Patents by Inventor Wayne E. Turner

Wayne E. Turner 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: 5746317
    Abstract: A flexible bag formed of gas impervious sheet plastic provides a pneumatically sealable chamber that may be evacuated about the peripheral surface of a Christmas tree carried in the chamber. The flexible bag provides an elongate plastic zipper in its upper portion for access for tree placement and removal, a sealable vacuum channel for evacuation, a pneumatically sealable bottom orifice for access to the trunk of a contained tree, plural spaced fastening bands to aid maintenance of the collapsed mode of the bag about a tree and paired opposed handles to aid manual manipulation. The bag may be evacuated for Christmas tree transport, placement and disposal and may be collapsed about the base of a Christmas tree on a surface supporting the tree for storage during Christmas tree use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Inventors: Wayne E. Turner, Peggy B. Turner