Patents by Inventor Thomas E. Quick

Thomas E. Quick 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: 5265697
    Abstract: A step sawhorse that is easily assembled and disassembled for ease in storage and transporting. The sawhorse is comprised of six wood parts (four identical legs, a top rail and step shelf). The parts are designed and constructed such as when assembled only two bolts with washers and nuts are needed to make secure a sturdy and rigid sawhorse, capable of supporting a heavy load. The legs are notched midway to support the step shelf, and notched at the top to support the top rail. The step shelf is a solid piece (providing rigidity in all four directions) with a rectangular opening at each corner to receive the legs. The top rail and legs are drilled to receive bolts with washers and nuts. When assembled and bolted together you have an exceptionally strong and lightweight sawhorse, with the added feature of a step shelf that will support a workman at the convenient height to work on an eight foot ceiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Inventor: Thomas E. Quick
  • Patent number: 4394106
    Abstract: A lift truck mechanism for handling glass sheets having a glass pack lifting frame. Gripping devices at the sides of the lifting frame engage sides of a glass pack. Feet at the bottom of the lifting frame support the glass pack on the frame. A framework of the mechanism attaches it to the lift mast of the lift truck, there being an operator control station platform extending rearwardly from the lifting frame above the lift mast. An intermediate frame is carried by the framework in selectively extendable relationship in front of the mast and there is a first pair of swinging frames swingably affixed to the intermediate frame for swinging movement on upright axes at the opposite sides of the intermediate frame. A second pair of swinging frames is provided, swingably affixed at proximal ends to the distal ends of the first pair of frames. Distal ends of the second pair of frames are pivoted to the lifting frame. A drag link interconnects the distal ends of the first pair of frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1983
    Assignee: Missouri Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Frees, Thomas E. Quick
  • Patent number: 4357926
    Abstract: For the purpose of increasing internal combustion engine efficiency and of decreasing the polluting content of the engine exhaust, the present invention centrifuges a conventionally produced liquid fuel-air mixture to separate and maintain the liquid content thereof in contact with a heated surface to collect latent heat energy until the same is evaporated and then using the molecular spreading energy forces to attain substantially equally spaced fuel vapor molecules among all of the equally spaced air molecules as they move into the combustion chamber of the engine, to thereby assure a more complete molecular fuel-air mixture, for more complete, efficient and pollution emission free combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1982
    Inventor: Thomas E. Quick
  • Patent number: 4212274
    Abstract: Carbonation enhancer having a cylindrical shell that is closed at one end by an envolute wall spaced from the inner end of a withdrawal tube, the output stream of a conventional carburetor is directed tangentially into space between the shells and caused to move in a spiral path toward the envolute closure wall by a spiral vane in the space and on reaching the envolute wall to move radially inwardly and into the inner end of the withdrawal tube to travel axially in a direction opposite that of the spiral path with the stream exiting the tube to enter the inlet manifold of the engine. Waste engine heat is applied to the exterior of the cylindrical shell in an amount sufficient to vaporize liquid fuel droplets centrifuged thereagainst from the stream as the latter traverses the spiral path portion of its travel from the carburetor to the intake manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1980
    Inventor: Thomas E. Quick
  • Patent number: 3998345
    Abstract: A side loader for use with fork lift trucks or the like having a support frame and a rotatable frame mounted on the support frame for rotation with respect to the support frame about a vertical axis. A reach apparatus is mounted at its inner end upon the rotatable frame for extending and retracting movement along a substantially horizontal axis, and a fork bar frame carried upon the reach apparatus includes fluid actuated means for tilting the fork bars thereon. A unique actuator system is provided for rotating the rotatable frame with respect to the support frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: Missouri Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond H. Fiehler, Thomas E. Quick, Kenneth A. Frees