Patents by Inventor Charles Delaney

Charles Delaney 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: 9453597
    Abstract: An air inversion and steam cure apparatus for installing a flexible resin impregnated cured in place liner in an existing conduit is provided. The apparatus has a low friction seal between a moving liner and the stationary apparatus gland. The gland is operated and adjusted by displaceable members that move substantially perpendicular to the liner being inverted to engage the moving liner as it passes through the gland. No part of the gland extends into the chamber so that once a pre-shaped gland is adjusted, the pressure on the moving liner is not increased. As the liner reaches the distal end, it enters a sample and porting pipe with an exhaust pipe gland and exhaust pipe and is pierced by a rigid porting tool. Steam is then introduced into the liner to cure the resin and is exhausted through an exhaust hose connected to the porting tool. After cure, steam is replaced with air to cool the liner and the ends are cut to restore service through the existing conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: INA Acquisition Corp.
    Inventors: Charles Delaney, Kurt Schlake, Joseph M Coyne, Richard C. Polivka, Franklin T Driver
  • Publication number: 20130263443
    Abstract: An air inversion and steam cure apparatus for installing a flexible resin impregnated cured in place liner in an existing conduit is provided. The apparatus has a low friction seal between a moving liner and the stationary apparatus gland. The gland is operated and adjusted by displaceable members that move substantially perpendicular to the liner being inverted to engage the moving liner as it passes through the gland. No part of the gland extends into the chamber so that once a pre-shaped gland is adjusted, the pressure on the moving liner is not increased. As the liner reaches the distal end, it enters a sample and porting pipe with an exhaust pipe gland and exhaust pipe and is pierced by a rigid porting tool. Steam is then introduced into the liner to cure the resin and is exhausted through an exhaust hose connected to the porting tool. After cure, steam is replaced with air to cool the liner and the ends are cut to restore service through the existing conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Charles Delaney, Steve J. Hirtz, Jeffrey S. Collier, Kurt Schlake, Joseph M. Coyne, Richard C. Polivka, Franklin T. Driver
  • Publication number: 20070029688
    Abstract: An air inversion and steam cure apparatus for installing a flexible resin impregnated cured in place liner in an existing conduit is provided. The apparatus has a low friction seal between a moving liner and the stationary apparatus gland. The gland is operated and adjusted by displaceable members that move substantially perpendicular to the liner being inverted to engage the moving liner as it passes through the gland. No part of the gland extends into the chamber so that once a pre-shaped gland is adjusted, the pressure on the moving liner is not increased. As the liner reaches the distal end, it enters a sample and porting pipe with an exhaust pipe gland and exhaust pipe and is pierced by a rigid porting tool. Steam is then introduced into the liner to cure the resin and is exhausted through an exhaust hose connected to the porting tool. After cure, steam is replaced with air to cool the liner and the ends are cut to restore service through the existing conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Inventors: Charles Delaney, Steve Hirtz, Jeffery Collier, Kurt Schlake, Joseph Coyne, Richard Polivka, Franklin Driver
  • Patent number: 4738293
    Abstract: A decorative cover unit for the ball hitch of a towing vehicle to cover the ball when not in towing use. The cover unit includes a decorative head portion in various shapes and forms and a ball receiving and protective portion including an adjustable member receivable therein such that the unit may cover the commercially available and recognized sizes of ball hitches. The basic unit includes the decorative head portion and a ball covering portion of a first size to be received over a two inch ball hitch with an insert to reduce the internal size of the unit to receive a ball of 17/8 inch diameter. The primary unit provides a certain degree of flexibility to frictionally capture the ball and the insert unit provides frictional capturing capabilities to the primary unit and to a ball of the smaller diameter. The insert is of a length to provide proper frictional contact and is of a length to provide holding contact to the ball hitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1988
    Inventors: Raymond Ostrom, Charles Delaney