Patents by Inventor Ralph H. Orter

Ralph H. Orter 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: 4532911
    Abstract: The present heat controlling cooker cooperates with an electric or gas burner kitchen stove, released stove heat flows under and upward on all sides of a suspended vessel bottom and upward within a created space between suspended vessel and surrounding sidewall of base element. Having the heat controlling handle in the leftside position, as an example, upflowing heat enters into lower peripheral of open aperatures or elongated heat inlets, under the cooking grill which cooks, barbecues or roasts meat or other articles of food principally on bottom side; the upflowing heat also enters into upper opened aperatures or elongated heat inlets whereby the heat is directed on all sides of the food and juice and moisture released from the food is collected directly below in the closed bottom of the suspended vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Inventor: Ralph H. Orter
  • Patent number: 4427016
    Abstract: The present invention consists of an ashtray with a three sided upright portion with pairs of slide-in grooves to display advertising cards which extend above the top for removing and turning to view opposite slides, said three sided portion including a front center upright semi-circular flue with an attaching bracket at its lower end at holding means at the upper end thereof; the ashtray further including a semi-circular tray with engaging pins which couple onto said attaching bracket, said tray in a horizontal position supports a cigarette and when rotated upward, with a lighted end down cigarette thereon, engages said flue to produce a rounded flue, wherein an updraft through said flue sustains a cigarette in a lighted condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Inventor: Ralph H. Orter
  • Patent number: 4329977
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an adjustable and rotatable stovetop cooker having two telescoping halves. Each half also includes opposed handles which allow the cooker to be picked up and rotated 180 degrees to allow cooking a package of food on both sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1982
    Inventor: Ralph H. Orter
  • Patent number: 4259971
    Abstract: A dual purpose cigarette holder which may be used to smoke a cigarette manually, or when modified, functions as a filtered cigarette holder for filtering smoke inhaled by user. The holder includes a tubular body having a mouthpiece on end and a metal insert for holding a cigarette on the other end. The body includes a chamber divided into two portions each including a check valve therein and openings in the wall thereof. In the form of a manually operated smoking device, a resilient, collapsible member is removeably engaged about the tubular body enclosing said openings. In the form of a filtered cigarette holder, the collapsible member is removed and replaced by a filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1981
    Inventor: Ralph H. Orter
  • Patent number: 4252322
    Abstract: A bingo playing board provided on its front face with a rectangular matrix of spaces, at least a majority of which are numbered. The spaces are disposed in discrete rows and columns with letters separately associated with and identifying respective ones of said columns to define a bingo game format. Additional numbered spaces may be provided outside of the rectangular matrix. Selected ones of the numbered spaces within the matrix, or outside the matrix, or both, are physically designated as bonus numbers to allow the playing of additional games while playing the game of bingo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1981
    Inventor: Ralph H. Orter