Patents by Inventor Richard Gordon Menzies

Richard Gordon Menzies 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).

  • Rotary machine components and methods of fabricating such components
    Patent number: 7891952
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a rotor assembly for a turbine, the turbine including a central rotational axis is provided. The method includes forging a first rotor component from a first material, separately forging a second rotor component from a second material, and coupling the second rotor component to the first rotor component at a location radially inward of the first rotor component. The second rotor component is coupled to the first rotor component in at least one axial-circumferential plane that is at least one of substantially parallel and obliquely oriented with respect to the central rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Daniel Edward Wines, Randy Joseph Ketterer, Barbara Ann Link, Mark Dean Pezzutti, Charles William Carrier, Terrence Owen Dyer, Richard Gordon Menzies, Andrew John Lammas
  • ROTARY MACHINE COMPONENTS AND METHODS OF FABRICATING SUCH COMPONENTS
    Publication number: 20080120842
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a rotor assembly for a turbine, the turbine including a central rotational axis is provided. The method includes forging a first rotor component from a first material, separately forging a second rotor component from a second material, and coupling the second rotor component to the first rotor component at a location radially inward of the first rotor component. The second rotor component is coupled to the first rotor component in at least one axial-circumferential plane that is at least one of substantially parallel and obliquely oriented with respect to the central rotational axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Daniel Edward Wines, Randy Joseph Ketterer, Barbara Ann Link, Mark Dean Pezzutti, Charles William Carrier, Terrence Owen Dyer, Richard Gordon Menzies, Andrew John Lammas
  • Quasi-isothermal forging of a nickel-base superalloy
    Patent number: 6932877
    Abstract: A forging blank of a forging nickel-base superalloy is forged in a forging press having forging dies made of a die nickel-base superalloy. The forging is accomplished by heating the forging blank to a forging-blank starting temperature of from about 1850° F. to about 1950° F., heating the forging dies to a forging-die starting temperature of from about 1500° F. to about 1750° F., placing the forging blank into the forging press and between the forging dies, and forging the forging blank at the forging-blank starting temperature using the forging dies at the forging-die starting temperature, to produce a forging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Edward Lee Raymond, Richard Gordon Menzies, Terrence Owen Dyer, Barbara Ann Link, Richard Frederick Halter, Mike Eugene Mechley, Francis Mario Visalli, Shesh Krishna Srivatsa
  • Quasi-isothermal forging of a nickel-base superalloy
    Publication number: 20040084118
    Abstract: A forging blank of a forging nickel-base superalloy is forged in a forging press having forging dies made of a die nickel-base superalloy. The forging is accomplished by heating the forging blank to a forging-blank starting temperature of from about 1850° F. to about 1950° F., heating the forging dies to a forging-die starting temperature of from about 1500° F. to about 1750° F., placing the forging blank into the forging press and between the forging dies, and forging the forging blank at the forging-blank starting temperature using the forging dies at the forging-die starting temperature, to produce a forging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: Edward Lee Raymond, Richard Gordon Menzies, Terrence Owen Dyer, Barbara Ann Link, Richard Frederick Halter, Mike Eugene Mechley, Francis Mario Visalli, Shesh Krishna Srivatsa