Patents by Inventor Glen R. George

Glen R. George 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).

  • Publication number: 20110232206
    Abstract: A modular window well arrangement includes one or more window well members. The window well members can be interconnected in a vertically stacked arrangement to provide the required overall height. Snap-connectors interconnect the vertically adjacent window well members, and a plurality of steps provide for escape. The window well members may have different sizes, and extension walls may be utilized to increase the size of the window well members to provide for a wide variety of configurations. The window well members may be made of a relatively lightweight structural foam material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: TAPCO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Glen R. George
  • Patent number: 7958692
    Abstract: A modular window well arrangement includes one or more window well members. The window well members can be interconnected in a vertically stacked arrangement to provide the required overall height. Snap-connectors interconnect the vertically adjacent window well members, and a plurality of steps provide for escape. The window well members may have different sizes, and extension walls may be utilized to increase the size of the window well members to provide for a wide variety of configurations. The window well members may be made of a relatively lightweight structural foam material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Tapco International Corporation
    Inventor: Glen R. George
  • Patent number: 7827747
    Abstract: A footing form for supporting posts or other upright structural members of buildings and the like includes a primary web, and a plurality of structural webs extending upwardly from the primary web. The webs include structural webs that extend radially outward from a center portion of the base web, and a plurality of ring-like concentric webs that provide additional structural support. The webs form a plurality of upwardly-opening pockets, and apertures through the base web provide for drainage of water and the like from the upwardly-opening pockets. The footing form may have a one-piece molded construction. The footing form provides sufficient support to thereby eliminate the need for concrete or the like to support the posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Inventors: Glen R. George, Gerald J. Eckhoff
  • Publication number: 20100205897
    Abstract: A modular window well arrangement includes one or more window well members. The window well members can be interconnected in a vertically stacked arrangement to provide the required overall height. Snap-connectors interconnect the vertically adjacent window well members, and a plurality of steps provide for escape. The window well members may have different sizes, and extension walls may be utilized to increase the size of the window well members to provide for a wide variety of configurations. The window well members may be made of a relatively lightweight structural foam material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: TAPCO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Glen R. George
  • Patent number: 7730673
    Abstract: A window well assembly for buildings and the like include at least a first well unit and a second well unit each having opposite first and second flanges at opposite ends of a retaining wall of each unit for securing the well units to a sub-grade foundation of the building. Preferably, the assembly has a plurality of releasable spacer couplings that are mated and carried between well units when the assembly is in a stored state, and has indexing features that are mated and carried between well units when the assembly is in an assembled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Tapco International Corporation
    Inventor: Glen R. George
  • Patent number: 7716879
    Abstract: A modular window well arrangement includes one or more window well members. The window well members can be interconnected in a vertically stacked arrangement to provide the required overall height. Snap-connectors interconnect the vertically adjacent window well members, and a plurality of steps provide for escape. The window well members may have different sizes, and extension walls may be utilized to increase the size of the window well members to provide for a wide variety of configurations. The window well members may be made of a relatively lightweight structural foam material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Tapco International Corporation
    Inventor: Glen R. George
  • Publication number: 20080010911
    Abstract: A window well assembly for buildings and the like include at least a first well unit and a second well unit each having opposite first and second flanges at opposite ends of a retaining wall of each unit for securing the well units to a sub-grade foundation of the building. Preferably, the assembly has a plurality of releasable spacer couplings that are mated and carried between well units when the assembly is in a stored state, and has indexing features that are mated and carried between well units when the assembly is in an assembled state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: Tapco International Corporation
    Inventor: Glen R. George
  • Patent number: 7171786
    Abstract: A modular window well arrangement includes one or more window well members. The window well members can be interconnected in a vertically stacked arrangement to provide the required overall height. Snap-connectors interconnect the vertically adjacent window well members, and a plurality of steps provide for escape. The window well members may have different sizes, and extension walls may be utilized to increase the size of the window well members to provide for a wide variety of configurations. The window well members may be made of a relatively lightweight structural foam material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Tapco International Corporation
    Inventor: Glen R. George
  • Patent number: 6422936
    Abstract: A building ornament, building ventilator, roof ventilator, or cupola (10 or 50), includes a top portion (12 or 52), a base portion (14 or 54), one portion (12, 14, 52, or 54) preferably is translucent. Optionally, the cupola (10 or 50) includes an illumination unit (82), elongated ventilation slots (32, 74), a plastic screen (76), to exclude bugs, that preferably is welded into one of the portions (52 or 54), and multiple V-shaped flanges (92A, 92B, or 92C) of different pitches that provide means for attachment to double-pitched roofs (42) having different pitches (40A, 40B, or 40C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Behlen Engineered Plastics
    Inventors: Carl W. Van Gilst, Glen R. George