Patents by Inventor Eric J. Armstrong

Eric J. Armstrong 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: 5667082
    Abstract: A ball caddy includes a housing with dividers forming compartments within the housing. The compartments retain various size sports balls in a vertical arrangement The dividers have two hinged segments which are independently adjustably mounted within the housing to vary the size of each of the compartments. Each compartment also has an orifice formed at a lower portion thereof and a ball release device which has a retainer normally preventing dispensing of the balls. The handle attached to the ball release allows pivoting of the ball release to provide for dispensing of the balls through the orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Core Group Marketing, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert H. Hamilton, Eric J. Armstrong
  • Patent number: 5155955
    Abstract: An office space dividing system comprising office furniture components in combination with a plurality of structural rectangular frames having openings which may be left open or closed in varying degrees with a wide variety of fill options, which may be readily changed, to create the desired degree of privacy. The system combines the advantages of a full height office partition system with lockable doors, and an open plan panel system. An enlarged cornice accommodates both wiring and ambient lighting, with a cornice to ceiling space being left open or closed with a clerestory, as desired, without compromising the ability to install lighting fixtures and wiring. The rectangular frames have mitered stiles which, when assembled with other frames, and/or mitered fill pieces, create columns defining vertical wire ways which communicate with cornice wiring, work surface height wiring, and/or base wiring, as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Douglas C. Ball, Sherman M. Robbins, Michel J. Fischer, Leon Goldik, Donald J. Staufenberg, Roland A. Mentessi, George E. Sherbourne, Jeffrey M. Gioitta, Eric J. Armstrong, James B. Eldon, III, Richard L. Raith
  • Patent number: 4938441
    Abstract: An adjustable keyboard support is disclosed constituted by a rear housing that pivotally supports one end of a parallel link mechanism. A front housing is carried by the other end of the parallel link mechanism, and pivotally supports a keyboard mounting plate. The parallel link mechanism permits upward and downward movement of the keyboard mounting plate without change in the tilt of that plate. A gas cylinder mechanism coupled to the front housing changes the vertical position of the same, and a slide plate adjustment mechanism provides forward and backward movement of the keyboard mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce R. Hannah, James B. Eldon, Eric J. Armstrong, Harold A. Smith, Philip J. Campbell
  • Patent number: 4883330
    Abstract: A spine assembly for supporting dest tops and panels and acessories and providing for the passage of electrical wires to the desk tops and panels and accessories, as needed. A housing is utilized open at a bottom portion for receiving the electrical wires. A framework is included within the housing. One or more frameworks serve as supports for brackets which extend upwardly in turn to support panels and accessories. The framework also serves as a support for desk tops as well as a cover assembly. The cover assembly provides an opening through which electrical wires pass from the interior of the housing to the exterior thereof. In addition, brackets extend through the cover assembly for supporting panels and accessories above the cover assembly. The spine assembly is free-standing, and may be closed off by end panels as an individual item or joined to one or more other spine assemblies to create a system of furniture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1989
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric J. Armstrong, David D. McClanahan
  • Patent number: 4826123
    Abstract: An adjustable keyboard support is disclosed constituted by a rear housing that pivotally supports one end of a parallel link mechanism. A front housing is carried by the other end of the parallel link mechanism, and pivotally supports a keyboard mounting plate. The parallel link mechanism permits upward and downward movement of the keyboard mounting plate without change in the tilt of that plate. A gas cylinder mechanism coupled to the front housing changes the vertical position of the same, and a slide plate adjustment mechanism provides forward and backward movement of the keyboard mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce R. Hannah, James B. Eldon, Eric J. Armstrong, Harold A. Smith, Philip J. Campbell
  • Patent number: D285270
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce R. Hannah, William I. Stephens, George Wilmot, Eric J. Armstrong
  • Patent number: D307400
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric J. Armstrong, James B. Eldon, Lee T. Lamond
  • Patent number: D316865
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Eric J. Armstrong, Thomas L. Latone