Robert Wilson Sutton

Address:

7500 Target Ln NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120

Phone:

(505)9183475

VIN:

JTDKN3DU4A5154336

Make:

TOYOTA

Model:

PRIUS

Year:

2010

Address:

11040 Ashleigh Pl, Beaumont, TX 77705

Phone:

(409)8604805

VIN:

3GCEK13M77G514714

Make:

CHEVROLET

Model:

SILVERADO K1500

Year:

2007

US Patent:

42730643, Jun 16, 1981

Filed:

Feb 1, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/008326

Inventors:

Robert W. Sutton - Port Orford OR

International Classification:

B63B 1914

US Classification:

114203

Abstract:

A hatch cover for closing and sealing a hatch opening has a latching mechanism at one side of the cover which includes a rotatable hub and plural latching arms extending in different directions from the hub towards a rim of the opening. Rotation of the hub in one direction causes the latching arms to engage the rim and tightly latch the cover to the rim while rotation of the hub in the opposite direction retracts the latching arms and frees them from the rim to enable removal of the cover from the opening. A shaft extends through the cover and is axially slidable and rotatable relative to it. The shaft is axially slidable relative to the hub and continuously engages it so that rotation of the shaft correspondingly rotates the hub. A handle fixed to the upper end of the shaft rotates the hub to activate the arms. When the cover is latched tightly to the rim, axial sliding of the shaft in one direction moves the handle into an aligned recess in the top surface of the cover so latched and unlatched conditions of the cover can be determined by visually inspecting the position of the handle.

US Patent:

40207781, May 3, 1977

Filed:

Feb 13, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/657749

Inventors:

Robert W. Sutton - Port Orford OR

International Classification:

B63B 1914

US Classification:

114203

Abstract:

A hatch cover for closing and sealing a hatch opening has radial latching arms connected at their inner ends to a rotatable arm-actuating hub on the bottom side of the cover at ball-and-socket connections and loosely connected to the cover near their outer ends. In one rotational position of the hub the arms overlap and apply clamping pressure to the rim of the hatch opening and in a second rotational position of the hub the arm-clamping pressure is released and the arms are retracted from the rim to enable removal of the cover from the opening. The hub rides on camming surfaces of the cover which are shaped so that as the hub rotates in a hatch-closing direction, the arms first extend over the rim of the opening and then pivot into clamping engagement with the rim about their loose connections to the cover, urging the cover through such connections into tight seated engagement with the rim. A resilient sealing ring with double lips and carried by the cover engages the rim when the cover is seated to seal the hatch opening. A shaft extending through the cover and axially slidable and rotatable relative to it and the hub can be selectively engaged with the hub to rotate it.