Patents by Inventor Joseph E. Visocky

Joseph E. Visocky 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: 5682693
    Abstract: A roll sign has closed loop belts made up of a series of pivotally connected links for the belts to translate parallel to each other and vertically after passing over driven wheels. Grid members having grooved tracks into which menu strips slide for being lighted from behind to make information on the strips readable. The grid members have similar end portions or webs which contain a keyhole defined by a large hole intersecting a smaller hole. Each link has an attachment pin including a shank whose end is extending through an aperture in the link and a head on the shank that is disposed on a side of the link opposite from the end of the pin. A spring biases the head against the grid member. The large holes of the keyholes fit over the head so that when this is done the grid is shifted laterally against the spring force to have the small holes slide under the head to hold the grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Everbrite, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph E. Visocky, Gregory A. Bink
  • Patent number: 5588238
    Abstract: A sign or menu board has a pair of parallel vertical side rails with opposite end portions of upper and lower cross rails joined to the upper and lower end portions of the side rails to form a carrier frame. Each side rail has a track coextensive with its length. Grid modules make up modular grid units. Each unit, which may contain only one module, is comprised of cross bars that are joined at their opposite ends by tie-bars which together with the cross bars define a window opening. The cross bars are provided with lengthwise grooves for slidably accepting an information strip between them. The grid units slide into the carrier frame along the tracks and are constructed such that the information strips can be slid into or out of a grid without withdrawing the grid from the carrier frame. Pictorial assembly retainer bars are also constructed for sliding into the frame on the side rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: Everbrite, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph E. Visocky, Everett Evans
  • Patent number: 4593486
    Abstract: Pricing modules of the type having precoiled numeric indicia tapes are slidably held in guide channels of a mounting trackway assembly. Additional guide channels in the trackway assembly receive customized alpha indicia strips forwardly of the pricing modules. Pricing module locator notches are provided in wall portions of the trackway assembly to interlock with spring locking elements on each pricing module to properly position each module along the mounting trackway assembly. Multiple sections of the mounting trackway assembly can be provided in interlocking engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Assignee: Plasti-Line, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph E. Visocky, Charles F. Ramsay
  • Patent number: D295193
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1988
    Assignee: Plasti-Line, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph E. Visocky, Charles F. Ramsay
  • Patent number: D416290
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: America's Drive-In Trust
    Inventors: Raymond M. Poelvoorde, Timothy D. Love, David J. Reininger, Joseph E. Visocky