Patents by Inventor Cecil Armstrong

Cecil Armstrong 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 providing an internal surface temperature profile of a thermoplastic preform during a stretch blow moulding process
    Patent number: 8852497
    Abstract: A method for providing an internal surface temperature profile of a thermoplastic preform (10, 22) during a stretch blow molding production process comprising at least the steps of: (a) heating a plurality of in-line cold preforms (10) in the production process to provide a plurality of in-line heated preforms (22); (b) diverting at least one of the in-line heated preforms to provide at least one off-line heated preform (30); (c) providing the remaining the in-line heated preforms to one or more stretch blow molds (24) for forming the heated preforms into blow molded products (12); and (d) locating one or more temperature sensors (34, 36) inside the or each off-line heated preform (30) of step (b) to provide an inside surface temperature profile of said preform(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: The Queen's University of Belfast
    Inventors: Gary Menary, Cecil Armstrong, Yannis Mugurel Salomeia
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN INTERNAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE PROFILE OF A THERMOPLASTIC PREFORM DURING A STRETCH BLOW MOULDING PROCESS
    Publication number: 20110062611
    Abstract: A method for providing an internal surface temperature profile of a thermoplastic preform (10, 22) during a stretch blow moulding production process comprising at least the steps of: (a) heating a plurality of in-line cold preforms (10) in the production process to provide a plurality of in-line heated preforms (22); (b) diverting at least one of the in-line heated preforms to provide at least one off-line heated preform (30); (c) providing the remaining the in-line heated preforms to one or more stretch blow moulds (24) for forming the heated preforms into blow moulded products (12); and (d) locating one or more temperature sensors (34, 36) inside the or each off-line heated preform (30) of step (b) to provide an inside surface temperature profile of said preform(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Gary . Menary, Cecil Armstrong, Yannis Mugurel Salomeia