Joseph L Krantz

US Patent:

20060252318, Nov 9, 2006

Filed:

May 5, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/122416

Inventors:

Joseph Krantz - Arvada CO, US

International Classification:

B63B 35/58

US Classification:

441035000

Abstract:

A buoyant mattress device for a snorkeler. An elongated buoyant mattress is provided for buoyantly supporting the body weight of a snorkeler positioned thereatop in a prone position. A viewing hole formed transversely entirely through the mattress and entirely open therethrough is adapted in size and position adjacent to one end of said mattress for receiving a face mask and snorkel worn by the snorkeler while the snorkeler is supported in water in the prone position atop the mattress. The viewing hole is unobstructed to water entering therein through the open lower end thereof which, in combination with the thickness and buoyancy of the mattress places the viewing lens of the face mask below the surface of the water within the hole, providing the snorkeler with an unobstructed underwater view through the face mask.

US Patent:

62694537, Jul 31, 2001

Filed:

Jun 29, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/084370

Inventors:

Joseph F. Krantz - Colorado Springs CO

Assignee:

Compaq Computer Corporation - Houston TX

International Classification:

G06F 1100

US Classification:

714 6

Abstract:

In a storage system having a plurality of disks arranged in a RAID array with one of the disks failed, a method of reorganizing the data on the RAID array at the time of failure to prevent both a decrease in performance of the array and reliability of the data and an increase in the cost of operation. Data from the failed disk is regenerated one strip at a time and written onto the original parity chunk for the strip. The resulting fully folded array has the characteristics of a RAID level 0 array. When a replacement disk is inserted into the array the process is reversed to bring the fully folded array back to a fully redundant condition.

US Patent:

54170044, May 23, 1995

Filed:

Aug 18, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/292486

Inventors:

Joseph H. Krantz - Lakewood CO

International Classification:

F41C 908

US Classification:

42 90

Abstract:

A bullet starter for loading a conical hollow-point bullet into a barrel of a muzzle loading firearm. The starter comprises a handle and an impact member, with the impact member comprising an outwardly protruding starter pin in communication with the handle. The starter pin is insertable into a hollow point of a hollow-point bullet, and has a diameter less than the diameter of the hollow point and a depth greater than the depth of the hollow point. These diameter and depth characteristics assure that only the floor of the hollow point has significant impact contact from the impact member when impact is applied to force the bullet into the barrel, and that the nose of the hollow-point bullet is substantially untouched by the impact member and therefore not deformed. The starter pin can be releasably retained and therefore interchangeable with differently-sized pins. The handle also can have extending therefrom a driver rod having a driver pin disposed at the end thereof and sized the same as the starter pin for insertion into the hollow point of a hollow-point bullet for moving the bullet deeper into the barrel.