Patents by Inventor Frederick Martin Miller

Frederick Martin Miller 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: 5853285
    Abstract: In a compressor rotor assembly including a plurality of rotor disks affixed to a rotor body, and wherein at least one radially directed cooling tube is supported from a radially outer end within a rotor shaft, with an opposite, radially inner free end extending toward a longitudinal axis of the rotor, an improvement comprising a ring member loosely secured to the tube at the free end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventors: Frederick Martin Miller, Roger Clayton Walker, Christopher Charles Glynn, Martin C. Hemsworth
  • Patent number: 5796202
    Abstract: Stacked wheels of the rotor of a rotary machine are axially coupled to one another by tie bolt assemblies. Each tie bolt assembly includes a stud having externally threaded opposite ends. A forward end of each stud is threaded into a non-rotatable windage nut. The aft end of each stud is secured by a primary nut having a plurality of facets, a jam nut locked against the primary nut and an anti-rotation cover between the jam nut and primary nut. The anti-rotation cover includes wings engaged against a next-adjacent wheel, preventing rotation of the cover relative to the rotor. Internal surfaces of the cover have facets greater in number than the number of facets on the primary nut whereby fine clock orientation of the cover relative to the adjacent wheel is obtained. The cover and primary nut are thus locked against rotation, thereby locking the stud/nut assembly against rotation relative to the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventors: William Lee Herron, Frederick Martin Miller, William Gary Klump