Patents by Inventor Scott W. Ziegler

Scott W. Ziegler 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: 7156253
    Abstract: An adaptor enables a child to drink from a cup having a bead extending around an open end of the cup. The adaptor has an annular collar that supports the cup by engaging a lower portion of a bead of the cup around a substantial portion of a periphery of the bead. A lid is removably engageable with the collar. The lid has an annular flange depending from a lower surface toward the collar with the flange being located to abut an interior side of the wall of the cup when the lid engages the collar to form a fluid seal with the cup. The lid has a channel formed therein and located between the flange and a periphery of the lid and encircling the flange. The channel encloses an upper portion of the bead of the cup. The lid has a child drinking spout on an exterior surface of the lid adjacent a peripheral edge of the lid. The spout is in fluid communication with the cup during use of the adaptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Inventor: Scott W. Ziegler
  • Patent number: 7131691
    Abstract: A motorcycle seating unit includes a seat and a backrest assembly. The seat has a front side and a top seating surface with an essentially horizontal orientation. The backrest assembly has a support arm and a back bar having an external surface. The support arm rotatably engages the seat at one end and engages the back bar at the other end. The backrest assembly has a first selective operational position characterized by an essentially vertical orientation and a second selective operational position characterized by an essentially horizontal orientation. In the second selective operational position, the external surface of the back bar is essentially even with the height of the front side of the seat to expose an essentially smooth continuous transition between the back bar and the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Inventor: Scott W. Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20040256897
    Abstract: A motorcycle seating unit includes a seat and a backrest assembly. The seat has a front side and a top seating surface with an essentially horizontal orientation. The backrest assembly has a support arm and a back bar having an external surface. The support arm rotatably engages the seat at one end and engages the back bar at the other end. The backrest assembly has a first selective operational position characterized by an essentially vertical orientation and a second selective operational position characterized by an essentially horizontal orientation. In the second selective operational position, the external surface of the back bar is essentially even with the height of the front side of the seat to expose an essentially smooth continuous transition between the back bar and the seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventor: Scott W. Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20040124196
    Abstract: An adaptor is provided for a cup having side walls tapered along a length of the cup. The cup has a bead around an open top of the cup. The adaptor includes a cap with a spout having openings in fluid communication with an inside of the cap. An annular base depends from the cap and has threads that engage the side walls of the cup to hold the cup to the adaptor. The base has a recess sized to engage the bead of the cup and seal the opening of the cup. Handles fasten to the adaptor for easier gripping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventor: Scott W. Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20040056040
    Abstract: An adaptor enables a child to drink from a cup having a bead extending around an open end of the cup. The adaptor has an annular collar that supports the cup by engaging a lower portion of a bead of the cup around a substantial portion of a periphery of the bead. A lid is removably engageable with the collar. The lid has an annular flange depending from a lower surface toward the collar with the flange being located to abut an interior side of the wall of the cup when the lid engages the collar to form a fluid seal with the cup. The lid has a channel formed therein and located between the flange and a periphery of the lid and encircling the flange. The channel encloses an upper portion of the bead of the cup. The lid has a child drinking spout on an exterior surface of the lid adjacent a peripheral edge of the lid. The spout is in fluid communication with the cup during use of the adaptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventor: Scott W. Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20030192891
    Abstract: An adaptor enables a child to drink from a cup having a bead extending around an open end of the cup. The adaptor has an annular collar that supports the cup by engaging a lower portion of a bead of the cup around a substantial portion of a periphery of the bead. A lid is removably engageable with the collar using mating threaded surfaces on the lid and collar. The lid has two annular flanges depending from a lower surface toward the collar to enclose the bead and collar between the flanges and to abut the inner flange with the interior side of the wall of the cup when the lid engages the collar to form a fluid seal with the cup. The lid has a child drinking spout on an exterior surface of the lid adjacent a peripheral edge of the lid. The spout is in fluid communication with the cup during use of the adaptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: October 16, 2003
    Inventor: Scott W. Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20030192851
    Abstract: A nipple assembly is provided for a water bottle. The tamper-evident cap from a bottle is removed and replaced with a nipple cap that has an opening through which a nipple extends. The nipple has a flange that is urged against an end wall of the nipple cap by a lip of the bottle. An annular disc is preferably interposed between the lip and the nipple flange with the disc being fastened to the nipple cap to prevent separation of the nipple from the nipple cap. A small channel in the disc places the inside of the bottle in gaseous communication with threads on the cap and thus in communication with the air. The channel is small enough to prevent fluid from leaking from the bottle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: October 16, 2003
    Inventor: Scott W. Ziegler
  • Patent number: 5799909
    Abstract: A containment system for receiving and disposing of disposable sanitary products. The containment system comprises a peripheral frame member which defines a central opening. Releasably attached to the frame member and suspended therefrom is a containment bag which defines a hollow interior communicating with the central opening of the frame member when the containment bag is attached thereto. Pivotally connected to the frame member is a lid member which is movable between a closed position whereat the lid member blocks the central opening, and an open position whereat disposable sanitary products are passable through the central opening of the frame member into the interior of the containment bag. Attached to and extending between the frame member and the lid member is a biasing mechanism for normally maintaining the lid member in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Inventor: Scott W. Ziegler
  • Patent number: 5676581
    Abstract: A flying toy is provided having a substantially planar, flexibly deformable body with a top surface, a bottom surface and a peripheral edge. A plurality of protuberances are disposed on the top surface of the body spaced a radial distance apart relative to the body. The protuberances have a hollow configuration defining a concavity open to the bottom surface of the body. The protuberances and body are integrally formed from a sheet of a substantially continuous flexibly deformable material. The configuration of the flying toy provides it with aerodynamic properties when thrown with a rotational motion in a planar orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Inventor: Scott W. Ziegler
  • Patent number: D339197
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Inventor: Scott W. Ziegler
  • Patent number: D389633
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Inventor: Scott W. Ziegler
  • Patent number: D399458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Inventors: Scott W. Ziegler, Randolph L. Kiser, David J. Stroud, Cheri Wagner