Patents by Inventor Ryan Doyle Nothum

Ryan Doyle Nothum 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).

  • Heat exchange tubes for fryer in food process line
    Patent number: 11805945
    Abstract: A metal heat exchange tube assembly for a fryer cooking channel of a hot oil fryer for food-process lines has a plurality of elongate, rectangular, longitudinally-extending heat exchange tubes with open inflow and outflow ends; a laterally-extending abbreviated rectangular inflow-manifold tube with a plurality of apertures in a sidewall; and a laterally-extending abbreviated rectangular outflow-manifold tube with the same. The plurality of heat exchange tubes are joined to the inflow-manifold and outflow-manifold tubes with respective alignment among the open ends of the heat exchange tubes and the apertures in the sidewalls of the manifold tubes. The heat exchange tubes comprise a composite construction of an elongate, square-U shaped channel having a web bottom wall and flange sidewalls of a given uniform thickness, and an elongate closure strip welded along spaced seams to the exposed upper edges of the flanges of the channel, thereby forming a thermal oil conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: Robert G. Nothum, Jr., Ryan Doyle Nothum
  • HEAT EXCHANGE TUBES FOR FRYER IN FOOD PROCESS LINE
    Publication number: 20220151435
    Abstract: A metal heat exchange tube assembly for a fryer cooking channel of a hot oil fryer for food-process lines has a plurality of elongate, rectangular, longitudinally-extending heat exchange tubes with open inflow and outflow ends; a laterally-extending abbreviated rectangular inflow-manifold tube with a plurality of apertures in a sidewall; and a laterally-extending abbreviated rectangular outflow-manifold tube with the same. The plurality of heat exchange tubes are joined to the inflow-manifold and outflow-manifold tubes with respective alignment among the open ends of the heat exchange tubes and the apertures in the sidewalls of the manifold tubes. The heat exchange tubes comprise a composite construction of an elongate, square-U shaped channel having a web bottom wall and flange sidewalls of a given uniform thickness, and an elongate closure strip welded along spaced seams to the exposed upper edges of the flanges of the channel, thereby forming a thermal oil conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Robert G. Nothum, JR., Ryan Doyle Nothum
  • Pivoting and reversibly expanding-contracting transfer conveyor for food process lines
    Patent number: 10661994
    Abstract: A transfer conveyor for food process lines is equipped with hardware to enable pivoting in place and other hardware to enable and reversible expansion and contraction of the transfer conveyor, or at least the upper, food-product carrying run of the endless conveyor belt therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Inventors: Robert G. Nothum, Jr., Ryan Doyle Nothum
  • PIVOTING AND REVERSIBLY EXPANDING-CONTRACTING TRANSFER CONVEYOR FOR FOOD PROCESS LINES
    Publication number: 20200002095
    Abstract: A transfer conveyor for food process lines is equipped with hardware to enable pivoting in place and other hardware to enable and reversible expansion and contraction of the transfer conveyor, or at least the upper, food-product carrying run of the endless conveyor belt therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Robert G. Nothum, JR., Ryan Doyle Nothum
  • Pivoting and reversibly expanding-contracting transfer conveyor for food process lines
    Patent number: 10329092
    Abstract: A transfer conveyor for food process lines is equipped with hardware to enable pivoting in place and other hardware to enable and reversible expansion and contraction of the transfer conveyor, or at least the upper, food-product carrying run of the endless conveyor belt therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Inventors: Robert G. Nothum, Jr., Ryan Doyle Nothum
  • PIVOTING AND REVERSIBLY EXPANDING-CONTRACTING TRANSFER CONVEYOR FOR FOOD PROCESS LINES
    Publication number: 20180282074
    Abstract: A transfer conveyor for food process lines is equipped with hardware to enable pivoting in place and other hardware to enable and reversible expansion and contraction of the transfer conveyor, or at least the upper, food-product carrying run of the endless conveyor belt therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Robert G. Nothum, JR., Ryan Doyle Nothum