Patents by Inventor Nadine Ross

Nadine Ross 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: 20220371778
    Abstract: An illustrated view of an improved food container for saving space when the food container is less than full is presented. The improved food container is useful for reducing an amount of storage space necessary to store the improved food container. Furthermore, the food product inside of the improved food container will have preservability because it will contain less air. The improved food container further is useful for providing an indication of the amount of food product remaining in the improved food container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventor: Nadine Ross
  • Patent number: 7264285
    Abstract: A dead-bolt lock safety latch for preventing unauthorized unlocking of a dead-bolt lock with a key or lock picking tools provides a spring biased body having two legs, each leg having a leg extension, and carrying an elongate handle to provide mechanical leverage to temporarily overcome spring biasing of the body for moving the leg extensions away from one another for releasable engageable with a base portion of a dead bolt lock carried by a door. Protrusions on the leg extensions engage with diametrically opposed notches defined in a base portion of the deadbolt lock while deadbolt knob is positionally maintained in a medial space between the legs to prevent rotation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Inventor: Nadine Ross
  • Patent number: 7077289
    Abstract: A dispenser for individual strip bandages from a rolled elongate bandage supply having the individual strip bandages releasably interconnected between a pair of cover strips defining chambers about each strip bandage. The dispenser provides a feed spindle carrying the bandage supply that is moved to a cover strip separator adjacent to a delivery slot in a casement. The cover strips are removed from a given strip bandage in the separator and pass along waste courses to motor powered take-up devices which move the bandage supply and disperse the given strip bandage through the delivery slot. At least one cover strip waste course has a tension sensor to sense tension in the associated cover strip to control the take-up device moving the associated cover strip to maintain synchronization of the motion of the pair of cover strips on the take-up devices moving them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Inventor: Nadine Ross
  • Patent number: 7000531
    Abstract: A nutcracker for simultaneously cracking a plurality of similar nuts in a single discreet operation provides a five sided box-like base defining a chamber having an open top, carrying a rigid bottom plate bottom and defining a slot in the front side extending downwardly to the bottom for nut shell removal. One or more spacers configured to fit within the cracking box chamber above the bottom plate, defining similar medial orifices and having different vertical thicknesses are stacked on the bottom plate to define a cracking chamber having a depth of eighty to ninety percent of the average height of nuts to be cracked. A striker plate having a non-resilient body with peripheral configuration to cover the orifice of the spacer and an upstanding handle manually impacts on the uppermost spacer to crack nuts in the cracking chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Inventor: Nadine Ross
  • Publication number: 20050072323
    Abstract: A nutcracker for simultaneously cracking a plurality of similar nuts in a single discreet operation provides a five sided box-like base defining a chamber having an open top, carrying a rigid bottom plate bottom and defining a slot in the front side extending downwardly to the bottom for nut shell removal. One or more spacers configured to fit within the cracking box chamber above the bottom plate, defining similar medial orifices and having different vertical thicknesses are stacked on the bottom plate to define a cracking chamber having a depth of eighty to ninety percent of the average height of nuts to be cracked. A striker plate having a non-resilient body with peripheral configuration to cover the orifice of the spacer and an upstanding handle manually impacts on the uppermost spacer to crack nuts in the cracking chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Inventor: Nadine Ross
  • Publication number: 20040238559
    Abstract: A dispenser for individual strip bandages from a rolled elongate bandage supply having the individual strip bandages releasably interconnected between a pair of cover strips defining chambers about each strip bandage. The dispenser provides a feed spindle carrying the bandage supply that is moved to a cover strip separator adjacent to a delivery slot in a casement. The cover strips are removed from a given strip bandage in the separator and pass along waste courses to motor powered take-up devices which move the bandage supply and disperse the given strip bandage through the delivery slot. At least one cover strip waste course has a tension sensor to sense tension in the associated cover strip to control the take-up device moving the associated cover strip to maintain synchronization of the motion of the pair of cover strips on the take-up devices moving them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventor: Nadine Ross
  • Patent number: 5784825
    Abstract: An annular fishing sinker is formed of environmentally compatible materials to dissolve in variable predetermined times in a water environment. The sinker is formed of sand in a matrix of gelatin, particulated cellulosic material that swells in water and unbleached wheat flour with enough water to form a moldable plastic mixture that upon drying is coherent and configurationally sustaining. The components may be varied in relative quantity to provide sinkers that dissolve in from less than one minute to more than twenty minutes. The sinker is attached to a fishing line by tying in such fashion that a knot will not be left in a supporting line when the sinker dissolves. A process is disclosed for forming the sinker by molding with subsequent drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Inventor: Nadine Ross