Patents by Inventor Frank C. Miklas

Frank C. Miklas 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: 4361750
    Abstract: An electric thermostatically controlled drip coffeemaker has a generally upright C-shaped housing with a lower horizontal leg having a heated carafe support, an upper horizontal leg having a water spreader, and a vertical leg enclosing an accessible water reservoir. An electrically heated hot water generator in the lower leg has an inlet connected to the water reservoir and an outlet connected to the spreader by tubes through a separate definitive condenser located in the vertical leg entirely below the reservoir. The condenser includes an elongated generally cylindrical member larger in cross section than the connecting tubes and having an off-center radially directed water inlet from the hot water generator at the bottom thereof. Shaped and aligned baffle and flow directing means are disposed in the member to impart a non-swirling, vortex preventing, upward flow to the heated water. A captured, limited travel ball check valve disposed in an outlet at the top of the member permits vertical outflow only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1982
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Frank C. Miklas
  • Patent number: 4216763
    Abstract: A toaster/oven accessory pan sized to cook small food items (eggs, etc.) comprises a flat major panel, integral upstanding sidewalls, a peripheral flange extending from and surrounding the sidewalls, and two handles integral with the peripheral flange and defining a slot opening for receiving the tines of a fork to lift and carry the pan. The bottoms of the fork tines engage a tab of the handle partially defining the slot opening, the tops of the fork tines engage a downstruck stiffening bead formed in the peripheral flange adjacent the slot opening and the ends of the tines abut a sidewall juxtaposed the handle. The peripheral flange is provided with grooves extending about two opposed corners and beads extending about the remaining two opposed corners, and a second identical toaster/oven accessory pan can be inverted and nest on the first pan as a cover, and in particular, the beads and grooves nest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1980
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Frank C. Miklas
  • Patent number: 4013198
    Abstract: A measuring dispenser wherein a generally cylindrical drum having a transverse wall is positioned at the bottom of a canister, and a forwardly extending longitudinally movable partition with a transverse rear wall is inserted within the drum so that variable volume measuring chambers are provided by longitudinally moving the partition within the cylindrical drum. A one-piece cylindrical adjuster is inserted within the drum and is provided with inclined slots for longitudinally adjusting the partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Frank C. Miklas