Patents by Inventor Michael E. Brooke

Michael E. Brooke 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: 4408428
    Abstract: Panels resting in a suspended grid are rendered abuseresistant by mounting two-piece retaining clips atop the runners in the grid. The clip assemblies comprise a torsional/flexural spring mated with a clinch fastener. The spring is a piece of bent music wire having a central U-shaped segment, two opposing legs angling outwardly and downwardly from the upright arms of the U to a level below the cross member of the U. The clinch fastener is a piece of flat spring steel bent into the shape of a U, the bight of the U being a channel connecting two straps, each of which has a keeper at its distal end which turns inward and upward into the space between the two straps. The cross member of the spring fits into the channel of the clinch fastener and the unit is snapped onto the bead atop a grid runner so that the cross member is interposed between the bead and the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: United States Gypsum Company
    Inventors: Michael E. Brooke, Alan C. Wendt
  • Patent number: 4388778
    Abstract: An enclosure for a bathtub or shower having a sliding door assembly and comprising a header or supporting assembly including a front header and a side header operatively connected thereto, each header having a pair of tracks, one for each door, the tracks of the front header communicating with the respective tracks of the side header at a bevel joint, a pair of doors each having hanger assemblies mounted on their upper edge, each hanger assembly having a glider member at its end engaged in one set of said tracks, said doors being adapted to be alternatively positioned in front of the enclosure or to be slid to a storage position along a side wall of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1983
    Assignee: United States Gypsum Company
    Inventor: Michael E. Brooke