Patents by Inventor Charles A. Fowler

Charles A. Fowler 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: 5507577
    Abstract: A commercial laundry collection apparatus having a removable laundry bag maintained on a bag stand. The bag stand includes a bag supporting portion freely expandable to a predetermined extent. A bag body of the laundry bag has a larger bottom portion tapering to a smaller upper portion defining a bag mouth. The smaller upper portion is folded back upon the bag supporting portion of the bag stand such that the bag mouth will be open for receipt of soiled laundry. The upper portion of the bag body is dimensioned such that the bag supporting portion of the bag stand will be unable to completely expand to the predetermined extent. As a result, the bag supporting portion of the bag stand will impart an outward force tending to maintain the laundry bag thereon. The laundry bag further includes a pair of longitudinal tie members attached to the upper portion of the bag body at respective opposite locations across the bag mouth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Inventor: Charles A. Fowler
  • Patent number: 4072379
    Abstract: The apparatus includes a housing having electrical bus conductors therein and a plug-in module for providing an electrical connection between selected ones of the bus conductors and a circuit board having electrical contacts thereon. The module has an opening therein to receive the circuit board and the module is detachably secured to the housing. The module has leaf-type conductors therein forming the connection between the selected bus conductors and the electrical contacts on the circuit board inserted therein. A camming lever is included in the module to expand the leaf-type conductors to permit removal of the circuit board and side insertion of the circuit board, which camming lever also locks the circuit board to the module to prevent its removal except when the leaf-type conductors are expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1978
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Gary L. Towne, Noel F. Depew, Charles A. Fowler