Patents by Inventor Thomas B. Lyons

Thomas B. Lyons 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: 5881436
    Abstract: Chorded lines such as ropes, electrical cords, etc. may be maintained in an orderly, untangled, coiled line bundle arrangement by a unique portable harnessing device. The harnessing device includes a flexible strap (such as a leather, woven fabric, etc.) fitted with an adjustable buckling assembly which may be looped about and adjustably sized so as to tautly harness a variety of different coiled line bundle sizes. Unbuckling the buckling assembly unharnesses the coiled line bundle so as to permit its removal from the harnessing strap. The device is equipped with an auxiliary harness which permits separate harnessing of a segmented portion of the line from the main coiled line bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Inventor: Thomas B. Lyons
  • Patent number: 5083928
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electrical terminal pins for use in interconnecting electrical leads, plated through holes in printed circuit boards and/or connector contacts and, in particular, to electrical terminal pin tips on insertion ends of the pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Paul W. Aikens, Thomas B. Lyons
  • Patent number: 4187994
    Abstract: In a yarn windup a reciprocating traverse guide is provided with two slots for handling two individual yarns. The shape of the guide and the location of the slots in combination with an elongated guide member located adjacent the traverse guide facilitate string up of individual yarn lines into their respective slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1980
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Thomas B. Lyons