Patents by Inventor Kurt J. Hill

Kurt J. Hill 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).

  • Reconfigurable fixturing pallet for registering and supporting multi-board panels on the table of a programmable routing machine
    Patent number: 5438740
    Abstract: A fixturing pallet is removably registered on the table of a programmable routing machine and provides a platform to which tooling is registered and repositionably attached. The tooling is used according to registration, supporting, and routing requirements of each multi-board panel and its individual boards; and it serves to support and establish and maintain registration of each panel and/or board on the pallet during: (i) transporting of the multi-board panels from a load/unload station to the routing station, (ii) depaneling at the routing station, and (iii) transporting of liberated boards and scrap back to the load/unload station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: Cencorp, Inc.
    Inventors: D. Patrick Carr, Kurt J. Hill
  • Releasable binding for snowboards
    Patent number: 4728116
    Abstract: A releasable foot binding for a snowboard includes a ring secured to a snowboard, a block rotatably mounted on the ring, and boot-engaging plugs at each end of the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Inventor: Kurt J. Hill