Patents by Inventor Philip Tomkins

Philip Tomkins 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).

  • Transport linking frames
    Patent number: 6877939
    Abstract: Frames and attachments thereto and methods of use thereof for the support and/or releasable securing of cargo and/or cargo containers upon and/or to cargo containers and/or cargo container transports and/or lifting devices. Linking frame (10) may be used upon and/or beneath containers that possess insufficient mutually corresponding mounting-points to otherwise enable them to be vertically stacked and secured together. Parallel longitudinal beams (11) are joined by shorter lateral beams (12). Attached directly or indirectly, protruding outward the outer side surfaces of said framework, are connectors (13) able to correspond upwardly and/or downwardly with various mounting-point layouts as provided upon the surfaces of cargo transport equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Inventors: Philip Tomkins, Nicholas Michael Kavanagh, Francis David Patten
  • Transport linking frames
    Publication number: 20040028495
    Abstract: Frames and attachments thereto and methods of use thereof for the support and/or releasable securing of cargo and/or cargo containers upon and/or to cargo containers and/or cargo container transports and/or lifting devices. Linking frame (10) may be used upon and/or beneath containers that possess insufficient mutually corresponding mounting-points to otherwise enable them to be vertically stacked and secured together. Parallel longitudinal beams (11) are joined by shorter lateral beams (12). Attached directly or indirectly, protruding outward the outer side surfaces of said framework, are connectors (13) able to correspond upwardly and/or downwardly with various mounting-point layouts as provided upon the surfaces of cargo transport equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Philip Tomkins, Nicholas Michael Kavanagh, Francis David Patten