Patents by Inventor H. Coleman Norris

H. Coleman Norris 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).

  • Type carrier for use in photocomposition machines
    Patent number: 4168889
    Abstract: A type carrier for use in phototypesetting, comprising an opaque planar disc having at least two concentric circular rows of transparencies that define alpha-numeric characters, characterized in that the alpha-numeric characters in one of said circular rows are inverted duplicates of the alpha-numeric characters in the other of said rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1979
    Assignee: Columbian Art Works, Inc.
    Inventor: H. Coleman Norris
  • Rotary file
    Patent number: 4079531
    Abstract: A card file having a rotor with radiating arms, each of which has a card-carrying tray detachably connected thereto. The rotor is mounted in a housing for rotation about a horizontal axis so that each tray can be brought to a detent-defined viewing position at which the tray is disposed in a substantially horizontal attitude affording ready access to the file cards carried thereby. Inwardly facing ribs on the lower portion of the housing have their edges concentric to the axis of the rotor to be engagable by the outer extremities of the trays as they traverse the lower portion of their orbit upon rotation of the rotor, to thereby prevent detachment of the trays from the rotor arms. The various components of the rotor are held assembled with one another and with the housing entirely without reliance upon screws, bolts, rivets or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1978
    Assignee: Columbian Art Works, Inc.
    Inventors: H. Coleman Norris, Gordon D. Kelly
  • Rotary file
    Patent number: 4017993
    Abstract: A card file having a rotor with radiating arms, each of which has a card-carrying tray detachably connected thereto. The rotor is mounted in a housing for rotation about a horizontal axis so that each tray can be brought to a detent-defined viewing position at which the tray is disposed in a substantially horizontal attitude affording ready access to the file cards carried thereby. Inwardly facing ribs on the lower portion of the housing have their edges concentric to the axis of the rotor to be engagable by the outer extremities of the trays as they traverse the lower portion of their orbit upon rotation of the rotor, to thereby prevent detachment of the trays from the rotor arms. The various components of the rotor are held assembled with one another and with the housing entirely without reliance upon screws, bolts, rivets or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Assignee: Columbian Art Works, Inc.
    Inventors: H. Coleman Norris, Gordon D. Kelly