Patents Assigned to Vance Industries, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5743501
    Abstract: An improved mounting system for clamping sinks, vanity basins, drop-in stove tops and like articles to the underside of a counter or cabinet top incorporating a pair of elongated unitary, rigid mounting rails configured to carry threaded leveling bolts and nuts at adjustably spaced intervals along its length for underengaging and clamping the rim flange at the upper end of the sink or the like to the underside of a countertop. Hanger brackets attachable to the upper margins of countertop supporting cabinet structural frame rails or walls provide vertically adjustable connection with opposite ends of the mounting rails mounted thereon to accommodate sinks, basins or stove tops having rim flanges of varying thickness and dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Vance Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: William M. Rapp
  • Patent number: 5037165
    Abstract: A drawer organizer consists of a pair of glides and a tray movable on the glides. The glides are extrusions of low-friction plastic material. Each glide comprises a pair of side walls interconnected by a top wall defining a downwardly open groove and is assembled without tools by pressing the downwardly open groove onto the upper edge of a corresponding drawer side. The glides have generally transverse longitudinal flanges inside the drawer at levels below the tops of the drawer sides and support opposite flanges of a tray for movement within the drawer. At least one of the side walls of the glide is diagonal to enable the downwardly open groove to elastically grip the drawer sides fit to different drawer side thicknesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Vance Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: William M. Rapp, Joseph A. Gaines
  • Patent number: 4029526
    Abstract: Flame hardening method and apparatus for tempering gear teeth and the like which comprises quench means for rapidly cooling selected ones of the gear teeth to a temperature which avoids the formation of decomposition products, and a heat source spaced from the quench means for raising the temperature of selected ones of the gear teeth to a value which promotes the formation of an austenitic structure.Mount means rotatably support the gear with selected ones of the circumferentially extending teeth being placed in heat transfer relationship with the heat source and the quench.Index means rotate the gear an amount which moves one gear tooth from the heat source to the quench means in a manner whereby all of the teeth of the gear must be treated one time before any tooth can be treated a second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1977
    Assignee: Vance Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: James David Carrigan
  • Patent number: 3951220
    Abstract: A drill bit for use in concentrically arranged dual drill strings. The bit has an outlet eccentrically arranged respective to its longitudinal axial centerline, and a formation engaging surface made of a plurality of spiraling faces which diminish in area as the cutting face curves about and toward the outlet. The area located between the spiraling faces form fluid conveying passageways through which a jet of fluid is directed toward the outlet, thereby carrying therewith cuttings formed by the spiral faces of the bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1976
    Assignee: Vance Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Edwin Leslie Phillips, Jr., James David Carrigan
  • Patent number: D436782
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Vance Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: William M. Rapp