Patents by Inventor Mark K. Bryant

Mark K. Bryant 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: 4353172
    Abstract: A crampon binding for convenient installation on mountaineers' crampons comprises a cooperative assembly of various sizes of neoprene elongated extensioners each especially contoured and equipped with centerline openings, to be adjustable folded over longitudinally, to extend from the sides of mountaineers' boots adjacent the sole edges up alongside the boot to the lacing eyelets or lacing hooks, to serve as tension members carrying the binding loads. When installed they are folded over conventional securement rings already secured to conventional small uprights spaced about coventional crampons. Their adjustable folded over longitudinal length is maintained upon installing aluminum screw posts, with their respective aluminum locking washer, through their selected aligned centerline openings. The contour of these extensioners provides progressively wider portions to contact the mountaineer's boot to more uniformly distribute the compression binding loads into the boot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1982
    Inventor: Mark K. Bryant