Patents by Inventor Douglas Dodd

Douglas Dodd 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: 11198995
    Abstract: The present invention provides a waste system including a disposal with multiple inlets that can receive water and waste materials from multiple basins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: FB Global Plumbing Group LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Douglas Dodd, Matthew J. Lance
  • Publication number: 20200087907
    Abstract: The present invention provides a waste system including a disposal with multiple inlets that can receive water and waste materials from multiple basins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher Douglas Dodd, Matthew J. Lance
  • Publication number: 20160059353
    Abstract: A method of treating a metallic surface comprising exposing the surface to laser pulses at an energy density below the threshold for ablation of bulk material from the metallic surface; maintaining the exposure until a multiplicity of pores form in the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventor: Christopher William Douglas Dodds
  • Patent number: 8925173
    Abstract: A new and improved automated gun tool dolly which comprises a plurality of nail guns, such as, for example, three nail guns, which are mounted upon a horizontally movable carriage assembly in a vertically and horizontally staggered mode so as to be disposed within a diagonal array. Movement of the carriage assembly along horizontally oriented guide rails is automatically controlled, such as, for example, by means of a programmable logic controller (PLC), such that the three nail guns are sequentially and continuously disposed at predetermined firing positions at which the nail guns are sequentially fired so as to insert nails within predetermined regions of 2×4 or 2×6 plate, header, or footer members of a wall panel or wall structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Aubrey Smith, Stephen Fleming, Robert Tucker, Douglas Dodd
  • Patent number: 8925178
    Abstract: A two gun tool dolly which is capable of firing and inserting two, three or four nails into plate, header, or footer frame members at predetermined locations thereof so as to fixedly secure top and bottom plate, header, or footer members to stud frame members of a wall structure or wall panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Aubrey Smith, Stephen Fleming, Robert Tucker, Douglas Dodd
  • Patent number: 7954681
    Abstract: A new and improved nailing bridge system which comprises a single nailing gun which is mounted for movement along a stud frame locus or a seam locus, defined by means of abutting sheets of wall sheathing, covering, paneling, or the like, wherein the single nailing gun can be moved to any one of effectively an infinite number of positions so as to permit nails to be driven into the covering, sheathing, paneling, or the like, in order to fixedly secure the sheathing, covering, paneling, or the like, to underlying stud frame members of a wall structure or wall panel member. Stitcher guns are also mounted upon a separate support beam so as to fixedly secure the sheathing, covering, paneling, or the like, to the upper and lower plate, header, or footer members of the wall structure or wall panel member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Aubrey Smith, Stephen Fleming, Robert Tucker, Douglas Dodd
  • Publication number: 20090100663
    Abstract: A two gun tool dolly which is capable of firing and inserting two, three or four nails into plate, header, or footer frame members at predetermined locations thereof so as to fixedly secure top and bottom plate, header, or footer members to stud frame members of a wall structure or wall panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Aubrey Smith, Stephen Fleming, Robert Tucker, Douglas Dodd
  • Publication number: 20090100662
    Abstract: A new and improved automated gun tool dolly which comprises a plurality of nail guns, such as, for example, three nail guns, which are mounted upon a horizontally movable carriage assembly in a vertically and horizontally staggered mode so as to be disposed within a diagonal array. Movement of the carriage assembly along horizontally oriented guide rails is automatically controlled, such as, for example, by means of a programmable logic controller (PLC), such that the three nail guns are sequentially and continuously disposed at predetermined firing positions at which the nail guns are sequentially fired so as to insert nails within predetermined regions of 2×4 or 2×6 plate, header, or footer members of a wall panel or wall structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Aubrey Smith, Stephen Fleming, Robet Tucker, Douglas Dodd