Patents by Inventor S. Tebbs Chichester

S. Tebbs Chichester 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: 4781002
    Abstract: A scar-resistant decorative wall panel has a mirror surface overlaid by a substantially coarse-mesh, common weave wire screen giving a peek-through changing-with-angle view of the mirror surface. Viewed at the perpendicular to it, the mirror surface gives a substantial-area reflection of the viewer that may be as much as 30 to 50% of the mirror surface. At angles from the perpendicular increasingly approaching 45 degrees, the view of the mirror surface progressively diminishes for two reasons: (1) the weave of the mesh blocks progressively more of the view of the mirror surface and (2) the reflection of the back surface of the mesh appears to occupy increasing areas of this mirror surface, decreasing in this way the view of this mirror surface. Both these phenomena act together in a tendency to hide and confuse to a casual viewer defacement of the mirror surface, and the substantially vandal-proof overlying coarse-mesh screen at the same time protects the mirror surface from broad-area-contact type scarring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1988
    Inventor: S. Tebbs Chichester
  • Patent number: 4338755
    Abstract: A fastener assembly including a nut member frictionally temporarily affixed in an opening in a support member, and a bolt having a tightly wound helical spring shank. The nut member is formed with a threaded recess for receiving the spring shank, and compressible leading end segments which expand behind the supporting member when the nut is snapped in place. The nut member can be withdrawn if desired while the bolt shank is in threaded engagement with the nut. When so engaged, the flexible bolt shank can be moved in any direction to facilitate installation and removal of objects supported by a plurality of fastener assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1982
    Inventor: S. Tebbs Chichester, Jr.