Patents by Inventor Allan R. Thom

Allan R. Thom 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).

  • Publication number: 20110104434
    Abstract: A modular plastic floor tile has a body of a first polymer compound and features overmolded onto the body from a second polymer compound. The compounds may be different from each other in hardness and/or color. The features may include raised pads on the upper surface and/or skins on support member cores downwardly depending from the tile lower surface. The pads on the upper surface may be injection-molded from the lower surface through through-holes. Lateral edges of the tile are provided with latches which fit into loops with an interference fit. The loops flex in order to impose a compressive force on mating tile edges. The tile may have an overmolded peripheral seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Frederick W. MASANEK, JR., David S. IVERSON, Allan R. THOM
  • Publication number: 20100075093
    Abstract: A pair of cut-to-fit universal vehicle floor mats includes a driver's side floor mat and a passenger's side floor mat, each with a plurality of peripheral cells separated from each other and from a central area of the mat body by indented trim lines. The passenger's side mat is not a mirror image of the driver's side mat but differs therefrom in the shape of its exterior margin and the number, length, positioning and shape of the trim lines. The driver's side mat has cells which can be selectively trimmed away to accommodate a gas pedal, deadpedal, transmission tunnel indentation and fuel filler door/trunk release levers. The passenger's side mat has arcuate trim lines and cells adapted to fit a transmission tunnel bulge and a right front wheel well which often delimit the passenger's side foot well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Quin GIFFORD, Judd C. KAUFMAN, Scott A. VARGO, Allan R. THOM, Frederick W. MASANEK, JR., David F. MACNEIL
  • Publication number: 20090243322
    Abstract: A snap fastener has female and male snaps. The female snap, and in one embodiment the male snap, are thermoformed from sheets of thermoplastic material having a uniform thickness, in integration with the objects which the snaps are provided to join. In one use, an array of spaced-part fasteners is used to join a rear portion of a vehicle cargo liner to a front portion thereof. The fastener has particular application in fastening thermoformed articles of low flexural modulus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Clinton Anthony VANCE, Allan R. THOM
  • Patent number: D529852
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Inventor: Allan R. Thom
  • Patent number: D529853
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Inventor: Allan R. Thom
  • Patent number: D530250
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Inventor: Allan R. Thom
  • Patent number: D608709
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Inventors: Frederick W. Masanek, Jr., Allan R. Thom, Quin Gifford
  • Patent number: D617130
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: MacNeil IP LLC
    Inventor: Allan R. Thom