Patents by Inventor J. Cary Gossett

J. Cary Gossett 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: 5950498
    Abstract: A storage apparatus facilitates the storage of items inside a handle (for example, a handle portion of a bicycle handlebar). The storage apparatus includes a cylindrical storage member coupled to an engaging device for removably engaging the handlebar. An item to be stored (for example, a tire lever) is placed in the cylindrical storage member, the cylindrical storage member is slid into the hollow open end of a handle bar until the engaging device plugs the end of the handlebar. The engaging device is then made to engage the handlebar (for example, by expanding circumferentially to frictionally engage the inside surface of the handlebar) to secure the storage member in place inside the handlebar. The item is retrieved by disengaging the engaging device from the handlebar, sliding the storage member out of the handlebar, opening the storage member, and removing the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Inventors: J. Cary Gossett, Kenneth R. Sacks