Patents by Inventor Robert A. M. Maidment

Robert A. M. Maidment 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: 5187897
    Abstract: In a door and door frame construction the door is hinged to the frame by one or more hinged structures, each hinged structure comprising a convex-surfaced support associated with the door and a convex-surfaced support associated with the door frame, at least two resilient strip-like S-shaped hinge members passing partially round each support and together with the other member forming a letter x or figure 8 configuration as seen in a direction along the supports, respective means being provided fastening together the ends of the members alongside each support so that the members are tensioned round the supports, wherein towards the lower end of the construction each support is provided with a surface raised from the general surface of the support and in contact with the raised surface on the other support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Assignee: Courier Products Limited
    Inventor: Robert A. M. Maidment
  • Patent number: 4843679
    Abstract: In a hinged structure in which two substantially cylindrical supports (1,2) are hinged together by means of one or more hinges so that they are parallel and closely adjacent, the or each hinge comprises at least two members (3,4) each made of resiliently flexible strip material, each member being S-shaped, passing partially around each support and together with one of the other members forming a letter "x" or figure "8" configuration as seen in a direction along the supports, the ends of the strips being crimped between plates (6,7,8,9) having opposed complementarily profiled surfaces, which plates are attached to the supports or extensions (14,15) of them whereby the strips are tensioned round the supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1989
    Assignee: Frictionless Hinges & Joints Limited
    Inventors: Robert A. M. Maidment, Michael T. Smith
  • Patent number: 4821373
    Abstract: There is described a hinged structure comprising two supports and one or more hinges hinging the supports together so that they are parallel and closely adjacent, the or each hinge comprising two hinge members, each hinge member being made of resilient strip material, each hinge member being S-shaped, passing partially round each support and together with the other hinge member forming a letter .chi. or FIG. 8 configuration as seen in a direction along the supports, wherein a releasable catch is provided for holding the supports in a predetermined relative angular position, the catch comprising two cam members each associated with a respective suport and the two being resiliently urged into engagement and so shaped and arranged that rotation away from the said predetermined relative angular position of the supports urges the cam members apart against the resilient urging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Courier Products Limited
    Inventors: Robert A. M. Maidment, Michael T. Smith