Patents by Inventor Thomas J. Diedrich

Thomas J. Diedrich 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: 7429084
    Abstract: A releasable securing assembly for attaching first and second sections of a chair to one another is disclosed. The first chair section includes a receiver having a capture portion spaced from a collar portion. The collar and capture portions include a passage and a bore, respectively, that are aligned with each other. A locking member having a locking passage, can be positioned between the capture and collar portions of the receiver so that the passage, the locking passage, and the bore are aligned. A second chair section includes at least one outwardly extending shaft having a cross pin disposed on an end thereof. The shaft and cross pin are inserted through the collar portion and cooperate with the locking member so that the locking member may be rotated to engage a locking surface of the locking member with the cross pin, selectively locking the first and second chair sections together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Kruger International, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas J. Diedrich
  • Patent number: 5537899
    Abstract: A ratcheting assembly around which is coaxially coupled a ratchet head of the type having internal teeth, the latter imparting rotational movement to the ratcheting assembly. The ratchet assembly includes a drive body having recessed grooves for receiving pivotably mounted first and second elongated pawls. Each pawl includes teeth on opposite ends thereof for engagement with the teeth on the ratchet head. A reversing knob assembly is coupled to the drive body and includes a reversing knob and pins for pivotally rotating said pawls between first and second conditions. Pawl positioning pins coupled to the drive body operate to maintain the pawls with their longitudinal axes substantially parallel to each other so as to prevent them from jamming relative to the teeth on the ratchet head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Snap-On Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas J. Diedrich
  • Patent number: 5383771
    Abstract: A rotary air motor has a liner disposed within a tool housing and having a cylindrical bore therethrough. A rotor having radially slidable vanes is eccentrically rotatably mounted in the bore by bearings in the plates of the liner, the vanes cooperating with the rotor and the liner to define a plurality of rotating variable volume fluid compartments. A fluid inlet port in one end plate communicates sequentially with the fluid compartments. First and second exhaust ports respectively formed in the end plates also communicate sequentially with the fluid compartments, but the two exhaust ports are angularly offset from each other so that the fluid compartments communicate first with the exhaust port remote from the entry end plate and then with the exhaust port at the entry end plate. The exhaust passage from the remote exhaust port passes along the outside of the liner back to the entry end plate, thereby ensuring cooling of both ends of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: Anil P. Ghode, Thomas J. Diedrich, Raymond D. De Rome
  • Patent number: D347372
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Snap-on Tools Corporation
    Inventors: Anil P. Ghode, Thomas J. Diedrich, Steven R. Wente, Christopher W. Chudek