the end of the primary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1990
    Inventor: Arthur Golden
  • Patent number: 4945812
    Abstract: A muzzle brake for a firearm is formed from an elongated tubular sleeve that has a plurality of circular rows of apertures drilled from its outer surface to its inner bore. The circumferential spacing between each of the apertures in each row being such that they intersect the adjacent appertures on both sides of them at a point intermediate the wall thickness to produce integrally formed baffles in the interior of the tubular sleeve. The baffles function to reduce the recoil of the firearm and further to aid in directing the propellant gases of a bullet radially outwradly through the radial apertures of the muzzle brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1990
    Inventor: Vincent E. Mazzanti
  • Patent number: 4943021
    Abstract: A compact collapsible portable guitar stand that has a rear support leg, a backrest support leg, and a pair of lateral side support legs all of which are pivotally secured to a T hinge assembly. A pair of support arms having upright members on their front ends each have their rear ends pivotally secured to the hinge assembly and they function to support the bottom end of a guitar. All of the support legs and support arms when in their collapsed position are longitudinally aligned with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1990
    Inventors: Timothy P. Cien, Emmanuel C. Cien
  • Patent number: 4939843
    Abstract: A portable handheld circular saw having a C-shaped handgrip housing that is attached to the rear end of a motor housing. A trigger switch is mounted in the handgrip housing and a first pair of electrical wires have one of their ends connected to the input side of the trigger switch. The opposite ends of the first pair of electrical wires would have a male electrical connector secured thereto. A second pair of electrical wires has one of their ends connected to the output side of the trigger switch and their opposite ends connected to an electric motor in the motor housing. A third pair of electrical wires have one of their ends connected to the input side of the trigger switch and their opposite ends connected to an auxiliary female electrical socket that is installed in an aperture that has been formed in either the motor housing or the handgrip housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1990
    Inventor: Ronald S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 4922725
    Abstract: A refrigerated mixing and dispensing machine for the preparation of frozen dairy products and ice mixed beverages. The machine has a housing within which is mounted standard industrial units such as a compressor, condenser, evaporative coils and regulatory equipment. Also mounted in the housing is a gear motor having a torque adjustable clutch designed to disengage the gear motor from the drive line in the event of an overload. Its unique configuration and integral receptor features function to conserve space and shorten the drive line. A mixing pump is connected to the clutch and it is of an offset, rotary cam design, that features a uniquely shaped and positioned plunger valve designed to transmit and regulate the pressure of fluids pumped from the mix tank to the dasher cylinder. Fitted to a cavity of the pump housing and extending above fluid levels of the mix tank is a sleeve type metering valve which functions to house the pump plunger and regulate the mixture of air and fluid entering the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Inventor: Aaron P. Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 4921264
    Abstract: A collapsible library range dolly is formed from a pair of side frame mebers, a pair of cross members, and a post. The side frame members each have a pair of swivel casters secured to their bottom surface and there are attachment plates secured to their opposite ends. The cross members each have an upright tubular member secured to their top surface adjacent their ends. Bolts that pass through the upright tubular members have their ends secured to the attachment plates of the side frame members. A vertically oriented post is detachably secured to one of the upright tubular members for pushing or pulling the dolly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Inventor: James C. Duffy
  • Patent number: 4921153
    Abstract: A blade bag for carrying blades used with a circular saw in a pocket formed between its front wall member and its rear wall member. The rear wall member has a lower major portion formed with a fold line at its top edge. A rear wall flap member extends upwardly from this fold line. The front wall member also has a lower major portion that extends upwardly to its fold line. A front wall member extends upwardly from this fold line. The front and rear wall members are fastened to each other around a perimeter from the opposite ends of the fold line of the front wall member down around its bottom edge. When the blade bag is in its closed state, the front wall flap member is folded upwardly and it hides from view and access the saw blades removably positioned within the pocket of the blade bag. Also in this closed state, the rear wall flap member is folded downwardly about its fold line so that it covers the front surface of the front wall flap member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Inventor: Richard Smith
  • Patent number: D309559
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Inventor: Daniel Vaccaro
  • Patent number: D309615
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Inventor: Ray E. Arnatt