Patents by Inventor Phillip A. Livera

Phillip A. Livera 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).

  • Non-conductive collar for the conductive shell of an electrical discharge device
    Patent number: 5045756
    Abstract: An electric discharge device has a conductive shell mounted in a non-conductive tube. A non-conductive collar can mount in the conductive shell. The collar includes an annular neck and an annular flange. The neck is encircled by a central annular groove located between a spaced pair of circumferential plateaus. The plateaus are radially dimensioned to fit in the conductive shell. The annular flange is coaxially affixed to and radially larger than the annular neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: E.G.L. Corporation, Inc.
    Inventor: Phillip A. Livera
  • Eyelet for incandescent lamp bases and method of making
    Patent number: 4866331
    Abstract: An improved lamp base having an eyelet with prongs and a base and apertures between the prongs and the base into which part of the glass insulator hardens to interlock the insulator with the eyelet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: North American Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Phillip A. Livera
  • Three-way lamp bases and method for making them
    Patent number: 4787865
    Abstract: A base for three-way lamps in which it is easier to feed lead wires through and a method of making such bases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Assignee: North American Philips Lighting Corp.
    Inventors: Phillip A. Livera, Paul P. Bracaglia
  • Tool for making three-way lamp bases
    Patent number: 4781641
    Abstract: A tool for making bases for three-way lamps in which it is easier to feed lead wires through because the tool has a first projection in the middle of its base which projection has a round cross-section of a given diameter in the plane perpendicular to the tool's longitudinal axis and a second projection having a cross-section in the forementioned plane having a longer circumferential dimension than a radial one and in which the circumferential dimension is at least as large as the diameter of the first projection in the forementioned plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1988
    Assignee: North American Philips Lighting Corp.
    Inventors: Phillip A. Livera, Paul P. Bracaglia
  • Gob feed dial for dual glass base machine
    Patent number: 4283214
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming and delivering insulating glass in gob form to a lamp base making machine from a continuous stream of molten glass. A rotating dial severs the glass stream into uniform gobs and during rotation forms the gobs into a ball like form and delivers the gobs to a pair of radially spaced drop points for delivery to the base shells on an indexing base making machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1981
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventor: Phillip A. Livera
  • Method and apparatus for tipping off refractory metal tubulation
    Patent number: 4255642
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for tipping off the refractory metal tubulation of a high pressure sodium discharge lamp arc tube including a machine which repetitively squeezes the tubulation through two pairs of sequentially reciprocating jaws to mechanically swage the tubulation to a reduced diameter prior to electrical flashing to cause separation and sealing off of the tubulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1981
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventor: Phillip A. Livera