Patents by Inventor NATE H. CALVIN

NATE H. CALVIN 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).

  • Pivotable bearing skate and pivotable bearing skate extendable cargo bed frame assembly
    Patent number: 9139141
    Abstract: A bearing skate system for an extendable cargo bed frame assembly is provided to improve the performance of the cargo bed frame assembly. The bearing skate system has a plurality of pivotable bearing skates and each bearing skate has a pivotable skate plate having a plurality of rotating main bearings distributed along the skate plate between each side of a pivot axis of said skate plate to allow a plurality of said rotating main bearings of each skate plate to participate in supporting the cargo bed frame assembly and a cargo load on the cargo bed frame assembly when the assembly is in a closed position, in an open position, and in all intermediate positions between the closed position and the open position during extension or retraction of the cargo bed frame assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: M&M EXTENDO, LLC
    Inventors: Nate H. Calvin, Thomas Var Reeve, Patrick C. Beyers
  • PIVOTABLE BEARING SKATE AND PIVOTABLE BEARING SKATE EXTENDABLE CARGO BED FRAME ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20140300128
    Abstract: A bearing skate system for an extendable cargo bed frame assembly is provided to improve the performance of the cargo bed frame assembly. The bearing skate system has a plurality of pivotable bearing skates and each bearing skate has a pivotable skate plate having a plurality of rotating main bearings distributed along the skate plate between each side of a pivot axis of said skate plate to allow a plurality of said rotating main bearings of each skate plate to participate in supporting the cargo bed frame assembly and a cargo load on the cargo bed frame assembly when the assembly is in a closed position, in an open position, and in all intermediate positions between the closed position and the open position during extension or retraction of the cargo bed frame assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: NATE H. CALVIN, THOMAS VAR REEVE, PATRICK C. BEYERS