Gregory S Hosford
Land Surveyors in Columbia, SC

5941485, Aug 24, 1999

Aug 1, 1997

8/904634

James W. Davidson - Laurens SC
Dennis S. Bradley - Columbia SC
Gregory S. Hosford - Columbia SC
John F. Boozer - Pomaria SC

Shakespeare Company - Newberry SC

F21V 2100

2482184

A step mounting assembly adapted for demountably securing a removable step member to a hollow utility pole. The step mounting assembly utilizes a backing plate having an obverse and a reverse face. An aperture penetrates the backing plate to receive the shank portion of a mounting bolt with the head thereof disposed in opposition to the obverse face of the mounting plate. A projection extends outwardly from the reverse face of the unique backing late at least partially to circumscribe the aperture that penetrates the backing plate. A spacer lug extends outwardly from the obverse face of the backing plate, the spacer lug being located in proximity to the aforesaid aperture. A washer is interposed between the bolt head and the spacer lug. An elongated bar nut is adapted to engage the threaded shank on the mounting bolt while the bar nut is captured within the projection disposed on the reverse side of the unique backing plate.

5704187, Jan 6, 1998

Nov 30, 1995

8/565113

Gregory Sander Hosford - Columbia SC
John Franklin Boozer - Pomaria SC
Robert Ashley Pollard - Newberry SC
John Richard Lewis - Little Mountain SC

Shakespeare Company - Newberry SC

B32B 3100, E04C 336

527361

A hollow, tapered, fiber-reinforced plastic utility pole, and a method for making the pole. The pole is designed by a computer-modelling technique that simulates applying resin-coated, reinforcing strands over the outer surface of a mandrel. A plurality of test stations are incrementally spaced from the tip portion to the butt portion of the pole simulated on the mandrel. The thickness-to-diameter ratio must be equal to or greater than an established constant at each station or additional circuits of resin-coated, reinforcing strands deemed to have been applied, as required. One then calculates the stress resistance at each successive station to determine if the acceptable stress is greater than the stress resistance required. Whatever additional circuits of resin-coated, reinforcing strands are necessary are then deemed to have been applied. One then calculates the projected failure load in response to the deflection calculated to occur in response to the rated load at each station to determine if the actual loading to be applied to the pole in relation to the projected failure load at that station is acceptable.

5492579, Feb 20, 1996

Feb 9, 1994

8/194222

Gregory S. Hosford - Columbia SC
John F. Boozer - Pomaria SC
Robert A. Pollard - Newberry SC
John R. Lewis - Little Mountain SC

Shakespeare Company - Newberry SC

B32B 3100

156 64

A hollow, tapered, fiber-reinforced plastic utility pole, and a method for making the pole. The pole is designed by a computer-modelling technique that simulates applying resin-coated, reinforcing strands over the outer surface of a mandrel. A plurality of test stations are incrementally spaced from the tip portion to the butt portion of the pole simulated on the mandrel. The thickess-to-diameter ratio must be equal to or greater than an established constant at each station or additional circuits of resin-coated, reinforcing strands deemed to have been applied, as required. One then calculates the stress resistance at each successive station to determine if the acceptable stress is greater than the stress resistance required. Whatever additional circuits of resin-coated, reinforcing strands are necessary are then deemed to have been applied. One then calculates the projected failure load in response to the deflection calculated to occur in response to the rated load at each station to determine if the actual loading to be applied to the pole in relation to the projected failure load at that station is acceptable.

5255810, Oct 26, 1993

Nov 24, 1992

7/980922

Gregory S. Hosford - Columbia SC

Shakespeare Company - Newberry SC

B65D 4500

220243

This disclosure relates to a closure hatch assembly for the access port of a utility pole of the type particularly suited for supporting an electrical device and housing the electrical cables required to provide power to the electrical device. The closure hatch assembly has a hatch plate made of a composite, non-conductive material and is of such dimensions as to close the access port. A lip extends outwardly from the periphery of the closure plate to engage the exterior surface of the utility pole circumjacent the access port. A groove, or channel, is provided on the hatch plate to receive a hollow bracket member. The hollow bracket member is also made of a non-conductive composite material. When received within the channel, the bracket member has sufficient length to extend beyond the hatch plate to engage the interior surface of the utility pole. The bracket member may be secured to the hatch plate and maintained in abutment with the interior surface of the utility pole by a metal fastener which is threaded into a sheet metal nut that is supported from the bracket member.

5267605, Dec 7, 1993

Sep 6, 1990

7/578762

F. David Doty - Columbia SC
Gregory S. Hosford - Columbia SC
Jonathan B. Spitzmesser - Columbia SC

Doty Scientific, Inc. - Columbia SC

B64G 150

165 41

The MTS radiator consists of planar arrays of micro-tube strip modules, each of which contain two or three rows of about 200 properly spaced microtubes per row. The three-dimensional tubular titanium structure with support members between microtubes maximizes stiffness and strength per mass. The working fluid--typically hydrogen at 0. 1 to 1 MPa--circulates through the microtubes, and most of the radiation occurs from their walls, which are only 0. 2 to 0. 4 mm thick. This allows specific mass below 1 kg/m. sup. 2. The operating temperature range is typically 200-650 K. The radiator's radiating surface comprises a heavily oxidized, metal alloy with a corrosion resistant, refractory alloy film deposited on it.

7363751, Apr 29, 2008

Nov 2, 2006

11/555771

S. Douglas Copeland - Columbia SC, US
Gerti Bajraktari - Newberry SC, US
William Griffin - Irmo SC, US
Gregory S Hosford - Columbia SC, US

Shakespeare Composite Structures, LLC - Newberry SC

E04C 3/30

527264

A modular pole system for a luminaire includes an elongated pole section formed from a continuous filament winding process with a tenon or tenon collar wound into a tip end of the pole section. A method for making a modular pole system includes placing a tenon or tenon collar over a trunion end of a mandrel and winding a pre-selected thickness of a filament along the length of the mandrel up to and including a pre-selected length of the tenon or tenon collar to produce a tenon or tenon collar wound into a pole section of the modular pole system.