Patents by Inventor Robert Howitt

Robert Howitt 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: 5062609
    Abstract: A combined keyboard storage monitor support and document shelf which includes a keyboard storage apparatus for supporting a keyboard in combination with a storage shelf apparatus for supporting items in storage and for moving the supported items between a storage non-access position and an extended open position. The apparatus comprises a spaced apart pair of elements each including a support element having a side inverted U-shaped opening to store a keyboard therein, a slideable shelf, a top support shelf to support a computer monitor including short downwardly extending back and sides, a first and second channel means for engaging the tops of the support elements, a slideable storage shelf positioned directly beneath the support shelf located in a drawer cavity, the storage shelf having a plurality of elongated side rails to permit the shelf to be manually and smoothly slideable between a document stored position and an extended document acccess position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1991
    Assignee: Curtis Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward L. Hames, Robert Howitt
  • Patent number: 5027961
    Abstract: A modular stackable shelf storage apparatus for stacking with other units with a top shelf providing a base for mounting a facsimile machine, wherein a body unit is adapted to be interlockably stacked together with the units to provide segregated shelf spaces for storing documents such as are produced by a facsimile machine, the body unit having a flat top surface, first and second sides and an open front to define an open space within the body unit including a centrally disposed hollow finger serving as a space divider and as a mounting device; whereby in stacking two or more units together a firm base mount is provided for a facsimile machine and a plurality of shelf storage spaces are provided for segregated storage of documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Assignee: Curtis Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Howitt
  • Patent number: 4967323
    Abstract: A flashlight having a flat base for application to a user's clothing where desired or convenient, the flashlight being somewhat elongated with a lamp bulb at one end and a supporting ball and socket at the other end, on the base, the ball and socket being such as to allow manual swiveling of the beam of light while still maintaining the position of the beam of light in the desired direction, as by friction between ball and socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Assignee: Melissa C. Johnson
    Inventors: Melissa C. Johnson, Robert Howitt
  • Patent number: D316454
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: Curtis Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Angelo Tortola, Robert Howitt