Patents by Inventor Joseph R. Tordella

Joseph R. Tordella 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: 9445696
    Abstract: A sanitary toilet seat has a pivot point for raising and lowering the toilet seat, which pivot point is located on a plane above a horizontal plane upon which the seat may rest when in a lowered position on the toilet bowl. In addition, a toilet bowl may have a steep inside bowl angle to reduce splash effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Inventor: Joseph R. Tordella
  • Patent number: 8260797
    Abstract: A method for populating a form includes storing differing forms in a database, each form having at least one information location for entering an item of user information, selecting a first form to provide a first selected form, and entering an item of user information into the information location to provide an entered item of information. Storing the entered item of information in the database to provide a stored item of information, selecting a second form, determining whether the information location of the second selected form corresponds to the information location of first selected form and retrieving the stored item of information to provide a retrieved item of information in accordance with the determining are also included. The retrieved item of information is entered into the information location of the second form to provide a populated form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Inventor: Joseph R. Tordella
  • Publication number: 20120060272
    Abstract: A sanitary toilet seat has a pivot point for raising and lowering the toilet seat, which pivot point is located on a plane above a horizontal plane upon which the seat may rest when in a lowered position on the toilet bowl. In addition, a toilet bowl may have a steep inside bowl angle to reduce splash effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventor: Joseph R. Tordella
  • Publication number: 20100241642
    Abstract: A method for populating a form includes storing differing forms in a database, each form having at least one information location for entering an item of user information, selecting a first form to provide a first selected form, and entering an item of user information into the information location to provide an entered item of information. Storing the entered item of information in the database to provide a stored item of information, selecting a second form, determining whether the information location of the second selected form corresponds to the information location of first selected form and retrieving the stored item of information to provide a retrieved item of information in accordance with the determining are also included. The retrieved item of information is entered into the information location of the second form to provide a populated form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventor: Joseph R. Tordella
  • Patent number: 4613057
    Abstract: A closure for dispensing pills, capsules and the like includes a one-way valve member with a valved passage for opening to permit dispensing from the container when the container is in an active dispensing orientation, and for closing to prevent access to the interior of the container when the container is in an inactive non-dispensing orientation. A rotary system includes an upper cap member and a bottom member bridging the valve member, and the upper cap member has an egress passage located above the valved passage in the one-way valve member. The bottom member is keyed to rotate as a single unit with the upper cap member and includes a laterally projecting section aligned with the egress passage in the upper cap member for overlying the bottom of the valved passage in the one-way valve member when the egress passage of the upper cap member is aligned with the valved passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1986
    Inventors: John A. Sacchetti, Joseph R. Tordella, Arthur J. Pellegrino
  • Patent number: 4294571
    Abstract: A van platform including a housing for installation upon the floor of a van or truck. The housing includes a first floor located over the van floor to define a storage space therebelow, in which space a ramp is located. The ramp is arranged to be moved out of its retracted position in the housing space to an extended, inclined ramp-functioning position. The ramp includes rollers to facilitate movement of the ramp to the extended position. Upwardly inclined blocks are located within the housing and each includes an indentation for the reception of an associated roller as the ramp reaches a desired position adjacent the top surface of the first floor. The housing includes first locking means to lock the rollers within the associated indentations when the ramp is extended and second means for locking the ramp within the retracted position. The second means is in the form of a releasable handle which is also used to effect the extension of the ramp out of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1981
    Inventor: Joseph R. Tordella
  • Patent number: 4078678
    Abstract: A van platform housing for installation upon a first floor, such as in a van or a truck; the housing including a special floor to be positioned in spaced relationship to a first floor to define a space, a ramp which is held in the space but adapted to be moved out of the space to an extended, inclined, ramp functioning position, rollers secured to the ramp to facilitate movement of the ramp to and from the extended position, upwardly inclined edges located within the space between the floors, the inclined edges including indents for reception of the rollers as the ramp reaches a desired extended position with the outer edge of the ramp being so placed that ramp inclines downwardly and outwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1978
    Inventor: Joseph R. Tordella