Patents by Inventor Jasper C. Houck, Jr.

Jasper C. Houck, Jr. 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: 4756094
    Abstract: A surface mountable device for drying bathers has an enclosed, vertically or horizontally oriented chamber. An elongated air passageway is located on the front of the chamber. Means for providing drying air is attached to one end of the chamber. The chamber has cross sections which diminish from the end attached to the means for providing drying air to the opposite end. The cover has attachment means for attaching the device to a desired surface, obviating the necessity for recessing the device in the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1988
    Assignee: Glenn Melvan Houck
    Inventor: Jasper C. Houck, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4685222
    Abstract: A drying device has a blower, a motor for driving the blower, a switch for actuating the blower motor unit, and the heating elements in the duct supplying the blower. The air supplied is received by an air towel having an open upper edge, a back wall, a front wall, and tapering side walls. Air exits the air towel from a slot disposed in the front wall of the enclosure member. The rear wall of the enclosure member also tapers gradually toward the bottom-most portion of the slot, as do the side walls of the enclosure member, so that, with diminishing volume enclosed by the enclosure member, a generally uniform air velocity of air flow outward from the slot along the vertical length thereof. The air is directed downwardly generally at a 45.degree. angle. Also, a flexible hose having a nozzle has an end in communication with the air supplied; the end in communication with the air supply penetrates a side wall of the enclosure member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1987
    Assignee: Glenn M. Houck
    Inventor: Jasper C. Houck, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4594797
    Abstract: A drying device has a blower, a motor for driving the blower, a switch for actuating the blower motor unit, and the heating elements in the duct supplying the blower. The air supplied is received by an air towel having an open upper edge, a back wall, a front wall, and tapering side walls. Air exits the air towel from a slot disposed in the front wall of the enclosure member. The rear wall of the enclosure member also tapers gradually toward the bottom-most portion of the slot, as do the side walls of the enclosure member, so that, with diminishing volume enclosed by the enclosure member, a generally uniform air velocity of air flow outward from the slot along the vertical length thereof. The air is directed downwardly generally at a 45.degree. angle. Also, a flexible hose having a nozzle has an end in communication with the air supplied; the end in communication with the air supply penetrates a side wall of the enclosure member to receive air from the enclosure member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Inventor: Jasper C. Houck, Jr.