Patents by Inventor Elbert A. McCracken

Elbert A. McCracken 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: 4449542
    Abstract: A portable hunting blind assembly having a collapsible umbrella roof structure supported from a central hollow cylinder and extending outwardly for terminating in a polygonal body having sides defined by the ribs of the roof structure, a handle supporting of the umbrella roof structure telescopically connected to an internal sleeve in the cylinder by means of a pivot arrangement, the handle received at its free end in a stake support structure or member having its distal end securely anchored in the ground, and an array of panel screening material sections depending from each of the polygonal sides of the roof structure and held firmly in the ground by anchor devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1984
    Inventors: Thad M. McSwain, Elbert A. McCracken