Patents by Inventor Robert J. Forestal

Robert J. Forestal 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: 5152398
    Abstract: A snack tray providing easy one-hand carry by the provision of a special thumb-hole, by which the outer end of the user's thumb provides a support-stability of a fulcrum located generally centrally not only of the upward forces from the user's fingers and thumb-base but also generally centrally of the tray. Other features include a central indention for providing an automatic forcing of the user to place his thumb's outer end in a location so as to not slip into a portion of the snack items being carried, and also achieve its central fulcrum effect; and the forward and rearward walls of the thumb hole are slanted, providing a comfortable and guiding surface for the user's insertion of his thumb's outer end portion. Other special provisions add to the advantages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Inventors: Robert J. Forestal, H. Terrell Kays
  • Patent number: 4575149
    Abstract: A household service tray device easily attached and removed from the arm of an article of furniture, by a clamping body securely held on and by the furniture arm. In one form, it provides a rotatable tray which, supported by the clamping body, swivels to provide an over-the-seat position and other positions, including one in which the tray automatically drops to a retracted and out-of-the-way position when not needed for use. In another form, an easily attachable table body provides an over-the-seat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Inventors: Robert J. Forestal, John R. Meek
  • Patent number: 4370842
    Abstract: A kit for convenient repair patching of a panel whose access thereto is from only one side, such as in the situation of a drywall panel of a usual wall or ceiling. In various embodiments, a body member is provided with adequate support, by installation procedures wholly from the one accessible side of the panel, the body member itself providing a large area of the repair surface and/or providing a supportive body substantially bridging across the area of the hole to be repaired, and to which patching mastic may then be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1983
    Assignees: Vern R. Young, Peter G. Fruehman
    Inventors: Verble C. Martin, Robert J. Forestal
  • Patent number: 4301934
    Abstract: An infant's nursing bottle device, whose nipple is carried on a flexible tube and remote from the nursing bottle, with a support of the nursing bottle in an inverted position, providing convenient nursing of the milk by the infant having to locate and hold only the nipple means of the device, thus providing an infant's self-feeding arrangement for the infant's obtaining of the food from the nursing bottle, without a need for anyone to hold the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1981
    Inventor: Robert J. Forestal
  • Patent number: D342644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Inventors: Robert J. Forestal, H. Terrell Kays
  • Patent number: D349425
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1994
    Inventors: H. Terrell Kays, Robert J. Forestal