Patents by Inventor Scott J. Rote

Scott J. Rote 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: 5595409
    Abstract: The present invention provides an assembly for latching a moving panel relative to a frame in which the moving panel slides or glides. A keeper is secured to the frame, and a latch is secured to the moving panel in such a manner that the keeper and latch are adjacent one another when the moving panel is moved to a closed position within the frame. Rotation of a key or handle on the moving panel causes the latch to extend and capture the keeper and pull the moving panel toward the frame as it latches. The latch cannot capture the keeper until a spike extending from the frame deflects a button on the moving panel. When the moving panel is latched, the spike provides resistance to vertical movement of the moving panel relative to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Assignee: Anderson Corporation
    Inventors: Duane T. Fier, Scott J. Rote
  • Patent number: 5245726
    Abstract: An apparatus for shredding/reducing the size of material yard waste and having: a housing defining an intake opening through which yard waste is to be drawn and an outlet opening through which yard waste drawn through the intake opening can be expelled; an impeller having a rotational axis and at least one vane for intercepting yard waste at the intake opening and propelling the yard waste intercepted by the impeller vane centrifugally to be expelled at the outlet opening; and a cutting structure/cutting attachment for reducing the size of yard waste drawn into the intake opening and advancing towards the impeller. The cutting structures includes at least one elongate blade having its length projecting substantially parallel to the rotational axis of the impeller. In one form of the invention, the blade rotates with the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Inventors: Scott J. Rote, Thomas H. Lohr