Patents by Inventor Ethan E. Silverman

Ethan E. Silverman 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: 5188744
    Abstract: An ice cube dispenser tray capable of dispensing only a desired number of ice cubes into a glass or container without dropping of additional unwanted cubes from the tray, includes an elongate tray body having separate ice cube compartments aligned in succession along the length of the tray body, and a pair of compartment cover panels. Guide channels formed in the tray body enable the pair of cover panels to slide just above the ice cube compartments so that ice cubes can be dispensed out of the tray body only from those compartments that are exposed by movement of the cover panels. Ice cubes in compartments beneath the cover panels are blocked by the panels from falling free of the tray body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Inventor: Ethan E. Silverman