Having Shape Facilitating Impaling Of Mounting Surface Patents (Class 24/696)
  • Patent number: 6017608
    Abstract: A decorative safety attachment for screen doors and windows for enhancing visibility and thereby preventing inadvertent walk-through, injury to persons or pets, tearing of the screen itself, or damage to other components or property. The attachment includes an array of attachment pins which can be conveniently inserted into and removed from an ordinary screen mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Inventors: John Richard Braun, Joyce Carol Braun
  • Patent number: 4692968
    Abstract: Plastic covered equipment is secured to a support surface such as a table or the like by first and second interconnected coupling devices. The first coupling device is mounted on the support surface, while the second coupling device is embedded into the plastic covered equipment. The second coupling device includes a body member having a stub shaft secured to the first end thereof which terminates in a pointed probe head having an inner face with a greater diameter than that of the stub shaft. A concave surface on the first end of the body member surrounds the stub shaft and terminates in an arcuate annular shoulder on the first end of the body member. The annular shoulder has a diameter greater than that of the probe head and creates an annular space with respect to the inner face of the probe head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc.
    Inventor: Leon E. Girard