Patents by Inventor Roger Hughes

Roger Hughes 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: 4889377
    Abstract: A vehicle storage system apparatus is attached to a vehicle and adapted to slide out on a suspension frame to make storage bins and the like more accessible from the vehicle. A vehicle body, such as a panel truck or van, has a vertically suspended framework attached to the vehicle body. The frame has at least two horizontal channels supported thereon and a sliding carriage which is slidably mounted in the channels and supported by the channels and which can be slid from a first position in the vehicle to a second position extending from the vehicle. The sliding carriage has a panel attached thereto with a plurality of storage members attachable to the panel. The panel has attaching openings therein for attaching storage bins. The locking conventional allows the sliding storage carriage to be locked in place in the vehicle and to be released from outside the vehicle for sliding the carriage to a position extending from the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1989
    Inventor: Roger Hughes
  • Patent number: 4171771
    Abstract: A central heating system comprising a heat exchanger, heat dissipating means, and a connecting piping circuit for liquid flow, has a pump capable of pumping the liquid around the circuit at a lower or a high flow rate, the flow rate of liquid being sensed to control the means which supplies heat to the heat exchanger so that heat is supplied when the pump means is operating at its higher rate and is not supplied when the pump means is operating at its lower rate. The rate of operation of the pump means is determined by means which senses the temperature of the circulating liquid so that the pump means operates at its lower rate when the temperature of the liquid exceeds a selected value and at its higher rate when the liquid temperature is below a selected value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1979
    Assignee: Servotomic Limited
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Colthorpe, Roger Hughes, Reginald C. Wade