Patents by Inventor James Dokoupil

James Dokoupil 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: 5540805
    Abstract: Apparatus for supporting rolls of overlay and base tapes, and guiding the tapes to pressure rollers after the base tape passes through a computer printer to produce an endless web of protected labels. The pressure rollers may be rotated either manually or by an electric motor. Between the printer outlet and the pressure rollers, the base tape passes through a bail mechanism which is rotationally moveable by the relative tension and slack in the base tape to operate a microswitch in the motor circuit. Both the label-making apparatus and the printer rest upon a planar base member to which the apparatus is fixedly attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: The Croydon Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Ackley, James Dokoupil
  • Patent number: 5275297
    Abstract: A book support of the clip-on type including a label holder having at least one transparent label viewing surface which may releasably engage to the front wall of the book support in covering, spaced relation thereto. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the label holder includes two planar label viewing surfaces which lie in orthogonally oriented planes. When attached to the front wall of the book support, the label holder and front wall form a substantially triangular transverse cross-section. A label having shelf-identifying indicia printed thereon may be removably inserted between the label holder and the front wall of the book support for viewing through the label holder viewing surfaces. The indicia is printed twice in symmetrical arrangement on the label such that the indicia appearing through the first label viewing surface is the same indicia that appears through the second label viewing surface. As such, the shelf-identifying indicia is displayed about a large viewing angle of at least 180.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: The Croydon Company, Inc.
    Inventors: James Dokoupil, Nolan Lushington, Gregory Mt. Pleasant
  • Patent number: D328674
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: The Croydon Company
    Inventors: James Dokoupil, Robert Ackley, Stanleigh Wells
  • Patent number: D329765
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Assignee: The Croydon Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Ackley, Stanleigh Wells, Robert Beehner, James Dokoupil
  • Patent number: D331599
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: The Croydon Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Nolan Lushington, James Dokoupil, Gregory Mt. Pleasant
  • Patent number: D340369
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: The Croydon Company, Inc.
    Inventors: James Dokoupil, Robert Ackley, Stanleigh Wells
  • Patent number: D358279
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: The Croydon Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Ackley, James Dokoupil