Patents by Inventor Keith E. Blair

Keith E. Blair 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: 6640382
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile filter cleaning system allowing movement to a site where dirty filters are located. The filter cleaning system includes a trailer or truck, an air compressor, an aftercooler, an air drier, a filter cleaning station, a compressed air tank, a dust collector, a fan and fan motor, and an airflow verification unit. Along a first fluid communication, compressed air is used to clean dirty filters in the cleaning station and filter cartridges in the dust collector. Along a second fluid communication dirt, liberated from the dirty filter is pulled from the cleaning station to the dust collector by a fan-induced draft. The compressor creates the first fluid communication and the fan creates a second fluid communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Filter-Medic, LLC
    Inventors: Richard P. Williams, David H. Shupe, Thomas M. Holman, Keith E. Blair
  • Patent number: 6374563
    Abstract: An anchor rail and anchorage system for attaching ceramic refractory materials to a metallic substrate, or casing. Each anchoring rail (3) includes a web (9) and a retention structure. The retention structure of the rails includes a plurality of tabs (13) extending from the web to engage with alignment recesses on the edges of the tiles. The alignment structure on each tile (16) includes a slot (18) formed in each of two opposite sides of the tile (16). A method of building ceramic lined structures includes attaching an anchor rail (3) to a surface of the casing (5), fitting a row of tiles (4) in place with their alignment structures each fitting around the retention structures (13) of the anchor rail, and continuing on with another row of tiles, until a predetermined surface area of the structure is lined with tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Charles P. Erskine, Keith E. Blair