Patents by Inventor John C. Instone

John C. Instone 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).

  • Electrical outlet strip
    Patent number: 4113334
    Abstract: An electrical outlet strip comprises a casing having a plurality of special snap-in outlet receptacles disposed in openings in one wall of the casing. The outlet receptacles have specially slotted hot, neutral and ground terminals disposed within the casing in a preselected arrangement such that during assembly of the strip bus wires can be rapidly connected between the corresponding terminals of the receptacles by placing the bus wires in the slots and subsequently crimping the terminals and/or soldering the bus wires to the terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: SGL Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: John C. Instone
  • Mounting arrangement for cased electrical components
    Patent number: 4072401
    Abstract: A cased electrical component such as an electrical outlet strip includes a case having laterally projecting ears each provided with an aperture. Mounting brackets, adapted to be temporarily attached to a mounting surface, are fixed to the case at locations such that they obstruct the apertures in the ears thereby preventing the case from being permanently mounted to the mounting surface by fasteners passing through the apertures in the ears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1978
    Assignee: SGL Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: John C. Instone