Patents by Inventor Warwick James Allen
Warwick James Allen 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).
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Patent number: 11585100Abstract: A suspended timber frame deck comprising a timber frame of interconnected timber beams. Tiles are located on top of the beams indirectly at at least two locations by a tile support pad located between the tile and an underlying timber beam. Each pad includes a protrusion located in a hole of the timber beam to register therewith to the timber beam and registered to the tile to help locate the tile to the timber beam and help prevent the tile from sliding over the timber beam.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Inventor: Warwick James Allen
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Publication number: 20210246667Abstract: A suspended timber frame deck comprising a timber frame of interconnected timber beams. Tiles are located on top of the beams indirectly at at least two locations by a tile support pad located between the tile and an underlying timber beam. Each pad includes a protrusion located in a hole of the timber beam to register therewith to the timber beam and registered to the tile to help locate the tile to the timber beam and help prevent the tile from sliding over the timber beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventor: Warwick James ALLEN
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Publication number: 20200300016Abstract: A hinge for an access closure panel there being a first mounting assembly comprising a first leaf and second leaf to secure to a door and a second mounting assembly hingingly connected to the first mounting assembly and to secure to a door frame. A linear damper is provided by the first mounting assembly to contact the second mounting assembly and slow the movement of the door before reaching its closed condition. The damper has an operative axis that is at an acute angle to the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: GLASS VICE HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventor: Warwick James ALLEN
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Patent number: 10030680Abstract: A panel mount for non penetrative fastening of a panel (such as a glass pane) able to be mounted to a structure, and preferably to a vertical or side surface of that structure, which provides a pair of clamp jaws defining an elongate slot in which an edge of a panel can be received and an intermediate clamping member associated with each jaw, each intermediate clamping member having at least one threaded member associated therewith to facilitate adjustment of the position and orientation of the intermediate member within the clamp jaw so as to securely retain the panel within the slot.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: GLASS VICE HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventor: Warwick James Allen
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Publication number: 20180171620Abstract: Disclosed is a connector for connecting first and second timber structural members together. The connector mounts to a face of the first structural member and receives at least a portion of the second structural member. The connector includes a lip portion and an at least one projection. The projection is forced into tacking engagement with the first structural member, causing the connector to be tacked in place. The tacking engagement is effected when the lip is placed into an underlapping association with a bottom surface of the first structural member the connector undergoes at least one of a) a pivoting the connector about the lip at the underlapping association of the lip with the bottom surface and b) a movement of the connector towards the first structural member and parallel with its bottom surface. The tacking engagement holds the connector in its placed orientation relative to the first structural member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventor: Warwick James ALLEN
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Publication number: 20160319535Abstract: This invention is a panel mount for non penetrative fastening of a panel (such as a glass pane). The panel mount has clamp jaws defining an elongate slot in which an edge of a panel can be received. A foot is provided for mounting and fastening the clamp jaws to a structure. At least one of the clamp jaws carries at least one threaded fastener that can be actuated by a user, including when the foot is fastened to the structure. The threaded fastener(s) of the at least one clamp jaw, in cooperation with the other clamping jaw, is capable of operatively clamping the panel to hold it in the slot, irrespective of any non-parallel disposition of the plane of the panel to the elongate direction of the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Applicant: Glass Vice Holdings LimitedInventor: Warwick James ALLEN
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Patent number: 9328863Abstract: This invention is a panel mount for non penetrative fastening of a panel (such as a glass pane). The panel mount has clamp jaws defining an elongate slot in which an edge of a panel can be received. A foot is provided for mounting and fastening the clamp jaws to a structure. At least one of the clamp jaws carries at least one threaded fastener that can be actuated by a user, including when the foot is fastened to the structure. The threaded fastener(s) of the at least one clamp jaw, in cooperation with the other clamping jaw, is capable of operatively clamping the panel to hold it in the slot, irrespective of any non-parallel disposition of the plane of the panel to the elongate direction of the slot.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: GLASS VICE HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventor: Warwick James Allen
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Publication number: 20140334874Abstract: A panel mount for non penetrative fastening of a panel (such as a glass pane) able to be mounted to a structure, and preferably to a vertical or side surface of that structure, which provides a pair of clamp jaws defining an elongate slot in which an edge of a panel can be received and an intermediate clamping member associated with each jaw, each intermediate clamping member having at least one threaded member associated therewith to facilitate adjustment of the position and orientation of the intermediate member within the clamp jaw so as to securely retain the panel within the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2012Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventor: Warwick James Allen
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Publication number: 20140014798Abstract: This invention is a panel mount for non penetrative fastening of a panel (such as a glass pane). The panel mount has clamp jaws defining an elongate slot in which an edge of a panel can be received. A foot is provided for mounting and fastening the clamp jaws to a structure. At least one of the clamp jaws carries at least one threaded fastener that can be actuated by a user, including when the foot is fastened to the structure. The threaded fastener(s) of the at least one clamp jaw, in cooperation with the other clamping jaw, is capable of operatively clamping the panel to hold it in the slot, irrespective of any non-parallel disposition of the plane of the panel to the elongate direction of the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventor: Warwick James Allen
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Patent number: 8500110Abstract: A panel mount for non penetrative fastening of a panel (such as a glass pane). The panel mount has clamp jaws defining an elongate slot in which an edge of a panel can be received. A foot is provided for mounting and fastening the clamp jaws to a structure. At least one of the clamp jaws carries at least one threaded fastener that can be actuated by a user, including when the foot is fastened to the structure. The threaded fastener(s) of the at least one clamp jaw, in cooperation with the other clamping jaw, is capable of operatively clamping the panel to hold it in the slot, irrespective of any non-parallel disposition of the plane of the panel to the elongate direction of the slot.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Glass Vice Holdings LimitedInventor: Warwick James Allen
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Publication number: 20100225040Abstract: This invention is a panel mount for non penetrative fastening of a panel (such as a glass pane). The panel mount has clamp jaws defining an elongate slot in which an edge of a panel can be received. A foot is provided for mounting and fastening the clamp jaws to a structure. At least one of the clamp jaws carries at least one threaded fastener that can be actuated by a user, including when the foot is fastened to the structure. The threaded fastener(s) of the at least one clamp jaw, in cooperation with the other clamping jaw, is capable of operatively clamping the panel to hold it in the slot, irrespective of any non-parallel disposition of the plane of the panel to the elongate direction of the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2008Publication date: September 9, 2010Inventor: Warwick James Allen