Patents Represented by Attorney S. Michael Bender

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  • Speaker with motor-controlled internal baffle
    Patent number: 5304747
    Abstract: An audio speaker in a cabinet is provided having an internal baffle movable on a track and driven by a motor. The movement of the internal baffle is controlled externally by controls mounted on the speaker cabinet. Selective movement of the internal baffle results in a change of the resonant frequency of the speaker/cabinet combination thereby selectively changing the characteristic of the reproduced sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Inventor: Richard L. Hale, II
  • Sun visor organizer
    Patent number: 5301856
    Abstract: An office organizer comprising writing instruments, a calculator, note pad, a calendar, and so on is mounted on the conventional sun visor of a motor vehicle. The organizer includes a hinged panel permitting it to be swiveled to an open position shielding the side window of the vehicle. In an alternatively preferred embodiment, a series of supplemental hinged panels are provided to increase the capacity of the organizer. The hinged panels preferably are transparent and suitably optically coated to provide a safe field of vision when they are unfolded and to afford protection from the harmful effects of sunlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: Jack S. Newsome
  • Waste treatment process
    Patent number: 5302331
    Abstract: A process for recycling household waste, garbage or trash into useful articles including in one preferred embodiment the steps of collecting the waste material, feeding the waste material into a pulverizer to convert the material to a powdery mass, adding water to the mass to form a slurry, adding a binder to the slurry to inhibit bacteriological growth, pouring or otherwise forming the slurry into a useful shape such as a block, or sheet, and allowing the formed shape to air dry under relatively low humidity. The resulting useful article may then be used as a building block, wall board, ceiling tile and so on. In an alternative example, the binder is added directly to the pulverized waste material to produce a useful article such as a flexible roof shingle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: Robert E. Jenkins
  • Spool holder
    Patent number: D345857
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: Robert W. Franke
  • VCR cassette container
    Patent number: D345858
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: Janet L. Bauer
  • Nurse purse
    Patent number: D345861
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventors: Michael D. Knox, Margaret W. Glover
  • Clear path carpet
    Patent number: D345878
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: Steve W. Garon
  • Silver anniversary super bowl
    Patent number: D345896
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: Phillip C. Matt
  • Combined transmitter and receiver for locating a lost remote control switch
    Patent number: D345932
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: Dwayne M. Fedalizo
  • Mini-bowling game board
    Patent number: D345993
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: Thomas Sweetland
  • Exercise weight
    Patent number: D346000
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: Abbas N. Enfaradi
  • Portable rifle rest
    Patent number: D346003
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: Wade H. Anderson
  • Gang valve
    Patent number: D346011
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: Larry G. Hawkins
  • Urinal
    Patent number: D346016
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: Harold B. McClelland
  • Brush caddy
    Patent number: D346055
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventor: John V. Arnao
  • Shoe heel cover
    Patent number: D346060
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Inventor: Aaron J. Martinez
  • Children's light switch
    Patent number: D346153
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Inventor: Lehman A. Moseley, III
  • Remote control forklift
    Patent number: D346188
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Inventor: Jeffray M. Vandergrift
  • Holder for a nursing bottle
    Patent number: D346221
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Inventor: Dennis H. Godfrey
  • Combined basket and mailbox
    Patent number: D346265
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Inventor: Louis D. Smith