Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Charles E. Baxley, Esq.
  • Ceiling fan housing having inner panels
    Patent number: 5934878
    Abstract: A ceiling fan housing includes a cylindrical member of transparent material and a decorating material layer applied onto the inner peripheral portion of the cylindrical member for decorating purposes. A number of panels are received in the cylindrical member and a number of fastening members engage through the panels and the bottom plate for securing the bottom plate and the cylindrical member and the panels together. The decorating material layer is formed a sand blasting process and includes a number of blank portions for engaging the panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Inventor: Jack Yu
  • Skate device having magnetic support
    Patent number: 5934706
    Abstract: A skate device includes a number of magnetic members engaged on an outer peripheral portion of a frame and includes a flexible belt engaged around the frame. A number of magnetic members are secured in the belt for acting with the magnetic members of the frame and for spacing the belt from the frame and for allowing the belt to move around the frame without friction and for allowing the skate device to be operated on soft and uneven surfaces. The frame includes two frame members separated from each other and coupled together by a bolt for adjusting the two frame members away from and toward each other. A number of pads are engaged on the outer peripheral portion of the belt for forming a wheel device for the skate device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Inventor: Chih-Hao Yiu
  • Wrench tool
    Patent number: 5931063
    Abstract: A wrench tool includes a member having an engaging opening formed in one end for engaging with fasteners to be driven. The other end of the member includes an orifice parallel to the longitudinal axis and the other orifice perpendicular to the previous orifice, for allowing the orifices to engage with different tool members. The member includes a pair of tapered surface having a number pairs of opposite engaging surfaces for engaging with fasteners of different sizes. A coupler is pivotally coupled to the member and the orifices are formed in the coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Inventor: Ying Hong Kuo
  • Pneumatic driving system for stapler
    Patent number: 5924621
    Abstract: A stapler includes a driving member slidably disposed in the front portion for driving the nails or the like and includes a chamber for receiving a base and a casing and includes a channel for allowing the air to be discharged to the rear portion of the stapler. A valve member is slidably received in the casing and is biased to engage with a valve seat of the stapler for blocking the pressurized air to drive the driving member. The base has an aperture for receiving the pressurized air and for allowing the pressurized air to balance the valve member. The pressurized air in the casing is allowed to flow out of the stapler for allowing the valve member to be forced away from the valve seat when a button is forced to block the aperture of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Basso Industry Corp.
    Inventor: Sunking Hung
  • Apparatus for exercising triceps muscles
    Patent number: 5924966
    Abstract: An exercise apparatus includes a lower bracket which clamps onto the bottom of a door and bolts which are threaded into the tower bracket and which jack the bracket upwardly against the door to prevent motion of the door. A tension spring connected to the sower bracket is connected to a cable which is guided by pulleys which are mounted on an upper bracket. The upper bracket is clamped on the top of the door. The cable is connected to a handle which enables a user to pull on the cable against the resisting force provided by the spring thereby exercising the user's muscles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Inventor: David A. Havlovic
  • Tire inflator
    Patent number: 5921269
    Abstract: A tire inflator includes a head portion with a cylinder extending transversely therefrom which communicates with an interior of the head portion via a first passage in which a uni-directional valve is disposed, a disk member slidably received in the head portion, a release valve disposed to the head portion and two receivers respectively received in two open ends of the head portion. The disk member has a radial recess defined radially therein and a slot define in one of two ends thereof and which communicates with the radial recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Inventor: Scott Wu
  • Strap connectors for swimming goggles
    Patent number: 5918351
    Abstract: A strap connector for connecting a strap to a goggle frame includes a first end having a longitudinal slot defined therein and a second end having a transverse slot defined therein. The second end further includes a wedge that tapers toward an end edge thereof, the wedge having a maximum width greater than a width of the longitudinal slot. The strap connector is bent so as to be connected to the goggle frame at a section between the first end thereof and the second end thereof. The wedge is partially received in the longitudinal slot of the strap connector. The strap is wound through the longitudinal slot, the transverse slot, and the longitudinal slot in sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Inventor: Terry Chou
  • Vibrating foot massage insole apparatus
    Patent number: 5913838
    Abstract: An insole which can be placed in a user's shoe incorporates vibrators which provide a vibrating massage. The vibrators are connected to a battery operated power supply which can be attached to a users leg by an elastic strap or attached to a user's shoe by a clip. A wire retraction unit is mounted on the power supply to take up slack in an electrical cable which connects the vibrators and the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Inventor: Peter C. Reilly
  • Electric bell having a mechanism for supporting electromagnetic unit
    Patent number: 5909169
    Abstract: An electric bell includes a base having two walls extended upward from the central portion for forming a casing. The walls each includes an upper portion having one or more projections. Two spring leaves are secured on the base. An electromagnetic unit is engaged into the casing and engaged between the walls and retained in place by the projections. The electromagnetic unit includes a coil and a stem slidably engaged in the coil for allowing the stem to be driven by the coil to strike onto the spring leaves. The electromagnetic unit may be secured in place without additional tools and fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Inventor: Sheng-Hsiung Lin
  • Cap assembly having a sucking member for a bottle
    Patent number: 5908126
    Abstract: A cap assembly includes a first part for mounting to a bottle and a second part coupled to the first part, and a sucking member pivotally disposed to a top of the first part. The top of the first part has two stands, a support located between the two stands and a stop extending therefrom, wherein the support has a passage defined therethrough and extending through the top. The sucking member has a sphere member rotatably supported between the two stands and is rested on a first annular flange extending from a top of the support. The second part has two clamping members extending from a bottom thereof so that when the second part is mounted to the first part, the sucking member is clamped by the clamping members and pivoted and laid on the stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Inventor: Wen-Pin Wang
  • Tire pressure gauge
    Patent number: 5908984
    Abstract: A tire pressure gauge includes a first portion having a display mounted thereto for displaying pressure value of a tire to be inspected and a second portion having a compartment defined therein and communicated with the display. The second portion may receive a valve of a tire to be inspected. The second portion further includes a slot defined in a periphery thereof and communicated with the compartment. A switch member is pivotally mounted in the compartment of the second portion and includes an operative member extended beyond the slot for manual operation. The operative member is movable between a first position for inspecting a first type of tire valves and a second position for inspecting a second type of tire valves along the slot of the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Inventor: Louis Chuang
  • Lock assembly
    Patent number: 5906124
    Abstract: A lock assembly includes a base member having a bottom with a peripheral wall extending from a periphery defining the bottom, two rods extending from the bottom and two openings defined through the peripheral wall. Each of the rods has a board and a disk respectively and rotatably mounted thereto which is accessed via the openings. Each of the boards has a protrusion extending therefrom which has two sides. A slide has a slot defined therethrough so as to slidably mount to the rods. A periphery defining the slot has two pairs of opposite sides, a width between each of the two opposite sides being smaller than a length of the protrusion and larger than a width between the two sides of the protrusion. The movement of the slide actuates a limit device disposed to the lock assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Inventor: Shun-Chang Su
  • Storage unit for compact disk
    Patent number: 5906275
    Abstract: The present invention teaches a container for compact disks includes a base portion and an integrally formed support portion which is connected to the base portion by a flexure hinge. The support panel includes a compact disk holder which facilitates mounting a compact disk on the support panel. The flexure hinge allows the support panel to pivot from a first position in which the support panel and the compact disk are located in a recess, formed in the base portion, to a second position in which the support panel and the compact disk are pivoted away from the base portion. A cover is attached tot he support panel at a location close to the hinge. Opening the cover causes the support panel to rotate from the first position to the second position thereby facilitating installation or removal of a compact disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Inventor: Zoran Jokic
  • Tool box
    Patent number: D409906
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Hand Tool Design Corporation
    Inventor: Bobby Hu
  • Spectacles
    Patent number: D410023
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Inventor: Yuen-Hu Chen
  • Clip
    Patent number: D410379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Inventor: Juan Hsiu-Chun
  • Zipper clasp
    Patent number: D410413
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Inventors: Albert Pace, Richard Heffner
  • Combined computer mouse pad and mouse container
    Patent number: D411192
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Inventor: Robert Wu
  • Tool box
    Patent number: D411350
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Inventor: Guo-Shy Chen
  • Protecting cover for computer keyboards
    Patent number: D412321
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Inventor: Robert Wu