Patents by Inventor James K. Vines

James K. Vines 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).

  • Antenna arm and method for making the arm
    Patent number: 4249184
    Abstract: An antenna structure, kit and method for making the structure comprising a generally circular base, a plurality of specially formed pre-stressed similarly shaped and sized arms which may be affixed in a disk array to the base and means, an arm encircling turnbuckel cable arrangement, for stressing the pre-stressed arms into a generally parabolic disk array is disclosed. The ribs are each made of a plurality of layers of resilient material, such as wood, which are bonded together in a bowed pre-stressed shape, which shape when modified by the stressing by the cable to assume a generally parabolic disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1981
    Inventor: James K. Vines
  • Antenna structure assembled from separable parts
    Patent number: 4201991
    Abstract: An antenna structure, kit and method for making the structure comprising a generally circular base, a plurality of specially formed pre-stressed similarly shaped and sized arms which may be affixed in a disk array to the base and means, an arm encircling turnbuckel cable arrangement, for stressing the pre-stressed arms into a generally parabolic disk array is disclosed. The ribs are each made of a plurality of layers of resilient material, such as wood, which are bonded together in a bowed pre-stressed shape, which shape when modified by the stressing by the cable to assume a generally parabolic disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1980
    Assignee: Paraframe, Inc.
    Inventor: James K. Vines