Patents by Inventor Benjamin H. Kushner

Benjamin H. Kushner 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).

  • Connector plate
    Patent number: 4165672
    Abstract: This invention relates to a connector plate for joining wooden members comprising a planar metal plate having at least one pair of teeth formed by being struck from the plate so as to form a single opening therebetween with the teeth extending in a direction that is approximately perpendicularly and with the width of one of the teeth at its root being greater than the width of the other tooth at its root, and the length of such one tooth being greater than the length of the other tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1979
    Assignee: Automated Building Components, Inc.
    Inventors: John C. Jureit, Benjamin H. Kushner
  • Connector plate
    Patent number: 4031803
    Abstract: The connector plate has a plurality of slender nail-like teeth struck to project at right angles to the plate for embedment into adjoining wooden members. The teeth are struck in longitudinal rows with the teeth in each row being staggered longitudinally relative to the teeth of next adjacent rows. The teeth in every second alternate row are struck such that the slots left thereby in the plate extend from the teeth in like directions while the teeth in the next adjacent alternate row in are struck such that the slots left thereby in the plate extend an opposed longitudinal direction to the slots formed in adjacent alternate rows. The teeth in the rows between such alternate rows are formed in longitudinally spaced pairs with each pair of teeth struck to jointly define a slot in the plate, the teeth being located at opposite ends of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1977
    Assignee: Automated Building Components, Inc.
    Inventors: John Calvin Jureit, Benjamin H. Kushner
  • Box spring frame machine
    Patent number: 4025028
    Abstract: The apparatus includes slat and rail conveyors which pick up slats and rails from respective hoppers on the input side of the machine and convey the slats and rails into joint forming positions between vertically opposed pressheads mounted on opposite sides of the machine. Coils of connector plate stock, having prepunched integrally extending teeth, feed each of the upper and lower press platens and which platens are movable toward one another to substantially simultaneously cut the connector stock to predetermined lengths to form connector plates and embed the teeth of the connector plates into opposite sides of the joints formed by the rails and slats disposed between the pressheads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Assignee: Automated Building Components, Inc.
    Inventors: John Calvin Jureit, Adolfo Castillo, Roy Leutwyler, Benjamin H. Kushner, Larry Brodsky