Patents by Inventor Glenn R. Nichols

Glenn R. Nichols 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: 5037027
    Abstract: An improved tote box construction is disclosed which incorporates into the corners of a tote box during the assembly thereof corner enhancer structural elements which do not require any mechanical fasteners such as rivets or the like to secure the corner structural elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Bradford Company
    Inventor: Glenn R. Nichols
  • Patent number: 4746053
    Abstract: A partition assembly for dividing the internal space of a container comprising first and second sets of intersecting planar dividers, the sets of dividers having interengaging vertical slots which are locked at some or all of the points of intersection. The slots of the first set of dividers are defined by tabs cut from the first set of dividers and connected by vertical score lines to the first set of dividers. The vertical score lines of the first set of dividers are substantially colinear with the vertical slots of the second set of dividers. The tabs are folded along the score lines outwardly from the planes of the first set of dividers and into the planes of the second set of dividers and are permanently joined to the second set of dividers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Bradford Company
    Inventor: Glenn R. Nichols
  • Patent number: 4720013
    Abstract: A nestable and stackable tray preferably formed of molded or die cut flat sheet material having a pair of stacking supports pivotally attached to the inside of the tray near the bottoms of each of the end walls of the tray. The supports are movable to a lowered position against the base of the tray for nesting empty trays within one another and for holding the trays in close spaced relationship while nesting. The supports are also movable to a raised position against an end wall of the tray and held against the walls with fasteners, where the supports present an upper surface upon which another tray is placed for stacking the loaded trays one upon another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1988
    Assignee: Bradford Company
    Inventors: Glenn R. Nichols, Michael F. Stejskal, Robert M. Zink