Mark L Holmes

US Patent:

6659099, Dec 9, 2003

Filed:

Jul 16, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/195435

Inventors:

Mark J. Holmes - Haymarket VA 20168

International Classification:

B28D 132

US Classification:

125 2301, 125 1301, 52610

Abstract:

A method is disclosed for constructing non-seamed stone corners for use on outside edges formed by joining thin stone walls at right angles. Thin stone is used to lay the field of the walls. Then first and second cuts are made in a building stone, removing a residual piece and leaving a corner stone with sides  inch to 3 inch thick to match the thickness of the thin stone on the field of the walls. These corner stones are laid on the corner formed by the right angle joint between the walls, giving the illusion of a thick building stone wall with nearly the low cost and easy laying of thin stone. Where the residual piece is large enough, it is used to cut a second corner stone in the same manner.

US Patent:

6945858, Sep 20, 2005

Filed:

Oct 10, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/682431

Inventors:

Mark J Holmes - Haymarket VA, US

International Classification:

B24C001/04

US Classification:

451 57, 125 1301, 125 2301, 125 1604, 451 37

Abstract:

A method is disclosed for constructing non-seamed stone corners for use on outside edges formed by joining thin stone walls at right angles. Thin stone is used to lay the field of the walls. Then a building stone is oriented and fed down a chute, having perpendicular sides, through two stone cutting saws at right angles to one another, where the distance between the saw blades and the sides of the chute correspond to the thickness of the respective thin stone walls, and where the cutting edges of the saw blades have a clearance between them of about one-eighth of an inch. A residual piece is removed from the cut building stone, leaving a corner stone. These corner stones are laid on the corner formed by the right angle joint between the walls, giving the illusion of a thick building stone wall with nearly the low cost and easy laying of thin stone. Where the residual piece is large enough, it is used to cut a second corner stone in the same manner.

US Patent:

20050247003, Nov 10, 2005

Filed:

Jun 3, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/143585

Inventors:

Mark Holmes - Haymarket VA, US

International Classification:

E04C002/04
E04B005/04

US Classification:

052596000, 052612000

Abstract:

A product of a method is disclosed, the method being for construction of non-seamed stone corners for use on outside edges formed by joining thin stone walls at right angles. Thin stone is used to lay the field of the walls. In the method, two cuts are made in a building stone, removing a residual piece and leaving a corner stone with sides inch to 3 inch thick to match the thickness of the thin stone on the field of the walls. These corner stones are the product of the method and are laid on the corner formed by the right angle joint between the walls, giving the illusion of a thick building stone wall with nearly the low cost and easy laying of thin stone. Where the residual piece is large enough, it is used to cut a second corner stone in the same manner.

US Patent:

20110266749, Nov 3, 2011

Filed:

Mar 24, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/071496

Inventors:

Mark J. Holmes - Haymarket VA, US

International Classification:

A63F 9/08

US Classification:

273153 S

Abstract:

A puzzle toy that includes a plurality of push buttons that normally project from the surface of a cubic or spherical body. As the buttons are pushed in one at a time a latching mechanism residing within the body holds the buttons in a pushed-inwardly state, given a correct sequence of a subset of the buttons was pushed, deduced by logic and memory and including a chance mechanism. However if an incorrect sequence of the selected subset of button pushing is employed all the buttons so far pushed in will all pop back out at the same time at or before the time the last button is pushed in, forcing the player to start all over. The puzzle is solved when all buttons are pushed in flush with the body of the toy.

US Patent:

20180264352, Sep 20, 2018

Filed:

Mar 20, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/926816

Inventors:

Mark J Holmes - Haymarket VA, US

International Classification:

A63F 9/08

Abstract:

In a puzzle toy having a plurality of push buttons, a mechanism for latching push buttons to a rotor, where rotation of the rotor sets a predetermined order for pushing buttons to solve the puzzle, and a chance mechanism for rotating the rotor, an improvement that partitions a rotor shaft and the rotor into two segments that rotate independently, responsive to separate weights affixed to each shaft segment. A reset mechanism operates by shifting the rotor along the shaft axis.