Jeremy Phelps Leon

US Patent:

60007362, Dec 14, 1999

Filed:

Apr 30, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/070055

Inventors:

Jeremy Phelps Leon - Morris Plains NJ
Peter Farbaniec - Colonia NJ
Robert J. Finamore - Little Falls NJ
Richard Dreisbach - North Arlington NJ
Louis J. Mattos - West Carteret NJ
George Albert Lundberg - Pompton Plains NJ
Richard Gnoinski - North Arlington NJ

Assignee:

E.J. Brooks Company - Livingston NJ

International Classification:

B65D 2730

US Classification:

292326

Abstract:

A thermoplastic housing has a chamber open at one end and a thermoplastic rotor is locked axially in the chamber by snap fit ridges and grooves. Two pairs of bores on opposite sides; of the chamber are aligned, with one pair connected by a transverse slot. The rotor has two bores aligned with the housing bores and includes flexible pawl teeth which engage ratchet teeth in the chamber. The teeth rotationally lock the rotor relative to the housing in one direction while a seal filament inserted in the bores is wrapped about the rotor as the rotor is rotated in the other direction. The slot permits the filament to be fixed to the rotor when the rotor is rotated 180. degree. causing the filament to traverse the slot and permit the remaining adjacent bores in the same plane as the fixed filament to be aligned and free to receive the filament free end. The rotor is rotated relative to the housing manually by finger gripped flanges attached to the rotor and to the housing with the filament inserted to wrap and lock the filament to the rotor. The rotor and housing define a channel for receiving multiple turns of filament to enhance the locking action.

US Patent:

60973064, Aug 1, 2000

Filed:

Dec 2, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/982434

Inventors:

Jeremy Phelps Leon - Morris Plains NJ
Lynn Frederick Amis - Omaha NE
Jan Nazalewicz - Mahwah NJ
Thomas Glenn McKee - Passaic NJ

Assignee:

E.J. Brooks Company - Livingston NJ
Stevens Institute of Technology - Hoboken NJ

International Classification:

G06F 704

US Classification:

34082531

Abstract:

Locks for the transportation industry are programmable with a keypad and with handheld activators, the activators being programmable by a central system and activators via IR transmitters and receivers. Operator PIN numbers and access codes manifesting the supervisory level of authority are encoded in each lock which are programmed to open a given number of times in a given time period with or without entry of a code and include a lockout feature for disabling the lock in case of invalid code entry. Each lock has a log history containing the number of complete and incomplete opening transactions, when they occurred and the operator codes associated therewith. The locks are opened by IR transmission of the appropriate codes or by keypad entries. One or more individuals at different levels of authority may open one or more locks in a given time frame a given number of times. Each lock records its transaction history which is displayed and downloaded for system evaluation.

US Patent:

63170256, Nov 13, 2001

Filed:

Jun 9, 2000

Appl. No.:

9/590989

Inventors:

Jeremy Phelps Leon - Morris Plains NJ
Lynn Frederick Amis - Omaha NE
Jan Nazalewicz - Mahwah NJ
Thomas Glenn McKee - Passaic NJ

Assignee:

E. J. Brooks Company - Livingston NJ

International Classification:

H04Q 1700

US Classification:

340 521

Abstract:

Locks for the transportation industry are programmable with a keypad and with handheld activators, the activators being programmable by a central system and activators via IR transmitters and receivers. Operator PIN numbers and access codes manifesting the supervisory level of authority are encoded in each lock which are programmed to open a given number of times in a given time period with or without entry of a code and include a lockout feature for disabling the lock in case of invalid code entry. Each lock has a log history containing the number of complete and incomplete opening transactions, when they occurred and the operator codes associated therewith. The locks are opened by IR transmission of the appropriate codes or by keypad entries. One or more individuals at different levels of authority may open one or more locks in a given time frame a given number of times. Each lock records its transaction history which is displayed and downloaded for system evaluation.