Patents by Inventor Charles Edward Jones
Charles Edward Jones 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).
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Publication number: 20090017947Abstract: The design and ornamentation for a volleyball net as shown and described. A volleyball game net adapted by size and configuration to meet the requirements of play in the game of volleyball, said net having a micro mesh fabric that allows air to flow through yet is opaque in color and not see through, with a peripheral margin defined by a top edge, a bottom edge, a first side edge and a second side edge; said side edges being spaced apart from each other and joining the top edge to the bottom edge. Each edge is impregnated with a fluorescent material on each side of the net, which after being exposed to sunlight or incandescent light becomes visible after dark. The Menal Volleyball Net will have a distinct pattern centered from upper left corner to lower right corner depicting five Menal Volleyballs in a straight diagonal line. Each Menal Volleyball on the surface of the net will be of the exact shape and size with the appropriate triangular pattern and fluorescent tips of a regulation Menal Volleyball.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2007Publication date: January 15, 2009Inventor: Charles Edward Jones
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Patent number: 6572910Abstract: Uniformly shaped snack chips, preferably tortilla-type chips, having raised surface features and a method for preparing the same. The chips can be made from a dough composition comprising pre-cooked starch-based material and pregelatinized starch. Preferably, the snack chips have raised surface features comprising from about 12% to about 40% large surface features; from about 20% to about 40% medium surface features; and from about 25% to about 60% small surface features. In one embodiment, the average thickness of the snack chip is from about 1 mm to about 3 mm; the average thickness of raised surface features is from about 2.3 mm to about 3.2 mm; the maximum thickness of the chip is less than about 5.5 mm; and the coefficient of variation of the chip thickness is greater than about 15%.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2001Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.Inventors: David Arthur Lanner, Yen-Ping Chin Hsieh, Stephen Paul Zimmerman, Lee Michael Teras, Charles Edward Jones, John Russell Herring, Russell William Groves, Mark Joseph Fiteny
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Publication number: 20020132029Abstract: The present invention includes an ergonomic snack piece having improved hand held characteristics and dip containment and a method to make such a snack piece. More particularly, the present invention relates to a ergonomic snack piece that optimizes an engagement angle and hold angle of the snack piece. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to a snack piece having a dip containment well and a grip region that provides improved dip-condiment retention while simultaneously providing the user areas to hold the chip and thus avoiding messy finger contact with the dip.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2001Publication date: September 19, 2002Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Lee Michael Teras, John Russell Herring, Charles Edward Jones, Stephen Paul Zimmerman, Benito Albert Romanach, Douglas David Sena, Brian Adrian Miller
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Patent number: 6453317Abstract: A system and corresponding method for storing and delivering customer information. The system and method include and involve a data storage system for storing customer information including contact information, network addressing information, and engineering and customer service information related to at least one network service customer to whom network services are provided by a network service provider. The system and method also include and involve a network access system that is coupled to the data storage system via at least one data communications link and which is configured to provide access to at least one user to permit such user(s) to retrieve the customer information from the data storage system.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1998Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignee: WorldCom, Inc.Inventors: Sherman LaCost, Kenneth Presser, Charles Edward Jones, Jr.
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Publication number: 20020034571Abstract: Uniformly shaped snack chips, preferably tortilla-type chips, having raised surface features and a method for preparing the same. The chips can be made from a dough composition comprising pre-cooked starch-based material and pregelatinized starch.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Co.Inventors: Stephen Paul Zimmerman, Lee Michael Teras, Russell William Groves, David Arthur Lanner, Charles Edward Jones, Merrilee LaDonna Palcic, Michael Wayne Haney
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Publication number: 20020022076Abstract: Uniformly shaped snack chips, preferably tortilla-type chips, having raised surface features and a method for preparing the same. The chips can be made from a dough composition comprising pre-cooked starch-based material and pregelatinized starch. Preferably, the snack chips have raised surface features comprising from about 12% to about 40% large surface features; from about 20% to about 40% medium surface features; and from about 25% to about 60% small surface features. In one embodiment, the average thickness of the snack chip is from about 1 mm to about 3 mm; the average thickness of raised surface features is from about 2.3 mm to about 3.2 mm; the maximum thickness of the chip is less than about 5.5 mm; and the coefficient of variation of the chip thickness is greater than about 15%.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2001Publication date: February 21, 2002Inventors: David Arthur Lanner, Yen-Ping Chin Hsieh, Stephen Paul Zimmerman, Lee Michael Teras, Charles Edward Jones, John Russell Herring, Russell William Groves, Mark Joseph Fiteny
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Publication number: 20020018837Abstract: Uniformly shaped snack chips, preferably tortilla-type chips, having raised surface features and a method for preparing the same. The chips can be made from a dough composition comprising pre-cooked starch-based material and pregelatinized starch. Preferably, the snack chips have raised surface features comprising from about 12% to about 40% large surface features; from about 20% to about 40% medium surface features; and from about 25% to about 60% small surface features. In one embodiment, the average thickness of the snack chip is from about 1 mm to about 3 mm; the average thickness of raised surface features is from about 2.3 mm to about 3.2 mm; the maximum thickness of the chip is less than about 5.5 mm; and the coefficient of variation of the chip thickness is greater than about 15%.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2001Publication date: February 14, 2002Inventors: David Arthur Lanner, Yen-Ping Chin Hsieh, Peter Yen-Chih Lin, Stephen Paul Zimmerman, Russell William Groves, Susan Louise Joa, Lee Michael Teras, Charles Michael Garrison, Charles Edward Jones, John Russell Herring
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Patent number: 6158716Abstract: A coupling element having two ends, and outer surface and a longitudinal axis extending between the ends, wherein the first end of the coupling element defines a sealing surface where extends normally to the longitudinal axis and the outer surface of the other end defines a cam follower surface forming an angle on the range of from about 2 to about 10 degrees with respect to the longitudinal axis and wherein the second end defines the cam follower surface and the coupling element defines a passage extending from the sealing surface to the outer surface and apparatus comprising the coupling element and valve elements.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 1996Date of Patent: December 12, 2000Assignee: Kvaerner Oilfield ProductsInventors: Robert Lee Wilkins, Steven Dwayne Gullion, Charles Edward Jones
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Patent number: 5749608Abstract: A lateral connector for a tube assembly has a modular unit which can be used to establish a lateral connection through the sidewall of a tubular member positioned around it. The modular unit has a carrier ring, a coupling element, and a carrier body. The coupling element can move radially but not axially. The carrier ring has generally cylindrical inside and outside surfaces. The coupling element is carried by the carrier ring. The coupling element has a longitudinal axis which is generally radially positioned with respect to the longitudinal axis of the carrier ring. The coupling element has an inner end and an outer end and the outer end has a sealing face.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 1996Date of Patent: May 12, 1998Assignee: Kvaerner Oilfield ProductsInventors: Robert Lee Wilkins, Steven Dwayne Gullion, Charles Edward Jones
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Patent number: 5730473Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, there is provided a tubular assembly having a lateral connection. The assembly comprises a spool body, a carrier ring, penetrators, and an urging means.The carrier ring is built to carry the radial penetrator(s) for the carrier body. The carrier ring is mounted in sliding relationship, concentric with the carrier body. The ring is spring loaded down relative to the carrier body, against a stop shoulder (device) there. This fixes or at least stabilizes the ring on the body during running into the spool body or retrieving from the spool body.The carrier ring fits into the spool body and seats on a stop in the spool body. The carrier body also seats in the spool body, but on a different stop.Radially extending penetrators are mounted in radial ports or passages in the carrier ring, and are fixed to control fluid lines which conduct the fluid down into the well. The penetrators can move radially relative to the ring, but not axially.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 1996Date of Patent: March 24, 1998Assignee: Kvaerner National, Inc.Inventors: Robert Lee Wilkins, Steven Dwayne Gullion, Charles Edward Jones
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Patent number: 5648845Abstract: Apparatus (2) for verifying the performance of optical fibre measurement equipment, comprising a housing (4), a length of optical fibre (6) in a main storage compartment (8), a first compartment (10) containing a first end (12) of the optical fibre (6) that is in the main storage compartment (8), and a second compartment (14) containing a second end (16) of the optical fibre (6) that is in the main storage compartment (8), the optical fibre (6) being stored under substantially zero tension, the first end (12) of the optical fibre (6) being a source end of the optical fibre (6), and the second end (16) of the optical fibre (6) being a detector end of the optical fibre (6).Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1995Date of Patent: July 15, 1997Assignee: The Secretary of State for Trade and IndustryInventors: Neil Richard Haigh, Charles Edward Jones