Patents Represented by Law Firm Rhodes & Ascolillo
  • Patent number: 5535520
    Abstract: The combination of an extension to the shaft of a sabre saw that moves the blade forward of the gear box housing and a guide plate with plates on the end that will abut a transverse plane and channels that will allow the saw to slide forward on the guide plate against a spring bias to cut to the intersection of two planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Inventor: Kenneth L. Armstrong
  • Patent number: 5425126
    Abstract: Apparatus for heating and circulating air within a room, the apparatus including a ceiling fan having fan blades, a heater housing disposed vertically above the ceiling fan, a heating element disposed within the heater housing, intake ports provided in the heater housing for transferring air from the room into the interior of the heater housing, the air intake ports being disposed vertically above the ceiling fan, and air output ports provided in the heater housing for transferring air from the interior of the heater housing into the room, the air output ports being disposed vertically below the ceiling fan and outside of the radial sweep of the fan blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1995
    Inventor: Michael A. Lee
  • Patent number: 5406895
    Abstract: A storage shelf for storing items in the attic utilizing the roof trusses as supports for the shelves has a first and third support member rotatably connected to a second support member. There may be at least one stabilizing member attached to the first, second or third support member. Along with being rotatably connected to the second support member for adjustability, the first support member and the third support member may be removably connected to the second support member for ease of assembly and replacement. Brackets are used, along with fasteners to attach the shelf to the trusses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Inventor: William A. Suess
  • Patent number: 5407207
    Abstract: A game simulating financial events that a person encounters during the person's lifetime, including: a game board having disposed thereon a path of individual financial event indicia on which indicia playing pieces may land while traversing the path, the financial event indicia indicating, in some cases, mandatory or discretional financial transactions; one of the indicia being a starting point at which each player begins the game at a first predetermined age, with age advancing one year each time the starting point is passed, up to a second predetermined age at which the game terminates; first cards, each of which indicates thereon a job and a salary therefor, each player to draw one of the first cards when the game commences; second cards, each of which indicates thereon a type of business, the purchase price thereof, and the annual profits therefrom, one of the second cards to be drawn by a player, at the discretion thereof, when having a playing piece land on one of the indicia indicating a discretionary
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Inventor: Carlton R. Stanford
  • Patent number: 5402574
    Abstract: The shaver head has a chamber that has an enclosing wall. An upper blade port and a lower blade port is cut or formed through the enclosing wall. A first pair of upper tab guides and a second pair of upper tab guides is formed on the enclosing wall. An upper support member and a lower support member is attached to the enclosing wall. Three upper spring member retaining mounts are on the upper support member and three lower spring member retaining mounts are on the lower support member. An upper razor blade in the chamber partially extends through the upper blade port and a lower razor blade in the chamber partially extends through the lower blade port. The first pair of tabs, on a right side the upper razor blade, are slidingly engaged in the first pair of the upper tab guides. The second pair of tabs, on a left side of the upper razor blade, are slidingly engaged in the second pair of the upper tab guides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Inventor: Joshua P. Milner
  • Patent number: 5401545
    Abstract: An artificial Christmas tree has a trunk member. The trunk member has an elongated rod that has at least two threadingly disconnectable sections. There are a plurality of elongated limb storage chambers in the elongated rod. A stabilizational plate is attached to one end of the elongated rod to horizontally stabilize the elongated rod. A vertical structure support member is attached to another end of the elongated rod to vertically stabilize the elongated rod. There are a plurality of flexible limb members stored within the elongated limb chambers that slidingly traverse within and adjustably extend from the elongated storage chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Inventor: Debra A. Hyde
  • Patent number: 5388665
    Abstract: An adjustable platform for attachment to a ladder, including: a frame which can be removably attached to a ladder; a planar platform fixedly mounted on a shaft rotatably disposed in the frame; and a position adjustment mechanism operatively connected to the shaft to selectively lock the platform in a desired angular position with respect to the ladder or to permit the platform and the shaft to rotate freely within the frame, the position adjustment mechanism including no threaded fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Inventor: Donald W. Newman
  • Patent number: 5379203
    Abstract: A stilt apparatus, the stilt apparatus including an elongated column member, a horizontal foot hold formed on the elongated column member for supporting the foot of an individual, the elongated column member including an elevation member extending downward from the horizontal foot hold, the elongated column member additionally including a graspable support member extending upward from the horizontal foot hold, and an illumination mechanism for illuminating at least one of a portion of the elongated column member and a portion of the horizontal foot hold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Inventor: Patricia A. Marano
  • Patent number: 5377775
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a hovercraft motorcycle for travel over a ground surface, comprising: a body portion having a front end, a rear end, a longitudinal centerline extending from the rear end to the front end, and a lower surface spaced above the ground surface; a generally horizontal, continuous, inflatable, resilient tubular member attached to, disposed around, and depending from the lower surface of the body portion having an air inlet port; the generally horizontal, continuous, inflatable, resilient tubular member having an air inlet port; an air plenum chamber defined between the tubular member, the lower surface of the body portion, and the ground surface; an apparatus to supply pressurized air to the air plenum chamber; a front wheel assembly, attached to the front end of the body portion and on the longitudinal centerline of the body portion, having a front wheel mounted thereon; and a rear wheel assembly, attached to the rear end of the body portion and on the longitudinal centerline of the bod
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Inventor: Joseph Rush
  • Patent number: D353967
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Inventor: Bret S. Moore
  • Patent number: D354038
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Inventor: Jim Redhawk
  • Patent number: D354123
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Inventor: Cheryl T. Cope
  • Patent number: D354160
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Inventor: Steven L. Shaffer
  • Patent number: D354375
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Inventor: Robert R. Lechner
  • Patent number: D355071
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Inventor: Ronald B. Stull
  • Patent number: D356409
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Inventor: John J. Kanaskie
  • Patent number: D356915
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Inventors: Elba Torres, Ben D. Torres
  • Patent number: D357040
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Inventor: Armando F. Madrid
  • Patent number: D357814
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Inventor: Charles C. Vernia
  • Patent number: D372238
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Inventor: Mussa Khiar