Patents by Inventor John H. Babbitt, Jr.

John H. Babbitt, Jr. 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: 4089613
    Abstract: A pin-type connector for interconnecting a pair of members having nominally aligned through-bores without requiring true alignment of the bores including a cylindrical cup-shaped bushing with a discontinuous upstanding wall having a frusto-conical interior surface and a fastener-receiving bore in the bottom of the bushing, the bushing at least partially receiving a pin whose exterior surface is frusto-conical and engages the interior surface of the bushing, with a fastening means being received by the pin through a bore therein. The pin is drawn into the bushing by the fastening means, thereby expanding the wall of the bushing to frictionally engage a bore of one of the members. At least one of the frusto-conical surfaces is slightly eccentric with respect to the longitudinal axis of the element upon which it is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1978
    Assignee: Caterpillar Tractor Co.
    Inventor: John H. Babbitt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4042261
    Abstract: A mounting for securing tools to vehicles having at least two nominally aligned, apertured ears extending from a side of the vehicle for mounting a work-performing device. The mounting includes a pair of stub shafts, one for receipt in each of the apertured ears, a base for a work-performing device, such as a winch, disposable about the ears, a pair of wedges carried by the base and interposed between the base and respective ones of the stub shafts, and bolts for effecting relative movement of the wedges on the base to tightly frictionally engage the base to the stub shafts, and thus to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1977
    Assignee: Caterpillar Tractor Co.
    Inventor: John H. Babbitt, Jr.