Patents by Inventor Benjamin D. Fisher

Benjamin D. Fisher 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: 20160135616
    Abstract: A display unit for ball mount hitches includes hitch ball hangers and ball mount hangers received on a horizontal support beam. Each hitch ball hanger has two vertically-spaced cantilevered forks to support six hitch balls by their necks. Each ball mount hanger has a cantilevered bar to hang three ball mounts by their hitch ball post holes. Both the hitch ball hangers and the ball mount hangers have slide brackets to toollessly attach to the horizontal support beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventor: Benjamin D. Fisher
  • Publication number: 20150308981
    Abstract: A pipe scanning apparatus includes a scanner collar fitted around the outside of a pipe with tools for inspecting or modifying the pipe, a tubular fabric pipe sheath fitted around the outside of the pipe and connected at an end to the scanner collar, and a powered winch or manually operable reel configured to draw in the tubular fabric pipe sheath so as to scan the scanner collar connected to the end of the tubular fabric pipe sheath over the pipe. The tubular fabric pipe sheath may include inelastic warp fibers running parallel with the pipe and elastic weft fibers running around the pipe. The pipe sheath may include at least one longitudinal slit with a slit fastener, and may include two such slits on opposite sides so that the pipe sheath is separable into two sheath halves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventor: Benjamin D. Fisher
  • Patent number: 7584982
    Abstract: A bearing guide for a hitch allows lateral movement of the hitch. The bearing guide is elevated relative to the bearing surface. Two trucks roll on wheels each about their own elevated guide for fore-and-aft rolling of the hitch point. The bearing guide also provides a keyway which receives a locking key. The locking key is supported on both sides of the keyway by a plunger control rod, and can be unlocked by pulling and rotating a handle. When the towing vehicle is driven to relocate the hitch point, the locking key reengages itself into a different keyway on the bearing guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Curt Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin D. Fisher
  • Publication number: 20070290481
    Abstract: A bearing guide for a hitch allows lateral movement of the hitch. The bearing guide is elevated relative to the bearing surface. Two trucks roll on wheels each about their own elevated guide for fore-and-aft rolling of the hitch point. The bearing guide also provides a keyway which receives a locking key. The locking key is supported on both sides of the keyway by a plunger control rod, and can be unlocked by pulling and rotating a handle. When the towing vehicle is driven to relocate the hitch point, the locking key reengages itself into a different keyway on the bearing guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: CURT MANUFACTURING, INC.
    Inventor: Benjamin D. Fisher