Patents by Inventor George A. Howard

George A. Howard 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: 20020135197
    Abstract: A supplemental sun visor that fits between the sun visors on an automobile having the side edges secured by suction cups. The supplemental sun visor may display advertising, slogans, logos or other information easily visible from outside the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventor: George A. Howard
  • Patent number: 4399622
    Abstract: A dredging apparatus is afforded having the improvements of a wedge-shaped dredge foot housing both a fluid opening and a filter member, the intake opening being located on the underside of the dredge foot and the filter member being located above the fluid intake opening so as to be placed between the intake and the suction conduit, the taper of the wedge foot being toward its forward edge and its underside being substantially planar. Also afforded is providing the lower end of the dredge housing with a forwardly directed lever means comprising a lever member capable of being reciprocally moved in order to effect the levering of large objects, thus enabling the location of the intake opening below such objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1983
    Inventor: George A. Howard
  • Patent number: 4148729
    Abstract: A system for storing and handling used cooking oils and the like comprises a dump station located adjacent to the kitchen facility in a restuarant for receiving and feeding the used cooking oils through a fill pipe into a remotely located, closed storage container. Heating tubes passing through the fill pipe and the storage container maintain the liquidity of the used cooking oil while moving through the fill pipe and while stored in the container. A pump and control unit is co-located with the storage container for monitoring the temperature of the used oil in the container, and for detecting when the container is filled with the oil so as to provide an indication in the restaurant so that a pump may be energized to thereafter evacuate the storage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1979
    Inventor: George A. Howard