Patents by Inventor John R. Sterling

John R. Sterling 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: 6499608
    Abstract: A wall-mounted storage system comprises a generally elongated mounting channel having upper and lower rows or hook-receiving openings defined thereby. The system further includes a plurality of storage attachments which are selectively removably positionable on the mounting channel. Each of the attachments includes at least one pair of vertically-spaced, downwardly opening hook-elements. Each pair of hook-elements can be selectively positioned in a respective pair of vertically aligned ones of the hook-receiving openings in the mounting channel, with the variously configured storage attachments providing a highly versatile and easily customized storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Sterling, Richard G. Kluge
  • Patent number: 6179136
    Abstract: A shelf mounting system employing vertically oriented, elongated metal track members formed with parallel rows of laterally spaced slots for the attachment of cantilever or angle brace shelf support brackets thereto. The track members are detachably joined to anchor hook mounting brackets for hanging the track members from a horizontal wooden sill member located along the upper end of a vertical wall or to face mount brackets secured to a vertical wall. The face mounted brackets also are employed for hanging vertical track members from a floor or ceiling joints to support overhead mounted shelves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: Richard G. Kluge, John R. Sterling
  • Patent number: 6161709
    Abstract: A suspended shelf system for suspending one or more shelf members beneath an associated supporting structure includes a pair of shelf support brackets, and first and second pairs of vertically oriented upright elements which are each suspended from a respective end of one of the upper support brackets. Each support bracket includes at least one pair of upwardly extending teeth which are respectively positionable in openings defined by the upright elements. The shelf mounting system further includes at least one pair of shelf support brackets which respectively extend between the first and second pairs of upright elements in spaced apart, parallel relationship. Each of the shelf support brackets includes at least one pair of downwardly extending teeth, which are configured for cooperative engagement with the opening defined by the upright elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: Richard G. Kluge, John R. Sterling, William H. Trimble
  • Patent number: 6109461
    Abstract: A shelf mounting system employing vertically oriented, elongated metal track members formed with parallel rows of laterally spaced slots for the attachment of cantilever and angle brace shelf support brackets thereto. The track members are detachably joined to hook mounting brackets for hanging the track members from a horizontal wooden sill member located along the upper end of a vertical wall. Alternatively face mounted brackets secured to the vertical wall are detachably secured to the track members. The face mounted brackets also are employed for hanging the track members from a floor or ceiling joist to support overhead mounted shelves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: Richard G. Kluge, John R. Sterling
  • Patent number: 5725110
    Abstract: A system for organizing the interior space of a closet into desired compartments involving horizontal shelves, clothes hanger rods and sliding drawers supported on a cantilever brackets removeably secured to selectively positioned vertical wall standards which are suspended from a single wall mounted horizontal hanger rail; the vertical wall standards having parallel rows of vertically aligned slot openings receptive of single or multiple rows of connector ears formed at connective end of the support brackets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: Richard G. Kluge, John R. Sterling
  • Patent number: 5054163
    Abstract: A four piece bottom pivot assembly for undersupporting the lower end of a pivotally mounted door panel in a bi-fold door assembly in which a bottom pivot pin is non-rotatably locked into a tubular sleeve extending into a socket formed in the bottom end of the door panel. The pivot pin is formed with a threaded shank having a guide portion at its upper end which slidingly cooperates with guideways in the sleeve to prevent rotation of the pivot pin. An adjustment wheel is threaded onto the threaded shank of the pivot pin and is rotatably coupled to the bottom end of the sleeve such that rotation of the wheel threadingly actuates the pivot pin coaxially of the sleeve to adjust door height. A detent system removably holds the wheel in selected rotational positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Sterling, Richard G. Kluge
  • Patent number: 4103781
    Abstract: A portable, lightweight clothes drying rack, adapted to be erected over a shower stall or bathtub enclosure to extend between a shower curtain rod and an opposing vertical enclosure wall; the device comprising a rigid, unitary member having a linear portion which is operationally supported near one end by the shower curtain rod and is formed with an upturned portion at its opposite end which is engageable with the enclosure wall at an elevation above the shower curtain rod. A stop means, adjustably movable along the member to accommodate variations in the shower curtain rod to wall distance, also serves to couple the linear portion to the curtain rod and stabilize the device in operating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1978
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventor: John R. Sterling
  • Patent number: D442814
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Sterling, Richard G. Kluge
  • Patent number: D446391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Sterling, Richard G. Kluge
  • Patent number: D446398
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Inventors: John R. Sterling, Richard G. Kluge
  • Patent number: D446444
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Sterling, Richard G. Kluge
  • Patent number: D446710
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Sterling, Richard G. Kluge
  • Patent number: D513970
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Sterling, Richard G. Kluge