Patents by Inventor Mark M. Gassaway

Mark M. Gassaway 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).

  • Security mounting
    Patent number: 5116015
    Abstract: A security mounting in which two parallel plates are relatively slidable to trap headed clips which hold the plates together in the locked configuration. The plates are more ductile than a rigid surface to which one of them is adhesively joined so that prying forces bends the plates and they cannot then be separated by sliding movement. A skirted lock body frustrates prying forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Inventor: Mark M. Gassaway
  • Security mounting
    Patent number: 5013000
    Abstract: An article to be protected from unauthorized removal is enbraced by a continuous unhinged band. The band has band flanges which can releasably be held to one another to hold the article. A U-shaped retainer connected to the band has two retention flanges to overhang the article. The article is thereby protected against unauthorized removal in any direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Inventor: Mark M. Gassaway
  • Security mount
    Patent number: 4893777
    Abstract: A two-plate security device. Each plate has a set of similar but opposite directed keyhole slots releasably to be joined by a headed coupler with heads that cannot pass through the neck of the slots, but can pass through a larger opening of the slot. Sliding the plates in-plane relative to one another traps the couplers and holds the plates together. Reversing the movement releases them. The slots are formed in a nonrectangular pattern so as to facilitate correct alignment of the plates when the device is being assembled. Alignment pins and slots are also shown, and also a band to be held by the device to encircle a protected device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1990
    Inventor: Mark M. Gassaway
  • Mount for securing protected articles
    Patent number: 4858878
    Abstract: A device for the securing of protected articles such as computers to the side or a top of a desk, which includes a base plate having an adhesive pad secured between the base plate and the desk or other object. A plurality of posts rise from the base and are engaged by a second plate. The protected article is placed in the spacing between the plates and between the posts. Releasable locking means holds this engagement of the second plate to the posts. A retention bracket is restrained to the assembled plates and posts and includes a pair of shoulders overhanging the spacing between the plates to prevent removal of the article from the spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Inventor: Mark M. Gassaway