Patents by Inventor Charles C. Simms

Charles C. Simms 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: 4498233
    Abstract: Apparatus for seating a very small socket contact in an electrical connector from the front side of the connector. Opposing flexible fingers, which are disposed above and below a flat wedge member and separated thereby, are extended longitudinally by plunger action beyond the wedge member which is fixed relative to the tool housing. The opposing fingers have a bend which causes their ends to come together when the fingers are extended relative to the wedge. The extended fingers and the wedge may freely be inserted into an individual socket contact from the front of the connector. Retraction of the fingers by spring bias causes the wedge to separate the ends of fingers so that knuckles at the ends of the fingers internally grasp the socket contact which may then be pulled for proper seating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1985
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Charles C. Simms
  • Patent number: 4258833
    Abstract: Presented is a portable lectern which in its closed condition resembles a briefcase and which may be opened to provide a convenient self-supporting lectern for a public speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1981
    Inventor: Charles C. Simms