Patents by Inventor Charles H. Kuntz

Charles H. Kuntz 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: 5638966
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a free standing (unattached) sheet metal shelf, requiring no tools to install instantly and combinations containing same. The sheet metal shelf is free standing because it is not attached to anything. It has a pair of depending support side leg portions terminating in arcuate bottom surfaces, which permit the sheet metal bathroom shelf to be self adjusting in a position so that its back portion rests against the bathroom wall and is aligned in relation therewith.A method of forming this sheet metal shelf is also disclosed and described along with the combination of a magnet and aesthetically pleasing, e.g., wooden, top shelf secured on its bottom surface to the top of the sheet metal shelf and on its upper surface secured to the lower surface of the decorative, aesthetically pleasing, top shelf. The structure and method of assembling the various surfaces to permit an aesthetically pleasing, wooden upper surface is likewise illustrated and disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Inventor: Charles H. Kuntz
  • Patent number: 5623880
    Abstract: A positive action, self-leveling rear-tilting, centrally threadably, finger adjustable, stably positioned bathroom shelf, universally adjustable to fit most toilet tissue mounting rolls, which is mounted to straddle the mounting roll for a roll of toilet tissue. Arcuately-shaped lower surface portions of left and right vertical shelf mounting members are made to straddle outer portions of respective left and right side portions of the tissue mounting roll by finger adjustment(s) of the centrally positioned adjusting knob, e.g., using the thumb and index fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Inventor: Charles H. Kuntz