Patents Examined by Beth A. Stephen
  • Patent number: 6634149
    Abstract: Construction and remodeling of a cleanroom wall system is facilitated with a universal stud design. A variety of wall configurations may be assembled with the same stud. Also provided is a useful connector block for joining perpendicularly oriented studs, or for splicing together axially aligned studs. A corner stud is also provided, as well as a deflection track for connecting the top track of a wall panel to a conventional ceiling grid to allow deflection of the grid relative to the wall and to facilitate easy access to the portion of the ceiling immediately above the wall panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Inventors: Dennis O. Cates, Roger K. Crawford
  • Patent number: 6449908
    Abstract: A gate valve box adaptor structure, the present invention provides a permanent support for the key box bonnet that is unaffected by the surrounding environment. The adaptor is supported on the gate valve to a positive location for the key box bonnet at a level which prevents infiltration of soil and moisture into the bonnet. The adaptor is provided with a resilient gasket of a unique design to provide a cushion and to create a seal for the bonnet on the gate valve. A plurality of liquid infiltration prevention structures for preventing liquid infiltration into manhole assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Inventor: Michael Gagas
  • Patent number: 6408576
    Abstract: Doorway or passageway arches and a mold and method for making doorway arches, wherein the arches comprise pre-fabricated plaster, two sides that are substantially perpendicular to each other, a concave arcuate side extending between the sides and flanges extending outward from each side for securing the arch to adjoining walls defining a comer, and the mold comprises a base, at least two perpendicularly disposed slots, at least one slidably insertable and removable board for each slot, a mold projecting upward from said base and having a convex side extending between opposing ends of said boards, flanges disposable along the boards and a volume for receiving a hardening agent, such as plaster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Inventor: Douglas Roth
  • Patent number: 6237301
    Abstract: A runner for maintaining at least two studs in a predetermined relationship relatively to one another so as to allow for the construction walls presenting a laterally curved portion, walls erected in a space where the distance between a floor and a ceiling varies or half walls having a figured upper end. Each runner includes at least two stud receiving components. Each of the stud receiving components is configured and sized for receiving one of the stud end portions. Each stud receiving component is provided with a linking structure mounted thereon for mechanically linking with an adjacent stud receiving component while allowing the linked stud receiving components to be angled relatively to each other. Each stud receiving component has a generally U-shaped cross-sectional configuration defining a base wall. The base wall has a base wall peripheral edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Inventor: Yvon Paradis
  • Patent number: 6158181
    Abstract: A roofing structure assembly comprises elongate roofing material support members including means for attachment to roofing scaffold members and a flexible roofing material engageable with said support members, in which the support members include means for tensioning the roofing material between adjacent support members in use.The roofing material is preferably supported above the scaffold members and is tensioned by applying invented channel section capping members over the support members to apply out-of-plane deformation to the roofing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Inventors: Paul Barnaby Musgrave, Anthony Squibb