Patents by Inventor David E. Stein

David E. Stein 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: 8156969
    Abstract: The Invention is an underground storage tank apparatus and method. A buried underground storage tank has a tank sump and a manway defined by a manhole skirt side wall communicating from the surface of the ground to the tank sump. A sediment trap is disposed annularly within the manway and intercepts water and sediment flowing down the manhole skirt wall. An inside wall of the sediment trap is in an annular spaced-apart relation with a tank sump perimeter watt, which together define an annular space interior volume that receives water that overtops the sediment trap inside wall and which receives liquid that overtops the tank sump perimeter wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: J.D. Stein, Inc.
    Inventor: David E. Stein
  • Publication number: 20100108688
    Abstract: The Invention is an underground storage tank apparatus and method. A buried underground storage tank has a tank sump and a manway defined by a manhole skirt side wall communicating from the surface of the ground to the tank sump. A sediment trap is disposed annularly within the manway and intercepts water and sediment flowing down the manhole skirt wall. An inside wall of the sediment trap is in an annular spaced-apart relation with a tank sump perimeter watt, which together define an annular space interior volume that receives water that overtops the sediment trap inside wall and which receives liquid that overtops the tank sump perimeter wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventor: David E. Stein
  • Patent number: 5403012
    Abstract: A board game for two players includes a game board having a plurality of triangular playing spaces, with the spaces arranged in pairs having alternating light and dark colors or shadings to form a plurality of diamond shaped areas on the board. Two sets of variously configured playing pieces are provided, with one set corresponding to the lighter colored playing spaces and the other corresponding to the darker spaces, although play may take place on any of the spaces for any of the pieces. Each set of playing pieces includes one or more pieces having single or plural space diagonal, lateral and other move patterns. The game also provides for at least some of the pieces to transpose from one color to the other of a pair of playing spaces, whereupon at least one type of playing piece is provided with a different move pattern. Each set also includes at least one playing piece which causes other pieces under its influence to transpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Inventor: David E. Stein
  • Patent number: 4690491
    Abstract: An internal building data transmission system which uses optic fibers. It permits the flexible connection of work stations and equipment through the use of junction boxes, terminal boxes and distributing frames. The cables are connected by nonadhesive receptacles and are routed through the use of patch cord cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Southwestern Bell Telephone
    Inventors: David E. Stein, Donald R. Hammer