Patents Represented by Attorney Hiram A. Sturges
  • Patent number: 4140081
    Abstract: A self-cleaning birdhouse comprising an inner wall supported by a post and to which is attached one or more nesting compartment assemblies each containing one or more nestng compartments, each nesting compartment having a forward wall, a top, side walls, and a floor, each compartment assembly being moveably mounted on the inner wall in a manner so that the compartment assembly can be caused to swing outwardly so that its floor inclines for dumping nesting materials down between a space created between the floor and the inner wall for the disposing of used nesting materials at the end of the nesting season.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1979
    Inventor: Thomas D. Killmon
  • Patent number: 4134437
    Abstract: A billfold file for currency bills in a billfold, attached or unattached thereto, for quick, accurate filing. Parallel, rectangular, foldable sheets with bill-receiving areas therebetween, each sheet having an index tab labeled with the bill denomination, the sheets being scored for easier folding, or unscored. The sheets being interconnected at a place facilitating folding and bill insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Inventor: Donald J. Finn
  • Patent number: 4134403
    Abstract: An eye drop dispenser attachable positioner having a forward portion having pressure sensitive adhesive means thereon for attaching the positioner to the side of an eye drop dispenser, the positioner having a rearward terminal end portion adapted to engage the upper portion of a person's nose while the positioner is held for steadying and positioning the dispenser preparatory to squeezing eye fluid therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Inventors: Frank R. Johnsen, James R. Barta, Eugene J. Colner
  • Patent number: 4124237
    Abstract: The Macrame-Making Stand, comprising of base with astandard extending up from it, the base being for receiving the weight of a person who is either sitting on the base while it is on a seat of a chair or else is standing on the base when the base is on the floor, the standard being of adjustable length and pivoting with respect to the base for swinging forwardly at its upper end and adapted to be locked in a precept position, this standard being of adjustable heights, anchoring means for a Macrame Loop on the upper end of the standard.The anchoring means comprising, in one form, a pluralitive of hooks adjustably mounted so as to be rotated into storage positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1978
    Inventor: Salvatore J. Catania
  • Patent number: 4102523
    Abstract: A sewage hose support system for recreational vehicles of a type using an elongated sewage hose leading to a sewer pipe. The system having an elongated support assembly module, having upwardly facing hose-engaging surfaces for engaging the right and left undersides of a hose, the module having at least two lengthwise sections telescopically attached for lengthwise collapsing, each lengthwise section having right and left parts interconnected by flexible straps, certain of which are slidable lengthwise along portions of the right and left hose engaging portions to which they are attached so as to prevent right and left portions of the module from spreading apart, while yet permitting lengthwise sections of the module to be telescopically retracted into lesser shape for storage in a trailer or vehicle for road travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1978
    Inventor: Everett Finnell
  • Patent number: 4049035
    Abstract: A billfold file for storing currency bills in a billfold, the file being attached or unattached thereto, for quick, accurate filing. A master plate adapted to bend with the billfold and having left and right retainers off-set from one side thereof and providing edges around which the inwardly turned ends of a plurality of parallel panels are disposed, the panels being semi-rigid and adapted to be disposed with broad bill engaging central portions arranged in parallelism with the master plate for receiving currency bills therebetween, the panels bearing bill denomination indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1977
    Inventor: Donald J. Finn
  • Patent number: 3992245
    Abstract: A machine for lifting secondary work-pieces, such as stamp mounts, from stacks on one work-piece support and delivering them to primary work-pieces, such as catalog pages, on a second work-piece support by means of vacuum-operated intermittently moving pick-up members, the two work-piece supports automatically moving with respect to each other between each delivery motion of the pick-up members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1976
    Inventor: Earl E. Franklin
  • Patent number: 3971331
    Abstract: A movable barricade for use at construction sites having supporting legs connected by rails and further having at least one of its rails formed by a panel of thermoplastic material having a flame-oxidized forward surface to which pressure sensitive adhesive material is attached and arranged for delivering a warning message, the back surface of the panel having protruding ribs formed of the same piece of material as the remainder of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1976
    Inventor: Michael J. Sawyer
  • Patent number: 3971561
    Abstract: A children's exercising assembly two sections of which have aligned upper surfaces forming a slide, the third section forming a ladder to reach the slide, the sections collapsing into parallelism for storage, all sections having rungs, which latter are covered on the slide sections by flat removable slide boards, the assembly being convertible to a gymnastics unit by altering positions of endmost sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1973
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1976
    Inventor: Le Roy S. Wenzel
  • Patent number: 3954290
    Abstract: A rain guard for upwardly extending exhaust pipes comprising a bent tube having horizontally spaced legs clampable against an exhaust pipe by a clamp, the clamp being disposed partially on the inside of the tube, the legs being of one piece with the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1976
    Inventor: Dean L. Corbin
  • Patent number: D248366
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1978
    Inventor: John M. Arends