Patents by Inventor Claude J. Robolin

Claude J. Robolin 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: 6302279
    Abstract: An in-store product display area gondola array for positioning between a pair of parallel aisles and an end aisle and arranged for rear loading. An end cap rack is moveable away from a row of two or more fixed racks into the end aisle to provide loading access of the end cap rack from the rear. The fixed racks are disposed between the parallel aisles, face one of the parallel aisles and mount a row of two or more moveable racks facing the other of the parallel aisles. A pocket adjacent the end cap is aligned with the row of moveable racks to receive one of the moveable racks to provide access to the rear surface of a fixed rack for rear loading thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: RHC/Spacemaster
    Inventor: Claude J. Robolin
  • Patent number: 5947303
    Abstract: A consumer display and dispensing rack having a front and a back, and a container rail inclined downwardly and forwardly from the back to the front for supporting a series of bottles thereon is disclosed. The rail provides a spaced apart pair of support flanges for supporting a series of bottles adjacent their tops. Adjacent the front end of the rail, a control lever is pivotally mounted to intercept and engage the tops of bottles supported on the support flanges as they reach the front end of the rail to control removal of bottles from the rail and to control movement of succeeding bottles as they slide along the support flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: RHC/ Spacemaster Corporation
    Inventor: Claude J. Robolin
  • Patent number: 5845788
    Abstract: A bicycle storage and display system having a frame, a first chain mounted on a first side, and a second chain mounted on a second side of the frame. A plurality of sprockets rotatably support the first and second drive chains. The sprockets are arrayed to support the drive chains for concurrent movement in parallel vertical planes. A plurality of elongated, horizontally positioned support bars having first and second ends supported, respectively, on the first and second drive chains, support a plurality of horizontally spaced bicycles thereon. A plurality of two point bicycle hangers are suspended from the support bars, means on each of the hangers releasably engage each bicycle at two points thereon to secure and suspend the bicycles in a generally horizontal orientation for storage and display and for releasing the bicycles for ready removal therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: RHC/Spacemaster Corporation
    Inventor: Claude J. Robolin
  • Patent number: 5370248
    Abstract: A garment rack having a pedestal base and parallel posts extending upwardly therefrom. Each post telescopically receives an extender which mounts a garment support at its upper end. A cap receives and houses the upper ends of the posts. The bases of the extenders provide guides for stabilizing them in the posts against wobble relative to the posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: RHC/Spacemaster Corporation
    Inventor: Claude J. Robolin
  • Patent number: D286353
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Inventor: Claude J. Robolin