Patents by Inventor John Sherman

John Sherman 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: 5732878
    Abstract: A secure currency deposit system having a cabinet with one or more compartments, each for containing a cassette wherein each cassette has an openable front wall, a cavity, and a slotted upper panel for receiving currency therethrough. Each of the cassettes has a locking arrangement to selectively permit insertion access to its slotted upper panel. Associated with each of the compartments is another locking arrangement which, in conjunction with the cassette locking arrangement and an unlatching arrangement, selectively permits contents removal access to the cavity of the respective cavity and, in conjunction with a latching arrangement, selectively permits removal of the respective cassette from the respective compartment. Each cassette has dividers partitioning its cavity into a plurality of bins. Each cassette may be removable from, or semi-permanently installed in, the respective compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Lefebure Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: John Sherman Schroder, Daniel J. Banyas, Mark Hollinrake
  • Patent number: 4746828
    Abstract: A motor housing and brush holder device is constructed, as by molding, in such a manner as not to require any machining operations subsequent to its being molded and assembled, and it can be molded of either conductive or nonconductive materials. The housing, in this case, is of nonconductive high impact strength material and is a single preformed molded piece. The housing includes an integrally molded generally cylindrical stepped bearing recess or pocket for the end of an armature shaft and brush holders spaced axially and radially of the bearing recess. The shape of the bearing and its keeper is unique as well as the brushes and associated structures and the manner in which they supply power to the windings of the stator field coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Electrolux Corporation
    Inventors: Willard Nado, Robert Lockwood, John Sherman
  • Patent number: 4127620
    Abstract: In a portable domestic air humidifier of the rotating drum type, the improvement wherein a fill funnel occupies a portion of the periphery of the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1978
    Assignee: Canadian Appliance Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventors: John A. Sherman, Peter S. Wardell
  • Patent number: 4103403
    Abstract: This invention relates to tenter frames and more particularly to a tenter rail provided with a gap crossing mechanism whereby the tenter clip engaging surfaces of the tenter guide rails, at the rail joints, are smooth for the gentle passage of the tenter clips arranged in a chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1978
    Assignee: Marshall and Williams Company
    Inventors: Henry Parrillo, John Sherman Harrington, Glenn Howard Curtis
  • Patent number: 4080692
    Abstract: This invention relates to tenter frames and more particularly to a tenter rail provided with a gap crossing mechanism whereby the tenter clip engaging surfaces of the tenter guide rails, at the rail joints, are smooth for the gentle passage of the tenter clips arranged in a chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1978
    Assignee: Marshall and Williams Company
    Inventors: Henry Parrillo, John Sherman Harrington, Glenn Howard Curtis
  • Patent number: 4068356
    Abstract: This invention relates to tenter frames and more particularly to a tenter rail provided with a gap crossing mechanism whereby the tenter clip engaging surfaces of the tenter guide rails, at the rail joints, are smooth for the gentle passage of the tenter clips arranged in a chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1978
    Assignee: Marshall and Williams Company
    Inventors: Henry Parrillo, John Sherman Harrington, Glenn Howard Curtis
  • Patent number: D352148
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Inventors: Robert L. Shively, John Sherman