Patents Represented by Attorney Kenneth R. Bowers
  • Patent number: 4933652
    Abstract: A coaxial resonance cavity of either the fingered or unfingered variety having a metal heat conducting barbell shaped structure inside the movable tuning plunger to conduct heat from the inner surface of the movable plunger to the inner surface of the fixed stub or directly to the shield to provide for a heat conductive path to the shield to carry heat away from the inner plunger. The barbell is an integral structure machined from stock aluminum, but resembles three right circular cylinders butting end to circular end. The upper cylinder has a diameter appropriate to maintain tight contact with the stub. The lower cylinder has a smaller diameter, appropriate to maintain contact with the movable plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Celwave Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin M. Gaukel
  • Patent number: 4920677
    Abstract: A bolt action rifle having a flange projecting from a ring captured between the barrel and the receiver, the flange mating with the undercut in the bolt needed to pass the cartridge during loading into the grip of the extractor to achieve controlled round feeding, the flange serving to support the cartridge during detonation in the area of the cartridge which otherwise would be unsupported.The mating of the flange with the undercut of the bolt requires a non-rotating bolt. An inner bolt sleeve is provided, axial movement thereof serving to control rotating locking lugs at the front of the bolt which lock the bolt during detonation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Inventor: Dale E. Schuerman
  • Patent number: 4910652
    Abstract: An analog watch for training children to read the current time having a flashlight installed in the watch case. The flashlight power supply is connected to the light emitting flashlight bulb through an electrical circuit which automatically turns the flashlight off after an adjustable time delay to preserve battery power. The watch time indicating face has numbers and dots to represent hours, and numbers and dots that represent minutes. These may be of different colors and may be adapted to glow in the dark after activation by light from the flashlight or from a face illuminating light source. The watch face has dots at half-hour intervals to indicate that the current time is at the half hour. All hour numbers and time-indicative dots may be embossed on the crystal face of the watch so that the minute hand does not pass over and obscure these symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Inventor: Gary E. Rhine
  • Patent number: 4867506
    Abstract: A tray for a wheelchair adapted for persons having reduced grasping strength. The tray supports a drawer for holding currency, especially coins. The bottom of the drawer is curved to allow removal of coins by sliding movement up the side of the drawer without grasping the coin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Inventor: Ruben E. Chavez
  • Patent number: 4810984
    Abstract: A dielectric resonance electromagnetic filter for selection of a resonance frequency of a high frequency electromagnetic wave having the dielectric resonator attached directly to the shield. The filter is tunable using a tuning cylinder which moves through a cavity in the center of the resonator.The tuning cylinder is hollow and is designed to expand thermally during heatup to counter thermal changes in the resonance frequency. The tuning cylinder may be metal or dielectric material or may have sections of both materials.A shield geometry has been described which enables filter clusters to occupy a minimum volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Assignee: Celwave Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Pitt W. Arnold, Kevin M. Gaukel
  • Patent number: 4805957
    Abstract: A flexible arm rest for an automobile window sill which is attached by magnets to the outside of the automobile, hangs over the sill, and is urged downward within the automobile by weights. The magnets exert a force on the arm rest which exceeds the force by the weights, with the consequence that raising the window causes the inside edge to move upward until the arm rest is captured between the window and the window jam, in which configuration the arm rest functions as a sunscreen or sunshade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Inventor: Paul J. Fletcher
  • Patent number: 4498903
    Abstract: An interoral tube securing device which attaches to human teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1985
    Inventor: Christina C. Mathew
  • Patent number: 4488547
    Abstract: A disposable surgical mask which changes color to signal significant loss of bacterial filtration efficiency due to moisture accumulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1984
    Assignee: Kenneth R. Bowers, Jr.
    Inventor: Beatrice R. Mason
  • Patent number: 4462626
    Abstract: A conveyor belt tool for repairing a broken conveyor belt which has sliding clamps to match the tool size to the belt width and thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1984
    Inventor: Klaus Heidemann
  • Patent number: 4429007
    Abstract: An electromagnetic coil for high temperature and high radiation application in which glass is used to insulate the electrical wire. A process for applying the insulation to the wire is disclosed which results in improved insulation properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: George J. Bich, Tapan K. Gupta
  • Patent number: 4427621
    Abstract: A jacking mechanism for raising the upper internals structure of a liquid metal nuclear reactor which jacking mechanism uses a system of gears and drive shafts to transmit force from a single motor to four mechanically synchronized ball jacks to raise and lower support columns which support the upper internals structure. The support columns have a pin structure which rides up and down in a slot in a housing fixed to the reactor head. The pin has two locking plates which can be rotated around the pin to bring bolt holes through the locking plates into alignment with a set of bolt holes in the housing, there being a set of such housing bolt holes corresponding to both a raised and a lowered position of the support column. When the locking plate is so aligned, a surface of the locking plate mates with a surface in the housing such that the support column is then supported by the locking plate and not by the ball jacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: James E. Gillett, Arthur L. Wineman
  • Patent number: 4424911
    Abstract: A tampering indicator for medicine bottles which changes color upon pressure applied to the bottle during opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1984
    Assignee: Kenneth R. Bowers
    Inventor: Joseph A. Resnick
  • Patent number: 4410072
    Abstract: A gravity assisted anti-reverse rotation device for preventing reverse rotation of pumps and the like.A horizontally mounted pawl is disposed to mesh with a fixed ratchet preventing reverse rotation when the pawl is advanced into intercourse with the ratchet by a vertically mounted lever having a lumped mass. Gravitation action on the lumped mass urges the pawl into mesh with the ratchet, while centrifugal force on the lumped mass during forward, allowed rotation retracts the pawl away from the ratchet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1983
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Robert J. Dickinson, Todd M. Wetherill
  • Patent number: 4392388
    Abstract: A process and device using back-diffusion for sampling a gas from an environment containing an aerosol of tramp material. The device cleans the tramp material from a barrier by the flow of a purge gas. The purge gas flow prevents diffusion of the tramp material through ports in the barrier through which the sample gas diffuses against purge gas flow. The purge gas continuously cleans the barrier, retards tramp material diffusion, and gathers and transports the sample gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1983
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventor: James E. Bauerle
  • Patent number: D272455
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Inventor: Jesse W. Eakin