Patents Assigned to Nelson Whittaker
  • Patent number: 7748511
    Abstract: A system for vending wheeled vehicles, such as strollers for children. The system includes a vehicle station having a series of docking ports with an operator's console connected thereto. Each docking port has a lock and release mechanism for engaging a striker pin of a wheeled vehicle engaged in the docking port. Upon appropriate signals from the operator's console, a vehicle discharge element in the docking port moves the wheeled vehicle when the lock and release mechanism is activated to disengage the striker pin, moving the wheeled vehicle from the locked position and making the availability of the wheeled vehicle obvious.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Nelson Whittaker
    Inventor: Jay A. Maher
  • Publication number: 20090174363
    Abstract: A system employing wheeled vehicles, such as strollers. A plurality of the wheeled vehicles is provided, each having a docking element. A vehicle station has a docking port for each of at least some of the wheeled vehicles. Each docking port has a charging device and is shaped to engage a docking element of an engaged wheeled vehicle. At least two display screens are provided on the wheeled vehicle, one for an occupant and one for an operator. One or more screen drivers is provided for the display screens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: Nelson Whittaker d/b/a Central Specialties Ltd.
    Inventor: Jay A. Maher
  • Patent number: 6378891
    Abstract: A convertible stroller and shopping vehicle having a stroller portion and a shopping vehicle portion. The stroller portion includes a seat which is movable from a deployed position to a stowed position. In the deployed position, the invention is used as a stroller. The shopping vehicle portion includes a collapsible receptacle that can be oriented in one of two orientations. In an open orientation, the receptacle creates a shopping cart while in a collapsed orientation the invention can be used to transport bulk materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Nelson-Whittaker, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susan H. Maher, Jay A. Maher
  • Patent number: 6170854
    Abstract: A convertible stroller and shopping vehicle having a stroller portion and a shopping vehicle portion. The stroller portion includes a seat which is movable from a deployed position to a stowed position. In the deployed position, the invention is used as a stroller. The shopping vehicle portion includes a collapsible receptacle that can be oriented in one of two orientations. In an open orientation, the receptacle creates a shopping cart while in a collapsed orientation the invention can be used to transport bulk materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Nelson Whittaker, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susan H. Maher, Jay A. Maher
  • Patent number: 6003894
    Abstract: A vehicle for transporting a removable product carrier having a pair of handles, such as a bag. The vehicle has a wheeled frame and a pivotal forward frame member which can be collapsed against the frame or positioned at a predetermined pivotal orientation in relation to the frame. A pair of suspension brackets, one each on the forward frame member and the frame, engage the handles of the product carrier to suspend it in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Nelson-Whittaker, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jay A. Maher
  • Patent number: 5544904
    Abstract: A convertible stroller and shopping cart having a stroller portion and a shopping cart portion. The stroller portion includes a seat secured to a metal frame, and the shopping cart portion comprises a collapsible receptacle. The receptacle can be oriented in two orientations, a stowed orientation adjacent the seat and a deployed orientation over the seat. When the receptacle is deployed, it conforms to the seat, creating a shopping cart from the stroller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: Nelson-Whittaker, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jay A. Maher
  • Patent number: D713112
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Nelson-Whittaker, Ltd
    Inventor: Jay A. Maher