Patents by Inventor Stephen E. Shanley, Jr.

Stephen E. Shanley, Jr. 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: 4375174
    Abstract: A thumb adjustable, parallel jaw end wrench, that uses a worm gear and a movable jaw with a rack, is provided with a locking feature. The worm gear is so mounted in the fixed jaw portion of the wrench that it has play in its axial direction. A first hole ("cam follower hole") that extends perpendicularly away from the head end of the gear is intersected by a second hole ("cam pin hole") running perpendicular to the cam follower hole. Biasing means urge the worm gear toward the cam pin hole. A cylindrical pin having a cam surface with high and low positions that extends radially around a central segment of the pin is rotatably mounted in the cam pin hole. Cam follower means slidably mounted in the cam follower hole ride on the cam surface and extend to the head end of the worm gear. To lock the wrench's grip on an object, the pin is turned to its high cam position, causing the follower means to push the gear, and therefore the rack and movable jaw as well, toward the fixed jaw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1983
    Assignee: Shan-Lok Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen E. Shanley, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4285618
    Abstract: The milling cutter of the invention comprises a cutting section having a plurality of blades positioned on the surface and separated one from the other by flutes. At least two blades have one or more smooth segments, exhibiting an even and unbroken land and cutting edge, interspersed with one or more serrated segments containing a row of cutting teeth. The positions of the smooth and serrated segments are staggered from blade to blade so that in the course of one complete revolution of the cutter, each point along a surface being worked by the cutter will be contacted by at least one smooth segment and at least one serrated segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1981
    Inventor: Stephen E. Shanley, Jr.