Patents by Inventor Richard G. Kluge

Richard G. Kluge 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: 6109461
    Abstract: A shelf mounting system employing vertically oriented, elongated metal track members formed with parallel rows of laterally spaced slots for the attachment of cantilever and angle brace shelf support brackets thereto. The track members are detachably joined to hook mounting brackets for hanging the track members from a horizontal wooden sill member located along the upper end of a vertical wall. Alternatively face mounted brackets secured to the vertical wall are detachably secured to the track members. The face mounted brackets also are employed for hanging the track members from a floor or ceiling joist to support overhead mounted shelves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: Richard G. Kluge, John R. Sterling
  • Patent number: 6053465
    Abstract: A combination shelf and clothes rod support bracket formed by a single, elongated, metal strap reinforced by raised ribs, having two bends to form a linear mounting leg and a linear shelf support leg related at right angles. An angle brace extends between the two legs to form a rigid triangular structure. A clothes rod support has a leg portion fixed to the angle brace adjacently beneath the shelf support leg and includes a forwardly and downwardly extending arm portion and an upwardly extending finger portion forming a hook having a semi-cylindrical lip at the outer end of the upwardly extending finger portion. The lip portion engageably undersupports a cylindrical clothes rod. The forward and upward extent of the hook and the position of the rod engaging lip is such that a conventional clothes hanger having its hook engaged with the clothes rod is freely slidable along the clothes rod without engaging any part of the support bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventor: Richard G. Kluge
  • Patent number: 5725110
    Abstract: A system for organizing the interior space of a closet into desired compartments involving horizontal shelves, clothes hanger rods and sliding drawers supported on a cantilever brackets removeably secured to selectively positioned vertical wall standards which are suspended from a single wall mounted horizontal hanger rail; the vertical wall standards having parallel rows of vertically aligned slot openings receptive of single or multiple rows of connector ears formed at connective end of the support brackets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: Richard G. Kluge, John R. Sterling
  • Patent number: 5054163
    Abstract: A four piece bottom pivot assembly for undersupporting the lower end of a pivotally mounted door panel in a bi-fold door assembly in which a bottom pivot pin is non-rotatably locked into a tubular sleeve extending into a socket formed in the bottom end of the door panel. The pivot pin is formed with a threaded shank having a guide portion at its upper end which slidingly cooperates with guideways in the sleeve to prevent rotation of the pivot pin. An adjustment wheel is threaded onto the threaded shank of the pivot pin and is rotatably coupled to the bottom end of the sleeve such that rotation of the wheel threadingly actuates the pivot pin coaxially of the sleeve to adjust door height. A detent system removably holds the wheel in selected rotational positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Sterling, Richard G. Kluge
  • Patent number: 5018302
    Abstract: A burglar bar assembly for establishing a security barrier across a door or window opening composed of a plurality of horizontal cross bars held in vertically spaced relation by intervening and transversely related vertical members. Certain of the vertical members are fixed rigidly to certain of the cross bars, but slidably joined to others in a manner to provide for extension and retraction adjustment of the barrier to accomodate variations in door or window dimensions. The bar assembly is hingedly connected at one end to a window or door frame to provide for swinging opening and closing operation of the barrier. A safety latch is mounted adjacent one end of the bar assembly and comprises a spring loaded cam member pivotally moveable against spring bias by a remotely operated cable. The cam member serves to capture and lock the unhinged end of the barrier to a rigid locking channel secured to the window or door frame; such channel having spaced angulated slots receptive of the cross bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventor: Richard G. Kluge
  • Patent number: 4939866
    Abstract: A window guard assembly made up of two, slidably coupled, generally U-shaped, members each comprising parallel spaced, elongated, linear legs integrally interjoined at one end to a transverse portion which lies in a plane parallel to the plane of the legs. In assembly the transverse portion of each member extends laterally outwardly and around the legs of the other member. As a consequence, the two members may be assembled slidably with adjacent legs of the two members co-planar and the transverse portions thereof disposed on opposite sides of the assembled members. The outer of free ends of the legs are attachable to window frame members for mounting the guard assembly across a window opening. In a first modified version, each guard member includes three elongated legs attached to a transverse portion and in a second modified version, the transverse portion of each of member is welded to the ends of the legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1990
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventor: Richard G. Kluge
  • Patent number: 4306377
    Abstract: Suspension hardware for interior doors, such as closet or wardrobe doors and the like, incorporating overhead and floor mounted hardware assemblies, each incorporating a pair of angularly intersecting track means; the track means of cooperating assemblies being aligned in superposed registry in operation. One track means of each assembly parallels the wall in which the door opening is formed while the other track means is in intersecting relation thereto. Door brackets are affixed to the inner face of the door, adjacent its upper and lower edges, and guide members are mounted thereon for sliding movement along associated track means. Each guide member is pivotally joined to the door (via the associated door bracket) for pivotal movement about a vertical axis so that the door is movable simultaneously along the intersecting paths of the track means to produce arcuate swinging door action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1981
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventors: John G. Sterling, Richard G. Kluge
  • Patent number: D299757
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: John Sterling Corporation
    Inventor: Richard G. Kluge