Patents by Inventor Kenneth Thaler

Kenneth Thaler 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: 5237789
    Abstract: A clamp for a roof device such as a sleeve for a pipe protruding from a roof having a sealing sheet. There is a skirt, the underside of which abuts a surface of the roof and which underlies the sealing sheet. There is a clamping ring and the sheet is sandwiched between the ring and the skirt. The ring has two lower edges having a downwardly directed concavity defined between them such that a first of the edges abuts the sheet so that an upper surface of the ring may be pressed downwardly by a fastener to press the edge against the sheet to localize compressive forces between the edge, sheet and skirt to seal against entry of water between the sheet and skirt. The device disclosed is a pipe sleeve of spun aluminum. There is a circular base ring adhesively fastened to the underside of the skirt and the clamping ring is circular and of flexible aluminum, with a crescent-shaped cross-section. The arrangement is such that the circumferential edges of the clamping ring are coextensive with the circular base ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Thaler Roofing Specialties Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth Thaler
  • Patent number: 4581863
    Abstract: A variety of roof-mounted support apparatuses for supporting ducts, air conditioning units, roof access ladders, and walk-ways, each apparatus including a base plate mounted below the roof insulation, a vertical support member connected to the base plate and extending upwards therefrom, and a sleeve member that extends about the support member and has a flange extending outwardly from its bottom end. The flange is arranged above the insulation for the roof. A hollow cap member has an open bottom and fits on and over an upper end portion of the sleeve member. A threaded connecting member extends downwardly from a horizontally extending section of the cap member and is located within the cap member. The support member has means for threadedly receiving the connecting member and for thereby detachably connecting the cap member to the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1986
    Inventor: Kenneth Thaler