Patents Assigned to Design Partners, LLC
  • Hydraulic coupler
    Publication number: 20090311086
    Abstract: A quick coupler for attaching implements, such as buckets or other tools, to heavy equipment, such as backhoes and excavators, which includes two recesses or channels for receiving a pair of machine pins of an implement. A hydraulic piston actuates a first locking lever to enclose one of the pair of machine pins in one recess and a second locking lever to enclose the other one of the pair of machine pins in the other recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: Design Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Steig, JR., Richard A. Thompson, Robert K. Hawkins, Wilson A. Jones
  • Hydraulic coupler
    Patent number: 7594776
    Abstract: A quick coupler for attaching implements, such as buckets or other tools, to heavy equipment, such as backhoes and excavators, which includes two recesses or channels for receiving a pair of machine pins of an implement. A hydraulic piston actuates a first locking lever to enclose one of the pair of machine pins in one recess and a second locking lever to enclose the other one of the pair of machine pins in the other recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Design Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Steig, Jr., Richard A. Thompson, Robert K. Hawkins, Wilson A. Jones