Patents by Inventor Kevin Oldknow

Kevin Oldknow 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).

  • Optimizing rail track performance
    Patent number: 8473128
    Abstract: A method for optimizing track performance is provided. The method involves measuring one or more track status data at one or more measurement sites of the track during a train pass through the one or more measurement sites. Followed by analyzing the one or more track status data against one or more baseline reference values to obtain a track status profile, and adjusting an operating parameter, a track parameter, or both the operating and track parameters, based on the track status profile, to optimize the track's performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: L.B. Foster Rail Technologies Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin Oldknow, John Samuels, Donald Thomas Eadie, Dana Earl
  • Optimizing Rail Track Performance
    Publication number: 20120150370
    Abstract: A method for optimizing track performance comprising: is provided. The method involves measuring one or more track status data at one or more measurement sites of the track during a train pass though the one or more measurement sites. Followed by analyzing the one or more track status data against one or more baseline reference values to obtain a track status profile, and adjusting an operating parameter, a track parameter, or both the operating and track parameters, based on the track status profile, to optimize the track's performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Portec Rail Products Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Oldknow, John Samuels, Donald Thomas Eadie, Dana Earl
  • Consumable Applicator
    Publication number: 20110290589
    Abstract: A consumable applicator comprising one or more conduits in a fluid communication with a liquid composition dispensing system wherein the liquid composition comprises friction control components. The consumable applicator comprises a solid body having hardness of less than or equal 150 HB, a housing and a biasing member within said housing for advancing the consumable applicator toward a dispensing end. The consumable applicator may be used for applying a friction control consumable to sliding metallic parts such as the railway rails or wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: KELSAN TECHNOLOGIES CORP
    Inventors: Kevin Oldknow, David Elvidge, Donald Eadie, Xin Lu, Jonathan De Wet
  • Optimizing rail track performance
    Patent number: RE47395
    Abstract: A method for optimizing track performance is provided. The method involves measuring one or more track status data at one or more measurement sites of the track during a train pass through the one or more measurement sites. Followed by analyzing the one or more track status data against one or more baseline reference values to obtain a track status profile, and adjusting an operating parameter, a track parameter, or both the operating and track parameters, based on the track status profile, to optimize the track's performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: L.B. Foster Rail Technologies Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin Oldknow, John Samuels, Donald Thomas Eadie, Dana Earl