Patents by Inventor William S. Collier, Jr.

William S. Collier, Jr. 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: 4947766
    Abstract: A safe deposit box construction including a two-dimensional array of safe deposit boxes, the doors of which are interconnectable with adjoining doors and the shelves of which are removable. The interconnectability of the doors and the removability of the shelves permit the intermediate shelf between adjoining boxes to be removed and the doors thereof interconnected to create a safe deposit box having a size equal to the combined sizes of the adjoining boxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Inventor: William S. Collier, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4483255
    Abstract: A drawer-type night depository is disclosed which has a drawer which slides in and out of a housing embedded in a wall. The drawer has an unusable dead space in the front thereof and a partial floor comprised of spaced stationary fingers. The night depository also includes rotor fingers which are designed to rotate through the drawer as the drawer is closed. The item being deposited is placed on the stationary fingers. Then as the drawer is closed, the symmetric rotor fingers rotate between and through the stationary fingers, picking up the deposited item and flipping the deposited item through an opening in the drawer and housing into a bin below. The rotor fingers are fixedly attached to a shaft which passes through the drawer. The shaft is rotated by a clutch mechanism as the drawer is closed. The clutch mechanism is designed such that the shaft, and thus the rotor fingers, are rotated 180.degree. each time the drawer is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1984
    Assignee: Collier Safe Co., Inc.
    Inventors: William S. Collier, Jr., Lucien Carignan