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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8074418 | Apparatus for connecting panels Disclosed herein are connectors for panels. In one embodiment a panel connector comprises, a connector comprising a rib-hinging geometry, wherein the rib-hinging geometry comprises living hinges, and wherein the rib-hinging geometry is capable of expanding in area. ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7350648 | Modular display system A modular display system comprises a plurality of identical modules. Each module includes a vertical mounting surface, a pair of sidewalls, top surface and a bottom surface lying in planes which extend at right angles to the mounting surface. A pair of top rails lie... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7207147 | Mortarless wall structure A wall structure (10, 110) and method of construction. The wall structure (10, 110) comprises a plurality of preformed, lightweight blocks (12, 112) supported and interconnected by a plurality of elongated, vertically oriented, collateral suppor... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7182989 | Flooring system and method A flooring system for use in a residential environment. The flooring system includes a subfloor adapted to support the mass of a user and modular surface covering elements for disposition in edge to edge covering arrangement across at least a portion of the subfloor... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7155871 | Floor plank The floor plank is a laminate of two layers of flexible plastic sheet material laminated together in offset relationship to define an offset marginal portion for each of the layers. Each of the offset marginal portions have oppositely facing adhesive coated surfaces... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7131242 | Flooring panel or wall panel and use thereof A building panel, such as a flooring panel or wall panel and a method of assembling the same into a floor, wall cladding, etc. The panel is provided with a locking means in the form of groove (6) and tongue (7) forming a tongue/groove joint for assembl... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7125423 | Intercalary prosthesis, kit and method An intercalary prosthesis spans a space in the shaft of a long bone between native proximal and distal ends of the long bone. The intercalary prosthesis has first and second intercalary segments connected to proximal and distal stem components. The stem components a... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7100999 | System of interlocking storage and display modules connectable in a plurality of different configurations Modular storage and/or display system including substantially rectangular modules each including opposed first and second sides, opposed third and fourth sides perpendicular to the first and second sides and coupled thereto. A male connecting member is provided on a... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7093399 | Floor covering The invention concerns hard panels for floor coverings, which are provided, at least on two opposite edges, with coupling devices made in one piece with the panels wherein similar panels may be coupled together to form a floor covering, wherein these coupling device... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7090085 | Trophy sports apparatus holder The trophy item holder is a holder which associates the trophy item with a descriptive card which provides information on the item and its user. Photographs or a certificate of authenticity may also be displayed. Thus the information establishing the item as a troph... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7037339 | Modular spinal fusion device An implant is disclosed for use in stabilization of one or more bones, for example, adjacent vertebrae. The implant includes two or more coupled structural elements. Each structural element includes a first end spaced apart by a side surface from a second end. The s... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7021879 | Anchorage fixed at corner part of wood The anchorage used at a corner part of woods includes a first anchorage including a first anchorage body; nails, punching on a long side plate of the first anchorage body; and nail insertion holes formed at the short side plate of the first anchorage body; and a sec... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7003863 | Apparatus and method for mounting accessory devices to panels An apparatus for mounting accessories to a panel surface includes at least one accessory interface on the panel surface. An elongate engaging section is recessed within and lies generally parallel to a part of the panel surface. An accessory device has a utility par... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6968663 | Floor covering The invention concerns hard panels for floor coverings, which are provided, at least on two opposite edges, with coupling devices made in one piece with the panels wherein similar panels may be coupled together to form a floor covering, wherein these coupling device... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6966161 | Vertically joined floor elements comprising a combination of different floor elements Vertically joined flooring material comprising floor elements (1) with a mainly triangular, square, rectangular, rhomboidal or polygonal shape, as seen from above. The floor elements (1) are provided with edges (2) which are provided with joinin... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6921231 | Segmental retaining wall system The present invention relates to a wall block for use in a segmental retaining wall system. The wall block comprises an interior face for forming an interior surface of a segmental retaining wall, an exterior face for forming an exterior surface of the segmental ret... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6908396 | Method for constructing a race track for remote control toy vehicles and apparatus therefor A race track for remote control toy vehicles includes a plurality of interlocking race track segments of several different configurations. Each race track segment includes a removable side rail. The race track is arranged so that the perimeter of the race track is c... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6865855 | Building component structure, or building components The invention relates to flat and/or elongated building components (1, 2), preferably wooden, and a structure connecting these components (1, 2) in accordance with the groove and tongue principle. Two legs (3, 4) forming a groove (5) bran... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6837016 | Moment-resistant building frame structure componentry and method Column-beam building frame structure, wherein columns and beams are interconnected to distribute and share all lateral loads through collars that encircle columns at the nodal points of attachments between columns and beams. Each collar includes inner and outer comp... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6745532 | Process for the articulated imbrication of concrete slabs ¢i(in situ) The invention relates to the articulated imbrication of concrete slabs i(in situ) wherein joints are formed by laying i(in situ), along joint lines, a simple armored mesh device with a cut and fold pattern which has been already prepared in the workshop. Advantage i... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6701984 | Wood board made of a plurality of wood pieces, method of manufacture and apparatus The process is used for making individual wood boards (52) from a plurality of wood pieces (10). In this process, wood pieces (10) of similar length and are joined side by side so as to form a panel (30). The panel (30) is then cut in a longitudinal direc... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6684591 | Card like construction element A construction element having a card like structure and which can be used to build three dimensional structures, the construction element having upper and lower marginal edges, side marginal edges, first and second upper tabs, first and second lower tabs,... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6588167 | Reversible dual-color floor pad module A floor pad module is formed along its four edges with specially designed first and second dovetails and corresponding dovetail grooves, so that the floor pad module could be reversed without affecting its free connection to another floor pad module via e... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6586085 | Wood overlay section for carriage house door and method of making same A carriage house garage door (20) is formed from first, second, and third wood overlay sections (22, 24, 26). Each of the wood overlay sections (22, 24, and 26) includes first and second layers of sheet metal (46, 48) and an insulating core (50). The firs... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6467229 | Mortarless brick A building block is provided for stacking with other like building blocks to fabricate a wall. The building block has top, bottom, front, rear and end surfaces. The front and rear surfaces are substantially planar. The top surface is ridged and the bottom... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6427414 | Dovetail siding and corner block attachment method A building structure having a plurality of alternating siding boards and corner blocks that simulate a hewn log building with dovetail notches and the method of application are disclosed. The corner blocks and siding boards are preformed to fit snugly tog... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6357194 | Tapered dovetail joint The tapered dovetail joint is a method of joining two boards, or other rigid materials such as particleboard, wafer board, etc., by a unique type of modified dovetail joint. The modification to the classic dovetail joint includes tapering the dovetail pin... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6305135 | Composite building material and method for manufacturing the same Provided is a composite building material which is more improved in the bonding capability of a cement mortar material itself with a foamed synthetic resin plate layer, furthermore prevents the occurrences of exfoliations and cracks and has higher strengt... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6253518 | Mortarless brick A building block is provided for stacking with other like building blocks to fabricate a wall. The building block has top, bottom, front, rear and end surfaces. The front and rear surfaces are substantially planar. The top surface is ridged and the bottom... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6247285 | Flooring panel There is disclosed a flooring panel which comprises a supporting plate made of wood material and provided on at least one face with a covering. The supporting plate is provided at its edges with tongues and grooves which fit into and onto corresponding gr... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6216410 | Interlocking panel system A wall member with a first side having a tongue extending therefrom, a second side having a headed tongue extending therefrom, a third side having a groove defined therein for receiving a tongue of an adjacent panel, and a fourth side having a groove and ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6199339 | Modular construction systems A durable, modular, adaptive containment system, which has a composite composition comprised of wood fibers embedded in a polymeric matrix, the system being suitable for holding soil and plants, and which is comprised of rails, preferably of rectangular c... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6173538 | Modular construction system A structural assembly for building dodecahedral-based structures for habitable or commercial use, or for use as play equipment, models, or toys, is provided. Panels with shapes including hexagonal, rhombic, and trapezoidal are assembled edge-to-edge using... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6134854 | Glider bar for flooring system A flooring system for use with floating floors is described which includes a glider bar having base portions including extending rails in the form of dovetail protrusions. The bases and rails are longitudinally moveable relative to anchoring plates, which... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6052958 | Wall panel system A space-dividing wall panel system having a plurality of upright wall panels serially connected one with the other by an intermediate upright support post. The height of each wall panel is adjusted by modular panel extension assemblies which are mounted o... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5970674 | Apparatus for dimensionally uniform building construction using interlocking connectors Apparatus and method for dimensionally uniform building construction using interlocking connectors. In the preferred embodiment, the apparatus comprises a system of building blocks, each block having a top, a bottom, an interior face, an exterior face, an... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5934039 | Apparatus and method for dimensionally uniform building construction using interlocking connectors Apparatus and method for dimensionally uniform building construction using interlocking connectors. In the preferred embodiment, the apparatus comprises a system of building blocks, each block having a top, a bottom, an interior face, an exterior face, an... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5930972 | Frame piece for a switchgear cabinet A frame structure assembled from frame limbs for a switch gear cabinet, in which the frame limbs are preferably designed in mirror-image like manner in relation to their cross-sectional diagonals and in the interior region of the frame structure comprise ... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930964 | Composite lightweight building element and methods of making and using same A composite lightweight building element comprises a first layer of aggregate based material (7, 8 and 9) extruded, sprayed, molded or cast onto a lightweight base form (1) which becomes an integral part of the element. This element can be manufactured in... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5911660 | Storm window panel A panel for covering building windows comprising a plurality of interlocking tiles interlocked together by a plurality of dovetail joints to form a panel of a desired size. The tiles are constructed of molded plastic. Reinforcing rods, metal or otherwise,... | 06/15/1999 |
