Patents by Inventor Louis A. Gilbert

Louis A. Gilbert 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).

  • Pickup body protection apparatus
    Patent number: 5944372
    Abstract: Protective apparatus for the sidewall of the bed of a pickup truck equipped with tool boxes is disclosed. An elongate rail is mounted to the top of the sidewall by non-invasive means and one or more skirt members may be selectively, detachably mounted to the rail when desired to overlie the sidewall below the tool boxes. In an alternative embodiment a tool box for the bed of a pickup truck has a detachable skirt member mounted to the sidewall of the tool box and depending downward to overlie the truck's sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Inventor: Louis A. Gilbert
  • Pickup body protection apparatus
    Patent number: 5788307
    Abstract: Protective apparatus for the sidewall of the bed of a pickup truck equipped with tool boxes is disclosed. An elongate rail is mounted to the top of the sidewall by non-invasive means and one or more skirt members may be selectively, detachably mounted to the rail when desired to overlie the sidewall below the tool boxes. In an alternative embodiment a tool box for the bed of a pickup truck has a detachable skirt member mounted to the sidewall of the tool box and depending downward to overlie the truck's sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Inventor: Louis A. Gilbert
  • Method of making a semi-membrane like container and building a heat insulated fluid tight tank embodying the same
    Patent number: 4023726
    Abstract: Polyhedral welded metal container each dihedron of which has its two flat adjacent side walls tangentially connected to each other by a round concave cylindrical wall portion consisting of several superposed curved concentric plates the aggregate thickness of which is at most equal to that of the single metal sheet of a side wall so as to be joined to the latter in flush relationship therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1977
    Assignee: Gazocean
    Inventor: Jean-Louis Gilbert Massac