Patents Examined by Chales A. Marmor
  • Patent number: 4823903
    Abstract: Motorized snow vehicle composed of a front steering assembly and a rear support assembly including a support chassis and a motor activating a tread, the front steering assembly having a steering column adapted to pivot on the chassis and which carries at its lower portion a front runner or ski and at its upper portion handlebars or the like, wherein the chassis includes a main support beam extending towards the rear above which the motor is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1989
    Assignee: Bibollet S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Bibollet, Alain Isambert
  • Patent number: 4306751
    Abstract: An ornamental wheel cover having a funnel shaped member provided with at least three radially projecting tabs. Each of the tabs has a hole therethrough for registration on the threaded studs to which the wheel is fixedly mounted to rotate with the wheel. Nuts positionally lock the radially projecting tabs on the studs wherein the central axis of the funnel shaped member is coincident with the axis of the axle and the locking pin. The funnel shaped member has an intermediate cylindrical portion which terminates in an inwardly flaring conical portion to surround the end of the axle. The conical portion has a slot therethrough for receiving the radially extending pin member when the locking pin is pressed inwardly against the biasing force of the spring. The radially extending pin member engages an outwardly facing detent formed on the inner surface of the conical portion positioned perpendicularly to the slot provided through the conical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1981
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventor: John A. Wegner