Patents by Inventor J. Linn Rodgers

J. Linn Rodgers 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: 20030029972
    Abstract: A stabilizer to hold two objects in position. It includes a pair of hook-like retainers joined together by a flexible stiffly springy joinder. A stub extending from one of the retainers carries a cross-bar that can be pulled by two fingers to pull one retainer over an object, and can be stretched to fit the other retainer over the other object, the joinder tending to return to a rest position to stabilize the assembled objects and stabilizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventor: J. Linn Rodgers
  • Patent number: 6513767
    Abstract: An encirclement to stabilize, and if desired also to anchor bundles of wires. It includes a base segment and a pair of integral arm segments having interior arcuate surfaces to encircle the bundle when the stiffly flexible arms are brought together. A latch tooth extends from each arm segment. The latch teeth extend across a central plane which all of the segments confront, to engage and latch the arm segments to one another and thereby encircle the bundle to hold it together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Inventor: J. Linn Rodgers
  • Patent number: 5279420
    Abstract: A holder for displaying tubular articles. A body has an integral spear, the spear having a tapered nose and a retention shoulder. A retention disc is snaped over the nose to retain on the holder a tubular article whose least lateral dimension is smaller than that of the body or of the disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1994
    Inventor: J. Linn Rodgers
  • Patent number: 4614302
    Abstract: A hose end nozzle assembly with a handle, a body with an internal mixing chamber, and a nozzle discharging from the mixing chamber. A dispenser opens into the mixing chamber. It includes a piston-cylinder assembly by means of which liquid held in the dispenser can be ejected into the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1986
    Inventor: J. Linn Rodgers
  • Patent number: 4421276
    Abstract: A convertible sprinkler which can be used as a ground sprinkler or as a hand sprinkler. The sprinkler has a pair of feet in the form of paddles hingedly connected to the sprinkler head in a dihedral relationship. When folded together, these feet form a handle. When they are unfolded, they provide a stable base for using the sprinkler as a ground sprinkler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Inventor: J. Linn Rodgers
  • Patent number: 3999712
    Abstract: A spray nozzle adapted for attachment to a hose for spraying water on a garden or lawn has a neck which merges into an enlarged delivery region, at the front of which there is a spray plate containing holes through which the fluid sprays. A pin for insertion into the ground is formed in the shape of an open eye at one end, the eye being attached by forcing it between juxtaposed bosses protruding toward each other from lugs at the under side of the nozzle device. The part of the device comprising the neck and delivery region is made in one piece of molded material and the spray member containing the spray plate is made separately of a similar molded material, these two parts then being attached together. To permit the making of the spray member portion in a mold, the mold is constructed so that it parts at a plane passing through the parts of the protruding bosses which are closest to each other, so that the mold parts can be separated from the cast article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1976
    Inventor: J. Linn Rodgers