Patents by Inventor Fred Sundstrom

Fred Sundstrom 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).

  • Publication number: 20080000942
    Abstract: A magazine for screws, includes a body (1), which is delimited by a pair of opposite long sides, a pair of opposite short sides, and opposite top and bottom sides, and a plurality of through bores, which mouth in the top side as well as the bottom side and are delimited by flexible and demolishable limiting walls, a plurality of head-provided screws (8) being applied in some of the bores with the heads located in the area of the top side of the body and having the tips pointing toward the bottom side. The top side is covered by a covering film (2), which guarantees that the screws are reliably retained in the bores thereof. A material and a method for producing such magazines are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventor: Fred Sundstrom
  • Publication number: 20070258793
    Abstract: A magazine for screws includes seats defined by walls connecting longitudinally an insert end with an exit end of the seats, wherein in at least one seat a screw having a shank connecting a screw-head directed towards the insert end to a screw-tip directed towards the exit end, the screw-head having a first radius and the shank a second radius smaller, is housed, than the first radius, the at least one seat being formed internally with at least one wing-member running longitudinally from near the insert end towards the exit end, the at least one wing extending from a wing-root connected to the seat wall to a wing-tip projecting into the seat. In any arbitrary plane intersecting the wing and seat transversally to the longitudinal, the extension of the at least one wing from wing-root to wing-tip radially overlaps the radius of the screw-head, and the at least one wing is flexible from the wing-root towards the wing-tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventor: Fred Sundstrom
  • Patent number: 4613108
    Abstract: An appliance for hanging pictures or the like on walls, especially walls made up of gypsum wallboards, comprises a fixing part insertable in the wall and a suspension part, for instance in the form of a hook, accessible from outside and adapted to receive the picture to be hung. According to the invention, the fixing part consists of a preferably extremely thin plate adapted to be driven into the wall with its plate lying or oriented substantially horizontally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1986
    Inventors: Fred Sundstrom, Kent Sundstrom