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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7357440 | Camper A camper having passive solar climate controls. The camper has a solar structure carried by a base. The solar structure includes a cover, a window panel, a ridge vent, a plurality of awnings, and a plurality of side panels. The ridge vent and the awnings are carried... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7347164 | Foldable/collapsible structures The present invention relates to a collapsible/foldable structure suitable for a variety of applications, such as an animal shelter, pet carrier transportation device, or a collapsible consumer storage container in general, such as a cooler or ice chest. The structu... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7284762 | Multipurpose sled A multipurpose sled which comprises an upwards open container(1), which includes a bottom (15), a rear wall (16a, 16b, 16c), side walls (17) and a front wall (18), runners (2) which extend ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7226033 | Transportable forms for concrete buildings and components and methods of manufacture and use of same A method for manufacture and assembly of a concrete structure includes manufacturing, at a first location, wall sections and floor/ceiling sections. The wall sections include interior form walls of adjustable separation, and may include interior and exterior finish ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7201675 | Game system and method with angled wall units An equipment for playing a game using a racquet and ball is provided having a substantially horizontal playing surface with first and second ends. A plurality of playing walls, disposed at the first end of the horizontal playing surface, extends perpendicularly away... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201431 | Camper A camper having passive solar climate controls. The camper has a solar structure carried by a base. The solar structure includes a cover, a window panel, a ridge vent, a plurality of awnings, and a plurality of side panels. The ridge vent and the awnings are carried... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7100332 | Unfolding modular building system The unfolding modular building system includes a main floor section having a plurality of square frames having inverted pyramidal support assemblies depending therefrom, hinged corner sections defining wall frames, hinged roof support and truss sections defining gab... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7100333 | Loop assemblies having a central link Improved reversibly expandable structures are formed from novel loop assemblies comprising a plurality of links, each of said links having at least one center pivot joint and a plurality of end pivot joints, each of at least two of said plurality of end pivot joints... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7036277 | Modular building element A versatile modular building element, made from the agglutination of three pairs of symmetrical prisms in three overlapping tiers, provides an arched component that can be congruently meshed with a similar one in several different ways. The prism may have rectangula... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7025019 | Foldable/collapsible structures The present invention relates to a collapsible/foldable structure suitable for a variety of applications, such as an animal shelter, pet carrier transportation device, or a collapsible consumer storage container in general, such as a cooler or ice chest. The structu... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7021014 | Manufactured building system and method of manufacture and method of transport A manufactured building system has a pair of pre-stressed multi-stemmed concrete floors. The pre-stressed multi-stemmed concrete floors are adapted to contact each other on one parallel side edge to form peripheral edges and a central joining edge. A part of a build... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6996939 | Mobile room partition system with central connecting panel and lateral storage units A room partition system for a room having a central connecting panel and hingeably attached, foldable lateral storage units. Each of the lateral storage units has a bottom-mounted wheel assembly, thereby allowing the partition system to be rolled to various location... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6968652 | Flooring device for positioning on joists A flooring device is disclosed for positioning on joists for allowing easy maneuvering on floor joists in an attic. The flooring device includes a plurality of substantially rigid panels arranged adjacent to each other in a series. The invention also includes a conn... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6948280 | Assembleable and towable/trailerable ice fishing shanty/hunting blind A portable and assembleable enclosure having a floor constructed of a first rigid panel and a second hingedly interconnecting panel, a recessed channel extending about an outer perimeter of the floor panels. A plurality of walls are each constructed of a rigid mater... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6895722 | Folding structural panel unit Lightweight structural panel units for construction of space enclosing structures each of which is formed from a blank of flat, suitably rigid, yet foldable sheet of material, which are profiled and pre-creased with a unique configuration. Upon folding, the blanks f... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6553725 | Lightweight, portable and collapsible hunter's blind and methods of making the same A blind for use by hunters, bird watchers, field observers and the like has at least three upstanding walls, a top cover and a bottom pan where at least one of the walls has an opening for ingress and egress and at least one of the walls has an openable a... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6434895 | Foldable trailerable building A folded building, after having been trailered on its own wheel assemblies to a site, is unfolded at the site by first reorienting 90° the wheel assemblies attached to each of a pair of side walls and removing an attached trailer hitch. The side walls ar... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6422626 | Interior expandable wardrobe for truck cabs An expandable wardrobe for location along an interior wall of a truck cab passengers pace is provided by incorporating into the cab an anchor wall having two vertical edges, the anchor wall being positionally fixed against the vehicle interior wall and pr... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6401411 | Post base A post base has an upwardly-tapering portion. The base is designed to be at least partially buried in the ground.... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6368311 | Hanger/hanger system for a device such as a device for draining a body cavity Featured is a device for draining fluids and/or gas from body cavities, including at least a pressure control chamber and a collection chamber being fluidly coupled by a one-way valve thereby establishing a waterless seal between the collection chamber, i... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6202364 | Prefabricated self-supporting building structure A prefabricated self-supporting building structure and method of construction is described. The building structure comprises a plurality of substantially triangular shaped panels which are interconnected to one another by a hinge connector and along certa... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6178701 | Portable room In order to provide a portable room suited for human use, the room is provided with a plurality of walls including three solid wall panels and a fourth wall panel defining a door opening for receiving a door therein. The room also includes a door hingedly... | 01/30/2001 |
| 5983576 | Extendable room An extendable room comprises accordion type ceiling and wall panels which fold within panel covers when the room is retracted, thereby taking up much less interior space and leaving the interior of the primary structure just as attractive, albeit smaller,... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5927025 | Mechanical retractable railway dock shelter The present dock shelter assembly provides, at a given warehouse or building dock, a protective unit that presents a weather-tight seal when extended from the dock against the open sliding door or side of an adjacent rail car. It is desirable that such a ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5916096 | Advanced surgical suite for trauma casualties A portable care facility includes at least one container defining a generally box-shaped configuration in a closed condition. The container is sized for transport and shipping and is constructed and arranged to be openable and expandable from the box-shap... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5802778 | Workstation with flexible canopy A self-contained workstation defined by a multi-panel divider wall which defines a workstation area and is closeable by a door assembly hingedly connected thereto. The workstation is readily movable and accessible so as to facilitate repositioning of the ... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5661930 | House floor system and shipping container therefor Plural flat sections hingedly coupled together from the floor of a building structure such as a house when arranged in an unfolded, flat configuration and form a generally closed container when arranged in a folded configuration. With the floor sections i... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5596843 | Rigid structural members and structures for buildings and retaining means for securing sheets thereto A rigid structural member for a building in which the member has four sides each provided with a groove having narrow opening. Two of the grooves on two opposite sides be used to assemble structural members together to provide completed building assemblie... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5540013 | Stellate hinged polygons forming a family of complex polyhedrons having discrete interiors and exteriors A structure formed from a new family of polyhedral models and rigid structures. The structure having discrete interior and exterior elements, and is formed from a plurality of stellate-hinged polygonal modules. Each stellate hinged-polygonal module has at... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5511345 | Unitary molded plastic structural member, lid form and lawn crypt constructed from same A lawn crypt is fabricated from molded unitary plastic structural members. The structural members are attached to one another so as to inhibit lateral movement therebetween by pins inserted through interengaging protuberances extending outward from the si... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5313747 | Collapsible and extensible playhouse A playhouse structure arranged to include a front and rear wall in a parallel orientation relative to one another, having first and second end walls. The first and second end walls are hingedly mounted intermediate their width and are hingedly mounted at ... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5301478 | Child's playhouse A child's playhouse includes interfolded panels arranged for ease of assembly relative to one another, including hinged interconnection, wherein the top wall includes a pop-up plate having an accordion pleated member extending between the pop-up plate and... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5252641 | Process for production of bituminous compositions containing polymeric residues The invention relates to a process for the production of bituminous compositions containing residues of polymers and in particular sterile car waste resulting mainly from the crushing and cutting into small pieces of car bodies. The process involves five ... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5245801 | Grill cover housing A cover housing arranged to receive a barbecue grill assembly therewithin providing for a work surface at a top portion of the housing. The housing is arranged to optionally include doors as well as wind deflector wings mounted to the upper perimeter edge... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5185977 | Storage terminal shelter, including side curtain assembly for truck/trailer hinge gap closure A loading dock shelter with hinge gap closure wherein reinforced side curtains seal corner/hinge areas, as a truck/trailer is backed into a loading dock, to thereby form a protective weather seal. Hinge gap closures having side curtains for right and left... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5132156 | Void filler A void filler (14, 16) especially suited for filling large volumes is made from first and second panels (18, 20), each panel having a core (26) sandwiched between face sheets (22, 24). The core is typically a corrugated honeycomb core so that the panel is... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5078442 | Portable performance platform A portable performance platform for the performing arts is disclosed that, in the stowed configuration, can be transported along roads and highways, and, in its unfolded configuration, presents an extended performing area having an overhead canopy. The pl... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4986330 | Privacy booth A collapsible privacy booth, for example a polling booth, includes a plurality of partition members mounted together for pivotable movement from a storage position in a which the partition members are in superimposed side-by-side relationship to an in-use... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4964249 | Foldable playhouse with container-forming roof A foldable children's playhouse having a box beam integral with one or two roof panels is disclosed. The box beam has a U-shaped cross section, with the integral panels being foldable along a line extending longitudinally at the open end of the box beam. ... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4937987 | Temporary building structure Economical temporary building structures formed from a skeleton of thirteen squares, each divided along its diagonal to form a basic structure of twenty-siz triangles. When the triangles are panels, twenty-four are assembled into four trapezoidal modules ... | 07/03/1990 |
