Patents Assigned to Auto Glass Specialists, Inc.
  • Patent number: 6338619
    Abstract: There is disclosed a glass repair fixture including a mount, a leg, and a chamber, such that the leg is rotatable around the mount that decreases set up time and manufacturing cost, and improves a resulting glass repair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Auto Glass Specialists, Inc.
    Inventor: Bradd R. Rusch
  • Patent number: 5772823
    Abstract: For replacement of automotive windshields by aftermarket installers, two mirror image grips have a curved tubular handle which is welded to a sheet metal base with two legs which are at an obtuse angle to one another. The curved handle allows smooth repositioning of an installer's hands as the large windshield is shifted into position on the automobile, the obtuse angle base provides sufficient clearance for the full range of hand positions. Each leg of the sheet metal base is positioned to abut against an installer's hand during different stages of windshield lifting, i.e. when the windshield is vertical, and when it is inverted and horizontal. The grips are used to lift and position a windshield with a bead of urethane thereon into the pinch weld of the automobile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Auto Glass Specialists, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradd R. Rusch, Jeffrey L. Ritchie
  • Patent number: 5639134
    Abstract: For replacement of automotive windshields by aftermarket installers, two mirror image grips have a curved tubular handle which is welded to a sheet metal base with two legs which are at an obtuse angle to one another. The curved handle allows smooth repositioning of an installer's hands as the large windshield is shifted into position on the automobile; the obtuse angle base provides sufficient clearance for the full range of hand positions. Each leg of the sheet metal base is positioned to abut against an installer's hand during different stages of windshield lifting, i.e. when the windshield is vertical, and when it is inverted and horizontal. The grips are used to lift and position a windshield with a bead of urethane thereon into the pinch weld of the automobile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: Auto Glass Specialists, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradd R. Rusch, Jeffrey L. Ritchie
  • Patent number: 4681520
    Abstract: A repair assembly for the in-place repairing of windshields and the method for using such assembly, wherein a repair material injected into the windshield break area by a syringe and needle is forced into the windshield break through the repair assembly secured and sealed to the windshield by first applying stepped increments of measured vacuum levels and visually monitoring the windshield break area, and second applying positive pressure to the windshield break. An ultraviolet light source completes the repair by expediting hardening of the repair material within the windshield break to prevent refraction of light at the windshield break.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Assignee: Auto Glass Specialists, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert R. Birkhauser, III
  • Patent number: D435211
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Auto Glass Specialists, Inc.
    Inventor: Bradd R. Rusch