Patents by Inventor James D. Hall

James D. Hall 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: 4250973
    Abstract: Rock drilling apparatus wherein a motor and chuck assembly is mounted for slidable movement on a mast and elevated and lowered by a pair of endless chains, the endless chains passing through openings in stabilizer units slidably mounted on the mast for vertical movement and which rotatably and slidably brace the drill stem. The chains carry detents which are arranged so that when the endless chains are operated to elevate the motor and chuck, the stabilizers are also elevated in spaced relationship so as to stabilize the drill stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1981
    Inventor: James D. Hall
  • Patent number: 4236431
    Abstract: A slitter with a plurality of slitter heads mounted on a turntable to allow rotation of the heads. Each slitter head is adapted to be joined to a motor drive by means of an interconnecting arbor end portion which extends from the outboard bearing of the slitting head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1980
    Assignee: Braner Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles B. Gawlik, James D. Hall, Douglas S. Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 4092980
    Abstract: A fibrinogen monitor for use in monitoring the concentration of iodinated fibrinogen distribution in the calf and thigh veins of bed-restricted patients. The fibrinogen monitor is an improved scintillation detector which a hospital staff member can manipulate using one hand to detect and record scintillation events at measured points along the leg of a patient while leaving the other hand free to aid in positioning the leg. The output of the monitor is digitized and provided both as a visual display and as a hard-copy record. The geometrical configuration of the probe of the monitor provides for increased sensitivity to gamma radiation without an attendant increase in probe size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1978
    Assignee: G. D. Searle & Co.
    Inventors: Donald H. Frank, J. Fred Jeffries, Mary C. Swanson, Thomas L. Erb, James D. Hall
  • Patent number: 3967120
    Abstract: A radiation analyzer which measures radiation from a plurality of radiation sources in a single measurement cycle to distinguish between the radioactivity level received from a plurality of radiation sources. The radiation level of one of the sources may be known so that that source serves as a radiation standard with which to compare the other sources. Alternatively, the sources may all be known and the comparative radioactivity levels utilized to obtain information concerning some other parameter, such as external attenuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Assignee: G. D. Searle & Co.
    Inventors: John B. Ashe, Peter F. Berry, James D. Hall
  • Patent number: 3967122
    Abstract: A radiation analyzer which employs a single photodetector and a plurality of scintillators. Light filters interposed between selected ones of the scintillators selectively attenuate radiation of a predetermined energy range. Plural analyzers each associated with a single scintillator and each receiving electrical pulses from the photodetector attenuated to a different degree are adjusted to tabulate pulses of amplitudes which differ in accordance with the degree of attenuation of pulses received by the analyzers from the photodetector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Assignee: G. D. Searle & Co.
    Inventors: John B. Ashe, Peter F. Berry, James D. Hall