Patents by Inventor Andrew Agozzino

Andrew Agozzino 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: 7805967
    Abstract: Apparatus is simply hung on a deadbolt knob when the deadbolt is in locked position. It prevents the deadbolt knob from rotating enough to retract the deadbolt. This ensures that the door cannot be unlocked from the outside. A passage in an upper end of the apparatus is dimensioned to receive the deadbolt knob. The deadbolt knob is not round. The passage has side walls narrow enough to prevent the deadbolt knob from rotating freely within the passage. As the knob is rotated, the knob engages the side walls of the passage so that the entire apparatus rotates until the lower end of the apparatus engages the door frame. Many passages are provided so that the apparatus may be used with deadbolt knobs that have different locked positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Lok-A-Bolt Corp.
    Inventors: Andrew Agozzino, Domenic Mucciacciaro
  • Patent number: 7284400
    Abstract: Apparatus is simply hung on a deadbolt knob when the deadbolt is in locked position. It prevents the deadbolt knob from rotating enough to retract the deadbolt. This ensures that the door cannot be unlocked from the outside. A passage in an upper end of the apparatus is dimensioned to receive the deadbolt knob. The deadbolt knob is not round. The passage has side walls narrow enough to prevent the deadbolt knob from rotating freely within the passage. As the knob is rotated, the knob engages the side walls of the passage so that the entire apparatus rotates until the lower end of the apparatus engages a fixed element that prevents further rotation of the knob. That fixed element is either the door jamb or the doorknob. This immobilizes the knob and deadbolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Inventor: Andrew Agozzino
  • Patent number: 6049276
    Abstract: An alarm and latch apparatus for a closure panel mounted within an opening perimeter of a building opening includes a closure panel link member having a link member first end mounted to the closure panel and a link member second end including a slot engaging slide; and a latch box having a slide slot with a slot end opening for receiving a portion of the slide, the latch box being mounted to the opening perimeter and containing an alarm circuit including a mechanism for alarm activation upon movement of the slide along the slide slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Inventor: Andrew Agozzino
  • Patent number: 6020816
    Abstract: An alarm and bolt apparatus for a building opening closure panel hingedly mounted within a perimeter frame in a building opening includes a bolt assembly having a bolt and a mechanism for extending and retracting the bolt, a bolt receiving housing fitted into the closure panel frame, the housing having a forward wall portion with a bolt receiving opening, a side wall portion and a rearward wall portion, an alarm circuit within the building, and a lever switch with a switch lever for operating the switch and electrical switch terminals connecting the switch within the alarm circuit, the switch lever extending within the bolt receiving housing, where the housing is sized in depth relative to the throw of the bolt so that when the bolt is fully extended from the bolt assembly, the bolt extends into the housing to an extent that the bolt is positioned laterally adjacent to the switch lever, so that when the closure panel is moved toward an open position, such movement drives the bolt laterally against the switch
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Inventor: Andrew Agozzino