Patents by Inventor Edward H. Roberts

Edward H. Roberts 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: 4151681
    Abstract: An arrangement for mounting hinge pin sockets within cabinet doors, particularly adaptable to reversible door refrigerators, including an anchor plate frictionally secured within each door corner, and formed with a hole pattern for receiving threaded fasteners used to mount the cabinet door handles and the door stop with a common hole location allowing a reverse assembly of the door handle and the door stop on either side of the cabinet door. The anchor plates serve to mount a hinge pin socket at each corner of the door, the sockets extending into opposed lateral sides of the cabinet door in corresponding location to reversibly mounted hinge pin assemblies secured to the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1979
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Edward H. Roberts
  • Patent number: 4087141
    Abstract: A front-mounted door pull handle assembly is shown on a refrigerator door. The handle is formed of a long extruded metal bar having a mounting bracket fastened on each end. A fastening screw extends through the end of the bar and through the mounting bracket and into a supporting surface. A flexible, decorative cover member snaps over the outside of the bar. The cover has longitudinal ribs to rigidify the cover and hold it on the bar. The bar, in turn, has longitudinal grooves for receiving the ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Edward H. Roberts
  • Patent number: 3995349
    Abstract: A door handle of a household refrigerator has a base assembly formed of three elements. The first and second elements hook together and the third element nests in the first element and extends over the hook portion of the third element. A cover extends over the base assembly and is nestable in the second and third elements. The cover has locking tabs matable with edges of the second element for connecting the cover to the second element and maintaining the elements together to form a unitary handle that is attachable to a refrigerator door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1976
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Edward H. Roberts, Gordon V. Carter