Patents by Inventor Benjamin F. Dockery

Benjamin F. Dockery 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).

  • Apparatus for preparing furniture backs and cushions for tufting
    Patent number: 3982845
    Abstract: A horizontally reciprocal table carrying a foam rubber or polyurethane slab on the surface thereof is indexed past a vertically reciprocal operating head having mounted thereon a plurality of sets of rotary cutters and saws, each set, when operated, forming a portion of a prescribed pattern, whereby as the slabs index past the operating head selected sets of cutters and/or saws are activated in response to a switch means engaged by activating elements on said table to form holes or slots in said slab according to said prescribed pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1976
    Inventors: Benjamin F. Dockery, Jack H. Mason