Patents by Inventor Virgil P. Miles

Virgil P. Miles 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: 4915335
    Abstract: A stabilizer for a lawn chair, sand chair, chaise lounge, as well as other similar chairs, which, in a first embodiment, has an adapter that readily fits over the front and/or rear lower horizontal tubing of the chair-frame, which adapter is provided with right-angled end-corners directly and laterally adjacent the rounded, curved ends of the respective lower horizontal tubing, where such lower horizontal tubing curve upwardly in transition to join with an upwardly, angularly-extending upright tubing of the chair-frame, whereby such curved ends, about which lateral tipping over typically occurs, are negated. In a second embodiment, the stabilizer of the invention snap-fits onto a lower horizontal tubing of the chair-frame, with such stabilizer also having a length greater than the length of the lower horizontal tubing, the ends of which stabilizer are provided with generally triangular-shaped, flat projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Inventor: Virgil P. Miles