Patents by Inventor Jean V Rittmann

Jean V Rittmann 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: 9284778
    Abstract: A method to horizontally support substantially parallel railed ladder (3) with box (4) against vertical surface (17), with ladder footed (5) on horizontal ground (6). Box substantially has front side (32) open, facing ladder. Ladder top end (2) supports against box uppermost portions (36), ladder lower upper portion (94) supports against box bottom wall front portions (13), and box back side (11b) supports substantially flat against the vertical surface. Box top wall (10) and bottom wall (12) are both substantially perpendicular to the box back side. Ladder leans at a substantial angle, substantially at 4-up-to-to-1-out angle (U to O angle). Box on ladder can: provide two platforms to place supplies laddertop; distance ladder from the vertical surface; and improve ladder utility and user safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Inventor: Jean V. Rittmann
  • Publication number: 20120266436
    Abstract: A method to horizontally support ladder (3) with box (4) against vertical surface (17), with ladder footed (5) on horizontal ground (6). Box substantially has front side (32) open, facing ladder. Ladder top end (2) supports against box uppermost portions (36), ladder lower upper portion (94) supports against box bottom wall front portions (13), and box back side (11b) supports substantially flat against the vertical surface. Box top wall (10) and bottom wall (12) are both substantially perpendicular to the box back side. Ladder leans at a substantial angle, substantially at 4-up-to-to-1-out angle (U to O angle). Box on ladder can: provide two platforms to place supplies laddertop; distant ladder from the vertical surface; and improve ladder utility and user safety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventor: Jean V. Rittmann
  • Patent number: 6478421
    Abstract: This invention is a completely mechanical method of constructing eyewear, without brazing. An eyewear frame is formed by a continuous, bent, spring wire. Sidepiece 47 is fixedly attached to frame endpiece parts 30 and 31 by mating a bent portion of each within compression spring 40. The Vertically tall, transversely thin sidepieces can support with scant lateral pressure to a wearer's head, and can close can close against the frame without hinges. The length of a spring over the endpiece confines lense 56 in upper and lower portions of a frame's eyewire. Lense 55 has been removed by laterally compressing spring 40 around the folded-over endpiece parts and letting the ends of the endpiece parts spread vertically apart. Elongated members, unrelated to eyewear endpieces and sidepieces, can be fixedly attached and removed, and/or spread in the ways described above. A nosebridge can be formed by a continuous, bent, spring wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Inventor: Jean V Rittmann
  • Patent number: 6443341
    Abstract: The invention is a wrist wallet, substantially made of mesh fabric, having laterally positioned first pocket (50a), second pocket, and third pocket. A lining is inside the third pocket. All pockets have a single laterally elongated sealing element at the top of the wallet in the form of a zipper having teeth (39a). The wallet has an attaching means that secures the wallet circumferentially about a wearer's wrist. The attaching means is hooks and eyes, the eyes being mesh fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Inventor: Jean V. Rittmann
  • Publication number: 20010030733
    Abstract: This invention is a completely mechanical method of constructing eyewear, without brazing. An eyewear frame is formed by a continuous, bent, spring wire. Sidepiece 47 is fixedly attached to frame endpiece parts 30 and 31 by mating a bent portion of each within compression spring 40. The Vertically tall, transversely thin sidepieces can support with scant lateral pressure to a wearer's head, and can close can close against the frame without hinges. The length of a spring over the endpiece confines lense 56 in upper and lower portions of a frame's eyewire. Lense 55 has been removed by laterally compressing spring 40 around the folded-over endpiece parts and letting the ends of the endpiece parts spread vertically apart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventor: Jean V. Rittmann
  • Patent number: 6296355
    Abstract: This invention is a completely mechanical method of constructing eyewear, without brazing. An eyewear frame is formed by a continuous, bent, spring wire. Sidepiece 47 is fixedly attached to frame endpiece parts 30 and 31 by mating a bent portion of each within compression spring 40. The Vertically tall, transversely thin sidepieces can support with scant lateral pressure to a wearer's head, and can close can close against the frame without hinges. The length of a spring over the endpiece confines lense 56 in upper and lower portions of a frame's eyewire. Lense 55 has been removed by laterally compressing spring 40 around the folded-over endpiece parts and letting the ends of the endpiece parts spread vertically apart. Elongated members, unrelated to eyewear endpieces and sidepieces, can be fixedly attached and removed, and/or spread in the ways described above. A nosebridge can be formed by a continuous, bent, spring wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Inventor: Jean V Rittmann
  • Patent number: 6270512
    Abstract: A dilator/insert internally support the lateral nasal walls and securely stay in place without discomfort. It stays inserted by a pair of ledges (9a and 10a) and/or catches (7a and 8a), each resting behind a respective: limen nasi ridge (a somewhat vertical central protuberance on a lateral nasal wall); and/or a foot of the columella (the ‘meaty’ protuberance peripherally off the base of the columella). The insert is confined from shifting off those protuberances by being tall (distance between 1a and 2a); almost as tall near the entrances of the nose as the entrances themselves. When worn, the bridge (1a and 2a)/leg (3a, 4a an 5a, 6a) assemblies look like two central nose rings. The peripheral rigidity of the bridge/leg assemblies braces the lateral walls of the nose apart and keeps the ledges in position. Catches can position midway rearward on bottom legs; and they extend centrally enough to rest behind, without engaging, the feet of the columella.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Inventor: Jean V Rittmann
  • Patent number: 6110007
    Abstract: The front weight support system/garment/bra supports front weight substantially on a wearer's upper back, above the shoulder blades and below the cervical vertebrae of the neck. Weight is supported underneath by the front enclosure 3a which is extended to the wearer's shoulder-tops by opposite side front straps 3a and 11a , which secure to opposite side edges of the yoke 2a. The yoke restrains the front weight rearwardly and upwardly against the wearer's upper back. The downward end of the yoke is leveraged down by spine strap 7a, vertically adjustably secured to the rear of circumferential body band 9a by single adjuster 10a. The enclosure is secured to the front of the body band to keep the enclosure from moving forward off the weight. The yoke is positioned off the back of the wearer's neck by its shape, rigidity, and/or with an attached spine strap. Laterally rigid rod 88a in yoke can hold the front straps laterally apart and off the sides of the wearer's neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Inventor: Jean V. Rittmann
  • Patent number: 5859684
    Abstract: An eyeglass support system, where, when worn, lenses (55a unseen and 56a) and frame (59a) are lifted onto a wearer's nose by leveraging the rearward ends of sidepieces (47a unseen and 48a) under the lower rear slopes of the wearer's ears. The weight of the lenses plus frame is slightly forward of where the eyeglasses' nosepiece (46c) rests on the wearer's nose. The two sidepieces are mounted to the outside edges of the eyeglasses. The free ends of the sidepieces have ear-rests (51a and unseen 52a), which rest under the lower rear slopes of the wearer's ears. The side pieces supported under the ears, leverage the weight of the glasses up on the nose. The ear-rests hold the nosepiece to the nose at a desired position. This hold is secure because the slopes of the nose and lower rear ears are somewhat parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Inventor: Jean V. Rittmann