Patents by Inventor J. Kyle Gilley

J. Kyle Gilley 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).

  • Compression sealing of tubes within shell and tube heat exchanger
    Patent number: 4691769
    Abstract: The invention relates to improved sealing means for shell and tube heat exchangers which means use only components which are external to the heat exchanger shell to mechanically compress a series of rubber type gaskets and incompressible tube sheets to thereby seal the tube to tube sheet joints and the tube sheet to shell joints in such a manner as to precisely control the degree of compression of the rubber type gaskets and eliminate the need for the retightening of bolts by the use of confining elements on the outer periphery of said gaskets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Assignee: Baltimore Aircoil Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Katherine K. Flamm, J. Kyle Gilley, David F. Geary, Edward N. Schinner