Patents by Inventor Rodger E. Miller

Rodger E. Miller 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).

  • Easy-up swim handles
    Patent number: 9114857
    Abstract: Various designs and arrangements of preferably tubular handle members are detachably mounted upon the swim platform of a boat for aiding swimmers to enter and/or exit from the water. In one embodiment the handles have an end, or ends, thereof slidably mountable within a tubular portion of a socket member that is preferably secured in a counter-sunk fashion in the swim platform. In a further embodiment handles are provided with an end lug for detachably mounting the handle to a mounting plate. When not in use, the handle members are slidably detached from the mounting members thereby providing an unencumbered surface on the swim platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Inventors: Rodger E. Miller, Carol E. Cook
  • Easy-up swim handles
    Publication number: 20120048174
    Abstract: Various designs and arrangements of preferably tubular handle members are detachably mounted upon the swim platform of a boat for aiding swimmers to enter and/or exit from the water. In one embodiment the handles have an end, or ends, thereof slidably mountable within a tubular portion of a socket member that is preferably secured in a counter-sunk fashion in the swim platform. In a further embodiment handles are provided with an end lug for detachably mounting the handle to a mounting plate. When not in use, the handle members are slidably detached from the mounting members thereby providing an unencumbered surface on the swim platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventors: Rodger E. Miller, Carol E. Cook