Patents Represented by Attorney Myron Amer

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  • 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
  • Brassiere interrupted support element
    Patent number: 6299504
    Abstract: An operative arrangement of two halves of a plastic stay fused in a U-shape in encircling relation about a brassiere cup which have facing inboard semi-circular edges where the U-shape is interrupted, thus increasing the extent of the edges that are held against movement by the fusing to contribute to obviating corresponding movement from their position of support during wearing of the brassiere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Inventor: Gerald Gluckin
  • Golf bag leg opening mechanism with a mechanical advantage
    Patent number: 6299112
    Abstract: A tripod leg support for a golf in the operation of which pivotal traverses of cranks project the legs into open positions in response to the ascending movement of wires connected to the cranks, wherein the path of ascending wire movement is tangential to the pivotal traverse of the cranks, to thereby contribute to a maximum mechanical advantage in the opening of the legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Inventor: Young Suk
  • Method for obviating knee joint injury
    Patent number: 6287244
    Abstract: A construction and mode of use of an exercise device primarily for extension exercise routines which hold each knee of the exerciser, by a restraint, at an obtuse angle or in an injury-obviating position during repetitive opposite direction bending at the waist during which, the weight-shifting of the upper torso, can cause injury to an unrestrained knee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Inventor: John L. Boos
  • 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
  • Strap cushioning pad and lacing method of attachment
    Patent number: 6267280
    Abstract: An elastomeric shoulder pad to serve as a buffer between an over-the-shoulder carrying strap and a user's shoulder in which lacing openings, similar to those used in footwear, are provided in a top surface of the shoulder pad and the carrying strap seated in a recess between the lacing openings and laced in place, so that the shoulder pad in use is in an interposed position between the carrying strap and the user's shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Inventor: Howard Silagy
  • Video game cap
    Patent number: 6257984
    Abstract: A push button-operated video game mounted in a front display position of a cap, so that in the cap-on position, i.e., when the cap is on the user's head, there is less likelihood of the loss of the video game and, in the cap-off position, the video game is in facing relation to the user to facilitate push button operation of the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Inventor: Howard Gershon
  • Lighting fixutre with a covert security camera
    Patent number: 6259476
    Abstract: A lighting fixture, primarily for outdoor use in providing light along a park path or the like, improved in a combination with a security camera in that the security camera has a desired covert location within the lighting fixture and the heat of the source of illumination is used to advantage to prevent a freeze-up and consequent malfunctioning of the security camera as might occur due to severe weather conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Inventor: Kenneth L. Greene
  • Golf bag having a storage compartment for a tripod leg support
    Patent number: 6253913
    Abstract: A zippered storage compartment for a golf bag leg support using two zipper pulls, both tracking down to open the storage compartment after which one zipper pull alternately tracks up and down in coordinated relation to the alternating non-use and in-use condition of the leg support as occurs after most golf shots, and the other zipper pull tracks up to close the compartment at the end of the golf round to contribute to obviating damage to the leg support during the intervals between golf rounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Inventor: Young Suk
  • Personalized rubber banded card and currency holder
    Patent number: 6230878
    Abstract: An assembled article of manufacture for rubber-banding credit cards and folded paper currency in which only initially a rubber band is stretched to undergo a necking down to facilitate insertion into opposite peripheral compartments of a personalized or otherwise inscribed cooperating metal component and the assembly completed by the release of the rubber band which assumes its unstretched thickness within the peripheral compartments. Thereafter stretching of the rubber band about an assemblage of the credit cards and/or paper currency bulk, or both, does not disassemble the metal component and the rubber band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Inventor: Barbara C. Lehr
  • Personalized keepsake article of manufacture
    Patent number: 6227573
    Abstract: A photograph-personalized card for seating attendees at a social function, such as a restaurant sit-down retirement dinner, in which the cards are positioned at the possible 2-5 tables being used for the occasion, and thus distinguishes these tables from other tables being used by other diners. The attendees are instructed that the cards, being rectangular in shape, can be used as bookmarks, thus contributing to a keepsake value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Inventor: Denise Yorke-Zuyus
  • Concrete column forming tube
    Patent number: 6220564
    Abstract: A concrete column forming tube stored and displayed for sale in the flat, and under the urging of a pivotal traverse of an internal ring is projected into the much larger three dimensional shape necessary for forming the concrete column, this reshaping occurring at a site of use having no space limitations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Inventor: James Costello
  • Ponytail hair styling method
    Patent number: 6213130
    Abstract: A ponytail hair style applied by a user without assistance by reaching behind and performing all of the steps by feel, using a slip knot to establish the ponytail and encircle it in helical turns within ties extending from the slip knot and joined at free ends just beyond the last helical turn by the insertion of a display object on one tie in a closed loop of elastic on the other tie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Inventor: Lisa Alessandrino
  • 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
  • Method of playing chess
    Patent number: 6203016
    Abstract: A method of playing chess in which eventually all chess moves are played out on a chess board in full view, but some of these moves are previously recorded out-of-view, so that the playing out of these recorded moves adds surprise to the play and an element of chance to the outcome of the chess game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Inventor: Dror Frommer
  • Folder for letter-size documents
    Patent number: 6193147
    Abstract: A folder of a type opened in presenting 8 {fraction (1/2 )} by 11 inch documents to a business associate or other interested party, in which a side and bottom edge of the documents are previously manually inserted into cooperating isosceles triangles along the side and bottom of the folder, the manual insertion being to the extent of wedging the thickness of the documents along the side and bottom edges into a gripping engagement with the progressively diminishing clearance between the converging sides of the isosceles triangles, to the end of maintaining a neat appearance in the folder both prior to and in the subsequent presentation of the documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Inventor: Allen Schluger
  • Method of attaching an underwire to a brassiere cup
    Patent number: 6190232
    Abstract: The manufacturing and wearing benefits of a brassiere having an underwire embodied in each brassiere cup which has a small radius curvature so that it seats within a cooperating infra mammary fold, and provides uplifting support during wearing of the brassiere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Inventor: Ronald Boser
  • 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