Patents by Inventor Larry A. Kassebaum

Larry A. Kassebaum 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: 5362194
    Abstract: A lifting and tilting device for facilitating removal, repair and re-installation of large commercial and recreational vehicle wheels comprising a frame supported by wheels, a fork supporting tines, and a hydraulic jack interposed between the frame and the fork. The fork, in addition, includes a kicker. As one actuates the jack, the fork is vertically raised from a wheel receiving position to a predetermined height. Once the fork reaches this predetermined height, the kicker, upon further actuation of the jack, operates to tilt the fork and tines upwardly and outwardly to move the wheel carried thereon into an inclined work position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Norco Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry A. Kassebaum
  • Patent number: 5129243
    Abstract: A security lock apparatus for engagement with and locking on a break line coupler of the type having a housing with a central seal, a tongue projecting laterally in one direction and a crown mounted on the opposite side thereof and formed with a turned back cap defining a downwardly opening groove. A lock body is formed with an under surface defining a seat for overlying the seal and having a downwardly depending flange formed on one side thereof with a turned back rim defining an opened ended track for receipt of such tongue. Projecting from the opposite side of such body is a rail formed with an upturned arcuate rib for sliding receipt in the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Inventor: Larry A. Kassebaum