Patents by Inventor John M. Riley

John M. Riley 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: 20110180504
    Abstract: Discussed herein is an improved furniture assembly, where stretchers are secured between beams of a shelving assembly using brackets. The stretchers include at least one hollow slot that is sufficiently wide to allow the slot to be slid over a protruding surface of the bracket. In embodiments, the brackets have a protruding surface that is substantially parallel to a base surface of the bracket. The bracket has one or more lock members allowing the bracket to be secured to punches on the beams. The brackets are capable of being secured to the punches without the need for special tools. After the brackets are locked within the beams, the stretcher is connected between the beams by simply aligning the slots of the stretcher over corresponding protruding surfaces of the brackets and sliding the stretcher over the brackets by sliding the slots over the protruding surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: elevations inc.
    Inventors: John M. Riley, Nikolaos Xanthopoulos, William J. McHenry
  • Patent number: 5275912
    Abstract: A process for forming a color image which may be used to represent a printed color image to be obtained from a printing press comprising (a) forming a thermal dye transfer image in a polymeric dye image-receiving layer of an intermediate dye-receiving element by imagewise-heating a dye-donor element and transferring a dye image to the dye image-receiving layer, (b) laminating a polymeric dye-migration barrier layer to the imaged dye image-receiving layer, and (c) laminating the dye-migration barrier layer and imaged dye image-receiving layer together to the surface of a paper substrate. By applying a dye-migration barrier layer to the imaged dye image-receiving layer and subsequently laminating both layers to the paper substrate together, the final paper substrate is subjected to only a single lamination step, and wrinkles caused by multiple laminations can be virtually eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: John M. Riley
  • Patent number: 4928196
    Abstract: A pair of oppositely-disposed stabilizer devices support opposed magnetic heads for interfacing with opposite sides of a rotating magnetic disk. Each stabilizer device includes a block with an opening through which the magnetic head protrudes for engagement with a respective side of the disk. A flat, circumferential air bearing surface on each block surrounds the opening adjacent the disk for generating coupling forces that deform the disk out of its nominal plane on opposite sides thereof and into intimate contact with the transducing gaps on the respective heads. The stabilizer devices are positioned in relation to separate radii depending from the center of the drive spindle so that a circumferential offset is established that permits substantially separate interaction of the air bearing surfaces with the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: William K. Hickok, John M. Riley, Gerald J. Kosarko
  • Patent number: 4887176
    Abstract: A double-sided recording device supports two transducers in fixed relation on opposite sides of a storage medium so that a fixed separation is maintained between the transducers. By making the separation substantially greater than the transducing cross-section of the medium, only one transducer at a time can effectively interface with the medium. Each transducer is mounted in a stabilizing device having an air bearing surface that promotes an effective interface through one-sided contact with the medium. In one embodiment, the medium is supported on a drive spindle that moves axially between two playing positions, one in which the medium is brought into operative relation with the first transducer and the other in which the medium is brought into operative relation with the second transducer. In another embodiment, the transducers are supported in fixed relation on a yoke that moves in relation to a fixed motor spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas E. Dussinger, John M. Riley, Gerald J. Kosarko