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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322770 | Joint arrangement for demountable structure A joint arrangement between adjacent edges of structural elements each including a face surface and a rear surface with a profiled edge extending between the face and rear surfaces. The profiled edge forms a shoulder spaced from both the face and rear surfaces. The ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7004667 | Connection of streamlined-section struts A connection (10) of two streamlined-section struts (12, 14) running orthogonally to one another with an essentially rectangular base cross section (18) uses a connector (16). The lateral surface (18a) of one (14) of ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6948397 | Replacement oil pump gear for motorcycle engine and method of replacing oil pump gear When a plastic oil pump gear in a motorcycle engine needs to be replaced, first, the gear is removed from its shaft. A keeper is inserted into the slots in the shaft that originally held the plastic gear. A steel gear is screwed onto the keeper so as to be mounted o... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6540226 | Apparatus for a document processing system An upstream module has a document transport path portion, and a downstream module has a document transport path portion. The modules are aligned such that a waterfall effect is created from the document path portion of the upstream module to the document ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6514005 | Apparatus for installing a material which is processed by using chemicals A member coupling device is provided for use with a treatment apparatus which uses chemicals. The member coupling device is formed with a tapered hole including a tapered hole portion which diverges toward an opening. A tapered implant is inserted into th... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6167579 | Furniture system A furniture system includes a bed section and a work and storage section, each of which includes spaced end frame assemblies defined by corner posts and cross-members. The corner posts of each section can be stacked using a connector member to provide a l... | 01/02/2001 |
| 5625987 | Framed structure with load-bearing joints A method of making and erecting a framed structure, preferably single level, by milling standard pieces of lumber that are joined into a sturdy, rectangular frame is disclosed. Opposed Side Beams having dado cuts at their opposite ends are joined to oppos... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5304011 | Wedgelock laminated joint A wedgelock laminated joint is an integral building connection allowing the rapid, accurate, secure jointing of a structural joist with a vertical post. A lock notch is mated by sliding a joist beam tongue through a central receptacle within a post beam u... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5251420 | Webbed structural tube Construction utilizing composite pultrusion technology incorporates an internal web structure in the elongated members themselves, increasing the strength-to-weight ratio, while providing support for joint notches due to the strategic positioning of the w... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5175903 | Drive connection for the arm of a windscreen wiper A drive connection for the arm (2) of a windscreen wiper comprises a metallic wiper arm (2), a spindle (5) by which it is driven and means (7) for electrically insulating the wiper arm (2) from the spindle (5), thus electrically isolating the arm (2) and ... | 01/05/1993 |
| 4549665 | Shelf assembly A shelf assembly (10) including apparatus (20, 22) for interlocking upright and transverse members (12, 14, 80, 90) without the need for separate fasteners or supplemental cross-bracing to achieve structural rigidity. The interlocking apparatus includes c... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4496260 | Device for the connection of two struts by inserting a support between and vertically to them This is a device for connecting the front ends of two horizontal struts at a post by inserting plates with teeth into slits in the ends of the struts and a plate with pockets into a slit that goes through the post. Such device is useful, for example, for ... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4375804 | Multiple position leg assembly for a heat exchange unit A multiple position leg assembly for a heat exchange unit is disclosed. A support surface has a pair of slots which coact with a leg such that the leg has a shipping position wherein it does not extend beyond the bottom of the unit and has a support posit... | 03/08/1983 |
| 4367969 | Bushing for attaching fiberglass tool handles A bushing for connecting a tool head with a tapered eye to a fiberglass tool handle. The bushing, formed in two sections, is mounted around and over a tongue on the distal end of the handle and is configured externally to be wedged by driving the bushing ... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4197029 | Connector system for furniture and structures A connector system including a socket with a retaining flange to hold the socket in an opening in one of the parts to be joined. A plug with a longitudinal slot is wedged in an opening of the other part to be joined. A head on the plug coacts with a bayon... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4135837 | Shelving assembly Shelving assembly includes vertically disposed corner posts interconnected at their bottom ends by base panels secured to the posts by disjointable connecting means and interconnected at their top ends by header panels disjointably secured to the posts to... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4117784 | Disassemblable table A disassemblable table comprising at least a vertical column carrying the table-top and connected thereto in any detachable manner and provided at its lower end with a number of foot members extending radially outwardly from the base of said column, chara... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4072434 | Hydraulic cylinder with concentrically maintained piston and rod A piston rod has a shoulder longitudinally spaced from one end thereof so as to form a stem of reduced cross section for engagement into a piston within a hydraulic cylinder. The stem includes a threaded shank extending from its free end to a male cylindr... | 02/07/1978 |
| 4064671 | Stabilizer strut for suspended ceiling system A stabilizer strut extending transversely between grid members in a supporting grid system and the like. The strut includes a pair of leg portions disposed at right angles to one another with each end of the strut including a pair of aligned slot portions... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4027453 | Joint construction for connecting together two frame members A joint construction for connecting together two members, one of the members having opposed side limbs connected by a base defining a trough-like shape, the base having formed therein a re-entrant trough-shaped recess extending longitudinally of the membe... | 06/07/1977 |
