Patents by Inventor Graham R. Duke

Graham R. Duke 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: 4366651
    Abstract: A fixing device is disclosed which in its form described in detail is utilizable as a replacement wall tie anchorable between the two leaves of an existing cavity wall. In this form the device consists of a stainless steel bolt (2) having a stop end (3) with mounted thereon in order from the stop end a deformable sleeve (4), a rigid sleeve (5), a deformable sleeve (6), a rigid sleeve (7), a nut (8), a rigid sleeve (9), a deformable sleeve (10), a rigid sleeve (11) and a nut (12). In use the device is inserted in co-axial bores (15A, 15B) drilled from outside a building through the outer leaf (14) and into the inner leaf (13) of a cavity wall. The nut (8) is tightened to expand the sleeve (4) in the bore in the inner leaf and the nut (12) is tightened to expand the sleeve (10) in the bore in the outer leaf (14) and in this way a wall tie is placed with minimum damage to the wall. In particular the internal surface of the inner leaf is not pierced, and re-building of an unstable wall is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1983
    Assignee: Newport Borough Council, of Civic Centre
    Inventors: Howard M. Thomas, Graham R. Duke