Patents Represented by Attorney D. M. Stock
  • Patent number: 4886228
    Abstract: An adjustable cable mounting bracket for automobile bodies is formed as a unitary structure in which a barbed locating member and a partially cylindrical backing member are hingedly connected to a slotted adjusting member to be folded into position where the resulting bracket assembly is rotatably mounted in an automotive body panel and provides for circumferential and axial movement of a portion of a flexible conduit or cable received in the bracket in snap-fit relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: Robert D. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 4630857
    Abstract: A storage apparatus carried inside interior panels of motor vehicles is provided. The apparatus has a storage container which is open towards the interior of the panel and which is movable forwardly and downwardly in through guide levers arranged in a parallelogram. The apparatus overcomes dead center in a closed position flush with the panel and is spring-mounted on first stops through lever arms articulated on the panel at one end and on the storage container at the other end and is further mounted by a spring and shock absorber arrangement cooperating with the guide levels which is lockable on two stops in an opened position projecting from the panel. Specifically, two forward, laterally outer lever arms and a rear, triangularly shaped lever arm disposed parallel to the approximately vertical rear wall of the container are provided, and a spring and bell-crank lever arrangement engages below on a support point mounting on the panel and above on a transverse bar of the triangularly shaped lever arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Hansjurgen Zweiniger, Horst Willenbrock