Patents by Inventor Jack E. Wies

Jack E. Wies 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: 4235340
    Abstract: A unitary, one-piece salt grid, not subject to disassembly during shipment or installation in a brine tank, which is nestable into other grids for convenient shipment or storage prior to placement into the brine tank. The unitary salt grid includes a generally planar platform suitable for supporting and elevating granular salt above at least a portion of a concentrate brine in the bottom of the brine tank by spanning the interior area of the brine tank at a spaced position above the bottom of the tank, reinforcing ribs forming an integral part of a lower side of the platform to maintain the shape of the platform under the weight of the salt on an upper surface of the platform, and a plurality of supporting feet also forming an integral part of the platform and adapted to engage the bottom of the brine tank and support the platform at the spaced position above the brine tank bottom. The supporting feet include hollow frusto-conical sections such that the salt grids are nestable into one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1980
    Assignee: Clack Corporation
    Inventors: Richard E. Clack, Jack E. Wies
  • Patent number: D360730
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Inventor: Jack E. Wies
  • Patent number: D379021
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Inventor: Jack E. Wies