Patents by Inventor Robert L. Timbrook

Robert L. Timbrook 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: 7390186
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for fabricating structural building panels. The apparatus may be used for fabricating panels directly on the foundation for a building. The apparatus may include a support frame, a flattening frame, a press frame, drive members such as pneumatic cylinders supported by the press frame, and posts attached to the support frame and used for aligning and coupling the apparatus and panel components. In order to fabricate a structural panel using the inventive apparatus, drywall sheets having bores sized for receiving the posts therethrough are prepared and drywall ribs or spacers are cut from drywall sheets. The support frame may be located on the foundation where the structural panel is to be positioned and a first sheet and a second sheet placed onto the posts, the sheets having adhesive and drywall spacers positioned perpendicularly therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Inventor: Robert L Timbrook
  • Patent number: 6253530
    Abstract: A structural honeycomb panel building system including fabrication methods and equipment provides integrated, modular structural components such as floors, walls, ceilings, trusses and roof members that can replace materials conventionally used in frame buildings. The panels are substantially impervious to moisture and other environmental hazards and may be inexpensively fabricated and assembled at the building site. The structural panels are fabricated, oriented depending upon the load bearing characteristics of each individual panel, interfitted and assembled to provide an assembly of structural panels with predetermined load bearing properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Inventors: Tracy Price, Robert L. Timbrook
  • Patent number: 5493839
    Abstract: A structural building panel and building system for constructing preformed or modular housing and other structures comprising a sandwich construction of an outer skin including a pair of parallel spaced opposed panels with an attached inner core comprising a third panel in combination with a plurality of fourth panels secured and arranged in spaced side by side relation transversely on either side of the third panel. A tongue like projection co-extensive with one side edge of the third panel defines a male end and a grooved section co-extensive with the opposite side edge of the third panel defines a female end. The male and female ends are adapted to interlock with respective female and male ends, which are bonded together, on adjacent like panels that are formed in a modular fashion to erect a wall, floor or roof component of the structure. Elongated channels are provided along the top and bottom portions of each individual panel to accommodate interlocking support members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Inventors: Hilary H. Sax, Robert L. Timbrook
  • Patent number: 4374315
    Abstract: A golf club shaft of such structure that the stiffness thereof is controlled by rotatably adjusting the shaft relative to the striking surface of the club head asociated with the shaft. The shaft is also of such structure that the torque developed on the club head upon impact with a golf ball is distributed over the entire length of the shaft, and the club head as a result thereof having a minimum tendency to rotate relative to the arcuate path through which it travels. Due to the two above-mentioned operational advantages a club embodying the shaft permits the user to impart maximum kinetic energy to the ball impacted thereby and the ball having a minimum tendency to deviate laterally in flight from an extension of the arcuate path through which the golf club head moves. The invention also includes a method of making the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1983
    Inventor: Robert L. Timbrook