Patents Examined by David Lee Talbott
  • Patent number: 4407476
    Abstract: A combined shelf and clothes bar assembly is adapted for fastening to the walls of different sized clothes closets for supporting a shelf panel and a hanger bar that can both be cut to match the width of the closet. The assembly includes a pair of elongated front and rear edge cleats of generally E-shaped cross-section for being secured to the front and rear edges of the shelf panel. The edge cleats can be cut to match the length of the shelf panel. The edge cleats have elongated channels that slidably engage the front and rear edges of the shelf, and inwardly facing lower flanges spaced below the underside of the shelf. A pair of outer shelf support brackets have slots for slidably receiving opposite end portions of the shelf panel and the channel and lower flange portions of the edge cleats. A center support bracket supports the shelf panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1983
    Assignee: Acme General Corporation
    Inventor: Jerry L. Bohannan
  • Patent number: 4401289
    Abstract: An adjustable mirror stabilizing mounting useful in handset, power, and remote control automotive mirrors in which the fixed side of the mounting projects from the mirror housing to support spherically concentric nested surfaces sandwiching the movable element therebetween and including keying means and trunnion means in the sector retainer for providing stability of adjustable support with limited movement. A selected anti-friction pad is provided between certain of the spherical surfaces and assembly is by a compression loading of the spring element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Assignee: Harman Automotive, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Fisher, Arthur C. Jaworowicz, John M. Lyle, Jerry W. Sellers, Gary R. Steed