Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Charles H. Thomas
  • Patent number: 6694526
    Abstract: A golf accessory clip is provided with a garment fastener that clips onto a golf garment, such as the bill of a golf hat or the edge of a golf shirt. The golf accessory clip is provided with a shield portion that is rotatable relative to a mounting base. The shield portion bears a surface embellishment which may be considered to have a top and a bottom for purposes of viewing. By providing a rotatable connection between the shield and the mounting base, the golf accessory clip may be utilized in a wide variety of ways and clipped onto many different golf garments while still allowing the shield to be oriented and reoriented so that the surface embellishment thereon is always right side up. The coupling between the underside of the shield and the mounting structure on the garment fastener is preferably formed as a dovetail connection that permits rotation of the shield relative to the fastener, but which holds the shield and fastener coupled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Inventor: John R. Tate
  • Patent number: 6692416
    Abstract: A pair of handles are provided for attachment to an exercising apparatus having at least one that cable that provides resistance to a force exerted on the cable. Each handle is formed of a handgrip of a size suitable for grasping in the hand of a user. Each handle also includes a single, solid, rigid rod bent to define a straight, cylindrical grip attachment portion that fits within the hand grip, a straight proximal portion that is inclined relative to the grip attachment portion at two angles, considered in two orthogonal planes of reference, both of which contain the axis of the grip attachment portion, an arcuately curved intermediate portion, and a straight, distal portion. An omnidirectional cable coupling is provided at the distal portion of the rod. The rods are formed in mirror image to each other, considered in the second reference plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Magnascope, Inc.
    Inventor: James O. Davis
  • Patent number: 6679482
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved construction perimeter guard stanchion. A dual adjustment system performs both coarse and fine adjustments to tightly clamp a pair of jaws at the lower end of the stanchion upon the edge of a floor slab in an elevated, unfinished building structure. A coarse jaw adjustment sleeve formed of a short section of hollow steel tubing is coaxially disposed about an outboard support member in sliding engagement therewith. The coarse adjustment sleeve has one or more perforations therethrough so that a locking pin can be passed through it and through aligned openings in the outboard support member. A fine adjustment screw member is disposed coaxially within a vertical rail support tube and may be rotated by lever arms to move the upper jaw closer to or further from the lower jaw. Adjustment of the fine positioning mechanism is performed by manipulating handles at the top of the vertical rail support tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Al Plank & Scaffold Mfg., Inc.
    Inventor: Dwight Allenbaugh
  • Patent number: 6668395
    Abstract: An article of furniture is provided which can be transformed easily from a bed to a futon or a chaise lounge. The article of furniture is formed of a stationary, generally U-shaped upright support having a head frame with opposing ends from which side frames extend in mutual parallel alignment. A base frame assembly is mounted upon wheels or other roller elements and is comprised of a plurality or articulated frames, including a seat bench frame located remote from the head frame of the stationary support, and at least an intermediate seat back frame hinged to the bench frame. Preferably, a proximal back frame is also provided which includes within its structure a backrest that may be raised or lowered when the unit is used as a chaise lounge. The article of furniture is provided with rollers on each side of the stationary support near the distal extremities thereof. Cam latches are provided on opposing sides of the seat frame in longitudinal alignment with the rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Coaster Company of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Sufang Chen
  • Patent number: 6669080
    Abstract: A portable document storage device is formed of a filing pouch having a collapsible pocket and a foldable flap extending from its back cover, and an expandable filing case. The filing case is partitioned by a plurality of indexed section dividers that divide the filing case into a plurality of pockets to receive papers in an orderly manner. Mutually engageable releaseable fasteners are located on the back cover of the filing case and on the front cover of the filing pouch. When the releaseable fasteners are engaged the filing case can be carried with the filing pouch and is enveloped by the foldable cover of the filing pouch. Alternatively, the fasteners may be released from each other so that the filing case may be completely or partially detached from the filing pouch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Inventor: Bon S. Ong
  • Patent number: 6663311
    Abstract: A document formed of a stack of papers bound at the spine is equipped with a slide bar that achieves locking engagement with a document cover formed of a plurality of sheets of material. The sheets of document cover material are joined to each other at a binding margin. The sheet of cover material that passes around the spine of the cover forms a back cover beneath the stack of papers and a narrow, margin panel or strip that overlies the adjacent edge of the other sheet of binding material, which forms a front cover. The slide bar has a pair of jaws that terminate in distal tips that face each other at an angle of least forty-five degrees across a gap defined between the distal tips of the jaws. The slide bar is inserted onto the binding edge of the stack of papers and the cover encompassing them in a direction parallel to the binding edge from either the top or bottom end of the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Inventor: Bon S. Ong
  • Patent number: 6647570
    Abstract: A self-storing article of bedding is constructed with a pair of pocket panels that overlie a limited surface area on the top of a cover, thereby defining a pocket region of the cover and a larger peripheral region extending beyond the pocket region. The pocket panels reside atop overlapping portions of the pocket region of the cover and have boundary edges that are sewn to the cover, thereby defining the perimeter of the pocket region. Linear, free, overlapping edges of the pocket panels extend between their respective boundary edges. Mutually engageable, releaseable fasteners are provided on the pocket panels in the area of mutual overlap. The pocket panels are reversible in orientation. When the pocket panels are oriented so that their reverse surfaces face each other, the peripheral region of the cover may the folded and stuffed in between the reverse surfaces of the pocket panels and the pocket region of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Inventor: Bon S. Ong
  • Patent number: 6648189
    Abstract: A system for cleaning and blocking hats involves the use of a water impervious, elastomeric, foam form that permits a hat to be washed with a conventional laundry washing detergent without shrinking or losing its shape. The spongy, foam form is resiliently compressed somewhat so that, following laundering, the hat can be mounted upon the form in tight-fitting engagement therewith. The hat, mounted upon the form, is then left to dry in open air. The hat, once dried following laundering, may be removed from the form and sprayed with an appropriate aerosol spray that stiffens and retards deformation of the hat. The hat, while still moist from the spray, is placed back on the form and is then left to again dry in ambient air. Once dry, the hat is removed from the form. Following this treatment the hat is clean, but is not deformed by shrinking or otherwise. To the contrary, it retains its original shape and blocking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Inventors: Thomas Minton, Terry Garrett, Jimmy R. Solway
  • Patent number: D481555
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Amini Innovation, Corp.
    Inventor: Jack Schmitt
  • Patent number: D486014
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Amini Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Jack Schmitt
  • Patent number: D486327
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Amini Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Jack Schmitt
  • Patent number: D486979
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Amini Innovation Corp
    Inventor: Jack Schmitt
  • Patent number: D486980
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Amini Innovation Corp
    Inventor: Jack Schmitt
  • Patent number: D487191
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Inventor: Bon S. Ong
  • Patent number: D487199
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Amini Innovation Corp
    Inventor: Jack Schmitt
  • Patent number: D487201
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Amini Innovation Corp
    Inventor: Jack Schmitt
  • Patent number: D487202
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Amini Innovation Corp
    Inventor: Jack Schmitt
  • Patent number: D487203
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Amini Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Jack Schmitt
  • Patent number: D487252
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: UV Doctor LLC
    Inventor: Todd Schweitzer
  • Patent number: D487363
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Amini Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Jack Schmitt