Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Myron Amer P.C.
  • Message cube
    Patent number: 5883341
    Abstract: An article of manufacture having voice-recording and recorded voice-playback mechanisms having a cube external shape, which is disguised as a household decorative fixture, e.g. a photograph holder, and internally bounding an echo chamber, e.g. a volume of at least 60 cubic inches, such that there is sufficient clarity in the played back recording due to the use of the echo chamber to enable recognition of the voice, to thereby add to the gift value of the article of manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Inventors: Howard L. Terriss, Marc Chase Weinstein
  • Clothes dryer flexible hose support
    Patent number: 5881474
    Abstract: For a contracting and expanding bellows hose connected from a clothes dryer to an opening in a wall to vent hot air to atmosphere, a kink-obviating hose support on the back of the dryer which limits contraction and expansion to a selected length portion of the hose, wherein there is adequate hose expansion to permit movement away from the wall to provide working clearance for maintenance and yet, when the dryer is moved back against the wall, the length portion is too short to fold or kink as would block the exiting flow of the hot air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Inventor: Edwin L. Berger
  • Smoke grenade with rapid ignition
    Patent number: 5874690
    Abstract: A smoke grenade including in an interposed position between a fuse emitting a low intensity flame and a smoke-generating composition requiring for optimum smoke production ignition by a high intensity flame, a rocket motor propellant which is ignited by the fuse and thereupon generates the high intensity flame resulting in smoke-generating service of the composition in an optimum short duration which foils manual removal of the grenade from the intended site of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Inventor: Michael Brunn
  • Construction for a pet cat with variable internal ambient light levels
    Patent number: 5868102
    Abstract: A cardboard construction for use with a pet cat providing a tunnel-like maze of walk-through passages into which there is an entry of ambient light and correspondingly various sites of different levels of ambient light within the passages as a function of the distances between the point of ambient light entry and the sites, and wherein the pet cat in the exercise of natural instincts selects sites for eating, sleeping, playing, and like routines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Inventor: Gregory Petty
  • Van light-reflecting display
    Patent number: 5864439
    Abstract: An added light display for alerting traffic passing left and right of a moving or parked van consisting of a light-reflecting strip advantageously positioned in a gap about the window which serves as a weather barrier compartment protecting the strip against deterioration due to weather elements and ultraviolet light impingement and permits it to provide a rectangular light display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Inventor: Peter Gold
  • Lacing system for traditional footwear
    Patent number: 5848457
    Abstract: After purchase of a footwear article of manufacture, such as a sneaker, boot or the like, the substitution for the traditional lacing-up of the article of studs and closed loops of elastomeric construction material to facilitate the fitting on and removal of the article from a user's foot. The application of the studs and loops uses to advantage the original equipment manufacture (OEM) structural features to contribute to use on a wide range of footwear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Inventor: Howard Silagy
  • Preparing a boat for use
    Patent number: 5779250
    Abstract: A method of preparing a lightweight boat for use by using to advantage the overhang of the boat transom beyond the tailgate of the transporting van to provide a working clearance to attach wheel means thereto, and the floating depth beneath the launched boat to provide a working clearance to unattach the wheel means. While the wheel means are attached, the boat is transported like a wheel barrow a walking distance from a parking lot to a lake or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Inventor: John J. Becht
  • Method of erecting an internally supported garment bag
    Patent number: 5724713
    Abstract: An internally supported and ready-to-use erect garment bag having in its front panel a T-shaped configuration of two horizontally oriented zippers and a third vertically oriented zipper wherein the opening of all zippers provides a large-sized opening facilitating the fitting loosely of the garment bag upon its internal support, the closing of the two horizontal zippers makes the fit taut, and the third zipper provides ready access into and closes off the garment bag clothes-storage compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Inventor: Gilbert J. Holtz
  • Aircraft air conditioning hose
    Patent number: 5720656
    Abstract: A hose for an aircraft parked at a remote location from a source of pre-conditioned air through which the pre-conditioned air, under pressure, is delivered through the hose, wherein the hose construction uses to advantage a length portion having a bellows, in that the bellows folds are constrained by an internal strap from longitudinal expansion and thus are not "blown out" by the pressure air and yet, retain degrees of rotation and contraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Inventor: Brian T. Savage
  • Method of relieving migraine headache pain
    Patent number: 5718721
    Abstract: A treatment for relieving the pain of a migraine headache, known to be due to abnormally low blood flow out of the patient's brain, which eschews the use of medication and, instead, uses an electro magnetic field to cause "linear" alignment of blood nutritive elements which correspondingly increases "linear" flow thereof and thus addresses the problem without any side effects of dilution of the blood, or increase in heartbeat or otherwise as might adversely affect the health of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Inventor: Jesse Ross
  • Ice-skating blade
    Patent number: D393037
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Inventor: Linda Priester
  • Combined bedtime toy and night light
    Patent number: D396315
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Inventor: Marc Hamerman
  • Utility knife scraping blade
    Patent number: D400067
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Inventor: Peter Gold
  • Plastic cutter blade
    Patent number: D400068
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Inventor: Peter Gold
  • Wrist band
    Patent number: D400686
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Inventor: Marc Hamerman
  • Cosmetic organizer
    Patent number: D403121
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Inventor: Robert Sussman
  • Carrying bag
    Patent number: D403157
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Inventor: Angela W. Liu
  • Envelope for commercial literature
    Patent number: D405823
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Inventor: Allen Schluger
  • Toy beetle
    Patent number: D405850
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Inventor: Robert L. Witkin
  • Casual bag
    Patent number: D406458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Inventor: Angela W. Liu