Randy Wayne Strait

US Patent:

6823615, Nov 30, 2004

Filed:

Jan 28, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/057269

Inventors:

Randy W. Strait - Frankfort IL 60423

International Classification:

E01H 504

US Classification:

37233, 37266

Abstract:

A sectional snowplow having a plurality of separate sections, each mounted separately and independently to the snowplow frame for limited movement upwardly and downwardly relative to the sections of the snowplow on either side, whereby one section can rise to scrape over a rise in the surface below that section without causing the sections on either side to also rise above the surface below such other sections. Each section is mounted separately and independently to the snowplow frame by flexible members of a resilient but nevertheless sturdy material such as polyurethane. A preferred material is known in the trade as polyurethane 90 A Shore hardness.

US Patent:

7089692, Aug 15, 2006

Filed:

Jul 7, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/613313

Inventors:

Randy W. Strait - Frankfort IL, US

International Classification:

E01H 5/04

US Classification:

37232, 37231, 172261

Abstract:

A slip hitch connection to a drive vehicle for a snow plow comprises an elongated flat planar member that can be hooked on to a connecting lug of the drive vehicle, the flat planar member being mounted on the snow plow frame for reciprocal movement in each of a pair of spaced apart coupling assemblies secured to the snow plow frame for connecting the snow plow to the drive vehicle. Each of the elongated flat planar members have an upper and lower elongated guide slot in which guide bolts that move up and down as the snow plow itself is moved up and down are received to enable the guide bolts and snow plow to which they are connected make limited reciprocal movement up and down while hooked up to the drive vehicle and being pushed forward during a snow plowing operation. This enables the snow plow to move rearwardly and upwardly enough to clear an object hit by the leading edge of the snow plow on the ground and then to reciprocate forwardly and downwardly to its original position after passing over the obstacle.

US Patent:

7658022, Feb 9, 2010

Filed:

Jun 26, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/473500

Inventors:

Randy W. Strait - Frankfort IL, US

Assignee:

Arctic Snow and Ice Control, Inc. - Frankfort IL

International Classification:

E01H 5/04
E01H 5/06

US Classification:

37232, 37274, 37281

Abstract:

A slip hitch connection to a drive vehicle for a snow plow comprises an elongated flat planar member that can be hooked on to a connecting lug of the drive vehicle, the flat planar member being mounted on the snow plow frame for reciprocal movement in each of a pair of spaced apart coupling assemblies secured to the snow plow frame for connecting the snow plow to the drive vehicle. Each of the elongated flat planar members have an upper and lower elongated guide slot in which guide bolts that move up and down as the snow plow itself is moved up and down are received to enable the guide bolts and snow plow to which they are connected make limited reciprocal movement up and down while hooked up to the drive vehicle and being pushed forward during a snow plowing operation. This enable the snow plow to move rearwardly and upwardly enough to clear an object hit by the leading edge of the snow plow on the ground and then to reciprocate forwardly and downwardly to its original position after passing over the obstacle.

US Patent:

54251567, Jun 20, 1995

Filed:

Aug 11, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/104685

Inventors:

Steven L. Strait - Joliet IL
Randy W. Strait - Tinley Park IL

International Classification:

A47B 9502
E05B 100

US Classification:

16114R

Abstract:

A window crank assembly for casement windows comprising a metal window crank having wing type hand grasp members extending laterally in both opposite directions from a central hub and a plurality of insert members, which are preferably metal but may also be plastic, receivable in the cavity of the hub, each of the insert members having an insert cavity of a different cross-sectional dimension and internal configuration to match the different cross-sectional dimension and external configuration of the different crankshafts of casement window operators made by the various casement window manufacturers. A set screw extends through aligned apertures of both the window crank hub and one of the inserts when received therein to bear against a portion of the casement window crankshaft received in the insert cavity which is inwardly thereof from an enlarged outwardly projecting spline portion of the crankshaft. This prevents removal of the window crank assembly from the crankshaft until the set screw is loosened enough to clear the enlarged outwardly projecting spline portion of the shaft.

US Patent:

20210348350, Nov 11, 2021

Filed:

Jul 19, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/379599

Inventors:

Randy Strait - Frankfort IL, US
Blake Strait - Lowell IN, US

International Classification:

E01H 10/00
E01C 19/20

Abstract:

A salt spreader for distributing a material includes a bucket including a front surface, a rear surface, and first and second side surfaces. The front and rear surfaces tend toward one another at a base of the bucket, and the bucket includes first and second ejection ports in the base. The salt spreader further includes a separator positioned in a center of the bucket parallel to the first and second side surfaces, first and second spinner mounts attached to the base of the bucket under the first and second ejection ports, respectively, first and second spinners rotatably mounted atop of the first and second spinner mounts, respectively, an auger positioned adjacent to the base of the bucket, and first and second covers within the bucket extending downwardly from the first and second side surfaces, respectively, toward the separator.

US Patent:

20190382973, Dec 19, 2019

Filed:

Jun 13, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/440672

Inventors:

Randy Strait - Frankfort IL, US
Blake Strait - Lowell IN, US

International Classification:

E01H 10/00
E01C 19/20

Abstract:

A salt spreader for distributing a material includes a bucket including a front surface, a rear surface, first and second side surfaces, and a base surface, wherein the front and rear surfaces tend toward one another, and wherein the base surface includes an ejection port, a spinner mount attached to the base surface of the bucket under the ejection port, a spinner rotatably mounted atop of the spinner mount, and an auger positioned in a base of the bucket.