Patents by Inventor Robert N. Laroche

Robert N. Laroche 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: 4637666
    Abstract: An office furniture desk arrangement for providing a CRT work station, in which the desk includes a desk top that along the front of the desk defines a broad and flat work surfacing that extends between the sides of the desk under which a computer keyboard may be retractably mounted, and that along the back of the desk extends a relatively narrow trackway that also extends essentially between the sides of the desk, the upper surfacing of which is in substantial coplanar relation with the desk work surfacing. Underlying the desk top trackway is an easily excessed horizontal trough for concealing electrical wiring, with the trackway shiftably mounting a carriage for movement therealong that includes a rear casing that is roller equipped for riding along the trackway cantilever mounted fashion, and a front casing that is disposed over the desk top work surfacing and is connected to the rear casing for hand adjustment movement by the desk user toward and away from the desk user at the front of the desk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1987
    Assignee: All-Steel Canada Ltd.
    Inventors: Williams R. Worrell, Robert N. Laroche, Michael J. Armstrong
  • Patent number: 4298236
    Abstract: A safety lock system for vertically stacked slideably retained storage elements, such as file drawers. The system comprises one or more locking bars vertically slideably retained in alignment in a vertical support guide channel. Two or more cam elements are pivotally secured on a respective fixed pivot axis to the support guide channel adjacent an opposed end of each of the locking bars. Each of the cam elements have a cam portion retained in planar alignment with the locking bars and an activating arm portion for rotating the cam portion about the fixed pivot axis. A displaceable space is provided below each cam element portion defined between one of the locking bar opposed ends and the cam portion. An engaging member is secured to one or more of the storage elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1981
    Assignee: Artopex Inc.
    Inventor: Robert N. Laroche
  • Patent number: D289954
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Assignee: All-Steel Canada Ltd.
    Inventors: William R. Worrell, Robert N. Laroche
  • Patent number: D291853
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Assignee: All-Steel Canada Ltd.
    Inventors: William R. Worrell, Robert N. Laroche
  • Patent number: D292154
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1987
    Assignee: All-Steel Canada Ltd.
    Inventors: William R. Worrell, Robert N. Laroche
  • Patent number: D296172
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Assignee: All-Steel Canada Ltd.
    Inventors: William R. Worrell, Robert N. Laroche