Patents Assigned to McDonald Products Corporation
  • Patent number: 4828120
    Abstract: An office accessory system for attachment to a wall-mounted load bar for suspension from a vertical surface includes an office accessory suitable for use in either a vertical or horizontal orientation and a pair of mounting brackets. The mounting brackets are attached to the load bar, and the office accessory has two opposite sides which cooperate with the mounting brackets to permit the accessory to be supported from the load bar in either its vertical or horizontal positions of use. When utilized to attach the accessory to the load bar, the mounting brackets are substantially hidden from view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1989
    Assignee: McDonald Products Corporation
    Inventors: Valentine Beil, Peter Kotas, Douglas Rudz
  • Patent number: 4620636
    Abstract: An office accessory system for use on both horizontal and vertical surfaces and in both conventional and open-plan environments. Accessories are provided, each being self-supporting on a horizontal surface, one of them being self-supporting on a horizontal surface in either a horizontal or a vertical orientation. The accessories have recesses for receiving support hooks engageable with the arm of a cantilever support. The cantilever support has an attaching bracket which is selectively engageable with the side channels found on a wide variety of open plan wall panels for mounting the accessories thereon in a vertical orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1986
    Assignee: McDonald Products Corporation
    Inventors: Francis V. Herr, Thomas B. Walklet, James G. Hansen, Theodore J. Hasler, Valentin Beil, Harold E. Donlon, Ken E. Christian
  • Patent number: 4570793
    Abstract: A desk console element includes a receptacle member for holding a desktop item such as a pen and pen base and further includes a one-piece connecting clip for releasably connecting the receptacle member to the receptacle member of a like element. The connecting clip includes a first part and a second part, and the receptacle member includes a pair of elongated tracks for slidably accepting the first clip part and detent-defining means which, with the tracks, cooperate with the first clip part to releasably interlock the clip and the receptacle member. The second clip part is adapted to be releasably interlocked with the receptacle member of the like member as the first clip part is adapted to be releasably interlocked with the receptacle member of its element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1986
    Assignee: McDonald Products Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. O'Neil, William G. Broman, Leon C. Clouser, Adrian T. Dombrowski, Arthur R. Harth, Bernhard O. Williams
  • Patent number: 4478339
    Abstract: An office accessory system for use on both horizontal and vertical surfaces and in both conventional and open-plan environments. Accessories are provided, each being self-supporting on a horizontal surface, one of them being self-supporting on a horizontal surface in either a horizontal or a vertical orientation. The accessories have recesses for receiving support hooks engageable with the arm of a cantilever support. The cantilever support has an attaching bracket which is selectively engageable with the side channels found on a wide variety of open plan wall panels for mounting the accessories thereon in a vertical orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1984
    Assignee: McDonald Products Corporation
    Inventors: Francis V. Herr, Thomas B. Walklet, James G. Hansen, Theodore J. Hasler, Valentin Beil, Harold E. Donlon, Ken E. Christian
  • Patent number: 3968881
    Abstract: A tray support bracket of unitary, one piece construction having leg portions diverging downwardly from a U-shaped upper end portion and terminating at their lower ends in attaching feet, the feet and upper end portion lying in substantially parallel planes extending substantially normal to the plane of the leg portions. Tray members have a first pair of foot pads for engaging the support bracket feet and a second pair of footpads for engaging the upper end portion of the support bracket. The tray members and support brackets are interchangeable, with the latter supporting the former in a vertically spaced, stacked arrangement of two or more tray members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1976
    Assignee: McDonald Products Corporation
    Inventors: Valentin E. Beil, Francis J. Ihlenfeld
  • Patent number: D267656
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1983
    Assignee: McDonald Products Corporation
    Inventors: James V. Vevirit, Francis V. Herr, Thomas B. Walklet, James G. Hansen, Theodore J. Hasler
  • Patent number: D268118
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1983
    Assignee: McDonald Products Corporation
    Inventors: Francis V. Herr, Thomas B. Walklet, James G. Hansen, Theodore J. Hasler
  • Patent number: D290973
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Assignee: McDonald Products Corporation
    Inventor: Robert A. O'Neil