Patents by Inventor Catherine Janet Ripley

Catherine Janet Ripley 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: 7045192
    Abstract: A shapeable, weather-resistant anti-slip panel has a cut-resistant anti-slip coating on a rigid substrate and a pattern of cuttable lines; this enables the panel to be shaped by cutting the substrate along selected lines and overcomes the problem with known weather resistant anti-slip panels that the anti-slip coating particles, being very hard, make the anti-slip coating very difficult to cut or drill, as the coating readily and speedily blunts cutting tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Morgan John, Neil Kettlewell, Catherine Janet Ripley
  • Publication number: 20030015121
    Abstract: A shapeable, weather-resistant anti-slip panel has a cut-resistant anti-slip coating on a rigid substrate and a pattern of cuttable lines; this enables the panel to be shaped by cutting the substrate along selected lines and overcomes the problem with known weather resistant anti-slip panels that the anti-slip coating particles, being very hard, make the anti-slip coating very difficult to cut or drill, as the coating readily and speedily blunts cutting tools.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS
    Inventors: Wayne Morgan John, Neil Kettlewell, Catherine Janet Ripley
  • Publication number: 20010036532
    Abstract: A shapeable, weather-resistant anti-slip panel has a cut-resistant anti-slip coating on a rigid substrate and a pattern of cuttable lines; this enables the panel to be shaped by cutting the substrate along selected lines and overcomes the problem with known weather resistant anti-slip panels that the anti-slip coating particles, being very hard, make the anti-slip coating very difficult to cut or drill, as the coating readily and speedily blunts cutting tools.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventors: Wayne Morgan John, Neil Kettlewell, Catherine Janet Ripley
  • Patent number: D425627
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Fiona Harwood, Catherine Janet Ripley, Jonathan Rayfield