Patents by Inventor Hugh McCaffrey

Hugh McCaffrey 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: 4597339
    Abstract: An all-steel winged pallet has a deck formed of hollow steel tubes welded at each end to a support member. The support members extend perpendicular to the deck tubes and parallel to each other and have generally U-shaped cross-sections that are mirror images to each other. The inner side of the U is welded to the tubes at a location spaced inwardly from the respective end of the tube, and the outer side is bent outwardly to form a shelf and is then bent upwardly to be welded to the end region of the tubes. The shelf includes a roller contact area under the outermost part of the deck tubes to ride on rollers of a gravity-flow rack system and a guide that extends longitudinally along the shelf to provide a surface against which the rollers can bear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Inventors: Hugh McCaffrey, Paul Scheibe, Bruce A. Spear