Patents by Inventor Gerald L. Abrams

Gerald L. Abrams 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: 7059551
    Abstract: In an assembly including a diesel engine, a fluid coupling connected to the flywheel of the diesel engine, a comminuting machine and a conveyor for feeding the comminuting machine, a fluid coupling module is common to various output power train assemblies. Slip speed of the fluid coupling between impeller input and runner output shafts is measured, and modulates or regulates the process feed rate of the conveyer. An electrically actuated control valve acts as an oil flow diverter valve directing oil into the fluid coupling impeller when a signal to engage the coupling is given, and in response to a signal from an over-temperature sensor when the temperature of circuit oil leaving the element exceeds a preset set point value, diverts the oil to a reservoir, thereby permitting the impeller and runner cavity to evacuate, which separates the engine from the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Inventors: Melbourne F. Giberson, Mark T. Simonelli, Frederick C. Wiesinger, Jr., Gerald L. Abrams
  • Patent number: 7055316
    Abstract: In an assembly including a diesel engine, a fluid coupling connected to the flywheel of the diesel engine, a comminuting machine and a conveyor for feeding the comminuting machine, a fluid coupling module is common to various output power train assemblies. Slip speed of the fluid coupling between impeller input and runner output shafts is measured, and modulates or regulates the process feed rate of the conveyer. An electrically actuated control valve acts as an oil flow diverter valve directing oil into the fluid coupling impeller when a signal to engage the coupling is given, and in response to a signal from an over-temperature sensor when the temperature of circuit oil leaving the element exceeds a preset set point value, diverts the oil to a reservoir, thereby permitting the impeller and runner cavity to evacuate, which separates the engine from the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Inventors: Melbourne F. Giberson, Mark T. Simonelli, Frederick C. Wiesinger, Jr., Gerald L. Abrams
  • Patent number: 7017341
    Abstract: In an assembly including a diesel engine, a fluid coupling connected to the flywheel of the diesel engine, a comminuting machine and a conveyor for feeding the comminuting machine, a fluid coupling module is common to various output power train assemblies. Slip speed of the fluid coupling between impeller input and runner output shafts is measured, and modulates or regulates the process feed rate of the conveyer. An electrically actuated control valve acts as an oil flow diverter valve directing oil into the fluid coupling impeller when a signal to engage the coupling is given, and in response to a signal from an over-temperature sensor when the temperature of circuit oil leaving the element exceeds a preset set point value, diverts the oil to a reservoir, thereby permitting the impeller and runner cavity to evacuate, which separates the engine from the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Turbo Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Melbourne F. Giberson, Mark T. Simonelli, Frederick C. Wiesinger, Jr., Gerald L. Abrams
  • Patent number: 7004626
    Abstract: In a two wire thermocouple, a hollow tip is formed of the material of one of the thermocouple wires, the tip being adapted to extend into a medium the temperature of which is to be measured, both wires extending into a passage in the tip through an open outer end of the passage toward an inner end of the passage, one of the two thermocouple wires, of a material different from said tip, extending entirely through the passage and being welded at the outside of said tip to form a thermocouple junction and the other of the wires, of the same material as the tip, being welded to the tip at a place spaced from the junction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Turbo Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Melbourne F. Giberson, Gerald L. Abrams
  • Patent number: 6993902
    Abstract: In an assembly including a diesel engine, a fluid coupling connected to the flywheel of the diesel engine, a comminuting machine and a conveyor for feeding the comminuting machine, a fluid coupling module is common to various output power train assemblies. Slip speed of the fluid coupling between impeller input and runner output shafts is measured, and modulates or regulates the process feed rate of the conveyer. An electrically actuated control valve acts as an oil flow diverter valve directing oil into the fluid coupling impeller when a signal to engage the coupling is given, and in response to a signal from an over-temperature sensor when the temperature of circuit oil leaving the element exceeds a preset set point value, diverts the oil to a reservoir, thereby permitting the impeller and runner cavity to evacuate, which separates the engine from the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Turbo Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Melbourne F. Giberson, Mark T. Simonelli, Frederick C. Wiesinger, Jr., Gerald L. Abrams
  • Publication number: 20040216454
    Abstract: In an assembly including a diesel engine, a fluid coupling connected to the flywheel of the diesel engine, a comminuting machine and a conveyor for feeding the comminuting machine, a fluid coupling module is common to various output power train assemblies. Slip speed of the fluid coupling between impeller input and runner output shafts is measured, and modulates or regulates the process feed rate of the conveyer. An electrically actuated control valve acts as an oil flow diverter valve directing oil into the fluid coupling impeller when a signal to engage the coupling is given, and in response to a signal from an over-temperature sensor when the temperature of circuit oil leaving the element exceeds a preset set point value, diverts the oil to a reservoir, thereby permitting the impeller and runner cavity to evacuate, which separates the engine from the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventors: Melbourne F. Giberson, Mark T. Simonelli, Frederick C. Wiesinger, Gerald L. Abrams
  • Publication number: 20040211847
    Abstract: In an assembly including a diesel engine, a fluid coupling connected to the flywheel of the diesel engine, a comminuting machine and a conveyor for feeding the comminuting machine, a fluid coupling module is common to various output power train assemblies. Slip speed of the fluid coupling between impeller input and runner output shafts is measured, and modulates or regulates the process feed rate of the conveyer. An electrically actuated control valve acts as an oil flow diverter valve directing oil into the fluid coupling impeller when a signal to engage the coupling is given, and in response to a signal from an over-temperature sensor when the temperature of circuit oil leaving the element exceeds a preset set point value, diverts the oil to a reservoir, thereby permitting the impeller and runner cavity to evacuate, which separates the engine from the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventors: Melbourne F. Giberson, Mark T. Simonelli, Frederick C. Wiesinger, Gerald L. Abrams
  • Publication number: 20040206075
    Abstract: In an assembly including a diesel engine, a fluid coupling connected to the flywheel of the diesel engine, a comminuting machine and a conveyor for feeding the comminuting machine, a fluid coupling module is common to various output power train assemblies. Slip speed of the fluid coupling between impeller input and runner output shafts is measured, and modulates or regulates the process feed rate of the conveyer. An electrically actuated control valve acts as an oil flow diverter valve directing oil into the fluid coupling impeller when a signal to engage the coupling is given, and in response to a signal from an over-temperature sensor when the temperature of circuit oil leaving the element exceeds a preset set point value, diverts the oil to a reservoir, thereby permitting the impeller and runner cavity to evacuate, which separates the engine from the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Melbourne F. Giberson, Mark T. Simonelli, Frederick C. Wiesinger, Gerald L. Abrams
  • Publication number: 20040172937
    Abstract: In an assembly including a diesel engine, a fluid coupling connected to the flywheel of the diesel engine, a comminuting machine and a conveyor for feeding the comminuting machine, a fluid coupling module is common to various output power train assemblies. Slip speed of the fluid coupling between impeller input and runner output shafts is measured, and modulates or regulates the process feed rate of the conveyer. An electrically actuated control valve acts as an oil flow diverter valve directing oil into the fluid coupling impeller when a signal to engage the coupling is given, and in response to a signal from an over-temperature sensor when the temperature of circuit oil leaving the element exceeds a preset set point value, diverts the oil to a reservoir, thereby permitting the impeller and runner cavity to evacuate, which separates the engine from the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventors: Melbourne F. Giberson, Mark T. Simonelli, Frederick C. Wiesinger, Gerald L. Abrams
  • Patent number: 6769248
    Abstract: In an assembly including a diesel engine, a fluid coupling connected to the flywheel of the diesel engine, a comminuting machine and a conveyor for feeding the comminuting machine, a fluid coupling module is common to various output power train assemblies. Slip speed of the fluid coupling between impeller input and runner output shafts is measured, and modulates or regulates the process feed rate of the conveyer. An electrically actuated control valve acts as an oil flow diverter valve directing oil into the fluid coupling impeller when a signal to engage the coupling is given, and in response to a signal from an over-temperature sensor when the temperature of circuit oil leaving the element exceeds a preset set point value, diverts the oil to a reservoir, thereby permitting the impeller and runner cavity to evacuate, which separates the engine from the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Turbo Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Melbourne F. Giberson, Mark T. Simonelli, Frederick C. Wiesinger, Jr., Gerald L. Abrams
  • Publication number: 20030230655
    Abstract: In an assembly including a diesel engine, a fluid coupling connected to the flywheel of the diesel engine, a comminuting machine and a conveyor for feeding the comminuting machine, a fluid coupling module is common to various output power train assemblies. Slip speed of the fluid coupling between impeller input and runner output shafts is measured, and modulates or regulates the process feed rate of the conveyer. An electrically actuated control valve acts as an oil flow diverter valve directing oil into the fluid coupling impeller when a signal to engage the coupling is given, and in response to a signal from an over-temperature sensor when the temperature of circuit oil leaving the element exceeds a preset set point value, diverts the oil to a reservoir, thereby permitting the impeller and runner cavity to evacuate, which separates the engine from the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Applicant: Turbo Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Melbourne F. Giberson, Mark T. Simonelli, Frederick C. Wiesinger, Gerald L. Abrams