Patents by Inventor Donald T. McPhee

Donald T. McPhee 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).

  • Patent number: 3999630
    Abstract: Transport, service and pick-up devices for use primarily in food, snack and beverage service in aircraft cabins; apparatus for loading, transporting, serving and picking-up of trays and containers used in serving meals, beverages and snacks to seated passengers in aircraft; a collapsible, storeable, transport service device suspended from an overhead monorail which, moving along the monorail, typically first receives a multiplicity of trays or objects from a storage and dispersal point in an aircraft cabin, then transports them to the passenger seating area, there permits distribution of the trays or objects to the passengers and, finally, thereafter, facilitates mass pick-up of the trays or objects from the passengers for transport back to the storage and dispersal point in the aircraft; a device of the character described which removably receives within itself loaded containers of trays for dispensing and pick-up of the trays from the containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1976
    Inventor: Donald T. McPhee