Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Myron Amer P.C.
  • Method for applying jet-sprayed decoration to fabric
    Patent number: 6319561
    Abstract: In the jet straying of ink droplets in a decorative pattern onto a fabric during which a jet spray head shuttles across the fabric changing directions at opposite selvage edges, the provision in an interposed position between the spray head and upstanding selvage edge fibers of shields preventing contact therebetween which maintains bubble closures over exit openings in the jet spray head intact and obviates inadvertent gravity flow of ink as might mar the decorative pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Inventor: Andre Bernard
  • Car wash system
    Patent number: 6314603
    Abstract: A rotor for home car washing use having a radially oriented inlet at the distal end of a rotor in rotation and in movement against the car vertical sides, i.e., the larger surfaces requiring cleaning, in which washing fluid supplied through the tube flows into the lower half of the rotor, aided by gravity, to effectively power the rotor in rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Inventor: Michael Sobo
  • Method of installing a bathtub
    Patent number: 6301726
    Abstract: Preventing damage to the porcelain surface of a bathtub that is being installed by using an original equipment manufacture (OEM) peripheral flange to mount support rods for a protective cover draped over the bathtub which remains in place except for the short duration when a bottom now of tiles is set in place, the workpersons exercising the necessary care during this short duration to avoid chipping of the porcelain surface with inadvertently dropped tools or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Inventor: Robert Pena
  • Computer supported storage basket for computer-related sundries
    Patent number: 6285544
    Abstract: For an active computer work station at which discs are used to operate the computer and documentation produced as the work product thereof, the use of a storage basket of wire construction material permanently attached to a maintenance access opening closure of the computer housing so that disposal of the basket/closure assembly, if need be, is without significant financial consequence and, prior to disposal, the stored discs, documentation and other such sundries are within the convenient reach of a user of the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Inventor: Kunjuraman Chandramohan
  • Exercise device and method of use
    Patent number: 6270447
    Abstract: Operating an exercise device using a weight-lifting arm thrust delivered similar to execution of a martial art karate maneuver, as permitted by rotatably mounted hand grips, and to the end of increasing the weight of the exercise resistance to the arm thrust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Inventor: Jack La Placa
  • Method of preparing a low lethality projectile for flight
    Patent number: 6202562
    Abstract: An anti-personnel projectile launched from a 12 gauge shotgun shell required at impact to have a low lethality consequence, in which the projectile is fitted in the shell in a shape characterized by a blunt end in the direction of flight and maintained in this shape by oppositely directed air resistance and propelling forces to obviate a change of shape during flight that might cause a serious injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Inventors: Michael Brunn, Jacob Kravel
  • Disposable patient facial mask
    Patent number: 6185740
    Abstract: A tissue face mask similar to that used by a dentist but placed in covering relation over the face of a patient preparatory to an abrasive dental procedure in which mask there are shaping stays that are manually conformed to the facial features of the patient to prevent harm to the patient from the particulate fall out of the abrasive dental procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Inventors: Peter J. Zegarelli, Mitchell Steinberg
  • Knitwear having no curl collars
    Patent number: 6167732
    Abstract: For a selected collar stay, i.e., 0.375 inches in width, for a shirt knitted with selectively sized wales, i.e., 0.10 inches in width, a pocket for the stay also knitted but with selectively narrower wales, i.e., 0.025 inches in width, so that predictably a number of wales, i.e., 14 in number, produces a width of the pocket approximately equal to the width of the stay to minimize movement of the stay within the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Inventor: Marc Friedman
  • Construction for exercise weight compartments
    Patent number: 6113521
    Abstract: An exercise belt with compartments for individual exercise bar weights, which is sometimes used with some empty compartments to reduce the exercising effort, the use of elastomeric construction material for each compartment holding by its urgency the bar weights in place, rather than the use of a closure flap over all of the openings of all of the compartments even those that are empty, and being empty are not effective in providing an interengaged loop and hook connection for the closure flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Inventor: Edith Winston
  • Transmittal envelope with miter joint corners
    Patent number: 6109511
    Abstract: Transporting items of bulk, i.e., stacked documents or boxed merchandise, which vary in extent from time to time, in an envelope that gives a desired favorable appearance of containing an item of bulk that is greater than the bulk of the item that is actually the content of the envelope, which motivates the recipient to open the envelope. The envelope is rectangular and at least along three sides has isosceles shaped gussets characterized by progressively diminishing clearance between the sides in the direction of the apex, so that the thickness or bulk of the item in the envelope is effectively engaged by the sides of the isosceles triangles before significant shifting, particularly of stacked documents, can occur as might diminish the perceived bulk based on the external appearance of the envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Inventor: Allen Schluger
  • Braking system for a towed vehicle
    Patent number: 6095619
    Abstract: In the tandem operation of two vehicles, one towing and the other being towed, an accommodation is readily made for a wide range of different models of the towed vehicle using, in spanning relation between the towed vehicle's steering wheel and brake pedal, a lengthwise extensible brake pedal-depressing component, wherein simultaneous with the braking of the towing vehicle, is when the component extends to brake the towed vehicle to contribute to a safer, coordinated stopping of the two vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Inventor: Ralph Granata
  • Novelty pocket flashlight
    Patent number: 6089728
    Abstract: A pocket-sized battery-operated flashlight adapted for use as an advertising premium which is typically used in close range to illuminate a keyhole of a lock to open the lock with a key, for which close range use only a portion of straight-away light is needed, so that available excess light is diverted radially to illuminate a display to thereby contribute to the value of the flashlight as a premium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Inventor: Marc Chase Weinstein
  • Medicant dispersing method
    Patent number: 6083214
    Abstract: A treatment of using pressure-driven blood infused with an antibiotic, analgesic or like pharmacological agent from a site of delivery to the patient to a site of pain or ache, in which significantly the noted blood movement is according to an established pressure gradient and supplements the pumping function of the heart, to thereby lessen the time interval of travel between the two sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Inventors: Jesse Ross, David M. Ross
  • Elastic cord closed loop connector
    Patent number: 6073319
    Abstract: A connector, primarily for lacing up footwear, having a finger grip which houses opposite ends of a closed loop of elastic disposed on opposite sides of a wall in the finger grip housing, and a crank pivotal into contact with one elastic loop end to hold this end and to push the wall against the other elastic loop end, so that the elastic is held as a closed loop during footwear lacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Inventor: Howard Silagy
  • Housing for a hair-removing appliance
    Patent number: D440313
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Inventor: Lee Smith
  • Alarm clock and photo frame
    Patent number: D448308
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Inventor: Marc Chase Weinstein
  • Body shaping device
    Patent number: D426641
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Inventor: Lee Smith
  • Computer game
    Patent number: D426859
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Inventor: Lee Smith
  • Dental bib with attached adhesive tab
    Patent number: RE36868
    Abstract: A dental bib adhesively secured to a patient in the use of which the adhesive is uncovered incident to use by being unfolded from the bib so that after its use the folding back covers the adhesive so that during disposal there is no inadvertent attachment to a trash container wall, or to trash therein, or like interferences with proper disposal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Inventors: Sheldon Fisher, Paul Allen Orofino, Richard Allen Orofino
  • Embossed dental bib with reduced-sized adhesive means
    Patent number: RE36924
    Abstract: A dental bib to be adhesively attached to a patient having desirable nominally-sized areas of adhesive deposits which nevertheless adhere as firmly as currently used large-sized deposits as a result of using recesses in an embossed pattern on the dental bib for making available increased amounts of adhesive, wherein the area over which the adhesive is spread and now also the depth of the adhesive contributes to achieving the attachment function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Inventors: Sheldon Fisher, Allen Orofino, Richard Allen Orofino