Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Monty L. Ross
  • Patent number: 6793219
    Abstract: A variation of a lottery-type game of chance where each drawing is not only a stand-alone event, but each entry is also valid for a defined number of accumulation rounds. The numbers selected for the entry are then compared to a predefined number of consecutive drawings. The total number of matches (or “hits”) during all of these accumulation rounds is used to determine if the entry is a winner. This variation can be conducted alongside the standard lottery-type game without interference and entries can begin and end their accumulation period at different times during the duration of the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Trace Publishing Company
    Inventor: Henry C. Higginson
  • Patent number: 6772694
    Abstract: A control agent delivery system useful for dispersing a pesticide, herbicide, fungicide or other biocide around a target or target area that is not directly accessible or that is hazardous to the user. The system includes a separable, two-part projectile containing a control agent disposed in a powder, liquid or gel dispersal medium, together with a gas-propelled, projectile launching device. A method of use of the subject system that causes the projectile to perform differently, depending upon the manner of launch, is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: NCH Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Clarence Pearce, III, Dale Vilmer Kiplinger
  • Patent number: 6764201
    Abstract: An inflatable figure assembly is disclosed that has an inflatable, semi-permeable body and a base unit with a continuously operating fan. The body is releasably secured to the base unit with a zipper that facilitates manufacture and interchangeability of a plurality of different bodies with the base unit. Internal lighting is optionally provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Gemmy Industries Corporation
    Inventor: Tsai Chi-Cheng
  • Patent number: 6715736
    Abstract: A picket privacy fence that is composed of a plurality of elongated interlocking pickets that form a continuous fencing surface. Top and bottom rails are run horizontally between upright support posts that are set in the ground at regularly spaced intervals. The elongated pickets are positioned vertically between the top and bottom rails. Each picket has a flange on both vertical edges so that adjacent pickets are interlocked using a lap joint thereby preventing any gaps between the elongated pickets. The regularly spaced upright support posts are located within a vertical shaft that passes through the elongated vertical pickets, thereby allowing the elongated interlocking vertical pickets to form a continuous fencing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Inventor: Tommy Joe Cummings
  • Patent number: 6663513
    Abstract: A pitching practice device for indicating and simulating the height and width of a strike zone for a typical batter, the device having a base slightly wider than home plate and two laterally spaced, upwardly extending posts connected to the base, the posts each having a plurality of slidably engaged sleeves that are independently adjustable to indicate the top and bottom of the strike zone, and the posts and sleeves having contrasting colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Inventor: Stuart Alan Howard
  • Patent number: 6604715
    Abstract: Extruded polymeric articles useful for supporting, acoustically isolating and vibrationally dampening a pipe segment in relation to a structural support member, the articles having coextruded unfoamed and foamed polymeric layers and being attachable to the structural support member using nails, screws, formed wire hangers or other similarly effective fasteners. A method for making the subject articles and a system comprising a perforated, coextruded acoustic pipe support strap in combination with a shaped wire hanger for use in suspending a pipe segment from the web portion of a laminated joist having an I-beam cross section are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: LSP Products Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Samuel H. Howe
  • Patent number: 6586374
    Abstract: A synthetic lubricant for gasoline and diesel engines having a viscosity ranging between about 14.5 and 16.5 cs at 100° C., the lubricant containing from about 55 to about 75 volume percent polyalphaolefin having a viscosity of about 6 to 8 cs at 100° C., an ethylene-propylene copolymer, an ester or diester, a packaged additive, a total base number enhancer and a minor effective amount of an antifoamant. A method of use is also provided whereby the subject lubricant is recirculated through an operating engine while periodically monitoring the total base number and adjusting the total base number to a level of about 12.0 by the addition of a total base number enhancer such as calcium phenate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Primrose Oil Company
    Inventor: Edward Alan Paul
  • Patent number: 6575416
    Abstract: An adjustable length over-the-door hanger for hanging a wreath or other hanging objects on a door whose length can be adjusted to position the hanging object at the desired height. The hanger is made of two vertical supports that are held together and where the lower vertical support can slide along the upper vertical support to lengthen or shorten the overall length of the hanger. A track on one support is engaged by a finger on the other support thereby allowing the hanger to be locked into any one of a number of fixed positions corresponding to the desired height for the wreath to be hung on the door. This positioning allows the hanger to be easily adjusted while in place on the door. The hanger has a hook that allows it to hang over the top of the door and another hook at the bottom on which the hanging object can be hung.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Gemmy Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew G. Avinger
  • Patent number: 6572584
    Abstract: A tamperproof retractable non-reusable syringe has a one piece hollow outer body with a barrel for a slidable plunger, a transition zone and a smaller diameter nose portion. An elongated needle holder and spring combination is installable from the rear of the outer body, guided into the nose portion and held by cooperating inwardly and outwardly facing surfaces oriented in the direction of retraction at the most constricted part of the transition zone where the nose begins. The plunger has an opening with a dislodgable stopper for receiving parts of the retraction mechanism. The stopper and the head of the needle holder are of significantly reduced diameter from the injection fluid chamber to resist blowing out prematurely. In one embodiment the head of the needle holder is surrounded by a separable retainer member which is slidingly removed by contact with the tip of the plunger after the stopper is mostly or fully removed to avoid cumulation of force required for retraction after the injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Retractable Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Shaw, Judy Zhu, Diane Rutherford
  • Patent number: 6562256
    Abstract: A self-dispersing particulate composition, in the form of pellets, prills, flakes or granules, containing particles with a first functional component that is a glassy solid with small, dispersed pockets of pressurized gas and, in the same or different particles, a second functional component that is a special-use material having at least one additional utility. Special use materials include, for example, a deicer, a fertilizer, a drain cleaner, an insecticide, a carpet cleaner, and a powdered laundry detergent. Dissolution of the glassy material liberates pressurized gas, causing repositioning of the special-use material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: NCH Corporation
    Inventors: Wayne Anthony Fleming, Robert Martin Holdar, Robert Clarence Pearce, III
  • Patent number: 6550423
    Abstract: An absorbent dog waste disposal pad holder lacking an underlying bottom wall and having nestable upper and lower frames that cooperate to form a peripheral wall to securely hold the periphery of a disposable, absorbent pad therebetween. Each nestable upper and lower frame comprises first and second frame members. The first and second frame members of the lower frame preferably comprise opposite side ends that interlock to form the lower frame. The first and second frame members of the upper frame preferably comprise ends that abut to form the upper frame. Preferably, the frames of the absorbent dog waste disposal pad holder are generally rectangular shaped, are made of moldable polymeric material and have an inverted U-shaped cross section. A method of assembling the subject absorbent dog waste disposal pad holder is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: The Bramton Company
    Inventor: Susan Crawford Pope
  • Patent number: 6526712
    Abstract: A corner assembly for covering a junction between adjacent walls includes first and second members, each formed from an extruded composite material comprising wood fiber and polyethylene resin. The first member includes a tongue extending from one end thereof. The second member includes a groove formed in one side thereof, such that when the tongue is received within the groove, the first side of the first member and the first end of the second member are disposed generally coplanar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph G. Brooks, Michael M. Tull, James E. Roach
  • Patent number: 6494863
    Abstract: A retracting syringe of one use has a plunger comprising a handle portion and a needle retention portion forward of the handle portion. A positive locking structure in the syringe barrel ensures the syringe is not reused. In one embodiment, the positive locking structure is a stop in the syringe barrel. The handle portion separates after one use and is removed from the syringe. In a second embodiment, the handle portion has a plurality of stepped serrations and the positive locking structure is a clip which is movable with respect to both the handle portion and the barrel. In a third embodiment, the positive locking structure is a clip fixed in an enlarged back opening of the barrel with springing points which are protected from a plurality of stepped serrations on the handle portion by a sliding collar. This one use feature can be applied to a nonretracting syringe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Retractable Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Shaw, Judy Zhu
  • Patent number: 6489272
    Abstract: A composition useful as a well lubricant, solvent, emulsifier, and performance extender for corrosion inhibitors in high velocity gas, oil or water drilling, production or gathering applications, that is preferably formed by the reaction and distillation of a tall oil fatty acid with a fatty alkanolamide, preferably in the presence of methyl ester of fatty acids, and most preferably when further reacted and distilled with an emulsifier such as coconut oil diethanolamide or distilled tall oil amide of aminoethylpiperazine. The fatty acids and oils useful in the invention can range from C8 to C24, with C12, C14, C16, C18 and C20 fatty acids and oils being most preferred. The presence of methyl ester is preferred because it functions as a foam suppressant, diluent and amine scavenger during distillation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Inventor: Larry W. Gatlin
  • Patent number: D469566
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Gemmy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Lonnie F. Gary, Chad H. Jones, Andrew G. Avinger
  • Patent number: D469682
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Gemmy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Lonnie F. Gary, Andrew G. Avinger, Chad H. Jones
  • Patent number: D470937
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Gemmy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Lonnie F. Gary, Chad H. Jones
  • Patent number: D477773
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Gemmy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Lonnie F. Gary, Chad H. Jones
  • Patent number: D482489
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Gemmy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Lonnie F. Gary, Chad H. Jones, Andrew G. Avinger
  • Patent number: D495403
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: LSP Products Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Ted D. Deeds