Patents Represented by Attorney Jeffer Mangles Butler & Marmaro LLP
  • Patent number: 6010144
    Abstract: A device for a receiver-type hitch used on vehicles for towing a load, wherein the device acts to prevent movement and resultant rattling between a receiver tube of the hitch and a ball mount shank. In operation, the receiver tube receives the ball mount shank. The device applies a force to the ball mount shank which presses the ball mount shank against the inside of the receiver tube and therein prevents movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: U-Haul International, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick William Breslin
  • Patent number: 5947397
    Abstract: A spinning reel capable of being mounted on a fishing rod includes a reel main body which has a handle and which is capable of being mounted on a fishing rod, a rotor which has an axis of rotation, which is supported on the front part of the reel main body so that the rotor is free to rotate, and which can be caused to rotate by means of the handle, and a spool which is installed on the front part of the rotor, and which has an outer circumference adapted to receive a fishing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Shimano, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Hitomi
  • Patent number: D534896
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Ten Ventures Inc.
    Inventor: John Lin