Patents by Inventor Wesley G. Thompson

Wesley G. Thompson 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).

  • Sterilizing apparatus
    Patent number: 4646629
    Abstract: The disclosed sterilizing apparatus makes use of mobile cars containing a quantity of packages. The cars are continuously intermittently advanced to a package loading position, to an inlet lock where pressurizing and preheating of the car and its contents occur, to a sterilizing chamber for a sufficient period of time to effect sterilization, to a discharge lock that depressurizes and partially cools the car and its contents, to an atmospheric cooling station, to a water discharge station and then to a package unloading station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Sherman H. Creed, Wesley G. Thompson, Adil A. Mughannam, Robert G. Beverly