Patents by Inventor Richard N. Maskell

Richard N. Maskell 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 securing an array of components for processing in a gas-flush packaging machine
    Patent number: 6715264
    Abstract: A method and apparatus described to stabilize and secure individual component items in an array during gas flushing and packaging, without obstructing or preventing the free flow of the gas-flush throughout the component. In accordance with the present invention, when the array has been composed, it is over-wrapped with a loop of thin, inexpensive, gas-permeable film applied under pressure or shrunk around the array, leaving two opposite faces of the array free of the over-wrapping loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: M-Tek, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas W. Liakopoulos, Richard N. Maskell
  • Method for securing an array of components for processing in a gas-flush packaging machine
    Publication number: 20030140602
    Abstract: A method and apparatus described to stabilize and secure individual component items in an array during gas flushing and packaging, without obstructing or preventing the free flow of the gas-flush throughout the component. In accordance with the present invention, when the array has been composed, it is over-wrapped with a loop of thin, inexpensive, gas-permeable film applied under pressure or shrunk around the array, leaving two opposite faces of the array free of the over-wrapping loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Thomas W. Liakopoulos, Richard N. Maskell
  • Vacuum chamber structure and control system therefor
    Patent number: 4027707
    Abstract: A system for evacuating selectively two side-by-side chambers having a common wall with a pressure passageway therein includes a closure slidable between two positions where one chamber is connected to sub-atmospheric pressure with the common pressure passageway while the other is connected to ambient, and including circuit means for controlling the application of pressure and the release of same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventor: Richard N. Maskell