Patents by Inventor Lee Essay

Lee Essay 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).

  • Publication number: 20030108391
    Abstract: A passive installation reel stand automatically dispenses a flexible conduit pipe, such as irrigation pipe for underground sprinkler systems, in a desired position within a trench dug in the ground by a vibratory plow. The power of the forward advancing vibratory plow machine pulls the flexible conduit pipe from its spiral coil configuration upon a reel mounted upon the stand. The stand includes a wheel barrow-type carriage having one or more wheels, at a front end, and a kickstand at a liftable rear end with at least one handle. The reel is passively rotated by the flexible conduit pipe being pulled by a connection, such as a chain linkage, linked to the forward moving vibratory plow digging a trench for installation of the flexible conduit pipe therethrough. The coiled, flexible conduit pipe is mounted on the reel, fed through a guide opening, picked off the reel, and attached in the trench dug by the advancing vibratory plow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventor: Lee Essay