Patents by Inventor Gary J. Reed
Gary J. Reed 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).
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Patent number: 8602781Abstract: A dental implant device for insertion into bone includes an implant anchor having an interlocking thread helically defined around a longitudinal axis, the thread being adapted to couple to a female threaded portion in a bone. The interlocking thread has a first superior contact surface having a first angle relative to the longitudinal axis, a second superior contact surface extending radially outward from the first contact surface and having a second angle relative to the axis, and an inferior flank surface having a third angle relative to the axis. The first angle is larger than the second angle such that the first contact surface and the second contact surface form an approximate āVā or chevron shape in a cross-sectional view. The first angle is larger than the third angle.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2007Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Inventor: Gary J. Reed
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Patent number: 8087856Abstract: The invention includes a double helix thread cutting tap with both right-handed and left-handed helical chip removal flutes. The double helix thread cutting tap places a positive rake angle on all sets of thread cutting teeth for optimum performance and minimal cutting pressure.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2007Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Inventor: Gary J. Reed
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Publication number: 20080286720Abstract: A dental implant device for insertion into bone includes an implant anchor having an interlocking thread helically defined around a longitudinal axis, the thread being adapted to couple to a female threaded portion in a bone. The interlocking thread has a first superior contact surface having a first angle relative to the longitudinal axis, a second superior contact surface extending radially outward from the first contact surface and having a second angle relative to the axis, and an inferior flank surface having a third angle relative to the axis. The first angle is larger than the second angle such that the first contact surface and the second contact surface form an approximate āVā or chevron shape in a cross-sectional view. The first angle is larger than the third angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2007Publication date: November 20, 2008Inventor: Gary J. Reed
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Publication number: 20080075550Abstract: The invention includes a double helix thread cutting tap with both right-handed and left-handed helical chip removal flutes. The double helix thread cutting tap places a positive rake angle on all sets of thread cutting teeth for optimum performance and minimal cutting pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2007Publication date: March 27, 2008Inventor: Gary J. Reed
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Patent number: 6800079Abstract: An orthopedic stabilization structure including a threaded fastener capable of articulation to accommodate various skeletal geometries, a rod, and a cup supporting the threaded fastener and the rod to be subsequently held in fixed position with respect to the skeletal structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2002Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: LOck-N-Stitch, Inc.Inventor: Gary J. Reed
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Publication number: 20030176861Abstract: An orthopedic stabilization structure including a threaded fastener capable of articulation to accommodate various skeletal geometries, a rod, and a cup supporting said threaded fastener and said rod to be subsequently held in fixed position with respect to the skeletal structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2002Publication date: September 18, 2003Inventor: Gary J. Reed
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Patent number: 6382893Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and device which allows the replacement of a damaged thread in an object with a thread identical to the damaged thread by enlarging the original threaded hole and inserting a thread-insert in a newly threaded hole in the object which has an internally threaded hole identical to the original threaded hole. The thread-insert is fastened into the enlarged hole using a thread that securely holds it in place. When the thread-insert is threaded into the enlarged threaded hole, a pocket formed below the drive head of the thread-insert causes metal flow into the pocket to create a seal between the thread-insert and the object.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Inventor: Gary J. Reed
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Patent number: 5562371Abstract: A tap is disclosed wherein a cutting zone has bottom teeth with axial and radial form relief. A pilot means below the cutting zone has at least one zone of axial and radial form relief oriented opposite from the teeth form relief. A flute extends through both pilot means and cutting zone.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: October 8, 1996Assignee: Lock-N-Stitch InternationalInventor: Gary J. Reed
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Patent number: 5499892Abstract: A pin is provided for repairing cracks in a material such as iron casting materials. The pin includes threads with both upper surfaces and lower surfaces which angle upwards toward a head of the pin. A tapping bit is utilized in a hole of similar diameter to the pin, positioned with half of the hole on each side of a crack, the bit creating threads in the hole which are substantially complemental to the threads of the pin. The pin includes a shoulder which has a greater diameter than a diameter of the hole. A neck is located between the head of the pin and the shoulder of the pin having a lesser diameter than any other portion of the pin. When the pin is threaded into the hole, the shoulder abuts against a surface of the cracked material causing the pin to cease translation into the material. Upon further rotation of the pin, the upwardly angled threads draw opposite sides of the crack towards each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1993Date of Patent: March 19, 1996Assignee: Lock-N-Stitch InternationalInventor: Gary J. Reed
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Patent number: 5417532Abstract: A method and apparatus for repairing a casting in a cold metal repair process includes a plurality of drilling fixtures which facilitate the creation of one or more lock receiving recesses positioned generally transverse to the casting crack. The lock receiving recesses are formed of a single sized circular bore combination having alternating double and single circular portions to maximize strength. A plurality of correspondingly configured metal locks are inserted into the lock receiving recesses to provide transverse metal locks drawing the casting portions on each side of the crack together. A plurality of threaded bores are formed along the remainder of the casting crack in overlapping spacing which receive a corresponding plurality of stitching pins. The stitching pins each define threaded shaft portions having pointed ends and undersized major pitch diameter threads adjacent the pointed ends.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1991Date of Patent: May 23, 1995Inventor: Gary J. Reed
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Patent number: 5379505Abstract: A pin is provided for repairing cracks in materials such as iron casting materials. The pin includes threads with both upper surfaces and lower surfaces which angle upwards toward a head of the pin. A tapping bit is utilized in a hole of similar diameter to the pin, positioned with half of the hole on each side of a crack, the bit creating threads in the hole which are substantially complemental to the threads of the pin. The pin includes a shoulder which has a greater diameter than a diameter of the hole. A neck is located between the head of the pin and the shoulder of the pin having a lesser diameter than any other portion of the pin. When the pin is threaded into the hole, the shoulder abuts against a surface of the cracked material causing the pin to cease translation into the material. Upon further rotation of the pin, the upwardly angled threads draw opposite sides of the crack towards each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1993Date of Patent: January 10, 1995Assignee: Lock-N-Stitch InternationalInventor: Gary J. Reed
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Patent number: 4845828Abstract: A metal lock system is provided for securing a crack or break in a metal casting from further cracking, breaking, or leakage. The metal lock system includes a metal lock having parallel, flat top and bottom surfaces and a plurality of alternating large and small lobes, and a plurality of tapered lacing plugs. The metal lock is imbedded into an irregular recess of precision drilled bores disposed adjacently in intersecting alignment. This binds the crack or break from further separation while the crack or break is sealed by imbedding tapered lacing plugs into lacing bores which are drilled along the crack. The preferred lacing plug has a tapered shaft, straight threads, a shoulder, and a break-off groove. the preferred tapered lacing plug threads into lacing bores with straight threads and the shoulder seats the lacing plug by crushing the first few threads of the lacing bore. The head of the lacing plug breaks off at the break-off groove at a predetermined torque.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1987Date of Patent: July 11, 1989Inventor: Gary J. Reed
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Patent number: 4662806Abstract: Apparatus for repairing a casting having a crack therein comprising a metal lock to extend across the crack and a lacing plug to fit in the crack, the metal lock formed as a rigid elongate member having a plurality of lobes formed from adjacent portions that are circular in cross-section and each having its center on the longitudinal axis of the elongate member, said lobes being of alternating large and small diameters and including a central large diameter lobe and at least one outer large diameter lobe at each side of the central large diameter lobe, said central large diameter lobe being spaced from each outer large diameter lobe by a small diameter lobe and with each lobe overlapping its adjacent lobe and extending through the elongate member; and the lacing plug including a head configured to receive a driving tool, a tapered shaft, a shoulder at a top of the tapered shaft, a non-threaded shaft portion interconnecting the head and the tapered shaft, a break-off groove formed in the non-threaded shaft porType: GrantFiled: November 17, 1983Date of Patent: May 5, 1987Assignee: Reed International, IncorporatedInventor: Gary J. Reed
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Patent number: 4167287Abstract: A glare shield whose body is a sheet of transparent glare reducing material is attached to a vehicle sun visor for use as a downward extension thereof by a clip device having opposed arms engaging the lower portion of the visor from below, one of said arms on its lower outer extremity having a transversely extending partially closed channel for receiving and frictionally engaging a hinge pin attached to said body so as to extend above the central upper marginal edge of said body and parallel thereto by which pin the body is fastened to the clip in hinged relationship and may be rotated from a downward extension of the sun visor to an out-of-the-way position folded back against the visor, and may be used as a vertical downward extension of the visor regardless of its tilt, said arms of the clip being adapted to fit all visors in common use regardless of their thickness.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1977Date of Patent: September 11, 1979Inventors: Jim M. Franklin, Gary J. Reed, John Van Sickle