Patents by Inventor Curtis A. Stevenson

Curtis A. Stevenson 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).

  • Tarp bug catcher
    Patent number: 4862638
    Abstract: This invention relates to a tarp for use as ground cover one example of which employs a barrier such as an adhesive strip on its top surface inwardly of and juxtapositioned of its periphery which has a tear-away strip over it which upon removal when the tarp is stretched over the ground traps bugs, insects and the like which attempt to crawl over it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Inventor: Curtis A. Stevenson
  • Spring tie fishing sinker
    Patent number: 4117619
    Abstract: A weight with an appended coil spring is detachably attachable intermediate a leader and a flexible fishing line by weaving the leader and line with coils of the coil spring in a specific knotless manner that increases the gripping force of the coil spring upon application of a force normally tending to detach the leader and line from the weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1978
    Inventor: Curtis A. Stevenson
  • Coupling device and method
    Patent number: 4094045
    Abstract: A coupling device and method for attaching a length of flexible line thereto. The device is a spring member composed of first and second sections of aligned coils providing a longitudinally extending central channel having an entrance and exit port. The first section is integral with the second section and spaced therefrom to provide a gap into which is wound a segment of the line material after having passed through the central channel from the entrance port to the exit port. After winding through the gap, the material is wound clockwise toward the entrance port between pairs of adjacent coils to complete attachment to the coupling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1978
    Inventor: Curtis A. Stevenson
  • Snelled hook holder
    Patent number: 4052810
    Abstract: A snelled hook holder including a hook penetratable member for releasably receiving the point of the hook, a spacer member in the form of a bent wire and a coil spring mounted transversely of the hook penetratable member for receiving and holing the leader in tension between adjacent coils of the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Inventor: Curtis A. Stevenson
  • Spool holding device
    Patent number: 4034930
    Abstract: A device for holding a spool of line on a fishing rod to allow the line to be wound from the spool onto a fishing reel. The device includes a clasping member for releasably securely fastening the device to the rod shaft and a pair of arms springably urged in lateral opposing directions, the arms being pressed together and inserted through the aperture of the spool and then released, allowing the spring action to force the arms against the interior walls of the aperture to hold the spool on the arms at a location opposing the fishing reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1977
    Inventor: Curtis A. Stevenson