Patents by Inventor Richard Picard

Richard Picard 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).

  • Publication number: 20120055058
    Abstract: A firearm having a stock and barrel attached to a receiver. Located within the receiver is an enhanced service life bolt. The enhanced service life bolt has a plurality of lugs. At least one lug has a reduced height that is shorter than the height of the other lugs. The enhanced service life bolt defines an extractor slot and the at least one reduced height lug is located adjacent to the extractor slot. The at least one reduced height lug is approximately twenty percent (20%) shorter than the other lugs. The enhanced service life bolt is constructed from a maraging stainless steel, such as 158 Carpenter Stainless Steel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: SMITH & WESSON CORP.
    Inventors: RICHARD PICARD, DAVID FINDLAY
  • Patent number: 8122634
    Abstract: A striker assembly for a firearm and a method of assembly the striker assembly is disclosed. The method includes providing a generally cylindrical body having a first distal end, a middle portion, and a second distal end, sliding a coaxial spring onto the middle portion from the second distal end toward the first distal end, sliding a spacer having a first side and a second side from the second distal end toward the first distal end, sliding a snap ring from the second distal end toward the first distal end, and sliding a cap over the second distal end of the body, the spacer, and the snap ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Smith & Wesson Corp.
    Inventors: Robert L. Constant, John Pliska, Richard Picard
  • Publication number: 20110067222
    Abstract: A striker assembly for a firearm and a method of assembly the striker assembly is disclosed. The method includes providing a generally cylindrical body having a first distal end, a middle portion, and a second distal end, sliding a coaxial spring onto the middle portion from the second distal end toward the first distal end, sliding a spacer having a first side and a second side from the second distal end toward the first distal end, sliding a snap ring from the second distal end toward the first distal end, and sliding a cap over the second distal end of the body, the spacer, and the snap ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: SMITH & WESSON CORP.
    Inventors: ROBERT L. CONSTANT, JOHN PLISKA, RICHARD PICARD
  • Publication number: 20100281738
    Abstract: A striker assembly for a firearm and a method of assembly the striker assembly is disclosed. The striker assembly includes a generally cylindrical body having a first distal end, a middle portion, and a second distal end. A coaxial spring encompasses the middle portion of the body and abuts an annular ring on the first distal end. The striker assembly also has a spacer having a first side and a second side with the first side of the spacer abutting a ridge on the second distal end of the body. A snap ring holds the spacer in place on the spacer's second side, and the snap ring is secured by a circumferential groove in the second distal end of the body. Finally, the striker assembly includes a cap that abuts the coaxial spring and encompasses the second distal end of the body, the spacer, and the snap ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: SMITH & WESSON CORP.
    Inventors: ROBERT L. CONSTANT, JOHN PLISKA, RICHARD PICARD
  • Patent number: 7370769
    Abstract: A hoist for retrieving, lifting and positioning a light load of up to about 1000 lbs, is described. The hoist comprises a boom support column having an attaching lower end and a boom support upper end. The boom support upper end has a boom assembly connector and a transverse support surface. The boom assembly has a connecting support wall and a lower projecting connector for rotational connection with the boom assembly connector for maintaining the boom at an upward angular position. A releasable locking mechanism locks the boom at the upward angular position. A boom actuating brake arrests rotational displacement between the connecting support wall and the transverse support surface when the boom is at a substantially horizontal load retrieving position. A pulley is rotatably secured to an axle secured at a free end of the boom. The pulley is adapted to guide a cable thereon through a cable guide linkage to align and maintain the cable on the pulley.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Inventors: Richard Picard, Stéphane Couture
  • Publication number: 20080041623
    Abstract: A cable raceway system includes a device bracket and a device cover for outfitting an elongate cable raceway with a downward facing electrical device. The raceway, configured for attachment to a wall surface, is of the type having an interior wireway. The device bracket is cooperative with the raceway for access to the wireway, and includes a device support for connecting an electrical device to the bracket, in a downward facing orientation with respect to the raceway. More particularly, when an electrical device is attached to the device support, an access face of the electrical device is oriented generally perpendicularly with respect to the wall surface. The cover cooperates with the bracket and raceway for covering the bracket, and has a faceplate portion complementary to the electrical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: THE WIREMOLD COMPANY
    Inventors: MARK MAKWINSKI, RICHARD PICARD
  • Publication number: 20080029301
    Abstract: Raceway modules of predetermined length are joined by couplers designed to allow optional gaps between the T-shaped raceway base plate portions. Upper and lower L-shaped raceway covers are separately snapped out the base, allowing electrical and data/communication devices to be provided in staggered relationship, and anywhere along the raceway. The lower L-shaped raceway cover configuration allows outlet devices to be provided in the lower side of the raceway. The T-shaped base plate has pre-punched knock-out openings and mounting holes provided in a predetermined pattern, and pre-punched lines of weakening, that simplify the installation process. The couplers come in several lengths and configurations, to bridge crossing raceway or other obstructions, and to provide continuity in the gaps between the raceway modules. Pre-wired cover components are fitted with spaced outlet devices for installation in areas of a room that require such service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: THE WIREMOLD COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark Makwinski, Richard Picard, Jeffery Hemingway, Shawn Stempinski
  • Publication number: 20070246436
    Abstract: A hoist for retrieving, lifting and positioning a light load of up to about 1000 lbs, is described. The hoist comprises a boom support column having an attaching lower end and a boom support upper end. The boom support upper end has a boom assembly connector and a transverse support surface. The boom assembly has a connecting support wall and a lower projecting connector for rotational connection with the boom assembly connector for maintaining the boom at an upward angular position. A releasable locking mechanism locks the boom at the upward angular position. A boom actuating brake arrests rotational displacement between the connecting support wall and the transverse support surface when the boom is at a substantially horizontal load retrieving position. A pulley is rotatably secured to an axle secured at a free end of the boom. The pulley is adapted to guide a cable thereon through a cable guide linkage to align and maintain the cable on the pulley.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Inventors: Richard Picard, Stephane Couture
  • Publication number: 20070000681
    Abstract: T-shaped raceway base components are provided of standard length, and the flat back plate portions are scored at intervals. The forwardly projecting web portion of the T-shaped base has a leading edge that defines opposed flanges for receiving cover components, and these covers also mount to the top and bottom marginal edges of the back plate. These marginal edges and the flange defining leading edge provide regions of continuity for the raceway base to give the base sufficient stiffness so the web itself can be slotted at each of the same intervals where the lines of weakening are provided. To sever the base at one of these intervals, the installer can snip these three edge regions of continuity, and flex the base to separate it at a selected interval location. The same concept is used to provide the same advantage for raceway base coupling elements that can be used to join raceway components with gaps therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: The Wiremold Company
    Inventors: Mark Makwinski, Richard Picard
  • Publication number: 20060175086
    Abstract: A raceway base has a T-shaped configuration that mounts to a flat surface so that the stem of the T defines a divider wall for isolating adjacent wire-ways with low voltage data/com cabling and high voltage power cabling. L-shaped raceway covers are separately secured to the raceway base, and allow for outlet devices to be mounted in one of these raceways in a gap between spaced L-shaped raceway covers. A U-shaped device bracket is adapted to be snapped in place one of these wire-ways, and a housing or shroud cooperates with the device bracket to define a pathway for cables crossing through openings in the dividing wall of the base, for connection to outlet devices oriented perpendicular to the flat surface. This geometry provides a generous radius of curvature for data/communication cabling carried in one wire-way, and connected to downwardly facing outlet jacks in the lower wall of the other L-shaped raceway cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Applicant: The Wiremold Company
    Inventors: Mark Makwinski, Richard Picard, Shawn Stempinski, Jeffery Hemingway
  • Publication number: 20060151209
    Abstract: Raceway modules of predetermined length are joined by couplers designed to allow optional gaps between the T-shaped raceway base plate portions. Upper and lower L-shaped raceway covers are separately snapped out the base, allowing electrical and data/communication devices to be provided in staggered relationship, and anywhere along the raceway. The lower L-shaped raceway cover configuration allows outlet devices to be provided in the lower side of the raceway. The T-shaped base plate has prepunched knock-out openings and mounting holes provided in a predetermined pattern, and prepunched lines of weakening, that simplify the installation process. The couplers come in several lengths and configurations, to bridge crossing raceway or other obstructions, and to provide continuity in the gaps between the raceway modules. Prewired cover components are fitted with spaced outlet devices for installation in areas of a room that require such service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Applicant: The Wiremold Company
    Inventors: Mark Makwinski, Richard Picard, Jeffery Hemingway, Shawn Stempinski
  • Publication number: 20060117684
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to a modular raceway system having raceway cover components of predetermined length fitted to wall brackets at predetermined intervals along a wall structure, some of which wall brackets are designed to provide a space or gap between the adjacent end portions of the raceway covers so as to receive electrical outlet/data ports at these locations for the wall support brackets, thereby avoiding the necessity for interrupting continuous cover components, thereby lending a more pleasing appearance to the overall installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Applicant: The Wiremold Company
    Inventors: Richard Picard, Mark Makwinski
  • Publication number: 20050102935
    Abstract: Floor tiles have conductors embedded and define male and female sockets to run power and data signals to randomly placed devices designed to interface therewith any where along the conductor(s) path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Applicant: The Wiremold Company
    Inventor: Richard Picard
  • Patent number: 5188365
    Abstract: This invention pertains to a novel golf swing training harness. More particularly, this invention relates to a novel harness which can be secured to the forward knee, forward wrist, rear elbow, and waist of a golfer to encourage the golfer to keep his or her limbs in correct position as the golfer proceeds through a grooved golf swing. A golf swing training harness for wear by a golfer comprising: (a) waist fitting member adapted to be fitted to the golfer's waist area; (b) elbow fitting member for releasably securing to an elbow of a golfer; (c) wrist fitting member for releasably securing to wrist of a golfer; (d) resilient strap for releasably securing the elbow fitting member to the waist fitting member and (e) resilient strap for releasably securing the wrist fitting member to the waist fitting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Assignee: Rachel-Mae Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Picard