Patents Assigned to Marriott Corporation
  • Menu board
    Patent number: 4367604
    Abstract: A menu board includes a housing containing a light source, a translucent front panel and a plurality of parallel, spaced ribs with flanges attached to the face of the panel. Menu information strips are insertable between the ribs. Picture units having faces with translucent pictures thereon have opposite side walls with hook elements to engage flanges on any two ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1983
    Assignee: Marriott Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen T. Porter, II, Paul G. Gaiser
  • Cargo transfer vehicle with double angle catwalk adjustment
    Patent number: 3964118
    Abstract: The elevatable platform assembly of a conventional cargo transfer vehicle of the type used to on and off-load aircraft cargo is modified to include an auxiliary platform, or catwalk, which is selectively adjustable to "bridge" that sector shaped space remaining between an aircraft cargo hatch and the platform assembly when the vehicle is misaligned with respect to the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1976
    Assignee: Marriott Corporation
    Inventors: Henry W. Meyers, John Quinby