Patents by Inventor Henry C. Orr

Henry C. Orr 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: 5984439
    Abstract: A combined display and storage unit including a cubical base with four side walls, a top wall and a bottom wall, each surrounded and supported by a framework and defining an enclosed storage space. One of the side walls is hinged to provide access to the storage space. Pieces may be supported and displayed on the outer surfaces of the four side walls, preferably by constructing the side walls of slatwall material. The framework surrounding the top wall provides a square recess for alternatively receiving a transparent display case, a wire book support and a merchandise tray. The base is preferably mounted on casters for free movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: The Croydon Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry C. Orr, Donald Crispin, James Dokoupil
  • Patent number: 5971169
    Abstract: A display unit for media such as books, audio and video cassettes, etc. includes a rotating tower-type array of shelves and a supporting framework which is mountable to a rigid, vertically oriented panel, such as the end panel of a bookcase. The rotatable tower is mounted between the free ends of a pair of horizontal support arms which are fixedly supported at their other ends by a vertical column and a cross-arm which extends across and is fixedly attached at its mid-point to the upper end of the vertical column. A pair of U-shaped members are mounted to opposite ends of the cross-arm and are rotatable with respect thereto about the horizontal, longitudinal axis of the cross-arm. The unit is mounted to the panel by the U-shaped members passing around the side edges of the panel so that one of the legs of each member contacts the rear side of the panel while the remainder of the unit rests against the front side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: The Croydon Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry C. Orr, Eric Ludewig, Donald Crispin, Robert K. Scherzer, James Dokoupil
  • Patent number: 5772055
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotatable tower for holding and displaying books, video cassettes, and like articles on a plurality of square shelves which extend in horizontal planes and are supported in vertically spaced relation to one another by a plurality of vertically extending rods, groups of which are interconnected into L-shaped configurations by L-shaped, horizontally extending rods. The shelves include an elongated slot formed from the midpoint of each edge inwardly towards the shelves' geometric center, and two laterally spaced notches formed in each edge to one side of the slot. Each edge of the shelves includes a downwardly extending flange along their entire lengths and an upwardly extending flange along a portion of the length to the opposite side of the slot in which the notches are formed. Each L-shaped group of vertically extending rods is comprised of four rods, two rods forming each leg of the L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: The Croydon Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry C. Orr, James R. Dokoupil, Robert W. Ackley, Linda Lewis, Jerome A. Dubos, Donald J. Crispin, Robert D. Lindridge
  • Patent number: D385439
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: The Croydon Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Robert K. Scherzer, Henry C. Orr