Patents by Inventor Barry Brinker

Barry Brinker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5025919
    Abstract: A portable directory and note pad tray with several features. A first feature is a directory with a cover movable between open and closed positions that activates a light bulb circuit for lighting the directory cards when the cover is opened and deactivates the circuit for turning out the light bulb when the cover is closed. A second feature is a novel slide track, and slide arm structure by which the directory and tray are mountable to and de-mountable from a desired surface to present an optimum mounting angle for that surface. A third feature is a note pad tray with a novel base that includes a first finger gap in one of the tray's upstanding walls to allow individual sheets of a note pad to be easily removed from the tray, and a pencil recess defined in the tray with a magnetically attachable pencil that cooperates with a second finger gap in one of the tray's walls to allow easy removal of the pencil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: Totes', Incorporated
    Inventors: Barry Brinker, John E. Busse
  • Patent number: 4922569
    Abstract: A manually usable hand tool having, in preferred form, a frame of substantially rectangular closed loop configuration. Squeegee and ice scraper blades are fixed to one frame end, and a brush is fixed to an adjacent frame side. A handle is pivotally connected to the frame, and is movable between a storage position generally co-extensive with the other frame side and an extended position directed away from the closed loop frame and generally co-axial with the frame's longitudinal axis. The handle and the frame are grippable together by a user if desired upon use of the hand tool when the handle is in the storage position and, alternatively, the handle is grippable alone by a user if desired upon use of the hand tool when the handle is in the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignee: `totes`, incorporated
    Inventors: Barry Brinker, John E. Busse
  • Patent number: 4915402
    Abstract: A case having at least one wheel mounted adjacent the case's floor, that wheel being retractable interiorly of the case into a storage position and extendable exteriorly of the case below the floor where the case can roll on the wheel. One feature is that a retract operator connected to the wheel is manually movable in one of generally parallel and normal directions relative to the floor in order to retract the wheel into the storage position, and a separate extend operator also connected to the wheel is manually movable in the other of the generally parallel and normally directions relative to the floor in order to extend the wheel into the use position. Another feature is that a single spring motor is connected with both the retract and extend operator in order to continually bias both those operators toward one of each operator's first and second operational positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: `totes`, Incorporated
    Inventor: Barry Brinker
  • Patent number: D284713
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1986
    Assignee: `totes`, incorporated
    Inventor: Barry Brinker
  • Patent number: D294428
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Assignee: `Totes`, Incorporated
    Inventors: James H. Allen, Barry Brinker
  • Patent number: D305963
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: `Totes`, Incorporated
    Inventors: Barry Brinker, John E. Busse
  • Patent number: D308594
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: `Totes`, Incorporated
    Inventor: Barry Brinker
  • Patent number: D308747
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: `totes`, incorporated
    Inventor: Barry Brinker
  • Patent number: D308749
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: `totes`, incorporated
    Inventor: Barry Brinker
  • Patent number: D308905
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: `totes`, incorporated
    Inventor: Barry Brinker
  • Patent number: D308907
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: `totes`, incorporated
    Inventor: Barry Brinker
  • Patent number: D312325
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: `totes`, incorporated
    Inventors: Barry Brinker, John E. Busse
  • Patent number: D316476
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: `totes`, incorporated
    Inventor: Barry Brinker
  • Patent number: D316980
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: `totes`, incorporated
    Inventors: Barry Brinker, David E. Burbrink
  • Patent number: D318178
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1991
    Assignee: `totes`, Incorporated
    Inventors: Douglas W. Baker, Barry Brinker
  • Patent number: D318755
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: `totes`, Incorporated
    Inventor: Barry Brinker
  • Patent number: D319262
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: `totes`, incorporated
    Inventors: Barry Brinker, John E. Busse
  • Patent number: D321426
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: `totes`, incorporated
    Inventor: Barry Brinker