Patents by Inventor Joseph W. Donnelli

Joseph W. Donnelli 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).

  • Inventory control device for display hook
    Patent number: 4869376
    Abstract: A device for holding inventory near the forward end portion of a multi-arm display hook such as a scanner hook or a loop hook. The device is made of a single piece of wire having a bridge formed with an open hook at one end and a closed eye at the other end. The device is installed by slipping the eye onto one arm of the display hook and by hooking the open hook of the device around the other arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: Southern Imperial, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley C. Valiulis, Joseph W. Donnelli
  • Machine for threading fasteners into workpieces
    Patent number: 4201255
    Abstract: Hanger bolts are delivered one-by-one from a hopper and each is picked up by a reciprocating holder which shifts the bolt laterally and broadwise into alinement with a power-rotated chuck. The bolt then is pushed endwise into the chuck by a furniture leg and is threaded into the leg as an incident to being turned about its own axis by the chuck. A shelf, a gate and an escapement coact to effect delivery of the bolts from the hopper to the holder in timed relation with the reciprocation of the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1980
    Assignee: Southern Imperial, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph W. Donnelli, Richard D. Barnes
  • Merchandising system for use with perforated panels or the like
    Patent number: 4113109
    Abstract: The upper ends of display packages are formed with hooks and notches which enable a first package to hang either directly or substantially directly from a perforated panel and to enable each succeeding package to hang directly from and in front of the immediately preceding package so that a series of packages may be hung in a forwardly extending row without need of a forwardly projecting hook for supporting the packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Southern Imperial, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph W. Donnelli, Richard D. Barnes