Patents by Inventor Donald C. Suhr

Donald C. Suhr 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: 4070095
    Abstract: A pavement marker including a body having a base for engagement with the surface of a roadway, and a reflector assembly mounted on the body for reflecting light from vehicles on the roadway when the fore-and-aft axis of the body is disposed in parallel relationship with the direction of vehicular travel on the roadway. The reflector assembly includes a pair of plate-like members of light transmitting material. The plate-like members each has an outer surface and an inner surface. The plate-like members are secured together at their peripheries with the inner surfaces thereof disposed in opposed relationship. Retrodirective reflector elements are formed on one inner surface, and the apices of the reflector elements are spaced from the other inner surface. A plurality of support members extend between the inner surfaces to maintain the apices of the reflector elements out of contact with the other inner surface and to provide impact strength to the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1978
    Assignee: ITL Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald C. Suhr
  • Patent number: 4049148
    Abstract: A child resistant safety closure and container assembly of the type including a cap having locking lugs projecting from its skirt for engagement with complementary bayonet locking elements on the container. A combined spring and sealing member is carried by the cap to resiliently maintain the cap and container in locked engagement, and provide a moisture proof seal. The spring and sealing member includes a plunger having a cylindrical base portion concentric with a cylindrical sealing wall. A plurality of radial stiffening members extend between the base portion and the inner end of the cylindrical sealing wall. In one embodiment, the stiffening members are in the form of ribs molded integrally to the side wall. In another embodiment, the stiffening members are in the form of flutes molded into the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1977
    Assignee: International Tools (1973) Ltd.
    Inventors: Donald C. Suhr, Peter Hedgewick
  • Patent number: 3984175
    Abstract: A pavement marker of the type including a shell-like body of light transmitting material, such as synthetic resin, having a reflective wall formed thereon, and which is filled with epoxy resin or the like for reinforcing the shell-like body against external forces applied by vehicles. The body has a fore and aft axis that intersects the reflective wall and extends parallel to the direction of travel of vehicles when the base of the pavement marker is secured to a roadway. The reflective wall has a lower edge adjacent the plane of the base that is spaced forwardly of the upper edge thereof such that the reflective wall is in nonperpendicular relationship with the plane of the base, and the outer surface of the reflective wall is curved outwardly and downwardly between the upper and lower edges. The reflective wall also curves rearwardly from the fore and aft axis on opposite sides thereof. The body also has a top surface that is convexly curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Assignee: International Tools (1973) Ltd.
    Inventors: Donald C. Suhr, Robin A. Arnott, John F. Domaracki, Peter Hedgewick
  • Patent number: 3980410
    Abstract: A pavement marker having a relatively fragile pavement marker housing and a snow plow frame for guiding snow plows and similar implements over the pavement marker housing. Retrodirective reflector elements may be included in the pavement marker housing. The snow plow frame includes a unitary sheet metal body adapted to be secured to the roadway surface and having a base member with a fore and aft axis that extends parallel to the direction of travel when the body is secured to the roadway, and a transverse axis perpendicular to the fore and aft axis. A pair of snow plow ramp sections are formed on the body on opposite sides of the fore and aft axis, each of the ramp sections including a pair of snow plow ramps extending in opposite directions from the transverse axis. Each of the snow plow ramps has an enlarged end adjacent the transverse axis and decreases in cross-section to a tip portion at the distal end thereof spaced from the transverse axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1976
    Assignee: ITL Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald C. Suhr, John F. Domaracki, Robin A. Arnott
  • Patent number: 3975108
    Abstract: A snow plowable pavement marker including a body having a base adapted to be secured to the surface of a roadway in such a manner that the fore and aft axis of the body extends parallel to the direction of travel of vehicles. A pair of snow plow ramp sections are secured to the body on opposite sides of the fore and aft axis thereof, the ramp sections including a pair of oppositely projecting snow plow ramps. The snow plow ramps each has an inner wall adjacent the fore and aft axis, an outer wall on the opposite side of the respective inner wall from the fore and aft axis, and a reinforcing rib extending along the length of the ramp between the respective inner and outer walls thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1976
    Assignee: ITL Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald C. Suhr, John F. Domaracki, Robin A. Arnott
  • Patent number: 3971623
    Abstract: A pavement marker having a shell-like body with a chamber formed therein, the body being at least partially of transparent material to form a transparent outer wall for the chamber so that the interior of the chamber is visible through the transparent outer wall. Marker elements are located in the chamber so as to be visible through the transparent wall of the chamber. The body has a continuous, or endless, peripheral edge portion that lies in a base plane. The body projects from the base plane and is of dome-like configuration to define the chamber. A closure plate is secured to the body at the peripheral edge portion thereof to close the chamber. The closure plate, either before or upon installation on the surface of a roadway, is sealed to the body to hermetically seal the chamber. Either daytime or nighttime marker elements, or both, may be provided in the chamber so as to be visible through the transparent wall thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1976
    Assignee: International Tools (1973) Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Hedgewick, Donald C. Suhr, John F. Domaracki, Robin A. Arnott