Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Joseph N. Breaux
  • Patent number: 6252521
    Abstract: An emergency vehicle alert system that includes transmitter units mountable within emergency vehicles and receiver units mountable within civilian vehicles. The transmitter units and the receiver units via a mechanism within each receiver unit that provides each civilian driver with an indicator of the distance between his/her civilian vehicle and the emergency vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Inventors: Willie J. Griffin, Anita F. Griffin
  • Patent number: 6250946
    Abstract: An extension cord plug cover that is sealable over a connected extension cord plug and socket to provide a watertight seal therearound. The plug cover includes a hard plastic clamshell cover filled with a resilient closed cell foam material having contoured plug/socket cavities which is compressed around the extension cord plug and socket to form a watertight seal when the two clamshell halves are forced together when the clamshell cover is in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Inventor: Don E. Tardy
  • Patent number: 6247236
    Abstract: A device including a scissor assembly for trimming synthetic braided hair extensions and a heating element for sealing the cut ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Inventor: Alice Johnson
  • Patent number: 6247996
    Abstract: A breast milk pump support harness to be worn by a nursing mother that includes two detachable collection bottle support assemblies and a brassiere assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Inventor: Angel Fields
  • Patent number: 6245133
    Abstract: A gas condensing and cooling system for cooling hot vaporous emissions from a hot vaporous emissions source to a level below prescribed regulatory limits that includes a cooling unit that operates using a readily available pressurized natural gas as the refrigerant element within the cooling unit and includes a multi-chamber condenser unit having a number of chambers each containing a volume of porous rock suspended above a liquid barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Inventor: Reed L. Bourgeois
  • Patent number: 6243893
    Abstract: A portable water cooled mattress for use with infants or the like comprising an air bladder lower level constructed of an air proof material and including an inflation and deflation opening valve. A water bladder layer is positioned on a top surface of the air bladder and includes a fill and empty spout valve while a pocket is formed between the water bladder and air bladder suitable for inserting either heating and/or cooling packs as desired. An insulating upper layer covers the water bladder preventing the child from becoming dampened from condensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Inventor: Amanda G. Baldwin
  • Patent number: 6244484
    Abstract: A storage bag for use to conceal items within the passenger or back floor areas of a vehicle. The storage pack includes four fabric pack side surfaces, a fabric pack bottom surface and a fabric pack top surface. The pack top surface has a straight zipper provided for access into a compartment. Each of the four fabric pack side surfaces includes two according fold collapsible vertical side edges, a curved zipper for access into the compartment, and two fabric handles each having a D-shaped portion defining a hand receiving opening. Each of the zippers includes a locking fixture that is lockable to the zipper tab with a luggage lock of the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Inventor: Bruce J. Farrell
  • Patent number: 6240248
    Abstract: A game attractant heating device for heating a quantity of liquid game attractant to a temperature between 90° and 130° degrees Fahrenheit. The heating device preferably includes multiple liquid attractant holding chambers each with a separate heating element for simultaneously heating two liquid attractants simultaneously. The heating device is also preferably battery powered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Inventor: John Fore
  • Patent number: 6238118
    Abstract: A toothbrush with a toothpaste feed system that includes a toothpaste cartridge feed handle, a hollow brush head, a resilient hinge openable neck structure connected between the toothpaste cartridge feed handle and the hollow brush head and providing a neck toothpaste passageway between a toothpaste feed end of a toothpaste cartridge cavity within toothpaste cartridge feed handle and a brush head toothpaste passageway formed within hollow brush head, and an accordion fold toothpaste filled cartridge with a rupturable perforated foil end that is sized to fit into the toothpaste cartridge cavity with the rupturable perforated foil end positioned within toothpaste feed end of toothpaste cartridge cavity. The back of the hollow brush head is provided with a flip open back cap that is in connection with the brush head toothpaste passageway and which is moveable into an open position to allow for cleaning of the brush head toothpaste passageway between uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Inventor: Traci L. Tryon
  • Patent number: 6239715
    Abstract: A beeper system that includes a beeper attached to a flexible band. The flexible band is attached to the child, such as around the wrist, waist or neck, to prevent the child from removing the beeper. The beeper is programmed to reach a no shut off mode wherein a speaker outputs an audible output of increasing loudness until the beeper is turned off by keyswitch controlled or kept by the supervising adult. The keyswitch is also used to disconnect the flexible band to allow removal of the beeper. A wearer silence button is provided to allow for a warning period before the no shut off mode is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Inventor: Karen L. Belton
  • Patent number: 6234387
    Abstract: A mail box insert that includes a decorative facade plate and that is insertable into an existing mail receiving compartment of an existing mail box housing and secured in place to refurbish the appearance of the existing mail box. The mail box insert is held in place with opposed securing screw assemblies that generate a compressional force against the inner surfaces of the existing mail box sidewalls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Inventors: Julius Cuthbert, Gilda V. Cuthbert
  • Patent number: 6230723
    Abstract: An umbrella having a cover within which a fan is mounted. The fan includes a ring shaped fan gear that is rotatably mounted on a section of a tubular vertical support tube and includes a number of pivoting fan blades that collapse when the cover is collapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Inventor: Sondra D. Hixson
  • Patent number: 6226824
    Abstract: A knife with multiple roller wheels comprising an elongate hollow housing adapted to be held and operated by one hand. The housing has a first end with a slot and an opposite second end. A knife blade is provided. A structure is for retractably extending the knife blade from the slot in the first end of the housing to trim a window screen. Two roller wheels are also provided. A facility is for rotatably supporting in spaced apart relationships the two roller wheels. An assembly pivotally connects the supporting facility to one side of the housing adjacent to the second end. A stop member supports the supporting facility in a stationary position, so that one of the roller wheels will extend beyond the second end of the housing to install the window screen in a window screen frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Inventors: Eric J. Hopson, Tammy Hopson
  • Patent number: 6227266
    Abstract: A collapsible gas lever lock that is inserted between the gas lever and the bottom of the gas pump handle to maintain the gas lever in the fueling position eliminating the need apply a constant squeezing force to the gas lever during the entire fueling operation. The compressible gas lever lock includes a support assembly and a securing strap assembly. The support assembly includes top and bottom support plates connected together by a spring and a fabric outer cover. The securing strap assemblies holds the top and bottom support plates in the compressed configuration between uses for carrying in a purse or pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Inventors: Vincent Moore, Artimio Blackburn
  • Patent number: 6223665
    Abstract: A clamp for use in quilting that includes a top and a bottom quilt clamp portion that are forced together by a pair of springs to hold multiple layer of quilting materials, such as fabric and batting, firmly together while stitching the quilt pattern. To facilitate movement of the multiple layers in the desired quilt pattern, the quilt clamp is provided with a handle. The bottom surface of the quilt clamp is covered with felt to enhance the slidableness of the clamp on quilting tables and sewing machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Inventor: Lora L. Hindsley
  • Patent number: 6222796
    Abstract: The concept of an astrological watch is that of a watch which provides a daily horoscope based on ones astrological sign. The astrological watch matches up with a birth sign. The watch contains a computer chip that provides daily horoscopes for the sign of the person, based upon their birth date and time, covering one entire year. An LCD readout allows the person to read their individual daily horoscope each day. In addition, the astrological watch provides the function of a standard electronic digital watch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Inventor: Lauren Rosen
  • Patent number: 6220458
    Abstract: A bottle rack system for storing direct dispense bottles, such as used to store and dispense ketchup, salad dressing, steak sauce, etc., in an inverted position with the bottle cap positioned below the bottle bottom so that the contents of the bottle accumulate adjacent to the dispensing opening of the direct dispense bottle so as to be readily available for dispensing. The bottle rack system includes a bottle support member, a slide-in drip tray, two small diameter neck inserts, and two medium diameter neck inserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Inventor: Brian K. Falor
  • Patent number: 6219935
    Abstract: A hair drying method that includes the steps of providing and installing a face shield including shielding elements for shielding the eye and ear canal areas prior to blowing hot air onto the hair to be dried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Inventor: Maybell B. Daunoy
  • Patent number: 6219973
    Abstract: A structure stabilizing system that includes a length of cabling and a number of joist and rafter reinforcing cable guides. Each of the joist and rafter reinforcing cable guides includes an L-shaped joist securing plate assembly, a rafter securing plate, and a cable guide tube assembly. The structure stabilizing method includes the steps of a) providing a number of joist and rafter reinforcing cable guides as described above; b) attaching one each of the joist and rafter reinforcing cable guides to a number of sets of ceiling joists and rafters along each side of the building; c) threading a length of cabling through each of the cable guide tubes of each of the attached joist and rafter reinforcing cable guides; and d) anchoring the ends of the cable to the foundation of the structure to be stabilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Inventor: George A. Lafferty
  • Patent number: D441688
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Inventor: Charles R. Clarke