Patents Represented by Attorney W. A. Schuetz
  • Patent number: 4800699
    Abstract: A molding/locator and attaching clip device includes a molding retainer clip which is adapted to be secured by a headed stud to a support panel and to which an open channel molding can be secured and, a molding locator clip which is adapted to be secured into a notched flange of the molding. Pawl arms on the molding retainer clip are adapted to engage ratchet teeth on the molding locator clip so that the molding and molding clip can be moved relative to the molding retainer clip in one direction and to prevent movement in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1989
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Steven C. Lang
  • Patent number: 4459088
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a vacuum pump assembly which is adapted to be operated by the pulsating exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine. The pump assembly includes a reciprocable pump means and an actuating means including a reciprocable actuating member in communication with the exhaust gases and drivingly connected to the pump means to reciprocate the same. The actuating means includes a first housing member and a second spring steel housing member which together with the reciprocable actuating member define an air spring for effecting movement of the actuating member through one of its strokes and which together serve to position and biasingly retain the pump means in assembled relation with the actuating means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1984
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Michael J. McClain
  • Patent number: 4390208
    Abstract: An inertia responsive latching mechanism for latching a tiltable seat back rest to a seat is disclosed and in which the latching mechanism is operable to normally latch the seat back rest in its fully upright position, allow slow forward tilting movement of the seat back without manual manipulation of the latch mechanism and prevent significant forward tilting movement of the seat back rest irrespective of its upright position upon being subjected to rapid deceleration forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Widmer, Robert R. Mercer