Patents by Inventor Bob J. Higgins

Bob J. Higgins 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: 8250674
    Abstract: The musical headwear includes headwear having a pocket that carries an electronic audio device. The pocket has an opening, sealable via fasteners disposed across fabric surrounding the top central portion of the opening. The electronic audio device is dropped into the open pocket and then sealed inside by fastening together the fasteners proximate the top central portion of the pocket opening. Gaps on either side of the seal are provided so that a user can touch the case of the electronic audio device, the case having a touch sensitive electronic pad that actuates the unit when momentarily touched by the user. When the unit is actuated, speakers embedded in the audio unit broadcast a song, chant, or other refrain that has been pre-stored in the unit's digital memory. The unit is factory programmed to play one or more different programs responsive to momentary user contact with the touch pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Inventors: Gregory L. Higgins, Bob J. Higgins
  • Publication number: 20110252540
    Abstract: The musical headwear includes headwear having a pocket that carries an electronic audio device. The pocket has an opening, sealable via fasteners disposed across fabric surrounding the top central portion of the opening. The electronic audio device is dropped into the open pocket and then sealed inside by fastening together the fasteners proximate the top central portion of the pocket opening. Gaps on either side of the seal are provided so that a user can touch the case of the electronic audio device, the case having a touch sensitive electronic pad that actuates the unit when momentarily touched by the user. When the unit is actuated, speakers embedded in the audio unit broadcast a song, chant, or other refrain that has been pre-stored in the unit's digital memory. The unit is factory programmed to play one or more different programs responsive to momentary user contact with the touch pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: GREGORY L. HIGGINS, Bob J. Higgins
  • Patent number: 4834447
    Abstract: A novel vehicle window clamp ring and window comprising the same, wherein the clamp ring is located interior of the vehicle wall and wherein a transparent window, including a window frame for mounting of the window, is located exterior of the vehicle wall and clamped in place in such relative location, is disclosed. Instead of the usual window shroud, however, the clamp ring comprises a trim-mounting flange which extends inwardly toward the interior of the vehicle and inwardly toward the center of the window aperture. Upon the flange may be mounted window trim in the form of a molding or the like, which flange or window trim will be visible within the window aperture of an interior upholstery panel which is mounted around the window and against the interior of the vehicle wall, thereby providing a secure and attractive vehicle window area without the necessity of a window shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Assignee: Trans-Aire International, Inc.
    Inventor: Bob J. Higgins
  • Patent number: 4720136
    Abstract: There is disclosed a curtain-hanging track adapted to be mounted in a recreational vehicle having a flat, elongate rail fastened to an interior side wall thereof along and adjacent to the bottom of a window and a support member for said track which is fastened to the outer side end of the rail and disposed between it and the inner side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1988
    Assignee: Trans-Aire International, Inc.
    Inventor: Bob J. Higgins
  • Patent number: 4720137
    Abstract: There is disclosed curtain hanging tracks made of complementary, extruded members comprising a base portion adapted to be affixed to a wall of a recreational vehicle and a cover portion adapted to be slid onto the base portion and to conceal the fasteners used to mount the base portion on the wall of the recreational vehicle. The cover portion has a longitudinal channel with inturned lips adapted to receive a T-shaped base of a curtain glide. The curtain is affixed to the glides which in turn are slid into the channel so that the curtain can be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1988
    Assignee: Trans-Aire International, Inc.
    Inventor: Bob J. Higgins
  • Patent number: 4485523
    Abstract: There is disclosed an RV drapery mount, optionally also constituting a light fixture, which comprises an extrusion having a base portion having non-symmetrical portions above and below the base portion characterized in that the upper portion is shaped to form with the ceiling and wall of the RV a closed channel and the bottom portion is shaped to form an open channel, the front portion of which comprises a fabric cover beading receptor and the back portion of which comprises a drapery hanger track which is opposed to said receptor. A fabric cover is anchored in the receptor, wrapped around the front of the extrusion and over the top thereof and anchored by an anchoring member fastened under the top of the extrusion. The front wall may have an opening therein for a light fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1984
    Assignee: Trans-Aire International, Inc.
    Inventor: Bob J. Higgins
  • Patent number: D280470
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1985
    Assignee: Trans-Aire International, Inc.
    Inventor: Bob J. Higgins
  • Patent number: D280471
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1985
    Assignee: Trans-Aire International, Inc.
    Inventor: Bob J. Higgins
  • Patent number: D283704
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Trans-Aire International, Inc.
    Inventor: Bob J. Higgins
  • Patent number: D296885
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Trans-Aire International, Inc.
    Inventor: Bob J. Higgins