Patents by Inventor Dee Volin

Dee Volin 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).

  • Publication number: 20240125134
    Abstract: A multifunctional skybox bungalow integrates four devices: a dehydrator, sauna, skybox, and wind-redirecting structure. Equipped with adjustable louver blades linked to side gutter beams, it shields against rain and modulates sunlight entry. These blades house solar-rechargeable batteries, powering LED lights and reducing environmental impact. Solar panels on the blades harness solar energy, enhancing bungalow autonomy from power outlets. The design incorporates panel frames with inserts, converting the bungalow into a sauna, skybox, or dehydrator, offering wind protection and insulation. Louver braces within the frames allow louver repositioning and wind direction control. Axis pins grant eight locking points, enabling various louver functionalities. An inner-track insert facilitates curtain or screen attachment, ensuring privacy and protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventor: Dee Volin
  • Patent number: 11910889
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing and using a five-device-in-one multi-function and multi-orientation carapace system comprises the steps of: Sewing at least one first three-dimensional contour-conforming carapace dome panel and at least one second three-dimensional contour-conforming carapace dome panel together such that at least one water-directing ball-directing fruit-directing dome-bisecting transverse seam and at least one water-directing-and-ejecting ball-directing-and-ejecting fruit-directing-and-ejecting cross-cutting seam are formed; Attaching the at least one first and the at least one second three-dimensional contour-conforming carapace dome panels to the interchangeable splines, respectively; Attaching the at least one first and the at least one second outer edges of the at least one first and the least one second three-dimensional contour-conforming carapace dome panels to the spline ends of the interchangeable splines, respectively; Adjusting the angle of the carapace-supporting angled arm; and Locking
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventor: Dee Volin
  • Publication number: 20230346090
    Abstract: Disclosed are example embodiments of a cantilever-canopy umbrella. An example may be a five-device-in-one physically-impaired-assisting easy-slide-and-lift dog-run-adaptable land-yacht-adaptable projector-screen-adaptable anti-wobbling foot-pedal-operated robot-assembled cantilever-canopy umbrella. An example embodiment may be rotatable-floating-table-locking rotatable-floating-chair-locking rotatable-umbrella-locking foot-pedal. The example embodiment may include a 360-degree-locking disk. The example embodiment may also include a plurality of umbrella-pole-locking four-wall tunnels. The example embodiment may also include a noise-cancelling tunnel-and-disk-protecting housing. The example embodiment may also include a noise-cancelling tunnel-and-disk-protecting flange slid over said noise-cancelling tunnel-and-disk-protecting housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventor: Dee Volin
  • Patent number: 11624187
    Abstract: A multi-function leaf-separating-discharging height-and-angle-adjustable louvered pergola comprises: opposing end caps, multi-screen-securing edges, rainwater-and-wind-sealing insulation strips attached to multi-screen-securing louver blades for automatically raising and lowering shade and video projection screens and controlling fruit-drying duration and also functioning as a truck-bed tonneau cover, cradle axels inserted between cradle caps and rotation cradles, stanchions and rotation cradles screwed to first and second leaf-discharging side gutter beams, corner posts, multi-louver-control bar connected to linkage arm, linkage arm connected to worm-gear transmission controlled by multi-screen-raising-lowering multi-louver-control crank, first and second rainwater-channeling-and-leaf-filtering side gutter beams attached to the corner posts, the discrete-leaf-filtering tubes, spouts, corner-post base plates, and height-and-angle-adjustable tube screws screwed into the corner-post base plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG ZHENGTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dee Volin, Zhou Jian
  • Patent number: 11560733
    Abstract: A ten-device-in-one reconfigurable adjustable carport (capable of functioning as a privacy screen, a wind screen, a cabana, a dog run, a retail-tradeshow booth, an attic, a storage, a picnic table, a kennel, and a carport) comprises: a canopy, roof spines, roof ribs, leg posts, T-shaped joiners and X-shaped joiners spring-snappingly connected to the roof spines and roof ribs and leg posts for configuring the ten-device-in-one carport as a car canopy and a greenhouse and an enclosure and a barrier and a cabana and a privacy room and a privacy screen and a tradeshow booth and a wind barrier, panels, door-frame panel, panel-to-panel-securing brackets and panel-to-post-securing brackets bolted to the panels and the door-frame panel and the roof spines and the roof ribs and the leg posts for configuring the ten-device-in-one carport as a dog run and a greenhouse and an enclosure and a barrier and bleacher shelves to store or display items and an attic to store items off the ground and a hanging cage to house anima
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventor: Dee Volin
  • Patent number: 11505962
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing and using a five-device-in-one water-collecting-and-decelerating fruit-and-nut-collecting-and-decelerating wind-diffusing-and-redirecting multi-function-transversable-ridge-and-seam multi-function-twist-locking-base carapace, which has at least one first three-hundred-and-sixty-degree-orientational-carapace panel, at least one second three-hundred-and-sixty-degree-orientational-carapace panel, a water-ejecting fruit-and-nut-discharging wind-diffusing crown-carapace nozzle, at least one breadth-wise carapace-panel-connecting seam, at least one mid-panel water-directing water-decelerating fruit-and-nut-decelerating wind-diffusing ridge seam, a upper hub, rib-hinging intersectors, arched carapace-supporting ribs, a three-hundred-sixty-degree-rotatably-locking center-support stanchion, an adjustable stanchion-supporting twist-locking base, a shuttle hub, and actuating-and-supporting ribs, comprises the steps of: sewing said at least one first three-hundred-and-sixty-degree-orientational-
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventor: Dee Volin
  • Publication number: 20220325521
    Abstract: A multi-function leaf-separating-discharging height-and-angle-adjustable louvered pergola comprises: opposing end caps, multi-screen-securing edges, rainwater-and-wind-sealing insulation strips attached to multi-screen-securing louver blades for automatically raising and lowering shade and video projection screens and controlling fruit-drying duration and also functioning as a truck-bed tonneau cover, cradle axels inserted between cradle caps and rotation cradles, stanchions and rotation cradles screwed to first and second leaf-discharging side gutter beams, corner posts, multi-louver-control bar connected to linkage arm, linkage arm connected to worm-gear transmission controlled by multi-screen-raising-lowering multi-louver-control crank, first and second rainwater-channeling-and-leaf-filtering side gutter beams attached to the corner posts, the discrete-leaf-filtering tubes, spouts, corner-post base plates, and height-and-angle-adjustable tube screws screwed into the corner-post base plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Dee Volin, Zhou Jian
  • Patent number: 11399603
    Abstract: A physically-impaired-assisting multi-function sail comprises: a stanchion, a hoisting navigator for allowing an arthritic to deploy and retract the sail without the need to bend the fingers, a hoisting teeter totter secured to the navigator, a teeter-totter hook-lock secured to the teeter totter for automatically locking and unlocking the teeter totter to deploy and retract the sail, a cable secured to a camber, a cable canal formed into the teeter totter for hiding and protecting the cable within, a pivoting pulley housing secured to the teeter totter, a pivoting pulley hub swingingly attached to the pivoting pulley housing, sail-buttresses hingedly attached to the pivoting pulley hub, a sail canopy secured to the sail-buttresses, multiple cable pulleys rotatably secured at multiple locations within the pivoting pulley housing and pivoting pulley hub, a central tube attached to the pivoting pulley hub, sail-buttress-supporting arms hingedly attached to the sail-buttresses, and a shuttling hub attached to th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventor: Dee Volin
  • Patent number: 11293196
    Abstract: A six device-in-one robot-assembled arthritic-assisting noise-canceling friction-reducing dog-run-adaptable anti-wobbling gazebo which includes an adjustable canopy, foldable trusses and posts, and robotically formed connectors which connect the trusses and include a rivet tail fare noise canceling connector system, a robot assembled heat expandable, cold contractible interlocking anti-wobbling spiral saw screw system, a cone shielding intersector system, and post centering, tick preventing water discharging sleeve system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventor: Dee Volin
  • Patent number: 11156013
    Abstract: A five-device-in-one awning includes: a spline hub, arched splines screwed to the spline hub, arched spline-extension prongs inserted into arched splines, elevator booms, an automatic-sliding elevator lock slidably attached to the arched splines, an elevator-lock lever attached to the elevator lock, elevator-boom hand paddles attached to the elevator booms, an adjustable dome attached to the arched spline-extension prongs for functioning as a weather shield or as a privacy shield or as a domed truck-bed cover or as a domed truck-side tent or as a curved projection screen or as a truck-side awning or as a tailgate awning or as an awning, a foot-stabilizing-and-reversing plate, and an attachable insertable reversible arch foot and attachable insertable reversible dual-arch feet screwed to the foot-stabilizing-and-reversing plate and the spline hub for attaching to a utility port or to a trailer hitch or to a tailgate slot of a pickup truck bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventor: Dee Volin
  • Patent number: 11154132
    Abstract: A five-device-in-one multi-function tea table, capable of functioning as a pet kennel, a storage locker, a table, a cooler, and an umbrella base, comprises: top and side and bottom frames attached to each other, solid and double-sized and pole-receiving panels respectively inserted into the top and side frames for the five-device-in-one multi-function tea table to function as a kennel or a grooming station or a pet-drying platform or a storage locker or a table or a cooler or an umbrella base, pole-receiving holes drilled into one of the panels, a pole-receiver-shaft attached to the top or side or bottom frame for attaching the five-device-in-one multi-function tea table to a fence post or to a tow hitch or to a pickup-truck utility hole, a waterproof bag having cord tunnels for securely holding rocks or sand or water to function as a ballast or as a cooler or as a cinch-sack or as a backpack, and a securing cord inserted into the cord tunnels for cinchably securing and protecting contents inside the waterpro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventor: Dee Volin
  • Publication number: 20210301550
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing and using a five-device-in-one water-collecting-and-decelerating fruit-and-nut-collecting-and-decelerating wind-diffusing-and-redirecting multi-function-transversable-ridge-and-seam multi-function-twist-locking-base carapace, which has at least one first three-hundred-and-sixty-degree-orientational-carapace panel, at least one second three-hundred-and-sixty-degree-orientational-carapace panel, a water-ejecting fruit-and-nut-discharging wind-diffusing crown-carapace nozzle, at least one breadth-wise carapace-panel-connecting seam, at least one mid-panel water-directing water-decelerating fruit-and-nut-decelerating wind-diffusing ridge seam, a upper hub, rib-hinging intersectors, arched carapace-supporting ribs, a three-hundred-sixty-degree-rotatably-locking center-support stanchion, an adjustable stanchion-supporting twist-locking base, a shuttle hub, and actuating-and-supporting ribs, comprises the steps of: sewing said at least one first three-hundred-and-sixty-degree-orientational-
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: DEE VOLIN
  • Patent number: 11096458
    Abstract: A five-device-in-one water-and-leaf-separating leaf-filtering water-collecting wind-blocking wind-redirecting marine-yacht-land-yacht-balcony-bumper-and-trailer-hitch-mountable sail comprises: a central-sail intersector; central-sail-supporting ribs; central-sail-rib-raising arms; an adjustable water-and-leaf-separating leaf-filtering central sail attached to the central-sail-supporting ribs for functioning as a water diverting device to predeterminately redirect the flow of water, functioning as a leaf filtering device to filter leaves from rain water when used upside down, functioning as a water collector to collect rain water when used upside down, functioning as a wind blocker to block wind, functioning as a privacy screen to provide privacy, functioning as an awning to angledly block rain and sun beams, functioning as a canopy to vertically block rain and sun beams, functioning as a wind redirector to redirect wind in and out of sail, and functioning as a sail-steering wind-powered device to steer the sa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Inventor: Dee Volin
  • Patent number: 11085196
    Abstract: A four-device-in-one skybox dehydrator sauna wind-redirecting bungalow comprises: adjustable louver blades attached to side gutter beams for preventing rainwater from getting into the bungalow and adjustably controlling amount of sunlight that shines into the bungalow, chutes formed to the side gutter beams and end gutter beams, solar-rechargeable batteries installed within adjustable louver blades for powering led lights and saving costs of replacing non-rechargeable alkaline batteries and helping reduce carbon footprint, a solar panel mounted to adjustable louver blades for collecting solar energy to charge and recharge rechargeable batteries and saving energy costs associated with lighting the bungalow and saving costs of replacing with non-rechargeable alkaline batteries and providing freedom to place the bungalow away from a power outlet and helping reduce carbon footprint, panel frames, panel inserts inserted within the panel frames for enabling the bungalow to become a sauna and a skybox and a dehydrat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Inventor: Dee Volin
  • Publication number: 20210169187
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing and using a five-device-in-one multi-function multi-orientation interchangeable reversible cantilever-stanchion carapace system comprises the steps of: sewing said at least one first three-dimensional-contour-conforming carapace dome panel and said at least one second three-dimensional-contour-conforming carapace dome panel together such that said at least one water-directing-and-ejecting ball-directing-and-ejecting fruit-directing-and-ejecting transverse seam and said at least one water-directing-and-ejecting ball-directing-and-ejecting fruit-directing-and-ejecting cross-cutting seam are formed therebetween for converging rain water therein to repeatedly change the direction of rain water to decelerate the flowing speed of rain water to reduce water splash to avoid damaging irrigated vegetables, for converging harvested fruits therein to repeatedly change the direction of harvested fruits to decelerate the rolling speed of harvested fruits to reduce fruit bruises to avoid thro
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventor: DEE VOLIN
  • Patent number: 10980219
    Abstract: A draw-ramp egg-teeter-totter wild-animal-shield chicken coop, comprising: a first and a second and a third and a fourth roosting walls attached to one another, a roosting roof attached to the first and the second and the third and the fourth roosting wall, a passage opening formed in the fourth roosting wall, a first nesting wall attached to the third roosting wall along the opposite passage-opening edges, a second nesting wall attached to the first nesting wall, a third nesting wall attached to the second nesting wall, a slanted nesting floor attached to the first nesting wall and the third nesting wall, a teeter-totter axle attached to the slanted nesting floor, an automatic egg-collecting teeter-totter seesawingly attached to the teeter-totter axle, an automatic egg-laying indicator attached to one of the two opposite teeter-totter ends, a teeter-totter-angle-adjusting screw threadedly attached to another one of the two opposite teeter-totter ends, a draw-ramp opening formed in the first roosting wall, tw
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Inventor: Dee Volin
  • Publication number: 20210085075
    Abstract: A five-device-in-one multi-function multi-configurable hitch-mountable rollable rotatable collapsible tea table, capable of functioning as a pet kennel, a storage locker, a table, a cooler, and an umbrella base, comprises: a top frame and a side frame and a bottom frame attached to each other, solid panels and double-sized panels and pole-receiving panels respectively slidably inserted into the top frame or the side frame providing an interchangeable surface to act as a top or wall when the tea table is functioning as a kennel and a grooming station and a pet drying platform and a storage locker and a table and a cooler, pole-receiving holes respectively drilled into the pole-receiving panels for vertically or horizontally or diagonally inserting at least one umbrella pole in multiple different locations through the tea table, a pole-receiver-shaft welded to a pole-receiver-shaft base-plate and attached to the top frame or the side frame or the bottom frame for vertically or horizontally attaching an umbrella
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: DEE VOLIN
  • Publication number: 20210084838
    Abstract: A six-device-in-one material-saving consumer-and-manufacturer-cost-saving shipping-volume-saving multi-barrier-locking multi-root-gripping-and-water-flowing solar-light-securing sprinkler-securing umbrella-pole-securing trellis-securing anti-dig garden-and-tree-protecting vertical-truck-bed-extender-truck-bed-tonneau-cover stackable landscape barrier, comprises: a material-saving barrier, a barrier-connecting end-wing molded to the material-saving barrier for saving materials during manufacturing, being half of the length of comparable prior art and saving money for consumers by requiring less overlap at the ends of the landscape barriers and preventing animals from digging beneath the landscape barrier, when inserted into the soil vertically and bending to create a variety of corner angles, adjustable-corner-angling holes cut out from the material-saving barrier for lockingly supporting a garden-plant cage and promoting bending of the end-wing to form a variety of corner angles, material-saving tongue-lockin
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: DEE VOLIN
  • Publication number: 20210054646
    Abstract: A ten-device-in-one reconfigurable adjustable carport (capable of functioning as a privacy screen, a wind screen, a cabana, a dog run, a retail-tradeshow booth, an attic, a storage, a picnic table, a kennel, and a carport) comprises: a canopy, roof spines, roof ribs, leg posts, T-shaped joiners and X-shaped joiners spring-snappingly connected to the roof spines and roof ribs and leg posts for configuring the ten-device-in-one carport as a car canopy and a greenhouse and an enclosure and a barrier and a cabana and a privacy room and a privacy screen and a tradeshow booth and a wind barrier, panels, door-frame panel, panel-to-panel-securing brackets and panel-to-post-securing brackets bolted to the panels and the door-frame panel and the roof spines and the roof ribs and the leg posts for configuring the ten-device-in-one carport as a dog run and a greenhouse and an enclosure and a barrier and bleacher shelves to store or display items and an attic to store items off the ground and a hanging cage to house anima
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventor: DEE VOLIN
  • Publication number: 20210025191
    Abstract: A five-device-in-one arthritic-aiding reversible sun-blocking projector-screening event-sheltering vehicle-awning cupola comprises: a spline hub, arched splines screwed to the spline hub for connecting multiple cupolas together and supporting and tensioning and deploying and retracting the cupola, arched spline-extension prongs inserted into arched splines, elevator booms, an automatic-sliding elevator lock slidably attached to the arched splines for automatically deploying and retracting the cupola and assisting the elevator booms to provide tension to the cupola and sliding vertically on the respective arched spline, an elevator-lock lever attached to the elevator lock for engaging the elevator lock on the arched splines using an arthritic's hand and assisting the elevator lock to lock the elevator booms to a predetermined vertical position on the arched splines and quickly and easily repositioning the elevator lock on the arched splines with an arthritic's hand and providing large surface area to aid those
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventor: DEE VOLIN