Patents by Inventor Alojzy Wenda

Alojzy Wenda 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).

  • Method and apparatus for feeding a glass melting furnace
    Patent number: 4142880
    Abstract: A batch material feeder for an electrically heated open-top refractory furnace, particularly a circular furnace, wherein the feeder includes a trough holding batch material and mounted over the furnace top, there being a rotatable agitator within the trough for moving batch material over discharge openings in the trough bottom, so as to deposit the batch material over the top of the molten mass in a manner that provides for a thin uniform layer of batch while assuring proper control of the thickness of the deposited layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Assignee: Johns-Manville Corporation
    Inventors: Alojzy Wenda, Leonard E. Olds
  • Method and apparatus for feeding a glass melting furnace
    Patent number: RE30674
    Abstract: A batch material feeder for an electrically heated opentop refractory furnace, particularly a circular furnace, wherein the feeder includes a trough holding batch material and mounted over the furnace top, there being a rotatable agitator within the trough for moving batch material over discharge openings in the trough bottom, so as to deposit the batch material over the top of the molten mass in a manner that provides for a thin uniform layer of batch while assuring proper control of the thickness of the deposited layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1981
    Assignee: Johns-Manville Corporation
    Inventors: Alojzy Wenda, Leonard E. Olds