Patents by Inventor Stephen C. Swain

Stephen C. Swain 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: 4658807
    Abstract: A method for fitting to an individual and supporting and positioning the individual's anatomy. A plurality of independently adjustable support modules adapted to support a specific portion of an individual's anatomy in three dimensions are clamped to a chassis in order to position the support module in space. The support module can be fitted to the individual's anatomy either before or after clamping of the support module to the chassis. Thereafter, the clamped support module is loosened on the chassis to reposition the support module in space through rotational and/or translational movement in at least one plane with respect to the chassis in order to produce desired changes in positioning of the specific portion of the individual's anatomy. Once the position has been attained, the support module is re-clamped to the chassis to maintain the support module in its new spacial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1987
    Assignee: International Positioning Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Stephen C. Swain
  • Patent number: 4092033
    Abstract: A skateboard having a flexible and resilient, generally planar chassis to which are affixed front and rear wheel assemblies. The skateboard includes a braking mechanism for controlling the speed of at least one of the wheel assemblies. Engagement and disengagement of the braking mechanism is controlled by and responsive to the amount and direction of the flexing of the skateboard chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1978
    Assignee: March Enterprise
    Inventor: Stephen C. Swain
  • Patent number: 4015717
    Abstract: A tablet package for use in chronologically dispensing tablets includes a sheet of material having pockets therein for receiving tablets, a frangible closure layer secured to the sheet of material to enclose the tablets and a plurality of time related indicia disposed on the closure layer associated with each tablet and aligned with the pockets such that dispensing of a tablet ruptures the closure layer to obliterate the indicia associated with that tablet. The tablet package is particularly useful with a tablet dispenser formed of a housing including a body having a dispensing opening therein and a cover pivotally connected with the body and carrying an ejector tab aligned with the dispensing opening, the tablet package being disposed in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1977
    Assignee: The Medical Dispenser Company
    Inventors: James E. Richardson, Stephen C. Swain