Patents by Inventor Jerry W. Gates

Jerry W. Gates 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: 5351377
    Abstract: A workstock forming apparatus and method for forming both ends of workstock blanks without the necessity of reversing the ends of the workstock blanks. The apparatus and method include a loading servo or cylinder for successively loading individual workstock blanks such as pipe nipple blanks onto a turntable which initially receives and positions a first nipple blank to be threaded on one end by a first threading spindle. The turntable then sequentially rotates back into alignment with the loading cylinder and successively receives additional nipple blanks, which are rotated in sequence with the turntable and first nipple blank for threading on one end by the first threading spindle, while the first and succeeding nipple blanks are sequentially linearly displaced in a guide on the turntable and the unthreaded ends of the first and succeeding nipple blanks are simultaneously threaded by a second threading spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Inventor: Jerry W. Gates