Patents by Inventor Kraig A. Tabor

Kraig A. Tabor 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: 11939690
    Abstract: A portable electroplating system with components integrated into a complete system, rather than separated and disjointed. A single electroplating system can be self-contained to include all necessary rectifiers, tanks, cleaning functionalities, and other helpful or necessary items. By using smaller components than conventional electroplating systems, the system can allow for more economical use of chemicals, solutions, and energy and can be utilized more efficiently towards a unique shape or size of object to be plated. The system can also include wheels to make the system portable. A rack management system can be employed to move objects from one location to another within the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: Kraig A. Tabor, Thomas L. Kassouf, Ricardo M. Guedes, Greg P. Formella, Alan J. Birschbach, Peter W. Eisch, Garry L. Dillon, Chad J. Kaschak, Michael G. Gentile
  • Publication number: 20230271542
    Abstract: A system includes a collapsible trailer frame and a lifting mechanism coupled to the collapsible trailer frame. The lifting mechanism is configured to raise or lower a coil of pipe or a reel of pipe. The system also includes a braking mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: John P. Leger, Peter A. Parker, Kraig A. Tabor, Jagtar Thethy, Alexander Lee Winn
  • Patent number: 11643000
    Abstract: A system includes a collapsible trailer frame and a lifting mechanism coupled to the collapsible trailer frame. The lifting mechanism is configured to raise or lower a coil of pipe or a reel of pipe. The system also includes a braking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Trinity Bay Equipment Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: John P. Leger, Peter A. Parker, Kraig Tabor, Jagtar Thethy, Alexander Lee Winn
  • Patent number: 11186462
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing and/or operating a pipe drum system that includes a drum body. The drum body is to be disposed within an interior channel of a pipe coil that is formed from a flexible pipe including tubing that defines a pipe bore and a fluid conduit within a tubing annulus. The drum body includes a drum core implemented with substantially fixed dimensions and a fluid bladder layer implemented circumferentially around the drum core. The pipe drum system maintains the fluid bladder layer in a first state to enable the drum body to be inserted into the interior channel of the pipe coil after the pipe coil is formed and increases inflation of the fluid bladder layer from the first state to a second state to enable an outer surface of the drum body to push against an inner surface of the pipe coil to facilitate supporting the pipe coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Trinity Bay Equipment Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: John Paul Leger, Kraig Tabor, Jagtar Singh Thethy
  • Patent number: 11186463
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing and/or operating a pipe deployment system that includes pipe deployment equipment, which facilitates deploying a pipe segment from a pipe coil, and a pipe drum, which includes a drum body around which the pipe coil is to be disposed. The pipe drum is to be disposed on the pipe deployment equipment and the drum body includes a drum core as well as a lower paddle assembly and an upper paddle assembly, which are slidably secured to the drum core. The pipe deployment system maintains the paddle assemblies in a retracted state to enable the drum body to be inserted into the pipe coil, extends the lower paddle assembly to a more extended state to facilitate raising the drum core, and retracts the lower paddle assembly to a less extended state and extends the upper paddle assembly to the less extended state to facilitate lifting the pipe coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Trinity Bay Equipment Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy John Franklin-Hensler, Jonathan Guerrero, Matthew Allen Hegler, John Paul Leger, Peter Andrew Parker, Kraig Tabor, Jagtar Singh Thethy, Alexander Lee Winn
  • Publication number: 20210339671
    Abstract: A system includes a collapsible trailer frame and a lifting mechanism coupled to the collapsible trailer frame. The lifting mechanism is configured to raise or lower a coil of pipe or a reel of pipe. The system also includes a braking mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN P. LEGER, PETER A. PARKER, KRAIG TABOR, JAGTAR THETHY, ALEXANDER LEE WINN
  • Patent number: 11066002
    Abstract: A system includes a collapsible trailer frame and a lifting mechanism coupled to the collapsible trailer frame. The lifting mechanism is configured to raise or lower a coil of pipe or a reel of pipe. The system also includes a braking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventors: John P. Leger, Peter A. Parker, Kraig Tabor, Jagtar Thethy, Alexander Lee Winn
  • Publication number: 20200114799
    Abstract: A system includes a collapsible trailer frame and a lifting mechanism coupled to the collapsible trailer frame. The lifting mechanism is configured to raise or lower a coil of pipe or a reel of pipe. The system also includes a braking mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: JOHN P. LEGER, PETER A. PARKER, KRAIG TABOR, JAGTAR THETHY, ALEXANDER LEE WINN
  • Patent number: 10294579
    Abstract: A portable electroplating system with components integrated into a complete system, rather than separated and disjointed. A single electroplating system can be self-contained to include all necessary rectifiers, tanks, cleaning functionalities, and other helpful or necessary items. By using smaller components than conventional electroplating systems, the system can allow for more economical use of chemicals, solutions, and energy and can be utilized more efficiently towards a unique shape or size of object to be plated. The system can also include wheels to make the system portable. A rack management system can be employed to move objects from one location to another within the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: Kraig A. Tabor, Thomas L. Kassouf, Ricardo M. Guedes, Greg P. Formella, Alan J. Birschbach, Peter W. Eisch, Garry L. Dillon, Chad J. Kaschak, Michael G. Gentile
  • Publication number: 20190136402
    Abstract: A portable electroplating system with components integrated into a complete system, rather than separated and disjointed. A single electroplating system can be self-contained to include all necessary rectifiers, tanks, cleaning functionalities, and other helpful or necessary items. By using smaller components than conventional electroplating systems, the system can allow for more economical use of chemicals, solutions, and energy and can be utilized more efficiently towards a unique shape or size of object to be plated. The system can also include wheels to make the system portable. A rack management system can be employed to move objects from one location to another within the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: Kraig A. Tabor, Thomas L. Kassouf, Ricardo M. Guedes, Greg P. Formella, Alan J. Birschbach, Peter W. Eisch, Garry L. Dillon, Chad J. Kaschak, Michael G. Gentile
  • Publication number: 20170283978
    Abstract: A portable electroplating system with components integrated into a complete system, rather than separated and disjointed. A single electroplating system can be self-contained to include all necessary rectifiers, tanks, cleaning functionalities, and other helpful or necessary items. By using smaller components than conventional electroplating systems, the system can allow for more economical use of chemicals, solutions, and energy and can be utilized more efficiently towards a unique shape or size of object to be plated. The system can also include wheels to make the system portable. A rack management system can be employed to move objects from one location to another within the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: Kraig A. Tabor, Thomas L. Kassouf, Ricardo M. Guedes, Greg P. Formella, Alan J. Birschbach, Peter W. Eisch, Garry L. Dillon, Chad J. Kaschak, Michael G. Gentile