Patents by Inventor Alan L. Stearns

Alan L. Stearns has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6526701
    Abstract: A roof mount includes a base member and an attachment mount. The base member has a protrusion, and the attachment mount defines a hollowed region for receiving the protrusion to form a compression fitting. A substantially leak proof assembly is formed when the attachment mount is placed against the base member with a sealing material therebetween and a connecting element for coupling the attachment mount to the base member extends through the sealing material. A spacer extends the base member to a roof surface. The spacer is a hollow base stand, a tube, or a side wall of the base member. The spacer has a surface area covering the roof deck less than the surface area of a side of the base member facing the roof deck. The invention includes a method of limiting wind uplift of a roof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Vermont Slate & Copper Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian C. Stearns, Alan L. Stearns
  • Publication number: 20020066235
    Abstract: A roof mount includes a base member and an attachment mount. The base member has a protrusion, and the attachment mount defines a hollowed region for receiving the protrusion to form a compression fitting. A substantially leak proof assembly is formed when the attachment mount is placed against the base member with a sealing material therebetween and a connecting element for coupling the attachment mount to the base member extends through the sealing material. A spacer extends the base member to a roof surface. The spacer is a hollow base stand, a tube, or a side wall of the base member. The spacer has a surface area covering the roof deck less than the surface area of a side of the base member facing the roof deck. The invention includes a method of limiting wind uplift of a roof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2000
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Brian C. Stearns, Alan L. Stearns
  • Patent number: 5609326
    Abstract: An impervious membranous roof snow fence system consisting of a plurality of flat six sided mounting plates affixed through membranous roofing to a roof deck below. The plates in two embodiments have vertical splines to be received by compartments or sleeves in mounting blocks or in another embodiment threaded vertical posts to be received by vertical holes in mounting blocks where the blocks fit over membranous patches fitted over the plates and fully sealed to the roofing where such patches have slits or holes in them to accommodate the spines or posts. The blocks once fastened to the plates have fastened to them in turn, porous fence flags that support horizontal fence pieces from which there hang vertical fence pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Inventors: Brian C. Stearns, Alan L. Stearns
  • Patent number: D426453
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Inventors: Brian C. Stearns, Alan L. Stearns
  • Patent number: D428799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Inventors: Brian C. Stearns, Alan L. Stearns
  • Patent number: D430005
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Inventors: Brian C. Stearns, Alan L. Stearns