Patents by Inventor Kellen J. Chicoine

Kellen J. Chicoine 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: 6161626
    Abstract: A sand trap rake arranged particularly for use on a golf course and with fingers which penetrate the sand for plowing the sand. There is an adjustment relative to the plowing fingers which permits the fingers to be angulated so that they can be dragged through the sand with the tips of the fingers being in trailing position. The entire machine includes the plowing fingers arranged on one planar piece and being disposed in a plurality thereof in end-to-end relationship to each other and with dresser plates trailing the plowing fingers for smoothing the top of the sand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Lange, Stephen R. Voss, Kellen J. Chicoine
  • Patent number: 6085847
    Abstract: A sand trap rake arranged particularly for use on a golf course and with fingers which penetrate the sand for plowing the sand. There is an adjustment relative to the plowing fingers which permits the fingers to be angulated so that they can be dragged through the sand with the tips of the fingers being in trailing position. The entire machine includes the plowing fingers arranged on one planar piece and being disposed in a plurality thereof in end-to-end relationship to each other and with dresser plates trailing the plowing fingers for smoothing the top of the sand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Lange, Stephen R. Voss, Kellen J. Chicoine
  • Patent number: 6073716
    Abstract: A method and system for a hydraulic drive for a vehicle wherein when one of the vehicle traction wheels is in a frictionless spin mode, then the hydraulic pressure is subjected to the action of the fuse which directs the pressure or increase in hydraulic flow to the remaining wheel or wheels for traction drive. The system can be used in either the forward or reverse drive mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Gary A. Ellertson, Kellen J. Chicoine
  • Patent number: 4705449
    Abstract: A skid-steer vehicle has a housing defining a driver's compartment and a loader arm that permits the driver to enter and leave the vehicle through left and right side access openings. The arm is constructed to eliminate the hazardous condition of entering from the front of the vehicle or from a side where the loader arm crosses the access space. The housing includes first and second spaced apart support frames. Each support frame includes a forward and a rearward upwardly extending member joined at an upper portion by a connecting member. The forward, rearward and connecting members, define a side access opening to the driver's compartment. The loader arm has a rearward portion which is pivotally attached to the rearward members of the support frames and a forward portion and a middle portion connecting the forward and rearward portions such that when the loader arm is either in an up position or a down position, the loader arm does not extend into the access openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Inventors: Leslie L. Christianson, Ralph Alcock, Donell P. Froehlich, Kellen J. Chicoine