Patents by Inventor Roderick J. Frederick

Roderick J. Frederick 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: 4373611
    Abstract: In grocery stores, other markets, and warehouses a customer's loaded shopping cart is directed by the customer into an inter-related sloping position with a conveyor. Upon demand, the checker runs the conveyor to move portions of the load to the just opened front of the shopping cart. The checker then easily reaches the respective items being purchased, moving them across a scanner and into bags, or beyond for bagging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1983
    Inventor: Roderick J. Frederick
  • Patent number: 4180158
    Abstract: A product conveying assembly for installation, for example, in a market check out stand receives products selected for purchase and brought by a customer in a buggy or cart and orderly end delivers them to a checker in the immediate location of a product code scanner, a key-in cost entry register, a scale, and/or bagging location. The customer places the products being purchased on a circular rotation product receiving and delivering belt, which has its central portions rotatably supported for rotation about a vertical support, rotatably mountable on a market check out stand. Over half but not all of this circular rotation product receiving and delivering belt is slidably guided on a support mountable on a check out stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1979
    Inventor: Roderick J. Frederick
  • Patent number: D258783
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1981
    Inventor: Roderick J. Frederick
  • Patent number: D264285
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1982
    Inventor: Roderick J. Frederick