Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Gene Scott-Patent Law & Venture Group
  • Non-slip bucket holder for angled surfaces
    Patent number: 6321932
    Abstract: A combination bucket and bucket holding apparatus, includes a bucket of the type that is commonly used in construction trades, and a bucket holding apparatus comprising a cylindrical body part having a closed end at one end thereof, and integral thereto, a sidewall with a flared annular edge at an open opposing end thereof, the closed end comprising a flat plate set at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the body part, so that the apparatus may be set onto a non-horizontal surface with the longitudinal axis of the body part plumb and a bucket supporting means fitted within the sidewall, the bucket supporting means providing a rest surface normal to the longitudinal axis for supporting the bucket within the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Inventor: Byron Butters, III
  • Lift for a hand truck
    Patent number: 6309168
    Abstract: A detachable lifting device can be attached to and works in conjunction with an upright portion of a hand truck. The invention allows the user to move heavier loads than would be possible with the hand truck alone, and to lift the loads to table or counter levels. The invention is formed with a preferably rectangular frame, including laterally spaced-apart lift rails. A winch assembly, lifting cable, cable winding element, and a pulley operate with the frame to slide a lifting platform upwardly and downwardly along lift rails in a space formed by a spacer attached between the hand truck and the lift rail. The platform attachment is inventively designed with a bolt, bushing, and nut assembly, wherein the bushings frictionally engage with and rotate circularly against the lift rails as the platform moves up and down them. Preferably, the invention is operated via remote control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Inventor: Jerry Holmes
  • Rotating apparatus for surface massage
    Patent number: 6306109
    Abstract: A hand held manual massager is constructed as a cylindrical cage with a series of axles arranged in a circular or near circular array. Each of the axles provides a series of side-by-side massaging wheels. The wheels have a ridged circumference for rolling on the surface of the skin in a manner for stimulating the muscles and circulatory system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Inventor: Gus Polychronis
  • Electric backpack blower and accessory operator
    Patent number: 6305048
    Abstract: An enclosure is constructed as a back pack so that it may be worn. Air is conducted into an air intake chamber, then to an air intake plenum by air impeller. An electric motor is coupled with an air impeller, with motor cooling accomplished by the positioning of the electric motor adjacent to a motor cooling intake aperture. A sound absorbing layer lines the enclosure. Air exits through an air exhaust orifice for application in blowing leaves etc. A rotational transmission, terminating with a coupling is adapted for receiving an accessory for operation of the accessory so that a wide range of garden, carpentry and farming accessories may be utilized with the power take-off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Inventor: Harold Salisian
  • Apparatus for extracting water vapor from air
    Patent number: 6302944
    Abstract: A dehumidifier uses high voltage to cause moisture to condense out of an airflow in contact with a series of needles and a screen forming the cathode and anode respectively of a diode structure. Condensate is sucked into small holes in either or both of the needles and/or the screen by a vacuum. Ultra-violet light is applied to reduce the incidence of ozone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Inventor: Stuart Alfred Hoenig
  • Pulse sensing feedback control system
    Patent number: 6302129
    Abstract: The present invention provides a feedback control system using at least one operating personnel for controlling a system or a function in a system. The control results from sequential manual interruption by the operator of the fluid flow at the discharge end of a flowing system within a preset time period. As the liquid flow is interrupted, changes in flow characteristics, such as those affecting flow or pressure, for example, are instantly caused within the system. A transducer connected to the system senses these changes in flow characteristic and subsequently transduces them into electrical impulse signals that correspond directly to the sequential interruptions occurring at the discharge end of the system. An electronic circuit counts these electrical impulses, and causes relay switches to change state, causing electromechanical functions in the system to occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Inventor: John S. Van Dewerker
  • Wheel lifting rod assembly
    Patent number: 6298535
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a pair of smooth linear rods, each of the rods providing a first rod end and a second rod end, the first rod end of each of the rods having a first blind bore therein, and the second rod end of each of the rods having a second blind bore therein. A coiled spring is integrally engaged between the dual linear rods. The coiled spring provides a pair of opposing terminal spring ends, one of each of the terminal spring ends integrally engaged in the first blind bore of each rod. The second blind bore of each of the linear rods is adapted for accepting a wheel lug therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Inventor: William Ross Lower
  • Docking fixture
    Patent number: 6295942
    Abstract: A fixture for securing a water craft to a dock includes a linear rigid shaft, terminating at one end with a ring. The shaft is integral with an exterior surface of the ring which provides a first internal machine thread. A disk shaped element provides a first external machine thread for threadedly engaging the first machine thread of the ring. The disk shaped element further provides a pair of opposing arms, extending outwardly from its opposing sides. A pair of spaced apart washer disks are threadedly engaged with the shaft such that rotation in a first rotational sense drives the washer disks together for gripping a dock, and rotation in an opposite sense drives the washer disks apart for loosening the invention from its mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Inventor: Tracee A. Leonardson
  • Air valve housing with pressure indicator
    Patent number: 6293297
    Abstract: A tire pressure indicator is mounted onto the fill stem of a tire and provides a window for indicating if the tire has adequate pressure or not. The indicator show adequate, marginal and underinflated conditions by color bands opposite the window. The pressure indicator may be permanently mounted onto the tire and used to fill the tire and maintain pressure in the tire. As the tire is filled the indicator moves from one color band to the next until the indicator shows that adequate pressure has been attained whereupon the hose may be disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Inventors: Brandon Maldonado, Gene Scott
  • Stemware identification bracelets and method of use
    Patent number: 6293034
    Abstract: A wine bottle ring of a continuous unbroken form for accepting a neck of a wine bottle so the ring may be supported on the wine bottle. A plurality of wine glass rings, are formed of spring steel in a loop having a pair of opposing and abutting ends. The loops are of a size for accepting a stem of a wine glass, and further, for being supported on a base of a wine glass. The wine glass rings each provide a distinctive ornamentation so as to distinguish the wine glasses from each other. The method includes serving the wine bottle with the wine glass rings attached to the bottle ring so that the decorative elements are immediately visible. When the wine glasses are distributed to guests, each has one of the wine glass rings engaged on its stem so that one glass may be distinguished from the next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Inventors: Kip M. Skapyak, Ann DeLanghe
  • Flow monitoring device for medical application
    Patent number: 6290681
    Abstract: An intravenous system for monitoring the flow of IV fluids to a patient is embodied in a wristwatch sized case for placement on the patient. The device includes a switch uses capable of detecting when flow starts or stops. In one embodiment, the range of flow rates which may trigger a signal is increased using a plurality of sensor elements. The flow indicator switch uses a conical fluid conducting means with a movable stem body which reacts to the motion of the IV fluid. A signal-emitter-sensor arrangement provides a means for converting physical displacement into an electrical signal indicating displacement of the movable member thus detecting when flow starts and stops, as well as the rate of flow. Collected information is stored in a data storage means and may be either displayed on a display means housed within the case, or alternately, the collected data may be uploaded to a computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Remote Medical Corporation
    Inventor: Eric W. Brown
  • Truck rail cap system
    Patent number: 6286884
    Abstract: A combination apparatus comprises a truck bed sidewall providing a horizontally oriented top bed wall portion and an integral downwardly extending inner, outer end portions, and a sidewall cover providing a horizontally oriented top cover portion and integral therewith and extending downwardly therefrom, an inner, outer and end cover portions dimensionally sized to fit over the truck sidewall with the corresponding top, side and end portions in surface to surface contact. The sidewall cover comprises plural sections arranged in linear mutually abutting sequence defining at least one section interface between sections. The interface comprises a pair of complementary mutually interengagable U-shaped edges wherein a first one of the U-shaped edges provides an extending lip and a second one of the U-shaped edges provides a recessed lip, the recessed lip receiving the extending lip in overlapping abutment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Bull Associated Products, LLC
    Inventor: Donald R. Speece
  • Dental hand tool for interproximal dental restorations
    Patent number: 6280187
    Abstract: A light-concentrating dental tool apparatus for use with a visible light curing lamp. The apparatus is comprised of: an elongate handle, including a medially positioned enlarged portion, approximately spherical, providing both distal and mesial end utility elements, the utility elements being made of a light-transparent and light-transmissive material. The distal and mesial end utility elements include a resting and positioning device for the visible light curing lamp, including convex upward facing distal and mesial end surfaces integral with cone-shaped distal and mesial end bodies, preferably hyperbolically-shaped. The end bodies terminate at distal and mesial end workpieces integral with and depending from the end bodies. The distal and mesial end workpieces provide end light disbursing devices for directing a maximum amount of light outwardly therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Inventor: Charles E. Slone
  • Rain directional panel
    Patent number: 6272807
    Abstract: A plurality of roof panels are used for covering a pitched roof. The roof panels are of a structural sheet metal, positioned and laid over the roof and provide a series of spaced apart longitudinal stiffening steps separated by at least one flat surface portion adapted for abutting the roof for enablement of attachment thereto. The top edge of each panel is convex and coved for use in covering a peak of the roof. A step is provided near the bottom edge of each panel for covering the covered top edge of a further one of the panels laid below it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Inventor: Billy B. Waldrop
  • Tongue and groove panel sizing apparatus
    Patent number: 6270399
    Abstract: A hand tool is used for resizing bent, broken, warped or swollen tongue-in-groove panels or planks or boards. The tool has cutting tools mounted on its sides so as to be inserted into a groove for cutting the groove to size or opposing cutting surfaces for sizing a tongue. The tool is fastened by a simple clamp or clamps and has a handle for manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Inventor: Dalen Eugene Gunn
  • Drain strainer
    Patent number: 6263518
    Abstract: An apparatus for straining fluid flow in a drainpipe, including a cylindrical body having a sidewall terminating with an integral closed end providing a means for engaging a drain plate, and, in opposition, an open end providing an integral uniform peripheral flange extending outwardly. The peripheral flange is adapted for a tight fitting relationship with a drain pipe inside surface; and, further, the side wall provided a plurality of apertures and a further plurality of surface protuberances extending outwardly from an exterior surface of the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Inventor: Reynaldo B. Magtanong
  • Interactive voice controlled copier apparatus
    Patent number: 6253184
    Abstract: A photocopying machine provides the typical capabilities of paper storage, transport reproduction and copy outputting. An electrical circuit stores a plurality of English language inventory human voice commands and a plurality of machine voice responses. A microphone receives each action-request human voice command compares each action-request human voice command with each one of the inventory human voice commands in turn until a match is found and then selects each machine voice response, from the plurality of machine voice responses, corresponding to each said match. An audible message is generated corresponding to each selected machine voice response. When a complete command is received the copying machine responds accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Inventor: Jon Ruppert
  • Lighting apparatus for a model lighthouse
    Patent number: 6250768
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus for a model lighthouse provides a lighting effect similar to that of a commercial lighthouse. In one embodiment a lamp is rotationally driven. In another embodiment a lighting means for extending a stationary lamp is taught so as to accommodate various size lighthouse models. In a still further embodiment, a combination of rotational and extension features are provided including a set of exterior wipers mounted in electrical contact with slip rings onto a rotating boom for delivery of power to a lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Inventor: Raymond Hill
  • Large central bin drawer organizer
    Patent number: D446063
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Inventor: Forrest Quinn
  • Assymetrical drawer organizer
    Patent number: D447371
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Inventor: Forrest Quinn