Patents by Inventor Kerry Richards

Kerry Richards 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).

  • Delimbing device and methods
    Patent number: 6488063
    Abstract: A push-through delimber device having a frame, a blade lattice, a trough, a throat and a saw so that trees can be topped and delimbed in the throat and pushed through the delimbing blade lattice to further delimb the trees. The delimber device can also include pivoting arcuate blades for delimbing trees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Riley Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Kerry Richard Seymour
  • Delimbing device and methods
    Publication number: 20020062880
    Abstract: A push-through delimber device having a frame, a blade lattice, a trough, a throat and a saw so that trees can be topped and delimbed in the throat and pushed through the delimbing blade lattice to further delimb the trees. The delimber device can also include pivoting arcuate blades for delimbing trees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventor: Kerry Richard Seymour
  • Mechanical pull-through delimbing device
    Patent number: 6155317
    Abstract: A mechanical pull-through delimber device having opposed semicircular blades urged closed by counter-weights and coupled so that both open when one is pivoted open using a lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Inventor: Kerry Richard Seymour
  • Process for encapsulating a shaped body for hot isostatic pressing by sol-gel method
    Patent number: 5613993
    Abstract: There is disclosed a process for encapsulating a preform of arbitrary size and shape for the purpose of manufacturing a body by means of hot isostatic pressing. The preform is encapsulated with glass using a sol gel technique. The glass initially forms a hard, porous layer. Heating the glass in the hot isostatic press results in the formation of a gas-impermeable capsule around the preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: Kerry Richards
  • Orchidaceae Cattleya walkeriana `Kenny`
    Patent number: PP8798
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Orchidaceae plant and more particularly of the genus Cattleya; species walkeriana; variety semi-alba, which is outstanding and distinct from other Orchidaceae because of its outstanding plant vigor and free flowering ability. The new variety is also distinctive from its siblings in the grex population by its superior flowers, which combine a rare coloring, massive size and strong carriage of multiple flowers on a single stem. The coloring is an exceptionally glistening white with heavy substance with the lip also white, with apple green coloration at the base of the column, pale yellow in the center of the lip and a fuchsia blush at the lower edge.The flowers are of exceptional substance, with more rigid petals than siblings of the grex. The flowers are perfectly placed on the stem, which is superior to its species in strength. The flowers are produced more freely and last longer than other Orchidaceae of this species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Inventor: Kerry A. Richards