Nicholas A French

US Patent:

6560941, May 13, 2003

Filed:

Nov 27, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/723177

Inventors:

Nicholas A. French - Douglas MI

Assignee:

Pinckney Molded Plastics, Inc. - Howell MI

International Classification:

E06B 708

US Classification:

52473, 5274519

Abstract:

A multi-component shutter assembly for the production of decorative shutters having a nearly infinite variety of different combinations of louvered sections and raised panel sections with a greatly reduced tooling cost. The shutter system includes a base shutter having a perimeter frame and transverse louvers along its length, and a set of elements which are attachable to the base shutter. The elements are manufactured in a wide variety of different sizes, styles, and colors, and any one or more of the elements can be attached to the base shutter at any desired location along its length to produce a shutter assembly of the desired appearance. The elements can be fastened to the front of the base shutter to cover the louvers at that location, or some or all of the louvers of the base shutter can be cut away and removed to form an aperture and the element fastened to the base shutter to cover the aperture.

US Patent:

D589629, Mar 31, 2009

Filed:

Oct 22, 2007

Appl. No.:

29/292660

Inventors:

Nicholas A. French - Douglas MI, US

International Classification:

2502

US Classification:

D25 41

US Patent:

20030141300, Jul 31, 2003

Filed:

Mar 8, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/094497

Inventors:

Nicholas A. French - Douglas MI, US

International Classification:

A47G019/00
B65D021/02

US Classification:

220/023400

Abstract:

A crate locking device for holding plastic storage crates together making a solid storage unit. The crate locking device has a dove-tail configured protuberances along its outer periphery. The dove-tail protuberances are evenly spaced along the four sides such that opposing sides are reversed mirror images of each other. Two adjacent dove-tail protuberances are spaced from each other to receive a dove-tail protuberance from an adjacent crate locking device. The dove-tail configuration prevents lateral movement of adjacent crate locking devices relative to each other.

US Patent:

61907820, Feb 20, 2001

Filed:

Jul 17, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/356136

Inventors:

Nicholas A. French - Douglas MI

International Classification:

A47G 3500

US Classification:

4285422

Abstract:

An applique used to conceal design limitations in panel doors as used on furniture and kitchen cabinets. The applique comprises of a body which permits its alignment with structural features found on panel doors in the area in and around the inside corner section of the door's panel section. With the application of the said appliques, the resultant is a workpiece comprising of a decorative element that enhances the overall character of the workpiece and also disguises either the joints between components which make-up a conventional door or the curved inside corners found on simulated raised panel doors.

US Patent:

55120989, Apr 30, 1996

Filed:

Aug 2, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/284806

Inventors:

Nicholas A. French - Douglas MI
W. Dale Ellis - McFarland WI
Roger M. Rowell - Madison WI

Assignee:

Hawworth, Inc. - Holland MI
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of
Agriculture - Washington DC

International Classification:

C23C 1424
C23C 1450
B05C 3109
B05C 1302

US Classification:

118 50

Abstract:

Apparatus for impregnating wood veneer with a liquid impregnant comprises a container having an upper chamber communicated to a lower impregnation chamber. A clamping mechanism is releasably engageable to a peripheral region of the wood veneer and is cooperably received in the upper chamber in a manner to suspend the wood veneer in the impregnation chamber. An elevator overlies the container and is releasably connectable to the clamping mechanism for lowering the clamping mechanism into the upper chamber to suspend the wood veneer in the impregnation chamber therebelow. The clamping mechanism is disconnected from the elevator such that the clamping mechanism remains in the upper chamber during impregnation of the wood veneer with liquid impregnant. The impregnation chamber is evacuated by a vacuum pump after the wood veneer is suspended therein, and liquid impregnant is introduced from a storage tank to the impregnation chamber about the wood veneer. A venting valve is openable to establish ambient pressure in the impregnation chamber to impregnate the wood veneer with the liquid impregnant therein.