Patents by Inventor Edwin Earl Milner, Jr.

Edwin Earl Milner, 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).

  • Lightweight high strength boom construction
    Patent number: 3958377
    Abstract: An articulated boom of high strength to weight ratio is disclosed including an inner steel boom of modified trapezoidal cross-section including a top web, inclined opposed side webs and an arcuately curved bottom web; a pivotal elbow connector is mounted on the outer end of the inner boom and supports the inner end of a tapered hollow fiberglass shell defining an outer boom member of inverted modified trapezoidal cross-section including a top wall having progressively decreasing width from its inner to its outer end, opposed side walls which progress inward from top to bottom with the degree of inward taper decreasing from the inner end to the outer end of the outer boom and with the lower ends of the side walls being connected by an arcuate, downwardly convex hollow connector wall opposite the top wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1976
    Inventor: Edwin Earl Milner, Jr.
  • Lightweight high strength boom construction
    Patent number: 3947191
    Abstract: An articulated boom of high strength to weight ratio is disclosed including an inner steel boom of modified trapezoidal cross-section including a top web, inclined opposed side webs and an arcuately curved bottom web; a pivotal elbow connector is mounted on the outer end of the inner boom and supports the inner end of a tapered hollow fiberglass shell defining an outer boom member of inverted modified trapezoidal cross-section including a top wall having progressively decreasing width from its inner to its outer end, opposed side walls which progress inward from top to bottom with the degree of inward taper decreasing from the inner end to the outer end of the outer boom and with the lower ends of the side walls being connected by an arcuate, downwardly convex hollow connector wall opposite the top wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1976
    Inventor: Edwin Earl Milner, Jr.