Patents by Inventor Grant D. Farrell

Grant D. Farrell 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: 5152520
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a two-piece universal non-dedicated high capacity feeder. The high capacity feeder has separate paper storage/handling and interface modules that enhance easy adaptation to most recorders by modification of only the interface module. Easy removal of the interface module from the cassette insertion slot of the recorder is made without disconnection of the paper handling module in order to make the slot available for any number of conventional cassettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Grant D. Farrell, Peter A. Sardano, Douglas W. Gates, David J. Fish, Gerald R. Sturnick
  • Patent number: 4995657
    Abstract: The invention concerns a fastener for locking the closures of containers, particularly ammunition containers. A container and a closure each have ring means which form coaxially aligned bores when the container is fully closed. The fastener comprises an upper and lower body, each of which is provided with a projection means. The projection means attached to the lower body is dimensioned to be pushed through the bore formed by the aligned rings in a first direction, but is prevented from being removed from the bore in a second opposite direction. When it is required to open the container, the fastener is pulled with a force in excess of 5 lbs. and the projection means attached to the lower body is torn from the fastener. The lower body of the fastener is moulded in a collapsed form for subsequent assembly. The fastener can be quickly and conveniently applied and removed from containers without the use of tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Assignee: Scepter Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventors: Grant D. Farrell, Edward Goles
  • Patent number: 4836580
    Abstract: A connection device for use in securing an end of a corrugated pipe to a fitting such as a terminal box connector or a pipe-to-pipe coupling has an array of fingers extending axially from an annular ring, for insertion into the fitting. Enlarged head portions at the inner ends of the fingers serve to engage the ribs or corrugations on the pipe outer surface, when a pipe is inserted therepast, and also provide a differentiated camming action to secure engagement of the head portions with a corrugation of the pipe and to prevent withdrawal of the pipe from the fitting. The fitting with which the device is combined also has an axially extended inner peripheral seat against which the pipe corrugations seat, to preclude passage of concrete betwen the pipe and the fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: Scepter Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventor: Grant D. Farrell