Patents by Inventor Charles A. Kelpin

Charles A. Kelpin 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: 5658071
    Abstract: A lighting system includes a lighting fixture having a wall having an opening therein, the opening being defined by edges of the wall. The lighting system further includes one or more louvers. Each louver includes a louver body having a first and a second end and grips for gripping the edges of the wall disposed at the first and second ends of the louver body to suspend the louver body across the opening. The grips are slidably movable to different points along the edges of the wall. A method of making a lighting system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Cooper Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles A. Kelpin
  • Patent number: 4390114
    Abstract: A hinge construction particularly for pivotally connecting the housing and cover of an electrical enclosure together is preferably formed integrally as part of the lid and as part of the housing so as not to require separate fasteners or hinge pins, yet the hinge portions on both housing and cover are formed in a straight-draw die casting operation not requiring side cores. The housing includes two outwardly extending appendages, each carrying a laterally extending pin cantilevered in the same direction as the other pin and axially aligned therewith. One pin at its outer end carries an obstruction jutting transversely outwardly therefrom in a predetermined angular orientation. Hinge portions on the cover also include appendages, but in the form of a pair of outwardly lugs with a laterally extending hole in each which is axially aligned with the hole in the other lug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Assignee: Appleton Electric Company
    Inventors: Nicolas N. Sviatoslavsky, Charles A. Kelpin
  • Patent number: D504705
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Genlyte Thomas Group LLC
    Inventors: Dennis K. Gregory, Khosrow J. Jamasbi, David W. Knoble, Charles Kelpin
  • Patent number: D489766
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Genlyte Thomas Group LLC
    Inventors: Dennis K. Gregory, Khosrow J. Jamasbi, David W. Knoble, Charles Kelpin