Patents Assigned to Layco, Inc.
  • Stator apparatus for a moving vehicle
    Patent number: 4318565
    Abstract: A vehicular streamlining improvement for vehicles that form an air wake behind the vehicle wherein the wake moves forward faster than the vehicle moves forward, particularly pickup trucks. The improvement being an air directing assembly arranged as a stator assembly for the development of multiple, concentric and generally parallel streams of rearward flowing air so as to energize the wake in a manner which changes the factors responsible for the forward accelerations within the air of the wake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1982
    Assignee: Layco, Inc.
    Inventor: Giles P. Lay
  • Cyclic energy transformation apparatus
    Patent number: 4272963
    Abstract: A cyclic energy transformation apparatus and method for developing streams of working fluid flow with different energy characteristics. The working fluid being passed through a container which effectuates a vortical ring flow pattern. The fluid in one stream is discharged from the container as high pressure flow. The fluid in another stream is discharged from the container as a high temperature flow. The separate streams can be used independently or in conjunction with each other for performing useful work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Layco, Inc.
    Inventor: Giles P. Lay