Patents by Inventor Thor Ohman

Thor Ohman 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: 4584737
    Abstract: A drapery panel support system of the type including a rod defining a track, carriers mounted for movement along the track, and pendants mounted on the carriers for swivelling movement about an upright axis. The carriers each have a pendant support portion below the track with a laterally notch opening at one side edge of the pendant support portion and arranged to receive a neck portion on a pendant with a snap fit. A pendant retainer clip is shaped to underlie the carrier and has flanges which engage opposite side edges of the pendant support portion in the carrier and a notch in one end arranged to receive the neck portion on the pendant when the clip is in a pendant retaining position on the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignee: Graber Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Thor Ohman
  • Patent number: 4473102
    Abstract: A carrier for supporting a panel for movement along a track and adapted for connection to a string for controlling the spacing of the carriers along the track. The carrier includes a carrier body having a key receiving cavity, a locking key integrally connected to the body by a frangible connection arranged to allow an intermediate portion of a string to be inserted laterally into a position extending crosswise of the cavity. The key is then forced into the cavity to form a loop in the string and lock the string to the carrier body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Assignee: Graber Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Thor Ohman, Lester R. Small
  • Patent number: 4402109
    Abstract: A traverse rod and pulley housing assembly in which the pulley housings are dimensioned for insertion into the rod from the ends thereof and have a lower portion dimensioned to pass downwardly through a rod opening in the lower face wall of the rod. One set of ribs is provided on the pulley housing for laterally and vertically positioning the pulley housing in the inner rod member and a second set of ribs is provided in the pulley housing for laterally and vertically positioning the pulley housing in the outer rod member. Dual slide gates are provided, one on each side of the pulley housing, for controlling movement of the slides along the inner and outer rod members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1983
    Assignee: Graber Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Thor Ohman, Mark J. Terlecke
  • Patent number: 4399917
    Abstract: A curtain rod assembly for use in wide pocket curtains and the like to provide a wide header or band, which rod assembly includes vertically spaced upper and lower curtain rods, a plurality of spacer bars having rod engaging means at opposite ends for detachably engaging the upper and lower rods to rigidly interconnect the upper and lower rods intermediate their ends, and mounting brackets having vertically spaced upper and lower rod engaging supports for engaging the upper and lower rods adjacent their ends to support the ends of the rods in vertically spaced relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1983
    Assignee: Graber Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Thor Ohman