Adjustable Patents (Class 248/70)
  • Curved bracket adapter
    Patent number: 4032096
    Abstract: This invention provides an adapter for a bracket having a flat support surface with slots in it, the adapter comprising a unitary member having an arcuate surface positioned on the flat surface of the bracket with side flanges complementarily receiving the side edges of the bracket and end flanges having outer portions received in slots of the bracket. The arcuate surface of the adapter is used in supporting the load imposed on the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1977
    Inventors: Frederick Perrault, Raymond E. Perrault
  • Patient controls holder
    Patent number: 4023757
    Abstract: A holder for removable attachment to a hospital bed for releasably holding control devices operated by the patient consisting briefly of an elongated flexible and positionable member attachable at one end to the frame of the bed and having a head at the other end formed with slotted openings for receiving electrical and other types of cords or tubular hoses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1977
    Inventors: Charles D. Allard, Eugene R. Allard
  • Isolation clamp for transmission tube
    Patent number: 4004766
    Abstract: A vibration absorbing transmission tube isolation clamp which effectuates reduction of transmittance upon structures in communication with a tube being held by the clamp of side to side forces generated by thermal expansion of the tube as the tube transmits liquid under pressure. The clamp comprises a bottom piece securable to a support structure and a top piece securable to the bottom piece with the tube positioned between the two pieces which are shaped so that when secured together a tube housing results which totally surrounds the tube for the length of the clamp. The base of the bottom piece is provided with two or more elongated openings whose long axes are at right angles to and lateral to the longitudinal axis of the tube housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1977
    Inventor: William W. Long
  • Hinged support
    Patent number: 3984003
    Abstract: A hinged or pivoted support for an oven heating element having one bracket attached to an oven surface and a second bracket, holding the heating element, pivotally supported by the first bracket. The first bracket includes resilient clips, which cooperate with the second bracket to retain the second bracket and heating element in a tilted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Assignee: Teledyne Still-Man Manufacturing
    Inventor: Robert V. Gilreath
  • Convertible system for providing a connection between a supporting pole and electric cables
    Patent number: 3957238
    Abstract: The connection system comprises a support consisting of a flanged sole-plate which is secured to a pole by means of straps and carries a longitudinal guide rib on which are slidably fitted separate and detachable retaining members in stacked relation respectively for threading and terminating electric cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1976
    Assignee: Manufacture d'Appareillage Electrique de Cahors
    Inventor: Pierre Bourrieres