Patents by Inventor Stephen R. Burns

Stephen R. Burns 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: 7247100
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a children's exercise and activity apparatus for providing cognitive development activities for small children and exercise functionality. The apparatus includes an activity table adapted for receiving one or more children's activity items, a seat for supporting a child above the floor, a connecting beam for connecting the seat to the activity table, and one or more legs connected to and depending downwardly from the seat to the floor to support the seat and prevent the seat from tipping over when a child is supported therein. The seat has a pair of leg openings that allow the child to touch the floor with its legs, and the connecting beam is rotatably connected to the activity table so that the child in the seat can travel in an orbital path around the activity table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Kids II, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter D. Jackson, Jeffrey S. Tadin, Stephen R. Burns, Jacob M. Sclare, James E. Cartabiano
  • Patent number: 5337445
    Abstract: A vacuum assisted apparatus for cleaning the surfaces of a ceiling fan blade having a unitary housing defining a brush-lined aperture and having a dust receptacle for catching dust displaced by the brushes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: Robert W. Lackey Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Harris, Roy V. Nicholson, Stephen R. Burns, Robert W. Lackey
  • Patent number: 5235722
    Abstract: A vacuum assisted apparatus for cleaning the surfaces of a ceiling fan blade having a unitary housing defining a brush-lined aperture and having a dust receptacle for catching dust displaced by the brushes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Robert W. Lackey Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Harris, Roy V. Nicholson, Stephen R. Burns, Robert W. Lackey
  • Patent number: 4922696
    Abstract: An improved cart to be towed behind a riding lawn mower for collecting grass clippings, etc. therefrom and also which can be used for strict utility purposes. The cart has a tub-like open-top bed to which is secured a forward upward-extending wall having attached thereto a retractable canopy engagable with the rim of the bed to cover the same and which wall and canopy are readily detachable from the bed. The bed is pivotally mounted on a wheeled chassis for backward tilting for dumping its contents and return to normal position under the control of the operator of the mower while seated on the mower seat. The cart has a pair of ground engaging castor wheels and is detachably hitched to the mower by a construction which permits limited pivotal movement relative to the mower about a horizontal transverse axis and limited pivotal movement about a horizontal axis extending in the fore and aft direction but which prevents pivotal movement about a vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignee: The Murray Ohio Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Stephen R. Burns, Timothy J. Boesch, Matthew D. Rao, Stuart A. Cook, Jack M. Curtis, Jack M. Boone
  • Patent number: 4660246
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner having pivotally interconnected body and nozzle head portions and a handle which is extendable for upright floor cleaning operation or retractable for hand carried or cannister type vacuuming operation, in which the handle in retracted position fixes the cleaner body and nozzle head portions against pivotal movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1987
    Assignee: The Singer Company
    Inventors: John L. Duncan, John E. Jones, Martin E. Harbeck, Stephen R. Burns
  • Patent number: D441535
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: McCalla Company
    Inventors: Gavin McCalla, Stephen R. Burns
  • Patent number: D296487
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1988
    Assignee: The Singer Company
    Inventors: Stephen R. Burns, Louis A. Rotola, Jr.
  • Patent number: D301647
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Ryobi Motor Products Corp.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Burns, Frank R. Harris
  • Patent number: D310438
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: Ryobi Motor Products Corp.
    Inventor: Stephen R. Burns
  • Patent number: D321889
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Assignee: The Murray Ohio Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Stephen R. Burns, Timothy J. Boesch, Matthew D. Rao, Stuart A. Cook, Jack M. Curtis, Jack M. Boone
  • Patent number: D324929
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Ryobi Motor Products Corp.
    Inventor: Stephen R. Burns
  • Patent number: D325776
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Robert L. Scofield, Stephen R. Burns, Roy Nicholson
  • Patent number: D326938
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1992
    Assignee: Ryobi Motor Products Corp.
    Inventor: Stephen R. Burns
  • Patent number: D328951
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Robert L. Scofield, Stephen R. Burns, Stephen P. Chininis
  • Patent number: D368102
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: Circle R Central, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher C. Bidwell, Stephen R. Burns
  • Patent number: D370032
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Innovative Ventures, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher C. Bidwell, Stephen R. Burns