Patents by Inventor Paul A. Mullens

Paul A. Mullens 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).

  • Transit vehicle farebox for conducting multi-media transit fare transactions
    Patent number: 4977502
    Abstract: A bus farebox that conducts transit fare transactions accepts magnetically-encoded farecards, currency bills or tickets, or coins or tokens tendered for fare. Fare processing is conducted on the basis of a selected one of a set of fare tables electrically stored in the farebox. The farebox has provision for accumulating audit information based upon a plurality of fare transactions. The accumulated audit data and a cashbox are released from the farebox in response to commands received by the farebox from a communication system located at a bus terminal station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Inventors: Joseph R. Baker, Wesley A. Golland, Paul A. Mullens, Roger B. Trimble, Charles W. Giebelhausen
  • Recreation surface and tile fastening scheme
    Patent number: 4921741
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a recreation surface which consists of a plurality of resilient, liquid-porous tiles adhered to a liquid-porous sheet that overlies a porous sub-surface and is anchored to the ground. In this way, the tiles are fixed and displacement or removal thereof is inhibited; additionally the porous tiles and sheet facilitate drainage of water from the recreation surface into the porous subsurface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: Carlisle Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Paul A. Mullen
  • Farebox security device
    Patent number: 4877179
    Abstract: A fare box has two separate chambers connected together by a connecting opening, with a fare receiving module in one of the chambers for receiving deposited fares and transporting them to the connecting opening, and a cashbox in the other chamber for receiving fares deposited in the connecting opening. A locking device is associated with the fare receiving module for releasably retaining it in the first chamber, and a security shutter in the housing is moveable between a first position blocking the connecting opening and a second position in which the opening is unblocked. The security shutter and locking device are linked together so that the connecting opening is blocked whenever the fare receiving module is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: Cubic Western Data Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph R. Baker, Wesley A. Golland, Paul A. Mullens, Roger B. Trimble
  • Recreation surface and tile interlocking scheme
    Patent number: 4848058
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a recreation surface which consists of a plurality of resilient tiles, each of which has through bores for receiving elongated tie rods and side slots for receiving tie bars which have apertures therein. The through bores are intersected by the side slots such that when the tie bars are inserted into confronting slots in adjacent tiles the apertures in the tie bars are aligned with the through bores and are fixed against relative movement when the tie rods are inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Carlisle Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Paul A. Mullen