Patents Assigned to Penco Products, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9968189
    Abstract: A platform system removably mountable within an interior compartment of a storage device having a back wall and side walls providing an interior storage compartment. Connecting passages are provided through the back wall and side walls to removably mount the platform system in the interior compartment. The platform system includes a platform and a plurality of connector members attached to the platform and removably connectable through the connecting passages; each connector member including a spring member as part of the construction. The spring members permit automatic downward and movement of said platform as a function of the weight of articles supported on the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Penco Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank Berlino
  • Patent number: 8998276
    Abstract: A storage system including peripheral walls providing a storage area and a pivotally mounted door closing an opening into the storage area. A latching mechanism includes a latch member attached to a peripheral wall cooperating with an inturned latching member on the door to maintain the door closed. The cooperating latch member and inturned latching member extend for more than 25% of the height of the door and most preferably approximately 100% of the height of the door. In another aspect of the invention the latch member and the inturned latching member overlap each other when the door is closed and are forced in a direction to further overlap when a prying force is applied between contiguous surfaces of the door and peripheral wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Penco Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Everett Booth, Richard Karl Bowles
  • Patent number: 8967745
    Abstract: A mounting system for mounting a bank of storage units in side-by-side relationship above a ground surface includes an elongate member having an elongate top wall, having side edges and at least one leg section extending downwardly from one of the side edges. Each of the at least one leg section includes an elongate flange at a distal end that is contiguous to the ground. The elongate top wall has an elongate dimension between opposed ends for receiving a bank of storage units in side-by-side relationship on an upper surface thereof. The top wall includes attachment members for cooperating with a mounting plate for attaching the bank of storage units in side-by-side relationship to the top wall. The elongate flanges include a plurality of leveling adjuster passages for receiving leveling adjusters therethrough and a plurality of anchor passages for receiving anchoring members therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Penco Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Everett Booth
  • Patent number: 7323967
    Abstract: An electronically-controlled locker system that utilizes distributing processing to control access to, and assignment of, a plurality of lockers in a school, workplace, fitness center, etc. The system uses a plurality of locker control units that control access to a corresponding set of lockers based on user inputs and on user/locker authorization data that is provided from a central administrator workstation. This administrator workstation communicates with a system control unit that is in communication with every locker control unit and which allows cross-communication between locker control units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignees: Penco Products, Inc., Digitech International, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin E. Booth, Harry N. Popolow, Richard R. Ford, Edward E. Johnson, Jon S. Loftin, Lance C. Osborne, David W. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20050179349
    Abstract: An electronically-controlled locker system that utilizes distributing processing to control access to, and assignment of, a plurality of lockers in a school, workplace, fitness center, etc. The system uses a plurality of locker control units that control access to a corresponding set of lockers based on user inputs and on user/locker authorization data that is provided from a central administrator workstation. This administrator workstation communicates with a system control unit that is in communication with every locker control unit and which allows cross-communication between locker control units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicants: Penco Products, Inc., Digitech International, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Booth, Harry Popolow, Richard Ford, Edward Johnson, Jon Loftin, Lance Osborne, David Johnson
  • Patent number: 6879243
    Abstract: An electronically-controlled locker system that utilizes distributing processing to control access to, and assignment of, a plurality of lockers in a school, workplace, fitness center, etc. The system uses a plurality of locker control units that control access to a corresponding set of lockers based on user inputs and on user/locker authorization data that is provided from a central administrator workstation. This administrator workstation communicates with a system control unit that is in communication with every locker control unit and which allows cross-communication between locker control units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignees: Penco Products, Inc., Digitech International, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin E. Booth, Harry N. Popolow, Richard R. Ford, Edward E. Johnson, Jon S. Loftin, Lance C. Osborne, David W. Johnson
  • Patent number: D366201
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Penco Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Krishan K. Saini, Bruce A. Brebner, Jr