Patents by Inventor David G. Smith

David G. Smith 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: 4326344
    Abstract: A laundry drying system and method in which fresh air flows through a low temperature duct of a preheater, then through a primary heater before entering a laundry drying chamber is described. The air enters into contact with laundry in the chamber, then is exhausted, flowing through a high temperature duct of the preheater. In the preheater, heat pipes transfer heat from the exhaust air in the high temperature duct to the fresh air in the low temperature duct. Thus, heat which would otherwise be discarded in the exhaust air stream is recovered for use in the drying process. The preheater preferably uses heat pipes having a liquid return tube and set in a plate fin heat exchanger. To provide for a cool down cycle, there is a bypass which defeats the operation of the preheater. Lint exhausted by the drying chamber is partly collected by a dry type lint remover between the chamber exhaust and the preheater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1982
    Assignee: Q-dot Corporation
    Inventor: David G. Smith
  • Patent number: 4309443
    Abstract: A compound of the formula (I): ##STR1## or a pharmaceutically acceptable ester, amide or salt thereof wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine or bromine atom or a hydroxyl, hydroxymethyl, methyl, methoxyl, amino, formamido, acetamido, methylsulphonylamido, nitro, benzyloxy, methylsulphonylmethyl, ureido, trifluoromethyl or p-methoxybenzylamino group; R.sub.2 is a hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine or bromine atom or a hydroxyl group; R.sub.3 is a hydrogen, chlorine or bromine atom or a hydroxyl group; R.sub.4 is a hydrogen, chlorine or fluorine atom or a methyl, methoxyl or hydroxyl group or a carboxylic acid group or a salt, ester or amide thereof; R.sub.5 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R.sub.6 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R.sub.7 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl or ethyl group; R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1982
    Assignee: Beecham Group Limited
    Inventors: David G. Smith, Anthony T. Ainsworth
  • Patent number: 4103671
    Abstract: An oven door has a movable shield for covering its window during a self-cleaning cycle of an oven. The door includes apparatus for automatically raising and lowering the shield to and from a window covering position as the oven door is raised and lowered, improved track system for controlling and guiding the shield movement within the door and improved locking means for locking the oven door shut only when the shield is in its window covering position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1978
    Assignee: GSW Limited - GSW Limitee
    Inventor: David G. Smith
  • Patent number: 4074825
    Abstract: An end cap assembly for an appliance control panel assembly comprises a sheet metal end cap having attached thereto a molded plastic trim plate. The trim plate has an overturned edge to provide a channel which is adapted to receive and envelop exposed edges of the sheet metal end cap. Means is provided for locating the trim plate on the sheet metal end cap in a manner so as to hold the edges of the metal end cap in the corresponding channels of the trim plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1978
    Assignee: GSW Limited/Limitee
    Inventor: David G. Smith