Patents by Inventor Joseph Lucas, Jr.

Joseph Lucas, Jr. 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: 6658802
    Abstract: A seal for a fixed window in a motor vehicle, including a pane-holding channel to receive and grip the opposite faces of a margin of a window pane. A sealing lip extending parallel with the pane-holding channel has a root located a small distance apart from the top edge of the pane-holding channel, and an outer margin of the lip extends to and presses sealingly against an outer surface of the window pane. In a preferred embodiment of the invention an outer margin of the main member of the seal defines a channel to receive and grip the opposite faces of a margin of the structure defining a window opening in the motor vehicle. A locking strip engaged in a locking strip groove keeps the seal in place after installation. Where two seal members meet, the respective sealing lips meet to form a curved concave corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Northwest Rubber Extruders, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Lucas, Jr., Thomas M. English
  • Patent number: 6422478
    Abstract: Elastomeric pads positioned on top of railroad ties have flanges that extend along chamfered corners of railroad ties and shoulders that extend upward and are located along the tops of the flanges. Pre-cast concrete panels that are commonly provided at railway grade crossings between and alongside the rails rest on the pads. The shoulders are compressible by the weight of the concrete panels and help to keep the flanges in place on the chamfered edges of the ties and resist movement of the pads from their intended positions between the concrete panels and the ties. The pads may be extruded of thermoplastic synthetic rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Northwest Rubber Extruders, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Lucas, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6405500
    Abstract: A seal for a fixed window in a motor vehicle, including a pane-holding channel to receive and grip the opposite faces of a margin of a window pane. A sealing lip extending parallel with the pane-holding channel has a root located a small distance apart from the top edge of the pane-holding channel, and an outer margin of the lip extends to and presses sealingly against an outer surface of the window pane. In a preferred embodiment of the invention an outer margin of the main member of the seal defines a channel to receive and grip the opposite faces of a margin of the structure defining a window opening in the motor vehicle. A locking strip engaged in a locking strip groove keeps the seal in place after installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Northwest RubbersExtruders, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Lucas, Jr., Thomas M. English
  • Patent number: 5609294
    Abstract: A structural arrangement for an embedded and sealed railroad track and a method for its installation to provide a gutter defined along the rails of such a railroad track extending along or across a street or highway with rail tops at pavement level. Rubber filler bodies are held in place along the sides of each rail by retainer strips which lock into place on the filler bodies. A retainer form holds the filler bodies in place and provides space for the retainer strips when pavement materials are cast in place along the rails. Protective caps and sealing structures are installed before pavement materials are cast in place, to exclude the paving materials from space needed as a gutter along the rails to provide access to the rails and to spaced-apart supporting structures to which the rails are fastened, and to keep foreign materials from getting on the top of the rails and prevent them from becoming caught between the rails and the adjacent filler bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Inventor: Joseph Lucas, Jr.