Patents by Inventor George E. Heikes, Jr.

George E. Heikes, Jr. 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 for making a reinforced elastomer piston packing
    Patent number: 4379112
    Abstract: A piston rubber with a body of substantially cylindrical exterior shape with one end thereof reinforced with a textile fabric wound into a roll that is arranged generally coaxial with the cylindrical body. The method for making the piston rubber involves winding a length of rubberized fabric around a mandrel and forming a sleeve of desired radial thickness, cutting the sleeve into bands of desired widths, and placing the bands and elastomeric material in a mold and curing the same to define a piston rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1983
    Assignee: The Gates Rubber Company
    Inventors: George E. Heikes, Jr., Claude L. Henderson
  • Piston rubber
    Patent number: 4280709
    Abstract: A piston rubber with a body of substantially cylindrical exterior shape with one end thereof reinforced with a textile fabric wound into a roll that is arranged generally coaxial with the cylindrical body. The method for making the piston rubber involves winding a length of rubberized fabric around a mandrel and forming a sleeve of desired radial thickness, cutting the sleeve into bands of desired widths, and placing the bands and elastomeric material in a mold and curing the same to define a piston rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1981
    Assignee: The Gates Rubber Company
    Inventors: George E. Heikes, Jr., Claude L. Henderson