Patents Assigned to Turco Manufacturing Co.
  • Patent number: 4412678
    Abstract: A saddle for the bar of a bar-type weight has a bar-receiving portion, arms that incline upwardly and away from that portion, and a socket-forming portion which defines a socket that extends downwardly relative to those arms to telescope downwardly over the upper end of a rod-like support; and that saddle is unitary in nature and is wholly devoid of joints between any of the bar-receiving portion, the arms and the socket-forming portion. The bar-receiving portion has a part thereof which is located above the level of one edge thereof so a gap will always exist between that edge and the bar of the bar-type weight. The upper ends of the arms have horizontally-directed outwardly-extending lips that increase the effective area of the saddle which can be engaged by the bar of a bar-type weight without directing that bar away from that saddle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1983
    Assignee: Turco Manufacturing Co.
    Inventor: William R. Baynes
  • Patent number: 4278250
    Abstract: A first horizontally-directed spacing and connecting member extends between and interconnects the upper ends of a first plurality of aligned, but spaced-apart, vertically-directed columns, a second horizontally-directed spacing and connecting member extends between and interconnects an intermediate portion of one of the first plurality of vertically-directed columns with the upper ends of two columns of a second plurality of vertically-directed columns, a third horizontally-directed spacing and connecting member extends between and interconnects an intermediate part of a second of the first plurality of vertically-directed columns with the upper ends of two columns of the second plurality of vertically-directed columns, and rung-like spacers interconnect the second and third horizontally-directed spacing and connecting members to constitute an overhead exercise ladder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1981
    Assignee: Turco Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: William R. Baynes, Donal D. Hock
  • Patent number: 4245505
    Abstract: A movable platform supports a bottle for liquefied petroleum gas, a pointer is connected to that platform to move when that platform moves, and adjustable spring means urge that platform to move in a direction which will move that pointer toward an "empty" position but that adjustable spring means will permit a "full" bottle to hold that platform in a position wherein that pointer is spaced away from that empty position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1981
    Assignee: Turco Manufacturing Co.
    Inventor: William R. Baynes
  • Patent number: 4188937
    Abstract: A grill for cooking has a gas burner, a gas igniter adjacent that burner, and a piezo electric spark source. The grill has a metal casting; and the igniter has a bracket that mechanically secures and electrically connects that igniter to that casting, and also constitutes one arcing contact of that igniter. One contact of the spark source is electrically connected to the casting; and a wire connects the other contact of that spark source to a second arcing contact of the igniter. A shielding portion of the igniter overlies the confronting ends of the arcing contacts to keep fat, meat juices and other drippings from engaging those confronting ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1980
    Assignee: Turco Manufacturing Co.
    Inventor: William R. Baynes