Patents Assigned to Better Ideas, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5318608
    Abstract: A supplemental cylindrical air cleaner or filter is provided for the inlet snorkel of a conventional automotive air cleaner housing and the supplemental air filter or cleaner incorporates a molded body of open cell material with said body including two elongated, upwardly opening semi-cylindrical halves including opposite side upper marginal edges with said halves disposed in side-by-side juxtaposed position with adjacent upper marginal edges of adjacent halves integrally formed and joined by a living hinge portion of said material extending therealong. The cylindrical halves include integral partitions or disks spaced therealong and projecting outwardly from the open sides of the halves with the partitions of one of the halves staggered relative to the partitions of the other half.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: Better Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank J. Boone
  • Patent number: 5312149
    Abstract: A conventional pickup truck equipped with a tailgate for closing the rear end of the load bed of the pickup truck is provided and the upper margin of the hollow/tailgate is provided with at least one elongated slot extending along the upper margin from which a loading ramp structure consisting of at least three telescopically engaged ramp sections may be extended and disposed at a rearwardly and downwardly inclined position when the tailgate is in its horizontally rearwardly projecting position, the telescopically engaged ramp sections including an outer wide ramp section, at least one intermediate and somewhat narrower ramp section and an inner narrow ramp section with the ramp sections inwardly of the outer wide ramp section being progressively narrower in width and thickness toward the innermost narrow ramp section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Better Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank J. Boone
  • Patent number: D449648
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Better Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Kirsten L. Andler