Patents by Inventor Morton B. Estes

Morton B. Estes 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: 4524549
    Abstract: A honing mandrel having six circumferentially spaced work engaging members thereon including a body portion with a pinion gear rotatably mounted therein, a pair of opposed honing assemblies and a pair of opposed guide assemblies each having rack gear members extendable into transverse body bores for cooperating with the pinion gear, each of the honing assemblies having two circumferentially spaced work engaging honing members thereon, and each of the guide assemblies having a single work engaging guide member thereon, the honing members on the honing assemblies moving on chords of a cylindrical work surface during expansion and contraction thereof, and the guide members on the guide assemblies in one embodiment moving on chords of the work surface during expansion and contraction thereof and in another embodiment moving on or adjacent to a diameter of the work surface during expansion and contraction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1985
    Assignee: Sunnen Products Company
    Inventors: Robert M. Sunnen, Morton B. Estes
  • Patent number: 4245489
    Abstract: A knurling tool including an elongated body member having opposite ends and a bore extending therein from one end, the bore being spaced from and acutely angularly related to the axis of the body and extending in part through the side of the body, the bore having an enlarged portion intermediate the ends thereof, an elongated roller having an enlarged annular portion intermediate the ends thereof positioned in the body bore, with the enlarged roller portion being positioned in the enlarged bore portion, the enlarged roller portion being defined by an annular side surface angularly oriented relative to the axis thereof, and a pilot member cooperatively engageable with the body member and with the roller in position to trap and hold the roller in the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1981
    Assignee: Sunnen Products Company
    Inventors: Morton B. Estes, Charles S. Korn