Patents by Inventor Amos W. Broughton

Amos W. Broughton 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).

  • Patent number: 5826791
    Abstract: A railroad rail support includes a first and second horizontally oriented rubber tire having a circumferential tread, a top sidewall including a top rim bead and a bottom sidewall having a bottom rim bead, said bottom sidewall and bottom rim bead being adjacent to a railroad roadbed. First and second rail support members within each tire have a top surface in the plane of the top rim bead and a bottom surface in the plane of the bottom rim bead, and include a top plate and a plurality of tubular channels extending downwards from said top plate to the bottom surface. A concrete matrix fills each rubber tire and retains the rail support within the rubber tire. Railroad spikes are installed into the tubular channels have heads overlapping the opposed edges of the bottom flange of a first and a second railroad rail. Each spike is locked into its respective tubular channel by extending downwards in a generally vertical direction, with a second contiguous portion at an angle of at least 30.degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Inventor: Amos W. Broughton
  • Patent number: 5464153
    Abstract: A railroad rail support includes a first and second horizontally oriented rubber tire having a circumferential tread, a top sidewall including a top rim bead and a bottom sidewall having a bottom rim bead, said-bottom sidewall and bottom rim bead being adjacent to a railroad roadbed. First and second rail support members within each tire have a top surface in the plane of the top rim bead and a bottom surface in the plane of the bottom rim bead, and include a top plate and a plurality of tubular channels extending downwards from said top plate to the bottom surface. A concrete matrix fills each rubber tire and retains the rail support within the rubber tire. Railroad spikes are installed into the tubular channels have heads overlapping the opposed edges of the bottom flange of a first and a second railroad rail. Each spike is locked into its respective tubular channel by extending downwards in a generally vertical direction with a second contiguous portion at an angle of at least 30.degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Inventor: Amos W. Broughton
  • Patent number: 4834887
    Abstract: A coaxial centrifugal separator device has a linear pipe fixed diameter exterior, with a coaxial pipe entrance with multiple internal helical spiraling vanes disposed and secured to the interior wall of the pipe length, the interior helical spiraling vanes providing a centrifugal motion to the fluid multi-phase input flow into the centrifugal device. The centrifugal motion imparted to the multi-phase input fluid finally separates the total input fluid into flowing concentric streams in the device, the fluid stream having the lowest density being centered along the centrifugal device pipe centerline. The highest density particulates stream is disposed along the interior wall of the centrifugal device in a generally laminar flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Inventor: Amos W. Broughton
  • Patent number: 4554074
    Abstract: A separator for multiple phase fluids has a unitary fluid separator box formed as a single metal plenary chamber, and alternatively as a simple fluid distribution box of a single plastic form. Each of the single plenum chamber branching channel box has a top fluid constricting support plate and a bottom support plate, with an inlet fluid channel which branches to a first pair of channels having each channel cross section equal to the single inlet channel, the first pair of channels each branching to a second pair of channels, also each having the inlet channel cross section, the second pair of channels can also each have a third pair of channels of outlet channel cross section, and so on. The inlet channel turbulent fluid flow is transformed by multiple dual channel splitting and flow into a substantially laminar fluid flow, allowing phase separations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1985
    Inventor: Amos W. Broughton
  • Patent number: 4396508
    Abstract: A separator of multi-phase combinations of oil (low density) liquid phase, water phase, and solid sludge (high density) has an inlet low velocity liquid spreader disposed across and near the inside base of a closed separator tank. At least one inclined separator baffle is disposed and sealed completely across the tank interior, inclined from a baffle base terminus adjacent the tank base to a top baffle terminus adjacent the top of the tank and having a narrow oil volume phase collector continuing from the top baffle terminus to the interior tank top. The oil phase outlet of the separator tank connects to the narrow oil volume phase and is disposed adjacent to the top of the collector tank. The oil outlet is substantially elevated above the corresponding water phase outlet disposed on and connecting to the separator tank on the opposed side of the separator baffle. A tank solid sludge outlet provides for removal of the collected sludge from the tank bottom. The separator baffle can be heated as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Inventor: Amos W. Broughton