Patents by Inventor Virgil Allen Watson

Virgil Allen Watson 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: 8636934
    Abstract: Signage is presented comprising an in-mold plastic plate portion having a slot. The signage has a flexible tongue having a neck portion that extends outwardly from the plate portion and has a locking tip extending from the neck portion and the locking tip is formed to be received by the slot. The plastic plate portion is made of a filler material and a detectable additive such that the signage is easily detected by a metal detecting machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Lomont Molding, Inc.
    Inventors: Virgil Allen Watson, Jason Bender, Carl Frank
  • Publication number: 20130047407
    Abstract: Signage is presented comprising an in-mold plastic plate portion having a slot. The signage has a flexible tongue having a neck portion that extends outwardly from the plate portion and has a locking tip extending from the neck portion and the locking tip is formed to be received by the slot. The plastic plate portion is made of a filler material and a detectable additive such that the signage is easily detected by a metal detecting machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Virgil Allen Watson, Jason Bender, Carl Frank
  • Patent number: 8257816
    Abstract: A sign (20) for viewing by persons in a traffic area accessible by the random passage of persons through the area, the sign (20) including a label (22) formed of a thin layer of plastic material upon which the subject matter of the desired sign is printed. A planar substrate (24) of molded material is fused to the label (22). The planar substrate (24) includes a mounting feature (26) adapted to secure the sign (20) to a second object. During manufacture, an injection device (46) and ejector system (50) are associated with a first sign mold portion, a label is placed in a second sign mold portion, the first and second sign mold portions are closed together during injection, and the previously formed sign is removed from the first sign mold portion via the ejector system (50) prior to closing the mold portions together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Lomont Molding, Inc.
    Inventors: Virgil Allen Watson, Jason Bender
  • Publication number: 20120192471
    Abstract: Signage is presented comprising an in-mold plastic plate portion having a slot. The signage has a flexible tongue having a neck portion that extends outwardly from the plate portion and has a locking tip extending from the neck portion and the locking tip is formed to be received by the slot. The plastic plate portion is made of a filler material and a detectable additive such that the signage is easily detected by a metal detecting machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Virgil Allen WATSON, Jason BENDER, Carl FRANK
  • Publication number: 20110258896
    Abstract: Signage is presented comprising an in-mold plastic plate portion having a slot. The signage has a flexible tongue having a neck portion that extends outwardly from the plate portion and has a locking tip extending from the neck portion and the locking tip is formed to be received by the slot. The plastic plate portion is made of a filler material and a detectable additive such that the signage is easily detected by a metal detecting machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: LOMONT MOLDING, INC.
    Inventors: Virgil Allen Watson, Jason Bender, Carl Frank
  • Patent number: 7985364
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an injection molded product. Thermoplastic is injected through a runner system and into a gate member. The gate member is generally V-shaped and thermoplastic is displaced through the gate into a mold cavity at a nearly perpendicular angle to the surface of the indicia carrier to hold the indicia carrier against the mold cavity. This allows the indicia carrier to be fused to the thermoplastic body during the making of a product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Lomont Molding, Inc.
    Inventor: Virgil Allen Watson
  • Patent number: 7216842
    Abstract: A pocket former includes an outer barrel having a first rim, a second rim and a frustoconical body portion extending from the first rim to the second rim. A center barrel is connected to the outer barrel and has a proximal lip adjacent the first rim of the outer barrel, a distal lip adjacent the second rim of the outer barrel, and a tubular body portion extending from the proximal lip to the distal lip, and extends beyond both the first rim and the second rim. An annular flange curves out and away from the second rim of the outer barrel. A spiral surface is located on the frustoconical body portion of the outer barrel. A nut surface is located on the tubular body portion of the center barrel adjacent the distal lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Lomont Molding, Inc.
    Inventor: Virgil Allen Watson
  • Patent number: 6810905
    Abstract: An overflow protection device includes a valve body having an inlet conduit passing vertically therethrough. The inlet conduit includes an outlet end below a valve chamber. A valve within the valve chamber is movable between and open and closed position. A float is pivotally mounted below the valve and the float cams, an actuator upwardly when the float experiences a less than full tank and cams the actuation downwardly to permit the valve to move downwardly when the float rises to a predetermined level as it floats on the liquid within the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Raall Corp.
    Inventors: Virgil Allen Watson, Raymond Simon Hodyniak, Jr.
  • Patent number: RE42304
    Abstract: A tag has an in-mold graphic plate portion with a slot therein. Extending outwardly from the plate portion is an extension or tongue that has a neck and locking tip. The locking tip has an aperture adapted to receive a lock. The neck of the tongue is flexible such that the locking tip is received by and extends through the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Lomont Molding, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Frank, Virgil Allen Watson, Jason Bender