Patents Represented by Attorney John Howard Joynt
  • Patent number: 4269217
    Abstract: Valve for separating liquids out of gases, as in gas-well-to-customer operations, being an improvement of the valve described in our U.S. Pat. No. 3,769,999 of Nov. 6, 1973, entitled "Liquid Separator System and Apparatus". The valve comprises a body with enlarged inlet chamber, a rising passage communicating therewith, a circumferential groove about the rising passage, downwardly-extending passages spaced on opposite sides of the rising passage and extending to an outlet chamber. The valve includes a head chamber with floating disc positioned within the same and seating atop the rising passage and circumferential groove, the floating disc being provided on the underside thereof with a radial groove to bleed off fluid in the head chamber and one or more further grooves to control fluid coming from the rising passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1981
    Inventors: James P. Flanagan, Jack L. Carter
  • Patent number: 4139236
    Abstract: Pick-up truck comprising a rectangular frame for hinged support at the rear of the frame of the truck, a further rectangular frame in slideable engagement with the hingedly-supported frame and having a truck bed mounted thereon, a pair of spaced hydraulic rams for tilting the first rectangular frame, another hydraulic ram for sliding the further frame and bed with respect to the first rectangular frame, and suitable hydraulic power control for selectively operating the rams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Inventors: C. Lee Hill, John E. Carmack
  • Patent number: 4022586
    Abstract: Weldable austenitic chromium-nickel-copper stainless steel of low work-hardening rate and welded products fashioned thereof which are free of incipient cracking near and adjacent the weld upon cooling from welding temperatures. Such steel and products contain about 12 to 25% chromium, about 6 to 20% nickel, about 0.10 to 15% manganese, about 2.5 to 4% copper, about 0.01 to 0.07% carbon, with columbium-tantalum in the amount of at least 0.10% but no more than 0.5% and/or titanium in the amount of at least 0.1% but no more than .25%. The remainder of the composition is substantially all iron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1977
    Assignee: Armco Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald Harry Espy