Patents by Inventor Brian Weseman

Brian Weseman 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).

  • Underride protection
    Patent number: 6179544
    Abstract: An improved automatic underride protection actuator for a trailer, the trailer being translatable over a ground surface, includes a rotatable ramp that is shiftable between a ground engaging load/unload disposition when the tiltable bed is in the load/unload disposition and an underride protection disposition when the tiltable bed is in the transport disposition. The ramp underride protection disposition is a disposition in which the ramp depends from a tiltable trailer bed the ramp and is rotatably displaceable from the ramp underride protection disposition by impact oft the ramp with the ground surface, such displacement substantially preventing damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Towmaster, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Weseman