Patents by Inventor Lloyd E. Bastian

Lloyd E. Bastian 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).

  • Method for producing solar collector panels
    Patent number: 4310116
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for fabricating a solar collector panel including providing a thermal conductive, heat absorbing plate having a plurality of grooves therein, feeding discrete lengths of solder strips having transverse curvatures into said grooves, respectively, placing a tube assembly having a plurality of conduits into said grooves of said plate is superimposed relation on said solder strips, holding said loose assembly together, and heating the loose assembly to melt the solder and effect a thermal conductive bond between said tube assembly and said plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1982
    Assignee: Libbey-Owens-Ford Company
    Inventors: Anthony R. Shaw, Wallace F. Krueger, Lloyd E. Bastian
  • Method and apparatus for producing solar collector panels
    Patent number: 4231505
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for fabricating a solar collector panel including providing a thermal conductive, heat absorbing plate having a plurality of grooves therein, feeding discrete lengths of solder strips having transverse curvatures into said grooves, respectively, placing a tube assembly having a plurality of conduits into said grooves of said plate in superimposed relation on said solder strips, holding said loose assembly together, and heating the loose assembly to melt the solder and effect a thermal conductive bond between said tube assembly and said plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1980
    Assignee: Libbey-Owens-Ford Company
    Inventors: Anthony R. Shaw, Wallace F. Krueger, Lloyd E. Bastian