Patents by Inventor Vincent A. Shivak

Vincent A. Shivak 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: 7568311
    Abstract: A sliding glass door has a pair of rollers mounted adjacent the upper corners, which rollers are cantilevered rearwardly and cooperate with a horizontally elongate L-shaped support track which spans horizontally across the door opening and across an adjacent upright wall panel to enable the door to move into an opened position wherein it overlies the adjacent wall panel. The height of the roller-track arrangement and of the structure defining such arrangement, as it extends across the upper edge of the door opening and the adjacent wall panel, is minimized to provide improved aesthetics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent A. Shivak, Rupert Jakob-Bamberg, Robert E. Steeves
  • Patent number: 7543412
    Abstract: A pair of upright wall panels are each provided with a sidewardly spaced pair of generally parallel but inclined guide grooves extending vertically along the outer face of the upright frame edge rails. A connector assembly including a main activator rod having a pair of wedge members threaded thereon in spaced relationship therealong is positioned between the opposed upright edge rails. The wedge members have wedgelike edge flanges which protrude into the grooves of the opposed upright edge rails. Rotation of the activating rod causes the wedge members to simultaneously move relative to the rod in opposite directions to effect gripping engagement with the groove walls to simultaneously effect a drawing together of the edge rails and alignment thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Haworth, Ltd.
    Inventors: Darren R. Long, Nathan S. Shedd, Rupert Jakob-Bamberg, Kevin T. Domagala, Aaron D. Mullin, Vincent A. Shivak, Dale Marshall
  • Publication number: 20070283640
    Abstract: A sliding glass door has a pair of rollers mounted adjacent the upper corners, which rollers are cantilevered rearwardly and cooperate with a horizontally elongate L-shaped support track which spans horizontally across the door opening and across an adjacent upright wall panel to enable the door to move into an opened position wherein it overlies the adjacent wall panel. The height of the roller-track arrangement and of the structure defining such arrangement, as it extends across the upper edge of the door opening and the adjacent wall panel, is minimized to provide improved aesthetics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Vincent A. Shivak, Rupert Jakob-Bamberg, Robert E. Steeves