Patents by Inventor Frank E. DeMotte

Frank E. DeMotte 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: 5608195
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a disk-shaped wafer insertable into a three-way bulb-socket, thereby becomes an insertable and removable switch converter-device to convert a three-way socket to a one-way bulb-socket and/or back-to a three-way bulb-socket, includes an annular insulation ring and mounted on an upper radially inward face portion of the annular insulation ring, is located an electrically conductive disk having a raised central portion and having opposite upper and lower surfaces thereof. The lower radially outward conductive disk surface is contactable with a bottom-of-socket radially-outward electrical contact of the three-way bulb-socket. The upper conductive disk surface at the raised or electrically-insulated central portion is contactable with a three-way light bulb's role socket insertable member's lower-end bulb's two electrical contacts, one central, the other a concentric ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Inventor: Frank E. DeMotte
  • Patent number: 4627845
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a device which in a preferred embodiment thereof includes a pair of spaced-apart eye-bathable water-outlets adjustable of both the distance spaced-apart and the positioning between vertical and horizontal of the pair, with the water-outlets being of diverging conical shape having outer circumscribing walls thereof of substantially oval shape, water-conducting conduit structure, being of polyvinyl chloride plastic to a major extent, and the water-inlet thereof being mateable on any one of faucets of diverse shapes and structures by virtue of the water-inlet end being or including a flexible multi-purpose mating structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1986
    Inventor: Frank E. DeMotte