Patents by Inventor Thomas G. Tallon

Thomas G. Tallon 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: 4998766
    Abstract: An improved fastening arrangement provides for easy and quick attachment of a convertible top boot to a vehicle body. A plurality of plastic J-section fastener strips each have a forwardly extending planar pad portion, an intermediate arcuate resilient web portion, and a rearwardly extending hook-shaped portion. The pad portion is adapted for flush mounting to the underside of a boot backing panel by a plurality of rivets. The hook-shaped portion free edge is formed with an enlarged locking bead coextensive therewith. A retainer member, mounted on the body upper deck aft of the storage well, provides a transversely extending upwardly opening lead-in gap and subjacent enlarged furrow. The bead is adapted for releasable engagement in a self-seeking manner in undercut fittable retainer groove of the furrow upon snap-action passage through the lead-in gap that is hidden from view by the overlying boot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Richard F. Biermacher, Thomas G. Tallon, Dwayne A. Black, Billy J. Barton
  • Patent number: 4188655
    Abstract: A headlamp and integral mounting assembly having three peripherally spaced integrally formed mounting means, which cooperate with headlamp support means to provide three suspension points from which the lamp is pivotally mounted for independent adjustment from two of the points for limited pivotal rotative movement about a pair of coplanar, orthogonally related and intersecting axes, one of which axes is contained in an axial plane passing through the geometric center of the lamp unit and the other of which axes is displaced from the geometric center and located outwardly of the lamp unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1980
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas G. Tallon, Gerald A. Harris