Patents by Inventor Ralph L. Ayers

Ralph L. Ayers 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: 4549378
    Abstract: An improved skirting assembly for mobile homes or other elevated buildings is provided which has specialized connectors between the skirt and building permitting up and down travel of the skirt, and an upper covering channel completely free of connection to the building so as to accommodate any degree of skirt movement. In preferred forms, the skirt includes a plurality of endwise interlocked panels operably connected to the building by means of connection structure such as a bracket matingly and slidingly receiving one of the interlocking flanges of a panel; the corresponding flange on the adjacent panel overlies and slidingly receives the bracket so as to conceal the latter while achieving the desirable sliding connection. In other forms, a slotted clip (or a slot provided in the skirt panels themselves) is employed to obtain the sliding connection without the need to affix the upper covering channel to the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1985
    Assignee: Variform Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph L. Ayers, Garfield W. Stovin, Robert J. Szabo