Patents Assigned to Wright Line Inc.
  • Patent number: 4113330
    Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for supporting a document-holding cartridge in a position that permits the documents to be read easily. The cartridge is held on its spine in a position reversed from its normal document-supporting position and means are provided to keep it from tipping sideways by appropriately engaging one of the cartridge hooks by which the cartridge is held in its normal upright position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Wright Line Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome M. O'Toole, Edmund T. Paquette
  • Patent number: 4066168
    Abstract: A novel stand is provided for supporting reference manuals of the type comprising a loose leaf holder with a hook located intermediate its end. The stand features means for preventing the holders from moving side-to-side and means adapted to interlock with the hooks of the holders to secure the latter in place. As added features, a key-operated locking device may be provided to prevent removal of the holders from the stand and two wire "flyleafs" may be attached to the stand to support the pages of the attached manuals when they are opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1978
    Assignee: Wright Line Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome O'Toole, David M. Wright, Norman A. Hedstrom
  • Patent number: 4056296
    Abstract: A novel loose-leaf holder is provided for binding documents such as a multi-leaf computer printout and mounting the same in a suspension-filing and/or storing system. The holder comprises a plastic body which is molded as an integral unit and comprises two side sections which are connected together by a hinge section so that they can be swung toward and away from one another, and document mounting posts carried by one side section and engageable by the other side section. Manually releasable locking means are provided for locking the two side sections together so as to captivate documents which are mounted on the binding posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1977
    Assignee: Wright Line Inc.
    Inventors: Norman A. Hedstrom, David M. Wright, Jerome O'Toole
  • Patent number: 4037895
    Abstract: A cabinet is provided which comprises a pull-out shelf, means for supporting books on the shelf so that they can be opened and read without removing them from the shelf, and means for automatically closing the books at the ends of the shelf when the shelf is pushed back into the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Assignee: Wright Line Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Hedstrom, David Wright, Jerome O'Toole
  • Patent number: 4014438
    Abstract: A one-piece spring fastener for connecting two members is disclosed which is useful as a replacement for a spring-biased hinge. The fastener has a body section with spring clips and a tab for locking the body section to one member and a leaf spring section that projects from one side of the body section and has means for attaching it to a second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1977
    Assignee: Wright Line Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome M. O'Toole, Martin L. Haskins
  • Patent number: D245727
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Wright Line Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard T. Cournoyer, David M. Wright, Jerome M. O'Toole
  • Patent number: D246593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: Wright Line Inc.
    Inventor: Edmund T. Paquette
  • Patent number: D248484
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Assignee: Wright Line Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Hedstrom, David M. Wright, Jerome O'Toole
  • Patent number: D250715
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1979
    Assignee: Wright Line Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Hedstrom, David M. Wright, Jerome O'Toole