Patents by Inventor Robert R. Barnes

Robert R. Barnes 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: 4972625
    Abstract: A tackle holder for fishing tackle such as fishing lures or the like. The tackle holder includes a base portion and a tackle storage structure comprised of a plurality of tackle storage cells for individually retaining and storing the fishing lures. The tackle storage cells are formed by a plurality of corrugated partitions movably mounted to the base portion and aligned in opposite mirror image pairs. The fishing lures are suspended by their hooks on the partitions with each lure contained within an individual storage cell. Hook retaining means and a cover may be provided for closing the storage cells and for retaining the lures within the cells. An alternative embodiment is an open framework supporting the partitions. This is inserted into a compartment of a larger fishing tackle box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1990
    Inventor: Robert R. Barnes
  • Patent number: 4348652
    Abstract: A highway line detection system which is insensitive to changes in road surface warns the driver of a motor vehicle when the vehicle is about to drift across either a center line or an edge line. A unit on each side of the vehicle directs light rays rich in infrared and red radiation downwardly toward the road surface, and includes a photoresponsive receiver responsive to the rays reflected from a painted line or mark. A valid center line or edge line has a width within a predetermined range of minimum and maximum widths and is recognized by the receiver to activate a suitable alarm, but other markings of greater or lesser width are discriminated against to prevent a false alarm. The receiver employs a series of photoconductive cells which are highly sensitive to radiation in the red and near infrared region; they are spaced horizontally on a line extending orthogonally with respect to the fore-and-aft axis of the vehicle in order to establish corresponding spaced points at which reflected rays are detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Robert R. Barnes
    Inventors: Robert R. Barnes, Charles L. Myers
  • Patent number: 4208825
    Abstract: A container for hook-carrying fish lures includes an open top bottom section, and external cover stop adjacent the open top, a cover having a peripheral wall seating on the cover stop and spaced from the wall at the open top leaving a space therebetween, and a series of wall openings at the top of the wall of the bottom section when the cover is seated on the cover stop for holding the hooks of fish lures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1980
    Inventor: Robert R. Barnes
  • Patent number: D436147
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: American Cord & Twine
    Inventor: Robert R. Barnes