Patents by Inventor William K. Hiss

William K. Hiss 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: 4086930
    Abstract: An improved apparatus for cleaning automatic automotive torque converters in which the torque converter consists of a hollow casing, the casing having a single opening and a hollow hub surrounding the casing opening and extending outwardly from the outer surface thereof, the turbine being provided with a central internally grooved bore extending through the center of the turbine coaxially with the hollow hub, the cleaning apparatus having a fluid reservoir and a stationary support for the casing and a fluid pressure pump for supplying the cleaner fluid to a fluid directing unit having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and a motor for rotating the turbine and operating the fluid pressure pump, the fluid directing unit directing the fluid under pressure through a central bore of the turbine and inner surface of the casing to the fluid directing unit and out the outlet opening therein to the reservoir for recycling the cleaner fluid through the torque converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Inventor: William K. Hiss
  • Patent number: 4060904
    Abstract: An assembly, or device, for measuring the end play in the bearing of a turbine hub of a torque converter in which the turbine hub is provided with a bore therethrough and the turbine is enclosed within a casing, the casing being provided with a single opening in one side thereof having a hollow hub extending outwardly from and about said casing opening, the axis of the opening in the casing hub being in alignment with the bore in the turbine hub, the measuring assembly or device being provided with a base portion having a flat upper surface, and an under surface parallel with the upper surface, the base being provided with an aperture whose side wall extends upwardly from the upper surface of the base, a spindle slideable through the aperture in the base and of such length as to extend through the hollow hub of the casing and in engagement with the bore in the turbine hub for moving the turbine in the measuring operation, the means engaging the turbine bore being of cone shape and extending outwardly from the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Inventor: William K. Hiss