Patents by Inventor Gardell W. Bearl

Gardell W. Bearl 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).

  • Child safety seat
    Patent number: 7029069
    Abstract: A child safety seat for use in combination with a vehicular seat includes a retractable harnessing apparatus for securing the child safety seat to the vehicular seat. The retractable harnessing apparatus has a safety strap retractably extending out from the strap housing, and is integrally mounted within the child safety seat. The retractable harnessing apparatus further includes a locking mechanism for responsively locking the safety strap in a fixed degree of extension from the housing upon incursion of a sudden force urging the safety strap out from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Universal Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D. Hendren, Gardell W. Bearl
  • Rotatable child safety seat
    Patent number: 6938954
    Abstract: A rotatable child safety seat mounting apparatus for use in combination with a vehicular child safety seat includes a base structure and an interface structure that is removably and rotatably engageable with the base structure. The interface structure and the base structure each include respective guide structures disposed thereon which enable relative rotational motion therebetween while remaining in an engaged relationship one another. The interface structure is specifically configured or adaptation to conventional vehicular child safety seats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Inventors: Ronald D. Hendren, Gardell W. Bearl