Patents by Inventor Otho S. West

Otho S. West 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: 5355619
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for injecting a treatment liquid into a hole drilled into a trunk of a tree comprising a container for receiving the treatment liquid and a closure for closing the container. A one-way valve means enables a pressurized gas to be introduced into container. A control valve controls the flow of liquid from the container into a flexible tubing. The flexible tubing has an injector nozzle for insertion into the hole in the trunk of the tree for enabling the pressurized gas to force the treatment liquid into the hole in the tree to administer the treatment liquid thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Inventors: Otho S. West, Gary E. Hale
  • Patent number: 4196542
    Abstract: A group of topiary framing members, each carried separately by a planter or flower pot, the pots or planters slideably assembled into a group for contiguous support, one planter by the next. The exposed parts of each plant have a color distinct from an adjacent plant and are supported by a planter separable from the group for trimming to a selected shape provided by the topiary framing member, so that the assembly of topiary frames and plants thereon forms a composite design of trimmed shape, each individual plant of the assembly growing from a separate planter. The group of composite framing members are in the form of an ornamental object, such as animal or person or other, having the appearance of an ornamental single statuary composite, and the plants thereof grow as a group while their planters are separable easily for trimming of the plants, such as slideably, and are then reassembled into the ornamental composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1980
    Inventor: Otho S. West