Patents Assigned to The Durham Manufacturing Company
  • Patent number: 8002293
    Abstract: A material handling apparatus includes a support portion having a beam, a wheel disposed on one side of the beam, and a wheel bracket disposed on an opposing side of the beam. The wheel bracket has two legs and a yoke, and is disposed with the legs against the beam to define a gap between the beam and the yoke. The beam and wheel bracket each include a defined pattern of identically arranged holes, a first set arranged on a square pattern, a second set arranged on rectangular non-square pattern, and a third set arranged on a rectangular pattern similar to that of the second set but oriented ninety degrees to the second set. The wheel bracket is disposed having its defined pattern of holes aligned with the defined pattern of holes in the beam. The wheel, beam and wheel bracket are attached by fasteners passing through one set of holes and traversing the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Jerel Richard Lear
  • Patent number: 6401300
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a handle retainer for a container having a handle extending from a surface of the container when the handle is in a carrying position, the handle retainer including: a boss disposed on the container; and the boss and a distal end of the handle having complementarily sloped surfaces such that, when the complementarily sloped surfaces are co-engaged, the handle will be retained closely adjacent the surface in a non-carrying position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Francis E. Korn, Allen Epstein
  • Patent number: 6032912
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a one-piece cabinet base, including: a horizontal, generally rectangular, planar, cabinet receiving surface on which to place a cabinet; vertical supports at either end of the horizontal surface, formed of one piece with the horizontal surface and depending therefrom; and horizontal base plates at lower ends of the vertical supports and formed of one piece with the vertical supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Francis Korn, Thomas Chittenden
  • Patent number: 5984442
    Abstract: A a cabinet with a sliding drawer, including: a housing; two opposing outer slides attached to inner surfaces of opposite sides of the housing; two inner slides attached to the sliding drawer and disposed in and telescopingly engaging the outer slides; and two first rollers contacting the inner slides and having their axes attached to the sides of the housing, with the axes of the first rollers spaced below a lower edge of the outer slide. Further, a cabinet with a sliding drawer, including: a housing having opposite side panels and front and rear ends; two opposing slide mechanisms attached to inner surfaces of the side panels and to sides of the sliding drawer; and the slide mechanisms being downwardly sloped from the front end of the housing toward the rear of the housing a degree sufficient to compensate for sagging from horizontal the sliding drawer may experience when extended from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Robert R. Hellman, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5927838
    Abstract: A cabinet, including: a generally hollow, rectilinear housing having opposite sides and top, back, and bottom walls; the side panels having rearwardly facing U-shaped channels formed along front edges thereof; and inner side panels attachable to the side panels by insertion of front edges thereof into the U-shaped channels and rotating the inner panels about the U-shaped channels to parallel proximity with inner surfaces of the side panels and being removably secured in such position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Robert R. Hellman, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5887819
    Abstract: A rack for dispensing material from a spool rotatingly mounted on a rod, the rack including: vertical left and right side members; structure to join the left and right side members; slots defined in the left and right side members to accept ends of the rod so as to support the rod in the rack; and the left and right side members being symmetrical such that the left and right side members are interchangeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Francis Korn, Robert Hall, Douglas Stender, George Forline
  • Patent number: D568645
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Matthew W. Gore, William George Olesen, II, Shawn T. Gibbons, Thomas B. Chittenden, John P. Negrich, Sr., Stephen E. Brown
  • Patent number: D568648
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Denis Roussel, Charles E. Spencer
  • Patent number: D360322
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Herbert M. Patterson
  • Patent number: D417080
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Francis E. Korn, Allen Epstein
  • Patent number: D426761
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Francis E. Korn, Allen Epstein
  • Patent number: D434634
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Francis E. Korn, Allen Epstein
  • Patent number: D434964
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Francis E. Korn, Allen Epstein