Patents by Inventor Dick D. Irwin

Dick D. Irwin 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: 5444516
    Abstract: A sleeve for the shaft section of a plastic drum axle used in toner cartridges for printing, copy and facsimile machines to rotatively support the photoreceptor drum. The sleeve is made of strong plastic or metal and is sized to snugly fit around the shaft section. Glue may be used to further secure the sleeve to the shaft section. The sleeve is slid onto the drum axle shaft section and abuts against the drum axle attach section. The sleeve has a length and an outside diameter which allow the sleeve to snugly fit in the gear piece of the photoreceptor drum, eliminating the clearance between the shaft section and gear piece passage. In this way the gear piece and photoreceptor drum are rotatively supported on the drum axle along nearly the entire length of the shaft section, preventing the photoreceptor drum from wobbling during operation and rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Steven Bruce Michlin
    Inventors: Steven B. Michlin, Dick D. Irwin
  • Patent number: 4901388
    Abstract: A resilient corner bed clothes holder having a base member and a plurality of spaced apart upright head members of semi- closed "C" shape adapted to receive and hold the attachment of the bottom bed clothes; the said resilient holder is positioned with its base member inserted under the corner of a water filled mattress and its plurality of head members evenly astride the adjacent sides of the same corner; the transmission of equal unidirectional hydraulic forces throughout the water filled mattress balloon its and urge and envelopment of the said resilient corner bed clothes holder and yieldably anchor the bottom bed clothes on the water filled mattress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Inventor: Dick D. Irwin