Patents by Inventor Robert H. E. Richards

Robert H. E. Richards 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: 5806869
    Abstract: A door and running board conversion kit including a hanger framework capable of mounting beneath several different vehicle chassis configurations. A step device is adapted to be supported longitudinally on the hanger framework, and which carries a step deck to be spaced at a selected distance below the bottom edge of a vehicle door and terminating in a longitudinal outboard edge. Such edge is to be covered by a downwardly projecting door skirt fastened to the outboard lower extremity of the door to project downwardly a distance equal to or greater than such selected distance to projection in covering relation over the outboard edge of the step deck when the door is in a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Inventor: Robert H. E. Richards