Patents by Inventor Vernon D. Dellinger

Vernon D. Dellinger 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: 4591658
    Abstract: An attachment for an electrical outlet box, junction box, or similar receptacle is swiftly, manually engageable in an opening of the outlet box. The attachment is inexpensively formed, preferably of a thermoplastic material, and is of a design lending itself to manufacture by the extrusion process to further reduce the cost of making it. The attachment may be of single or double form, and typically includes a resiliently flexible clamping leg one end of which is integrally formed with a mounting means readily engageable in the mounting opening of the outlet box. The other end is integral with a clamping head, that at least partially overlies a cable entrance, and is formed with serrations that bite into the surface of non-metallic, sheathed cable. When a cable is inserted it deflects the clamping head and leg against the spring tension of the leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Assignee: Challenger Electrical Marterials, Inc.
    Inventors: Claude J. Bauer, Vernon D. Dellinger, Oral F. Leep
  • Patent number: 4419537
    Abstract: Electrical wiring box arrangements include a wiring box, and a cable clamp device which mounts rotatably in a wall of the box adjacent to a knockout region. The cable clamp device provides a cable engaging surface which moves toward the cable as the clamp device is rotated. A non-metallic sheathed cable passing through a knockout opening in one wall of the wiring box is clamped between the edge of the knockout opening and the cable engaging surface of the clamp device mounted in a second wall of the box forming an angle with the wall having the knockout opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1983
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Oral F. Leep, Vernon D. Dellinger, Claude J. Bauer