Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Dunlap Codding & Rogers
  • Bench assembly
    Patent number: 6802561
    Abstract: A bench assembly is provided which includes a seat assembly and at least two backrest assemblies. The back assemblies are rotatable from one side of the seat assembly to an opposite side independently of one another such that persons sitting on the seat assembly can be facing in the same direction or in opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Inventors: Harold L. Ware, Mark L. Sherwood
  • Method for forming a cover about a flower pot
    Patent number: 6796104
    Abstract: A plant packaging system comprising a combination of a protective sleeve portion and a decorative cover portion having a base and skirt for packaging a potted plant. The protective sleeve can be detached from the decorative portion of the package system once the protective function of the sleeve has been completed, thereby exposing the decorative cover and allowing the skirt portion to extend angularly from the base. The protective sleeve and decorative cover components may comprise a unitary construction or may comprise separate components which are attached together by various bonding materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Method of containing a botanical item
    Patent number: 6789372
    Abstract: A plant packaging system and method comprising a combination of a protective upper portion and a decorative lower portion having a base portion and a skirt portion for packaging a potted plant or a botanical item and a growing medium without a pot. The upper portion may be detachable from the lower portion of the sleeve. The lower portion may have a skirt portion which has a non-linear upper peripheral edge. The lower portion may be tapered and may have a gusset in the lower end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Method for securing a cover about a flower pot
    Patent number: 6789356
    Abstract: A method of wrapping a potted plant in a decorative cover wherein the cover is a flattened sleeve. Upon opening of the sleeve, the sleeve has a bottom which may be closed, and the sleeve is sized to cover a pot. The potted plant is disposed within the inner retaining space of the open sleeve, and the pot is positioned on the bottom of the sleeve such that the sleeve covers at least a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the pot to provide the decorative cover for the potted plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Kissing shield game and method of use thereof
    Patent number: 6789799
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a kissing shield game and method teaching safe affection to at least one person playing the kissing shield game. The kissing shield game includes a plurality of removable pegs, a playing surface, a gaming member, a plurality of frames and a plurality of thin, flexible membranes forming a kissing shield, and a resetable timer. The playing surface has a plurality of holes arranged in a predetermined pattern with each of the plurality of holes being capable of receiving at least one of the plurality of removable pegs. Each side of the gaming member has a different color associated therewith as well as a predetermined set of alphanumeric symbols associated therewith. The kissing shield is used when a selected person or object determined by a player is kissed so that the player learns safe affection and the proper use of the kissing shield through repetition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Inventor: Deloris Gray Wood
  • Plant package with tubular sleeve and pot cover
    Patent number: 6786004
    Abstract: A container which is a flattened sleeve which includes a lower portion having a base portion and a skirt portion and optionally an upper portion attached to the base portion. The container contains a growing medium and a botanical item without having a pot disposed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Subsurface pesticide injection and fluid extraction system
    Patent number: 6782655
    Abstract: A subsurface pesticide injection system for use in combination with a structure having a footing formed in a base soil, a stem wall formed on the footing and defining a perimeter of the structure, a fill material disposed on the base soil within the perimeter of the stem wall, and a concrete slab formed on the fill material is provided. The concrete slab has openings extending therethrough. The subsurface pesticide injection and fluid extraction system comprising includes a tubular conduit disposed adjacent the foundation of the structure. The tubular conduit has a sidewall and a plurality of tortuous pores extending through the sidewall of the tubular conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Inventor: Tom Hoshall
  • Method of covering a potted plant
    Patent number: 6782657
    Abstract: A plant packaging method providing a tubular sleeve having excess material therein and attaching the sleeve to a potted plant via a bonding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Method of covering a potted plant
    Patent number: 6782658
    Abstract: A plant packaging method providing a tubular sleeve having a tapered base and a decorative skirt therein and securing the sleeve about a pot via a bonding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Bending an optical fiber into backplane
    Patent number: 6782181
    Abstract: A right angle bend mount for bending an optical fiber into the plane of a circuit board. The mount includes a base and a cover that is pivotably connected to the base by a hinge. A clamp is formed by a first pair of opposed surfaces of the base and cover adjacent the hinge. This clamp fixedly grips a ferrule portion of the optical fiber when the base and the cover are closed together. A second pair of opposed surfaces of the base and cover forms another clamp. This clamp fixedly grips a non-ferrule portion of the optical fiber when the base and the cover are closed together. A bent portion of the optical fiber between the ferrule portion and the gripped non-ferrule portion is disposed in a non-gripping gap between the base and the cover when the base and the cover are closed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Viasystems Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph A. A. M. Tourne
  • Method of containing a pot or floral grouping in a sleeve having expandable sidewalls
    Patent number: 6779301
    Abstract: A floral sleeve sized to fit about a flower pot or floral grouping. The sleeve has a base with side gussets and optionally bottom gussets for allowing expansion from a flattened position to an opened position. The sleeve may comprise a detachable upper portion, and a skirt portion. The sleeve is preferably secured about a pot or floral grouping via a banding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Floral sleeve with a skirt
    Patent number: 6775949
    Abstract: A plant packaging and covering system including a flexible floral sleeve having a base portion and a skirt portion, and optionally an upper detachable portion which may be sized to surround a plant disposed in a flower pot. The base portion is generally made from two flat panels substantially free of overlapping portions and the skirt portion has a plurality of overlapping portions which allow the skirt portion to expand outwardly from the upper end of the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Method of attaching a sleeve to a pot
    Patent number: 6769225
    Abstract: A method of covering a pot containing a floral grouping with a flexible sleeve having a bonding material thereon which connects the sleeve to the pot when the pot is positioned within the sleeve. In one version, the sleeve is positioned about the pot and a lower portion of the sleeve closely surrounds and encompasses the pot, an upper portion of the sleeve extending upwardly from the pot and substantially surrounding and encompassing the floral grouping contained within the pot, at least a portion of the sleeve being removable via the detaching elements, leaving a portion of the sleeve which is a decorative plant cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Color correction for RGB
    Patent number: 6768510
    Abstract: A camera, comprising at least one photodetector, and a light directing device. The light directing device separates light of a wavelength from about 360 nm to about 420 nm to form an NUV component and directs the NUV component to the at least one photodetector whereby the photodetector receives the NUV component and forms a red correction signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Nomadics, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus J. Ia Grone, Eric S. Towers
  • Method for providing a decorative covering for a floral grouping
    Patent number: 6761011
    Abstract: A method for providing a decorative covering for a floral grouping. The method includes the step of providing a decorative covering assembly comprising a header assembly and at least one sheet of material detachably connected to the header assembly. The header assembly is secured to a holder assembly such that the decorative covering assembly is supported by the holder assembly and at least one sheet of material can be detached from the header assembly. At least one sheet of material is detached from the header assembly and is disposed about at least a portion of the floral grouping to provide a decorative covering for the floral grouping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Sonny K. Burnside
  • Potted plant package
    Patent number: 6758011
    Abstract: A sleeve used to wrap items such as flower pots. The sleeve may have an open or closed bottom. When closed, the bottom may have a gusset for allowing expansion upon the depositing of the flower pot into the sleeve. The sleeve has a detachable upper portion. The sleeve may have a bonding material disposed upon an inner or outer portion of the sleeve for attaching the sleeve to the flower pot or other item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Scale assembly for a fluid level gauge
    Patent number: D492611
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: American Tank Gauge, Inc.
    Inventor: Jerry Morris
  • Computer cable storage
    Patent number: D493091
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Griggy
  • Strength and conditioning apparatus
    Patent number: D495014
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Competitive Action Sports, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Steve Zabel
  • Mower blade
    Patent number: D497169
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Inventor: Hershel Lynn Darity