Patents by Inventor Byron L. Small

Byron L. Small 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: 4375012
    Abstract: A retractile telephone cord of this invention has a retractility which decreases substantially linearly from each end to a center of its length and an extensibility which increases substantially linearly from each end to a center of its length. The cordage includes a plurality of conductors which are individually insulated with a first plastic material and which are disposed in a planar array, and a jacket of a second plastic material which encloses the array. The jacket is formed about the array to provide a cross-section transversely of the cordage which includes at least one side that is parallel to the array. In making the retractile cord, a length of the cordage is wound helically about a mandrel with the one side of the cross-section of the cord being in engagement with the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1983
    Assignee: Western Electric Company, Incorporated
    Inventors: Eugene R. Cocco, William G. Pflugrad, Byron L. Small