Patents Assigned to Prestige Ameritech Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8430100
    Abstract: A face mask has upper and lower portions made of mask material. The upper and lower portions are joined together at side portions and a front portion. The side portions converge as the side portions extend from a face edge to the front portion. The mask has sections between the face edge and the front portion, with each section having a head retainer, a nose strip or both. The sections are divisible from each other along separation zones or bands that extend between the side edges. The size of the mask can be reduced by removing one or more sections, leaving one or more sections that incorporate the front edge and the shortened side edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Prestige Ameritech Ltd.
    Inventors: George D. Reese, Michael L. Bowen
  • Patent number: 8061356
    Abstract: A face mask has mask material and ties or ear loops coupled to the mask material. The face mask is flat until worn. The mask material has an outside and an inside, which inside is designed to be against the wearer's face when the mask is worn. A deformable nose strip is provided near a top edge of the mask material. The nose strip is preformed into a contour for fitting about a nose. The contour bows out from the inside to the outside. A wearer donning the mask intuitively knows to orient the contour to the wearer's nose, wherein the inside is automatically positioned against the wearer's face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Prestige Ameritech Ltd.
    Inventor: Michael L. Bowen
  • Patent number: 7793892
    Abstract: A holder or organizer has first and second strips releasably fastened together by coupling material such as by hook and loop material. The strips each have two ends, namely a bonding end and a free end. The two bonding ends are coupled together. The first strip has an adhesive on its outside. The second strip has a selvedge area adjacent an edge, which selvedge area lacks releasable coupling material. The selvedge area will not fasten to the first strip. A user can easily grip the selvedge area of the second strip and peel the second strip off of the first strip. A tongue extends in the direction of the bonding ends of the strips and works in conjunction with a non-tongue area of the upper strip to more securely hold an object in the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Prestige Ameritech Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael L. Bowen, George D. Reese
  • Patent number: D693062
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Prestige Ameritech Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael L. Bowen, George D. Reese