Patents by Inventor Joe A. Love

Joe A. Love 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: 6581214
    Abstract: A system utilizing multiple spacer and shim elements that nest together to raise a closet ring to the height required for the particular floor being used in a given application for a toilet bowl installation. The nested spacer and shim elements are placed on the rough floor and receive the closet ring mounting flange. Bosses on an upper side of a lower spacer and shim element are received in detents in a lower side of a corresponding upper spacer and shim element so that the spacer and shim elements are held securely in their nested position so as to form a registered spacer/shim stack. The spacer and shim elements will typically be ¼″ thick. The spacer and shim elements further include breakaway mounting tabs positioned about an outer circumference of the main body of the spacer and shim elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Inventors: Joe A. Love, Herman T. Charity, III, Lincoln J. Alvord
  • Patent number: 6285919
    Abstract: An apparatus for performing a task in a confined space having an access port. The apparatus comprise: a confinement box securable to the access port of the confined space; a shell extending from the confinement box; a teleoperated arm movable between a retracted position, in which the teleoperated arm is disposed within the shell, and a deployed position, in which the teleoperated arm extends through the access port and into the confined space to perform the task; and a control system for commanding the teleoperated arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: U T Battelle, LLC
    Inventors: John David Randolph, Peter Downes Lloyd, Lonnie Joe Love, Dong Soo Kwon, James Allen Blank, Hurley Thomas Davis
  • Patent number: D474265
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Inventors: Joe A. Love, Herman T. Charity, III, Lincoln J. Alvord
  • Patent number: D477658
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Inventors: Joe A. Love, Herman T. Charity, III, Lincoln J. Alvord