Patents by Inventor Clive S. Rumble

Clive S. Rumble 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).

  • Electrical connectors
    Patent number: 4626052
    Abstract: A multiplug adapter comprises a casing 1 containing a stack of sliding pin carriers 6. Each carrier 6 with a pin array can be advanced to an operative position by lugs L protruding from the side of the casing. Releasable detents associated with the lugs locate the sliding carriers in the forward and retracted conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Inventor: Clive S. Rumble
  • Unitary electrical plug with multiple inlets and voltage converter
    Patent number: 4543624
    Abstract: A unitary housing (10) characterized in that it has an outlet (13) arranged to receive an electrical plug via an electrical voltage converter, as defined, said converter being connected on or in said housing to an electrical plug with multiple inlet pins (I.sub.2 I.sub.3 I.sub.4 I.sub.5) that are able to be arranged readily to fit the various geometries (FIGS. 5.sub.A -5.sub.D) of electrical voltage power outlet sockets to be found in the different major countries of the world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1985
    Assignee: Corabelment A.G.
    Inventor: Clive S. Rumble
  • Multiple pin electrical plug
    Patent number: 4518212
    Abstract: A multiple pin electrical plug having a variety of pin combinations of varying geometry is able to accept the several voltage outlet supplies of the major countries of the world. The multiple pin electrical plug is so arranged that pins (P1 to P7 inclusive) are able to extend in a number of configurations dictated by the movement of a shutter plate (21) having a slider (22) that is movable to at least the same number of discrete positions, as said number of configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Assignee: Corabelment A.G.
    Inventor: Clive S. Rumble
  • Obturator
    Patent number: 4395082
    Abstract: An obturator for closing an opening, especially of use in an electrical plug socket adaptor, the obturator comprising in combination three apertured plates in which the apertures are able to be aligned so that entry from the apertures of the first plate to the apertures of the third plate via the apertures of the second plate is only possible by movement of the second plate; in the natural condition of the obturator entrance to the apertures of the third plate is obstructed by the second plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1983
    Inventor: Clive S. Rumble
  • Storage unit for tape cassettes and cartridges
    Patent number: D260457
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Inventor: Clive S. Rumble