Patents Examined by Steve Varner
  • Patent number: 6266938
    Abstract: A steel floor structure includes steel columns, steel beams, surrounding frames around the columns and the beams, horizontal frames around the beams, connectors, anti-bend means, floor steel bars, reinforcing catch steel bars, various kinds of connect means, and net plates laid on outer surfaces of the structure and used as outer concrete forms to keep concrete inside. So the steel frame floor can be assembled quickly and have high structural strength and a good wholeness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Inventors: Chyi Sheu, Sin-Yuan Lu
  • Patent number: 6263626
    Abstract: A window or door sash of the type having a sash frame for receiving a transparent sheet, which is retained in the sash frame by a plurality of removably mounted glazing beads. A plurality of overlying wooden or other decorative covering members are each attached only to a glazing bead and extend over both the glazing beads and the interiorly facing surfaces of the sash frame. This arrangement provides the aesthetic beauty of wood, the durability of vinyl, aluminum, fiberglass or composite window working components, no unsightly fasteners and the easy and convenient replacement of a broken glass without damage to the wood or other components and without requiring complete replacement of the entire sash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Atria Building Products, Inc.
    Inventor: David C. Gerhardt
  • Patent number: 6263635
    Abstract: A tube reinforcement assembly is designed to reinforce complex tube structures, such as those having bends and/or varying cross-sectional areas. The assembly includes a plurality of modular pillars, each having a structural foam coating. The modular pillars are grouped together with resilient retaining mechanisms or by an external positioning mechanism to form an assembly having a resiliently variable cross-sectional area. When the assembly is placed inside a tube structure, the pillars are squeezed together to fit around bends or in areas having smaller cross-sectional areas in the tube structure. When the assembly reaches an area in the tube structure having a larger cross-sectional area, the resilient connection between the pillars allow the pillars to separate and fill the extra space, holding the assembly in place temporarily. Once the reinforcement assembly is in a selected area, the structural foam is expanded to hold the assembly in place permanently and reinforce the tube structure at that point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: L&L Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Czaplicki
  • Patent number: 6260307
    Abstract: A conservatory roof comprises an eaves beam, glazing bars mounted at one end on the eaves beam and supporting glazing panels therebetween, and an insulator strip between the eaves beam head and the glazing bars to provide a thermal break.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Ultraframe (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Christopher Richardson
  • Patent number: 6260329
    Abstract: A lightweight, low cost, insulating construction panel having a rectangular channel-iron frame, an outside face of lightweight corrugated metal, a main filler comprising a perlite and pumice binder sandwiching an insulating foam core. The construction panel has a plurality of vertical channel irons spaced in succession and forming a plane common to an inside face of the panel. Two weld wire screens are disposed against each of the inner surface and the outer surface of the foam core, and fastened together through individual weld wires extending horizontally through the foam core. The outside face may have a decorative, cementitious material. Each box frame has attachment means along each of four perimeter sides capable of mechanical attachment to a foundation and to at least three other panels so as to become load-bearing. The construction panel is strong, flexible, termite and fire-proof, and hurricane and earthquake resistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Inventor: Brent P. Mills
  • Patent number: 6250039
    Abstract: A channel bar assembly is provided for use with a modular display system. The modular display system can have a display frame that is made up of a plurality of legs that are coupled to a plurality of hubs. The channel bar assembly includes a first channel bar and a second channel bar, each channel bar having a first end and a second end, and a hub connector having a first end hingedly coupled to the second end of the first channel bar, and a second end hingedly coupled to the first end of the second channel bar. The hub connector is connected to one of the plurality of hubs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Abex Display Systems
    Inventors: Stuart Karten, Robert Blumenfeld, Dennis Schroeder, Duane Lee
  • Patent number: 6250034
    Abstract: An improved membrane plate for attaching a membrane to a roof is disclosed. The improved membrane plate includes a plate body portion having a bottom surface for disposing the bottom surface against the membrane and an opening to permit a fastening device to pass therethrough for securing the membrane plate and the membrane to the roof. A plurality of spaced apart lances joined to said plate body portion by a hinged lance edge and extending downwardly from the plate body portion wherein the spaced apart lances are disposed upon the plate body portion to define an oval shape having a longitudinal oval axis. The hinged edges are aligned parallel to the longitudinal oval axis. The membrane plate is subjected to a shear force when attached to the roof and is disposed such that the longitudinal oval axis of the membrane plate is perpendicular to the shear force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Construction Fasteners, Inc.
    Inventor: Tommy Ray Hulsey
  • Patent number: 6240689
    Abstract: A utility standard assembly having a tubular post member which is circumscribed and compressively held at its base end by a clamp member. The clamp member and tubular member assembly are the received into a clamp receiving pocket in a modular, structural base member which supports the assembly without welding. Wiring opening are located on the bottom of the base member and in the clamp receiving pocket so that the utility wiring may pass from the mounting surface directly into the tubular member. Further, the clamp receiving pocket is supported on legs which create an integral wiring access opening for installation and maintenance. A decorative, wrap-around base cover may be utilized to provide the desired aesthetic effects for the utility standard assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Genlyte Thomas Group LLC
    Inventors: Eric Haddad, William M. Niemier
  • Patent number: 6227217
    Abstract: A golf bag canopy adapted to be mounted to a golf cart roof, and particularly to the rear edge of a golf cart roof. The canopy assembly essentially includes an elongated awning track, a pair of J-bar frame members, one of which is attached to either end of the awning track, a U-shaped bow frame member attached to the ends of each J-bar for pivotal movement with respect thereto, and a pliable cover having a leading edge securely attached to the awning track and a body draped over and supported by the U-shaped bow. By pivotally moving the U-shaped bow between its terminal positions, the cover correspondingly moves between covered and uncovered relation to the golf bag compartment of a golf cart. The cover may be positioned in covered relation relative to the golf bag cover during times of inclement weather, or may be positioned in uncovered relation relative to the golf bag compartment when accessing a club.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: J. G. Peta, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph G. Peta
  • Patent number: 6223489
    Abstract: A construction block cap is used to cap the outer periphery of a construction block structure in order to permit the structure to be easily drop glazed into a frame. The construction block cap has a base member with a pair of flanges extending along and upwardly therefrom. A flange structure extends along and upwardly from the base member between the pair of flanges. The flange structure can be a single flange or a pair of flanges. The pair of flanges and the flange structure form a pair of parallel inner channels that receive the spacing flanges of the construction blocks used to make the construction block structure while the pair of flanges form a pair of outer channels that receive the cut edges of the cut faces of a construction block. Optional lips on the various flanges help hold the construction blocks in place and seal the structure within the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Inventor: Myles A. Fisher
  • Patent number: 6212846
    Abstract: An isosceles joist structural member comprising two half-joists, each half-joist comprising a pair of elongated, substantially rectangular flanges, each having a surface and a longitudinally extended groove along the diagonal of the flange, and a web disposed between the flanges, the edges are adhesively fastened within the respective continuous grooves. A joint formed into the flange at the corner, on the flange diagonal, the widest part of the flange, cooperates to make the strongest joint in the member. Two individual joists connected together forms an isosceles triangle section, and repeats connecting top to top and bottom to bottom or bottom to wall to form a roof or floor structure. Dimensional graded lumber, engineered laminated wood, or synthetic composite structural members may be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Inventor: Franklin E. Johnston
  • Patent number: 6212833
    Abstract: A roof vent device formed from upper and lower outer surfaces sized to define a generally rectangular configuration having a linear axis. A tapered matrix is positioned between the outer surfaces, the taper being directed in a direction perpendicular to the axis to define a thin linear edge and a thick linear edge along the outer edges of the configuration that are parallel to the axis and tapered linear edges along the outer edges of the configuration that are perpendicular to the axis. The tapered matrix has a gap located proximate the middle of the tapered linear edges and extending generally over the linear axis of the outer surfaces. The gap defines an entrance for an air to vent air from beneath the roof ridge out the thick linear edge. The gap further provides a pivot point about which the configuration folds to conform to a roof pitch having a predetermined angle. In one embodiment the matrix is tapered from one outer edge to the gap and the remaining portion of the matrix is generally level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Inventor: John C. Henderson