Patents Examined by Kimberly Berona
  • Patent number: 8151734
    Abstract: The invention discloses a movable cradle capable of surrounding or enclosing an animal. The movable cradle may have a frame with a back end that opens and locks closed, and leg spaces or portions that bow-out from a general rectangular shape of the frame. Wheels may be attached to the frame near a back end of the cradle and near a front end of the cradle. The movable cradle may be used to train a surrounded animal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: S&S Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Foley, Howard Finley
  • Patent number: 8146536
    Abstract: A waste collection and transfer pan device is disclosed. The device includes a handle portion connected to a non-planar body portion having a planar end portion forming a cavity therebetween. The pan device is useful for collecting and transferring waste material. The planar pan end portion allows storage of the pan device in an upright orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Inventor: Neil Arthur Meyer
  • Patent number: 8109238
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for facilitating and maintaining the cleanliness of a self cleaning cat litter box. The device is a structure that contains two plastic strips attached to a tape and attaches to an interface junction located at the top of a litter box container ramp. The device facilitates and guides the waste as it is moved from the litter box into a waste receptacle insert by rake tines and prevents contamination of areas along the path of the moving waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Inventor: Thomas A Casiana
  • Patent number: 8109033
    Abstract: An improved automatic precision baiting apparatus for use with long line fishing gear, the apparatus having a baiter housing, a magazine, a hook rail extension, a hook orientation means, a baiting area, a bait moving means for moving bait to the baiting area, and a bait cutting means; where an unbaited fish hook is drawn off the magazine, over the hook rail extension, and into the hook orienting means of the apparatus where it is positioned in anticipation of being baited; and where an uncut piece of bait is fed into the baiting area of the apparatus by the bait moving means and cut by the bait cutting means to the appropriate size, then held in the baiting area of the apparatus until engaged by a hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Inventor: M. David Allyn