Patents Assigned to PATENTials Incorporated
  • Patent number: 5553836
    Abstract: An adjustable suspension system including a substantially cylindrical post having an externally threaded surface. The threads cooperate with a thread pattern associated with an adjustment collar. A spring is interpositioned between the adjustment collar and the axle of the vehicle such that when the adjustment collar or post is turned about the cooperating thread pattern therebetween the spring has a tendency to compress or decompress depending upon the direction of rotation of the collar, and therefore raise or lower the body of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Patentials Incorporated
    Inventor: W. Keith Ericson
  • Patent number: 5431240
    Abstract: The invention is a small, maneuverable, self-propelled tracked vehicle equipped with a boom having a tool attached to an extendable section of the boom. The vehicle is small and light enough to enter and be used in places, such as residential yards, in which traditional vehicles with buckets and digging tools, because of their size and weight, cannot be used. A three-stage gear pump powers the tracks and the boom on the bucket or digger. The vehicle has four outriggers to stabilize the vehicle during use, the outriggers arranged substantially perpendicular to each other and at angles of approximately forty-five degrees from the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: PATENTials Incorporated
    Inventor: John T. Merritt