Patents by Inventor J. Edwin Ek

J. Edwin Ek 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: 5484160
    Abstract: A cart for storing and transporting gardening tools and materials includes a shell, a wheel assembly journalled to the shell for transporting the shell and a steering assembly fixed to a rear portion of the shell for guiding the shell during transport. The shell has a rectangular bottom and front and side walls formed from arrays of tubular pots, each for receiving a tool through an open upper end thereof. The wheel assembly includes an axle extending transversely across the shell at approximately its midpoint and through the side walls. The wheels are large in relation to the shell and are disposed in wells defined by the bottoms of the tool pots contoured substantially to an hemispherical arc concentric with the wheels. At least one of the rearmost pots of each shell side wall extends below the shell bottom as legs which, together with the wheels, supporting said shell in a substantially level condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Inventor: J. Edwin Ek
  • Patent number: 5453376
    Abstract: A compost chamber includes a substantially cylindrical casing extending from a first cap closing an inlet end thereof to a second cap closing an outlet end thereof, the caps having a door therein for receiving and removing compost materials therethrough, respectively. The casing is pleated in a continuous spiral about a longitudinal axis thereof substantially from the inlet end to the outlet end. Thus, the casing is collapsible and expandible by folding and unfolding, respectively, of at least one of the pleats. Furthermore, when the casing is rotated about its longitudinal axis, the compost materials contained therein are transferred from the inlet end toward the outlet end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Inventor: J. Edwin Ek
  • Patent number: D344383
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1994
    Inventor: J. Edwin Ek
  • Patent number: D347404
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Inventor: J. Edwin Ek