Patents by Inventor Arnold L. Brown

Arnold L. Brown 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).

  • Vehicle bed edge and manufacturing process
    Patent number: 6799792
    Abstract: A roll-formed one-piece vehicle bed member having plural downwardly-opening channel-like ribs extending longitudinally of the bed member and terminating at front and rear edges. The ribs adjacent one end are deformed to define rib portions which slope downwardly from the top of the ribs for merger with a flat transverse edge flange. The top wall of the sloped rib portion has a center wall portion which is offset downwardly relative to side edge portions which join the center wall portion to side walls of the rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Pullman Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Jurica, Arnold L. Brown, Gregory B. Taylor
  • Vehicle bed edge and manufacturing process
    Publication number: 20030047964
    Abstract: A roll-formed one-piece vehicle bed member having plural downwardly-opening channel-like ribs extending longitudinally of the bed member and terminating at front and rear edges. The ribs adjacent one end are deformed to define rib portions which slope downwardly from the top of the ribs for merger with a flat transverse edge flange. The top wall of the sloped rib portion has a center wall portion which is offset downwardly relative to side edge portions which join the center wall portion to side walls of the rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: Joseph J. Jurica, Arnold L. Brown, Gregory B. Taylor
  • Vehicle bed edge manufacturing process
    Patent number: 6347454
    Abstract: A vehicle bed assembly, and process of manufacture, which involves formation of a one-piece floor pan by roll forming. The floor pan has a central pan portion and secondary portions positioned forwardly and rearwardly of wheelwell openings formed in the pan adjacent opposite side edges thereof. Strengthening ribs extend longitudinally throughout the entire length of the pan and terminate at the front and rear edges. The strengthening ribs also extend longitudinally of the secondary portions and terminate at front and rear edges of the wheelwell openings. The one-piece floor pan has the wheelwell openings formed therein, as by a controlled notching operation, after the pan has been roll formed from flat sheet material, and the notching operation provides a series of flanges around the periphery of the wheelwell opening, both along the longitudinal inner edge and on the front and rear edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: Pullman Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Jurica, Arnold L. Brown
  • Process of forming a vehicle bed
    Patent number: 6128815
    Abstract: A vehicle bed assembly, and process of manufacture, which involves formation of a one-piece floor pan by roll forming. The floor pan has a central pan portion and secondary portions positioned forwardly and rearwardly of wheelwell openings formed in the pan adjacent opposite side edges thereof. Strengthening ribs extend longitudinally throughout the entire length of the pan and terminate at the front and rear edges. The strengthening ribs also extend longitudinally of the secondary portions and terminate at front and rear edges of the wheelwell openings. The one-piece floor pan has the wheelwell openings formed therein, as by a controlled notching operation, after the pan has been roll formed from flat sheet material, and the notching operation provides a series of flanges around the periphery of the wheelwell opening, both along the longitudinal inner edge and on the front and rear edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Pullman Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Jurica, Arnold L. Brown
  • Vehicle bed
    Patent number: 5938272
    Abstract: A vehicle bed assembly, and process of manufacture, which involves formation of a one-piece floor pan by roll forming. The floor pan has a central pan portion and secondary portions positioned forwardly and rearwardly of wheelwell openings formed in the pan adjacent opposite side edges thereof. Strengthening ribs extend longitudinally throughout the entire length of the pan and terminate at the front and rear edges. The strengthening ribs also extend longitudinally of the secondary portions and terminate at front and rear edges of the wheelwell openings. The one-piece floor pan has the wheelwell openings formed therein, as by a controlled notching operation, after the pan has been roll formed from flat sheet material, and the notching operation provides a series of flanges around the periphery of the wheelwell opening, both along the longitudinal inner edge and on the front and rear edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Pullman Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Jurica, Arnold L. Brown
  • Ribbed vehicle bed member with shaped closed rib ends
    Patent number: D466073
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Pullman Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Jurica, Arnold L. Brown, Gregory B. Taylor