Patents Represented by Attorney Myron Amer

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  • 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
  • Maternity garment
    Patent number: 6159070
    Abstract: In the providing of abdominal support to a pregnant mother-to-be in the latter months of gestation in which her protruding semi-spherical abdominal shape is used to advantage to hold in place criss-crossing straps which supply the support, wherein the upper ends of the straps are attached to a closed loop elastic band which is positioned above, and therefore is prevented from slipping out of position, by the protruding semi-spherical abdominal shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Inventors: Rivka Devorah Schwartz, Gitty Ziegler
  • Fingernail-polishing method for home use
    Patent number: 6155271
    Abstract: A movable support for positioning a left/right hand during the application of polish to a user's four fingernails in the use of which the user's thumb on an adjacent support surface steadies the four-finger support against movement from the polishing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Inventor: Robert Sussman
  • Golf bag with double strap and buckle
    Patent number: 6152342
    Abstract: A two-strap golf bag carrier in which the first and second straps each being oriented in opposite angular directions are adapted to cross each other at approximately a mid-point of the user's back, at which crossing point the straps are joined together which obviates lateral movement of the straps away from each other as would cause a strap to slip off of a shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Inventor: Young J. Suk
  • Occlusion detection means for a persistaltic pump
    Patent number: 6149394
    Abstract: A peristaltic pump delivering a medicant through a plastic tube with an appropriate wall thickness to withstand external rubbing contact with the rotating rotor of the pump, in which downstream of the rotor a tubing length is used in the plastic tube having a thinner wall thickness so that when a downstream occulsion is detected, the pressure build-up transmitted upstream to the tubing length more readily causes it to undergo an expansion radially because of its thinner wall to actuate an on-off switch of the peristaltic pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Inventor: Alton K. Allen
  • Covertly operated toy talking parrot
    Patent number: 6135846
    Abstract: A method of operating a toy parrot of a known type, as illustrated and described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,913,676, having a voice-recording and a recorded voice-playback mechanism in the operation of which the playback of the previously recorded voice, namely that of the user, is initiated from a covert location, such as a pocket of the user, so that a listener is taken by surprise by the playback which significantly contributes to the play value of the toy parrot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Inventor: Gordon Young
  • Handbag with interchangeable decorative display panels
    Patent number: 6129126
    Abstract: Adding a decorative panel in a display position about a handbag by positioning opposite panel edges beneath front and rear fold-down flaps, the contacting surfaces of the flaps and panel edges being firmly secured to each other to an extent obviating inadvertent release of a flap during use as might result from snagging, and yet manual release is well within the strength of the user preparatory to changing a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Inventor: Elissa S. Restivo
  • Method of masking and unmasking a dental face mask
    Patent number: 6116903
    Abstract: For a mouth-covering dental face mask supported by elastic loops which mask during use on occasion has to be moved to a clearance or mouth-uncovered position to permit discourse between the patient and dentist, the use of eyeglasses both for supporting the elastic loops and also for conveniently masking and unmasking the dentist correlated to the taking off and putting on the eyeglasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Inventors: Peter J. Zegarelli, Mitchell Steinberg
  • Cord and a positioned spherical clamp
    Patent number: 6115890
    Abstract: A two-piece clamp, of a spherical shape convenient for use as a hand grip, attached about a cord in an interposed position therebetween, which impales the cord with pointed teeth so that the clamp holds fast to its position at the attachment site despite forces exerted longitudinally of the cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Inventor: Howard Silagy
  • 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
  • Sound-emitting clock
    Patent number: D436540
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Inventor: Lee Smith
  • Anti personnel projectile
    Patent number: D429792
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Inventors: Michael Brunn, Jacob Kravel
  • 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
  • Fingernail grooming kit
    Patent number: D431354
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Inventor: Lee Smith
  • 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
  • Tape folder
    Patent number: D433426
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Inventor: Ronald J. Boser
  • Lock body
    Patent number: D433614
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Inventor: Urs Gisiger
  • Lock body
    Patent number: D433919
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Inventor: Urs Gisiger