Patents by Inventor Homer Zumwalt

Homer Zumwalt 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: 4056211
    Abstract: A one piece extruded elastomeric support and retention liner gasket for resiliently and sealingly mounting a plastic sheet food liner to the cabinet in a refrigerator or freezer includes a barbed lower body which is pressed into an upwardly opening J-shaped channel formed adjacent the inner rim of the cabinet, the gasket including an intermediate inwardly projecting arm and a spaced resiliently supported upper head section defining with the arm an inwardly opening peripheral groove for receiving the outer peripheral flange of the food liner, the arrangement being such that as the gasket is pressed into the J-channel the arm engages the short leg of the J-channel so as to be upwardly deflected thereby narrowing the slot and the head section engages the long leg of the J-channel so as to downwardly deflect thereby also narrowing the slot whereby the flange is resiliently compressively gripped in assembly therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1977
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventor: Homer Zumwalt