Patents by Inventor Adam Joe Shuttleworth
Adam Joe Shuttleworth has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8256496Abstract: The invention relates to an air diverter for a vehicle cooling system. There is a need for an improved vehicle cooling system. An air diverter is provided for a vehicle cooling system having a radiator, a fan for moving air through the radiator and a cooling unit positioned in front of the radiator with respect to air moving through the radiator. The fan is surrounded by a fan shroud. The air diverter includes a collector and a conduit. The collector is positioned between the cooling unit and the radiator. The collector receives a portion of air which passes through the cooling unit. The conduit extends around an edge of the radiator and communicates air from the collector to the interior of the fan shroud while bypassing the radiator.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2007Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Adam Joe Shuttleworth, Matthew Robert Oliver, Ronnie Franklin Burk, Dick J. Goering
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Publication number: 20090145577Abstract: The invention relates to an air diverter for a vehicle cooling system. There is a need for an improved vehicle cooling system. An air diverter is provided for a vehicle cooling system having a radiator, a fan for moving air through the radiator and a cooling unit positioned in front of the radiator with respect to air moving through the radiator. The fan is surrounded by a fan shroud. The air diverter includes a collector and a conduit. The collector is positioned between the cooling unit and the radiator. The collector receives a portion of air which passes through the cooling unit. The conduit extends around an edge of the radiator and communicates air from the collector to the interior of the fan shroud while bypassing the radiator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2007Publication date: June 11, 2009Inventors: Adam Joe Shuttleworth, Matthew Robert Oliver, Ronnie Franklin Burk, Dick J. Goering
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Patent number: 7503424Abstract: A vehicle cab noise suppressing system includes a cab interior panel having an opening exposed to acoustic noise in the cab, an acoustic resonator chamber, and a conduit communicating the resonator chamber to the opening. The resonator chamber is formed by a plurality of walls which are spaced apart from the interior panel and which are formed by a second panel. A third panel cooperates with the walls to enclose the resonator chamber. The chamber volume and the diameter and length of the conduit are chosen so as to acoustically tune the chamber to a noise frequency in the cab and thereby reduce noise in the cab.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2005Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Adam Joe Shuttleworth, Jeffrey John Girard, Paul Thomas Bruss, James Reginald Byrd, Jason Michael Edgington, Loren Avan DeVries
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Patent number: 7213842Abstract: An agricultural tractor or other work vehicle having an operator's station is described. A steering column assembly is mounted in the operator's station and has a steering shaft disposed in a steering shaft barrel. The steering column assembly is adapted to both tilt and telescope. A left hand forward-neutral-reverse lever is mounted in a housing. A key is mounted on the steering shaft barrel and a first housing half is journaled on the steering shaft by way of a bushing. The first housing half has a plurality of lever support bolsters and a plurality of fastener bosses. A second housing half is disposed on the steering shaft barrel and has a plurality of lever support bolsters, a keyway and a plurality of fastener bosses. One of the first or second housing halves has a groove around a peripheral edge thereof, the other of the first or second housing halves has a tongue around a peripheral edge thereof. Similarly, one of the first or second housing halves has a circular lip at an end of each fastener boss.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Howard Thomas Uehle, Adam Joe Shuttleworth
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Patent number: 7162846Abstract: A joint structure for a liquid or semi-liquid sealant is provided to facilitate the sealing engagement of plural structural members without having sealant protruding from the joint in a visible area. The joint structure comprises a first structural member having a channel with a first wall, a second wall generally opposite the first wall and a third wall connecting the first and second walls. The third wall is disposed at an acute angle to the first wall and at an obtuse angle to the second wall. A second structural member has a tongue portion for matably engaging the channel of the first structural member. The tongue portion has a first wall, a second wall generally opposite the first wall, and a third wall connecting the first and second walls. The third wall is disposed at an obtuse angle to the first wall and at an acute angle to the second wall.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2003Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Adam Joe Shuttleworth, Robert Eugene Lorentzen
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Patent number: 6780097Abstract: A two piece molded roof structure is provided for enclosing the cab of a work vehicle. The roof structure has an upper roof member mounted to a lower roof member. The lower roof member has a plurality of contours and apertures for receiving the components of an HVAC system, and for defining air passages. When the upper and lower roof members are joined discrete air passages are formed between the roof members. The roof structure includes fresh and recirculated air intakes communicating via an uncirculated air duct and with an HVAC core chamber housing an HVAC core. Filters are mounted in the air intakes. One or more blowers communicate between the core chamber and a conditioned air duct which has vents communicating with the cab interior. Air is thus drawn in through the intakes and directed through the unconditioned air duct to the HVAC core and then the blower expels the air into the conditioned air duct and into the vehicle cab.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2003Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Adam Joe Shuttleworth, Bruce Kevin Fryk
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Publication number: 20040144850Abstract: A two piece molded roof structure is provided for enclosing the cab of a work vehicle. The roof structure has an upper roof member mounted to a lower roof member. The lower roof member has a plurality of contours and apertures for receiving the components of an HVAC system, and for defining air passages. When the upper and lower roof members are joined discrete air passages are formed between the roof members. The roof structure includes fresh and recirculated air intakes communicating via an uncirculated air duct and with an HVAC core chamber housing an HVAC core. Filters are mounted in the air intakes. One or more blowers communicate between the core chamber and a conditioned air duct which has vents communicating with the cab interior. Air is thus drawn in through the intakes and directed through the unconditioned air duct to the HVAC core and then the blower expels the air into the conditioned air duct and into the vehicle cab.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2003Publication date: July 29, 2004Applicant: Deere & Company, a Delaware CorporationInventors: Adam Joe Shuttleworth, Bruce Kevin Fryk
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Publication number: 20040094852Abstract: A method is provided for producing dimensionally stable rotationally molded parts from semi-crystalline materials. A test mold is constructed having dimensions closely approximating the desired dimensions of the final part. A test part is then molded in the test mold using conventional rotational molding techniques. After the test part has partially cooled, it is removed from the mold, allowed to cool to ambient temperature, measured and annealed in an oven. During annealing, the part is heated to the crystallization temperature, midway between the glass transition temperature and the crystalline melting temperature. After annealing, the part is allowed to cool to ambient temperature and measured again. The post annealing dimensions are then compared with the dimensions determined before annealing to determine the amount of shrinkage. A production mold is then constructed to take into account the amount of shrinkage calculated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2002Publication date: May 20, 2004Applicant: Deere & Company, a Delaware corporationInventors: Adam Joe Shuttleworth, Dean Arden Boyce
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Patent number: D534188Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Adam Joe Shuttleworth, Gregory Scott McCunn, Steven Roger Volkman, William Edward Crookes, Roger Earl Hamilton