Patents by Inventor Edward F. Nolen, Jr.

Edward F. Nolen, Jr. 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: 5188646
    Abstract: An adjustable air filter for use in heating, ventilating, cooling, and forced air systems. The air filter includes a media for filtering air and adapted to be cut with scissors, and a frame embracing the peripheral edges of the media. The frame includes a pair of male sections and a pair of female sections respectively telescopingly receiving the male sections. Also, the frame is adapted to be cut with scissors and is preferably formed of polyvinyl chloride. Each of the male sections includes a T-shaped projection and each of the female sections includes a complementary shaped T-shaped slot adapted to telescopingly receive the T-shaped projection for preventing inward separation of the sections from one another. In the preferred form the media is of the electrostatic type and includes at least one layer of polypropylene woven in an egg-crate pattern. Also, the layer preferably includes a pad of washable polyester material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Assignee: Air Kontrol, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward F. Nolen, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5145500
    Abstract: A trimmable range hood filter for covering both an inlet opening of a range hood and a light on the range hood adjacent the inlet opening. The filter includes a rectangular filter element, four non-telescoping frame members sequentially arranged to form a rectangle, attachment clips joining the frame members at the corners, a translucent plastic pane, and a separator bar with an "S"-shaped cross-section joining an edge of the pane to an edge of the filter element. The pane and filter element, joined by the separator bar, fit within inwardly facing channels of the frame members. The various parts of the range hood filter, i.e., the filter element, the pane, the separator bar, and the frame members, are trimmable by scissors to fit the range hood dimensions, with the filter element covering the inlet opening and the pane covering the mouth of a cavity in which the range hood light sits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1992
    Assignee: Air Kontrol, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward F. Nolen, Jr.
  • Patent number: RE35236
    Abstract: An adjustable air filter for use in heating, ventilating, cooling, and forced air systems. The air filter includes a media for filtering air and adapted to be cut with scissors, and a frame embracing the peripheral edges of the media. The frame includes a pair of male sections and a pair of female sections respectively telescopingly receiving the male sections. Also, the frame is adapted to be cut with scissors and is preferably formed of polyvinyl chloride. Each of the male sections includes a T-shaped projection and each of the female sections includes a complementary shaped T-shaped slot adapted to telescopingly receive the T-shaped projection for preventing inward separation of the sections from one another. In the preferred form the media is of the electrostatic type and includes at least one layer of polypropylene woven in an egg-crate pattern. Also, the layer preferably includes a pad of washable polyester material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Assignee: Air Kontrol, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward F. Nolen, Jr.