Patents by Inventor Larry L. Noellert

Larry L. Noellert 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: 5954410
    Abstract: A storage unit for articles which is interfaced with a suspended ceiling, wherein the articles are stored above the suspended ceiling, yet readily accessible whenever they are needed. The suspended ceiling storage unit includes an outer frame which is dimensioned to rest upon the support lips of the runners of a rectilinear opening of the suspended ceiling, and an inner frame which is pivotably connected with the outer frame and is nestable therewith in a common plane. The inner frame has a lower flange for supporting a ceiling panel, and further has connected thereto a storage member for holding articles. The preferred storage member is a peg board and its interfaced pegs. In operation, a user places the storage unit into a selected rectilinear opening of a suspended ceiling, whereupon the outer frame rests upon the support lips of the adjoining runners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Inventor: Larry L. Noellert
  • Patent number: 3965597
    Abstract: An advertising sign structure made of a single-piece appropriately shaped open shell of plastic material provided with a continuous lateral flange portion disposed intermediate the bottom and top of the shell for fastening to a backing panel, a resilient gasket being disposed between the marginal surface of the backing panel and the flange surface. The surface of the backing panel disposed within the shell may be provided with an appropriate lighting element such as a contoured tubular fluorescent lamp. In normal use the backing panel is attached to an appropriate support structure, such as posts or a building. The structure consisting of the shell with attached backing panel forms the complete advertising sign, or alternatively, forms an element of the sign such as a single letter or a plurality of letters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Assignee: Willey Sign Company
    Inventor: Larry L. Noellert