Patents by Inventor William W. McQuiston

William W. McQuiston 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: 4384656
    Abstract: A trash receptacle comprising an elongate can with a horizontal bottom wall and a vertical cylindrical side wall with an upper annular rim defining an open top in the can, a disc-shaped lid with an annular skirt depending therefrom and normally overlying the open top of the can. The lid has a flange radially inward of the skirt defining an annular downwardly opening channel in which said rim is normally engaged. Said upper rim is formed to define a radially outwardly projecting annular shield normally underlying and shielding the lower edge of said skirt, a radially inwardly disposed annular stop surface spaced radially outward from said flange and a downwardly disposed annular stop shoulder above said stop surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1983
    Inventors: William W. McQuiston, Gene Davis
  • Patent number: 4214669
    Abstract: An elongate, box-like collapsible cargo container including horizontal, vertically spaced top and bottom walls, normally vertical end walls and normally vertical sectional side walls; said end walls have frames about their perimeter, hinge means between the bottom edges of the end walls and ends of the bottom wall whereby the end walls can be selectively pivoted longitudinally inwardly and downwardly to collapsed horizontal positions atop the bottom walls; said sectional side walls include longitudinally extending upper and lower panels, hinge means between the upper and lower panels between the bottom wall and the lower panels and between the top wall and the upper panels, whereby said panels can be pivoted laterally inwardly to horizontal collapsed positions between the top wall and the end walls when said end walls are in their collapsed position; the frames of the end walls define axially inwardly opening channels along the top and side edges of the end walls and the top and side walls have axially outwar
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1980
    Inventor: William W. McQuiston