Patents by Inventor Gerald P. Wivinis

Gerald P. Wivinis 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: 7731256
    Abstract: A recreational vehicle slide out system includes a mobile dwelling assembly with an outer wall having an opening extending therethrough. An extension is slidably mounted to the dwelling assembly. The extension includes an upper wall, a lower wall and an exterior wall. The exterior wall forms a covering for the opening when the extension is in a stored position. A lateral wall includes a first side edge and a second side edge. The first side edge is hingedly coupled to a lateral edge of the exterior wall. The lateral wall is pivotable into a closed position extending between the exterior wall and the outer wall when the extension is in an extended position. The lateral wall is pivoted to a position approximately orientated parallel to the exterior wall when the extension is in the stored position to prevent the lateral walls from substantially extending into the mobile dwelling assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Inventor: Gerald P. Wivinis
  • Patent number: 4520564
    Abstract: A tool for removing the outer sheet metal skin of an automobile door. The tool includes a head having a handle and a shank affixed to it, so that the tool can be held and guided by the handle, when operated with a pneumatic hammer or air chisel is coupled to the shank. The tool has a stepped groove formed in the bottom wall of the head, and a removable cutting bit which extends through the head and has its cutting edge co-planar with the bottom of the groove. Forward of the cutting bit the groove is of a deeper depth, and controls the depth of cut made by the tool when the cut edge of the sheet metal skin is seated in the groove behind the cutting bit. A bore also is provided in the head for dispelling the chip or scrape cut from the sheet metal skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Inventor: Gerald P. Wivinis
  • Patent number: 4472867
    Abstract: A tool for bending a lip on sheet metal around a frame, particularly useful in bending a sheet metal door panel around an automobile door frame. The operator manually grasps the tool handle in one hand while operating a ratchet with his other hand to drive the tool and bend the sheet metal. The ratchet operates a drive roller which causes the tool to move forward while also bending the lip of the sheet metal around the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Inventor: Gerald P. Wivinis
  • Patent number: 4348884
    Abstract: A pulling tool including a first pulling member which is essentially a rectangular-shaped flat bar of heavy metal having a pair of holes formed in it in spaced apart relationship. Affixed to one face of this flat bar is a pulling bar which likewise is a heavy metal material and which has a hole in it whereby a hydraulic jack or the like can be attached to the first pulling member. The pulling tool also includes a second generally U-shaped pulling member having a straight portion and a pair of legs which are spaced apart a distance corresponding to the distance between the two holes in the flat bar of the first pulling member, and a handle. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, both of the pair of legs are threaded to receive a threaded nut, with the first and second pulling members being affixed together by extending the two legs of the second pulling member through the two apertures in the first pulling member, and then threadedly affixing the nuts on the legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Inventor: Gerald P. Wivinis
  • Patent number: 4040287
    Abstract: A pulling tool which comprises a pulling bar which, in a simple form, comprises an L-shaped length of tool steel rod and a pulling hook which comprises a length of tool steel rod having a hook formed in one end thereof for hooking the pulling hook with one leg of the pulling bar. The opposite end of the pulling hook can be adapted to have coupling means affixed to it for pulling on the pulling hook.To use the pulling tool, two holes are drilled in the body of the vehicle in the damaged area, and in spaced apart relationship. One leg of the L-shaped pulling bar is inserted through one of the holes, and the pulling bar is manipulated so that the leg extended through the hole extends substantially parallel with the surface contour of the body of the vehicle, and so as to project towards the second hole drilled in the body. The hook on the pulling hook then is extended through the other hole formed in the body of the vehicle and hooked with the leg of the pulling bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Inventor: Gerald P. Wivinis