Patents by Inventor John Wayne Gassett

John Wayne Gassett 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).

  • Bail assembly
    Patent number: 6126164
    Abstract: A bail assembly has a first portion of an arm pivotally supported by a printer frame. A second portion of the arm is slidably supported by the first portion of the arm so that the length of the arm can be adjusted in accordance with the length of sheets being fed to a support for stacking. The second portion of the arm has a stop pivotally mounted on its distal end. The stop has a flange for engaging each of the fed sheets so that the leading edges of the sheets are in substantial vertical alignment. The first portion of the arm has notches, which are spaced apart the differences in the sizes of the sheets being fed, to receive a detent on the second portion of the arm to releasably hold the second portion of the arm in its adjusted position on the first portion of the arm. The second portion of the arm has two curved surfaces for engaging each fed sheet adjacent its leading edge in a transverse line point contact prior to the pivotally mounted stop engaging the leading edge of the fed sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: David Erwin Rennick, William Joseph Thornhill, John Wayne Gassett
  • Ink cartridge for printer
    Patent number: D437611
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: John Wayne Gassett, Steven Robert Komplin
  • Printer
    Patent number: D439608
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: John Wayne Gassett, Peter Joseph Mendel
  • Printer
    Patent number: D460478
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: David Carl Bishop, William Michael Connors, John Wayne Gassett
  • Printer
    Patent number: D460479
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: David Carl Bishop, William Michael Connors, John Wayne Gassett
  • Printer
    Patent number: D396053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: David Carl Bishop, John Wayne Gassett, Peter Joseph Mendel, Thomas Eugene Pangburn, Bernard Lee Wilzbach
  • Toner cartridge for laser printer
    Patent number: D399249
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Leonard Burdick, Johnnie A. Coffey, Steven Alan Curry, William Dudley Freeman, John Wayne Gassett, Paul Douglas Horrall, Benjamin Keith Newman, Richard Alden Ramsdell, Robert Flynt Strean, Earl Dawson Ward, II
  • Storage stand for an ink cartridge
    Patent number: D400374
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Lexmark International Inc.
    Inventors: John Wayne Gassett, Peter Joseph Mendel, Thomas Eugene Pangburn, William Hassell Beacham
  • Printer
    Patent number: D413352
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: David Carl Bishop, John Wayne Gassett, Peter Joseph Mendel, Thomas Eugene Pangburn, Bernard Lee Wilzbach
  • Combined control panel and side panel for a printer
    Patent number: D413921
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: John Wayne Gassett, Michael Andrew Huth, Thomas Eugene Pangburn
  • Wide format printer
    Patent number: D414799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Dale Cook, John Wayne Gassett, Thomas Eugene Pangburn
  • Ink cartridge for printer
    Patent number: D423569
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: John Wayne Gassett, Steven Robert Komplin, Anthony Michael Scheetz
  • Print server
    Patent number: D426261
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel William Gardiner, John Wayne Gassett, Stephen Ray Wilson
  • Top and sides of a front cover for a printer
    Patent number: D429277
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: David Carl Bishop, John Wayne Gassett
  • Exterior design for printer
    Patent number: D430599
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventor: John Wayne Gassett
  • Printer
    Patent number: D431048
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: John Wayne Gassett, Peter Joseph Mendel
  • Exterior design for printer having duplex option
    Patent number: D431597
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventor: John Wayne Gassett
  • Printer
    Patent number: D432565
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: John Wayne Gassett, Peter Joseph Mendel, Thomas Eugene Pangburn
  • Printer
    Patent number: D432566
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: David Carl Bishop, John Wayne Gassett