Patents by Inventor Robert F. Emmons

Robert F. Emmons 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: 6009731
    Abstract: A steel plate hasp is permanently fixedly attached to a door keeper bar, the bar for rotating about its longitudinal axis between door closed and open states. A casing has a plurality of walls forming a housing cavity in which the hasp is received through an opening in a housing wall with bolt seal shank apertures aligned in the hasp and housing. The casing may be permanently secured to the door by bolts or welds or may be selectively attached and removed from the hasp in a locked and unlocked state without fixed attachment to the door. A bolt seal has a shank with a head at one end wherein the head engages a housing wall and a locking body engages and locks to the shank other end and to a further housing wall. The shank between the head and lock body is fully enclosed by the housing and door to preclude access to the shank by tampering tools. The casing when secured to the hasp cooperates with the door to prevent the keeper bar from rotating open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Transguard Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert F. Emmons, Craig Hamilton, Terrence N. Brammall
  • Patent number: 6010166
    Abstract: A lower steel plate casing has a housing attached to a back plate secured to a door and defines an enclosed chamber defining a channel portion through which a portion of an operating handle of a swing door keeper bar passes. An upper steel plate casing has a housing and is pivoted to the back plate. The upper casing housing defines a further enclosed chamber having a further channel portion through which a portion of the handle passes in cooperation with the lower casing channel portion in a housing locking position. A bolt seal has a head fixed to a shank and a lock body releaseably attached to the shank for locking the two housings together. The shank is laterally protected by the enclosed chambers and axially protected by the head at one shank end and the lock body at the other shank end and by various housing plates having apertures in which the head, lock body and the bolt shank are received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Transguard Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Hamilton, Robert F. Emmons
  • Patent number: 5118149
    Abstract: Protector apparatus for a hasp of a shipping container of the type having a pair of alignable hasp apertures includes a metal box-shaped body having a top plate, a bottom plate, right and left side plates, an open rear face, and a front face. The apparatus further includes a shield plate on the face of the body extending transversely between the side plates and forming a top opening in the face between the shield plate and the top plate and forming a bottom opening between the shield plate and the bottom plate. A shield aperture in the shielf plate is alignable with the hasp apertures, through all of which apertures a breakaway seal may be threaded for securing the breakaway security seal to the hasp and to the body of the protector. The body supports itself on the hasp and protects the hasp from intentional breakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Inventor: Robert F. Emmons