Patents Assigned to Hyde Tools, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9938065
    Abstract: A tool packaged for retail sale has a tool handle including a handle outer surface and an internal storage channel within the handle and having a channel opening facilitating selective access to the storage channel. A removable handle cap with a cap-exterior surface is installed over the channel opening in order to close off the storage channel. The handle cap is retained in place by a cap-restraining strip fabricated from a tear-resistant material. More specifically, a central portion of the cap-restraining strip is disposed over at least a portion of the cap-exterior surface, while portions of the cap-restraining strip on opposite sides of the central portion are disposed to extend along mutually opposite sides of the handle outer surface. A wrapper securely binds the portions of the cap-restraining strip located on opposite sides of the handle outer surface, thereby preventing removal of the handle cap without destruction of the wrapper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: HYDE TOOL, INC.
    Inventors: Richard M. Farland, Corey Talbot
  • Patent number: 8819944
    Abstract: A bladed tool includes a handle and a blade with a surface-engaging edge and a blade-retaining shank. The handle includes an elongated handle body having longitudinally opposed body front and rear ends, and at least one side wall extending between the body front and rear ends. The side wall defines an outer surface configured for gripping by a user and an inner surface that defines an interior access channel extending from an access opening in the body rear end toward a forward channel wall located to the rear of the body front end. Situated between the body front end and the forward channel wall is a handle core that defines a shank-retaining slot extending between a forward slot-opening in the body front end and a rearward slot-opening in the forward channel wall. The shank extends rearwardly through the shank-retaining slot such that a protruding shank portion extends to the rear of the forward channel wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Farland, John Li kaijun, Corey Talbot
  • Patent number: 8708254
    Abstract: A fluid sprayer includes a rigid fluid conduit with a conduit side wall extending along a conduit axis between open first and second conduit ends. The conduit side wall defines a fluid passage extending between the open first and second ends. A spray nozzle with a fluid-expulsion bore is connected to the second conduit end such that it can pivot about a nozzle-pivot axis that extends orthogonally to the conduit axis and such that fluid introduced into the first conduit end is expelled through the fluid-expulsion bore. A nozzle actuator is attached to the conduit for bi-directional rotation about an actuator-rotation axis having a component of spatial extension perpendicular to the conduit axis. The nozzle actuator and nozzle are mechanically linked so that rotation of the actuator causes the nozzle to pivot with respect to the conduit axis. A spray-angle selector rotates in tandem with the nozzle actuator and includes an angle-selection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Brooke Baxter, William Raymond Bucknam, Richard M. Farland, Corey Talbot
  • Patent number: 8439281
    Abstract: A modular coatings sprayer includes a valve housing in which there is defined a nozzle orifice and a valve-shaft bore opposite the nozzle orifice. A housing side wall extends between the orifice and bore and defines an internal fluid passage. The side wall includes an opening through which pressurized fluid is introduced into the fluid passage. A valve including a valve shaft with opposed back and nozzle-closing ends is sealably supported within the bore such that (i) the nozzle-closing end is situated within the housing and the back end is situated external to the housing and (ii) the valve shaft can axially reciprocated between a first position in which the nozzle-closing end does not seal the nozzle orifice and a nozzle-closing position in which the nozzle-closing end seals the nozzle orifice such that pressurized fluid within the fluid passage is prevented from exiting through the nozzle orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Troudt
  • Patent number: 8291598
    Abstract: A retractable blade scraper includes a handle body having a handle rear end and a handle forward end including a forward-end opening. An internal blade-slide cavity extends rearwardly from the forward-end opening toward the handle rear end and is configured to selectively receive a blade through—the forward-end opening. A blade slide housed by the blade-slide cavity includes lower and upper blade slide members between which the blade is selectively retained. A blade-slide actuator is accessible through an actuator slot defined through a wall of the handle body between slot first and second ends. Reciprocation of the actuator between the slot first and second ends reciprocates the blade slide between a rearward blade-storage position in which the blade is housed in the blade-slide cavity and a forward blade-changing position in which the blade protrudes through the forward-end opening to facilitate blade changing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven J. Corron, Richard M. Farland, Corey Talbot
  • Patent number: 8029427
    Abstract: A paint roller system includes a handle and an applicator support frame. The support frame has a base end by which it is connected to the handle and is configured to include an axle that is oriented generally orthogonally to the handle and includes a distal end. An interior frame channel extends between a first opening in the base end and a second opening in the distal end. A linkage snaked through the channel includes a first end coupled to an actuator carried by the handle and a second end terminating in a keyed lug. A roller disposed for rotation about the axle is configured to support for rotation a cylindrical paint applicator. The roller includes a keyed socket axially aligned with the second opening in the axle. The actuator is movable into a first position in which the keyed lug is disengaged from the keyed socket and that the roller is free to rotate, and a second position in which the lug protrudes from the second opening and into the keyed socket, thereby preventing roller rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Troudt
  • Patent number: 7509703
    Abstract: A liquid loading and application apparatus includes a hub, a paint roller support element, and the hub receives the paint roller support element. The hub includes first and second frusto-conical surfaces subtending an angle, and oppositely disposed annular end surfaces contiguous with the respective first and second frusto-conical surfaces. A cover of a first material conforms to the frusto-conical surfaces. The cover has opposed circular openings, and elastic strips of a second material. The elastic strips engage the frusto-conical surfaces and grippingly secure the cover to the hub. The first material is more elastic than the second material so that the strips grippingly secure the cover to the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Hyde Tools. Inc.
    Inventor: Floyd E. Martin
  • Patent number: 7337488
    Abstract: A roller hub that is designed to fit standard roller frames. The paint loading surface of the hub has two surfaces that are oriented on a generally 90-degree angle. The intersection of the surfaces is adapted to allow a channel for excess paint to flow when the roller is loaded and pressed into operation in a comer. A removable, reusable cover that slips over the hub is held in place by material with a high degree of elasticity. The length or thickness of the nap on the edges of the cover can be shorter than the length or thickness of the nap in the middle, thereby allowing more paint to be loaded in the area of the roller where it is most needed. The roller cover is made from lambs wool or similar synthetic fiber, and the back of the cover is a porous synthetic material allowing for an easier cleaning process than other rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: Floyd E. Martin
  • Patent number: D541128
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard M. Farland
  • Patent number: D560998
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard M. Farland
  • Patent number: D674259
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Metaxatos, Steffen Koury, James McGee, Richard M. Farland, Corey Talbot
  • Patent number: D674260
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Metaxatos, Steffen Koury, James McGee, Richard M. Farland, Corey Talbot
  • Patent number: D682062
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Metaxatos, Steffen Koury, James McGee, Richard M. Farland, Corey Talbot
  • Patent number: D685193
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: John Li Kaijun
  • Patent number: D707044
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: John Li Kaijun
  • Patent number: D730706
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Hyde Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Farland, Corey Talbot