Patents by Inventor Phil Robertson

Phil Robertson 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: 7028561
    Abstract: A flow switch used in conjunction with a fuel meter in a fuel dispenser to determine when fuel is flowing. A flow switch can only be activated if fuel is flowing through the flow path of the flow switch. If fuel is flowing as indicated by the fuel flow switch, but the meter is not registering fuel flow, there is a meter error, which may be an error internally with components of the meter and/or a pulser that generates pulse signals indicative of fuel flow. If the meter pulser is registering fuel flow, but the flow switch is not registering fuel flow, then an error exists with the flow switch. If fuel is flowing and there are no errors, both the meter and the flow switch should indicate fuel flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Gilbarco Inc.
    Inventors: Phil Robertson, John S. McSpadden, William P. Shermer, Seifollah Nanaji
  • Publication number: 20050126307
    Abstract: A flow switch used in conjunction with a fuel meter in a fuel dispenser to determine when fuel is flowing. A flow switch can only be activated if fuel is flowing through the flow path of the flow switch. If fuel is flowing as indicated by the fuel flow switch, but the meter is not registering fuel flow, there is a meter error, which may be an error internally with components of the meter and/or a pulser that generates pulse signals indicative of fuel flow. If the meter pulser is registering fuel flow, but the flow switch is not registering fuel flow, then an error exists with the flow switch. If fuel is flowing and there are no errors, both the meter and the flow switch should indicate fuel flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Applicant: GILBARCO INC.
    Inventors: Phil Robertson, John McSpadden, William Shermer, Seifollah Nanaji
  • Patent number: 6863187
    Abstract: A gun support apparatus having two cooperatively engageable, elongate body sections adapted to receive and support a rifle or shotgun with the barrel in an upright position, in combination with at least one mounting bracket that releasably engages at least one of the body sections and is also attachable to an underlying support surface such as the floor or bottom of a hunting blind, tree stand or other such structure. The body sections are of sufficient height to shield and protect the trigger of the gun when the gun is supported in the apparatus. The mounting bracket can include, as either an additional or alternative feature, a stake member that is insertable downwardly into the ground so that the subject gun support apparatus can be used in locations where there is no hard underlying surface to which the mounting bracket can be attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Inventor: Phil A. Robertson
  • Patent number: 5230649
    Abstract: A two-piece duck caller device simulates the call of the mallard drake using a sounding body and a resonance chamber encompassing the sounding body. The sounding body includes an elongated blowing stem, a whistle portion with an air vent and a flared exhaust portion. The resonance chamber is a hollow tube of sufficient diameter to encompass the sounding body with the end of the blowing stem protruding from one end of the resonance chamber and the flared exhaust end protruding from the other end of the resonance chamber. The resonance chamber has an air vent aligned with the air vent of the sounding body in the assembled duck caller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Inventor: Phil A. Robertson
  • Patent number: 4151678
    Abstract: A tubular blowing tube receives a generally cylindrical sounding barrel in one end. A longitudinal notch extending from the inner end of the sounding barrel defines a flat support surface for a pair of reeds. An axial bore opening from the outer end of the sounding barrel merges with a longitudinal axial groove opening to the support surface and terminating short of the inner end of the barrel. The reeds overlie the groove and are retained at the base end of the groove by a cork member compressed between the barrel and blowing tube. The support surface is convex at the inner end where the groove terminates; and the reed tips are bent away from the convex surface and slightly spaced from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1979
    Inventor: Phil A. Robertson