Patents by Inventor Roy W. Wicker, Jr.

Roy W. Wicker, Jr. 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: 4490864
    Abstract: A sturdily constructed shelter bed anchored to a floor provides shelter for persons during tornados or hurricanes in a shelter space protected by steel plates below a mattress and springs. The mattress and springs rest on a horizontal steel plate deck supported above the floor by vertical steel plate skirts welded to the deck. The skirts, the deck and a vertical steel plate door, in combination with the floor, enclose the shelter space. The door horizontally opens to uncover an access opening to the shelter space between the deck and the floor along the bed side. The bed is secured to the floor at anchor plates welded to the skirts. For concrete floors, the anchor plates are bolted to expanding concrete anchors fixed in the concrete. For wood floors, the anchor plates are bolted to anchor beams extending beneath the floor joists. With wood floors, a steel floor plate is fixed to the bed to protect occupants if the wood floor should fail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Inventor: Roy W. Wicker, Jr.