Patents Assigned to Balco, Inc.
  • Patent number: 4104839
    Abstract: A wall protection assembly, for protecting an outwardly projecting corner of a building wall, includes a rigid base member having angularly disposed walls, each terminating in an outwardly extending abutment flange. The corner guard includes a semi-resilient guard member having a wall portion thereof, the wall portion having an inwardly extending flange on each side thereof for engaging the respective abutment flanges on the base member. The base member and guard member have interengaging portions adjacent the side thereof to retain the guard member on the base member with the guard member flanges engaging the abutment flanges of the base member. The abutment flanges contain any displacement or expansion of the guard member resulting from an impact thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1978
    Assignee: Balco, Inc.
    Inventors: Claude P. Balzer, Edward M. Corman
  • Patent number: 4037374
    Abstract: A stair nosing structure for a stair step having a tread surface and a riser or forwardly facing surface includes an elongated rigid base member having spaced portions defining at least one channel extending along the length thereof and an elongated tread member having elongated means extending therefrom and into the base member channel or channels with an interference engagement with spaced portions of the base member including at least one face of one of the base member channel defining portions to secure the tread member to the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Assignee: Balco Inc.
    Inventors: Claude P. Balzer, Almer A. Reiff, Edward M. Corman
  • Patent number: 4001991
    Abstract: A stair nosing structure for a stair step having a tread surface and a riser or forwardly facing surface includes an elongated base member having spaced portions defining a channel extending along the length thereof and an elongated tread member having elongated means thereon and extending into the base member channel with an interference engagement with spaced portions of the base member including a face of one of the channel defining portions to secure the tread member to the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1977
    Assignee: Balco, Inc.
    Inventors: Claude P. Balzer, Almer A. Reiff, Edward M. Corman