Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Bruce J. Hendricks, Esq.
  • Surface winding on an a-frame winder
    Patent number: 6536702
    Abstract: A strip of sheet material is wound on a spool by a driving belt wrapped around spaced rollers of a surface winder which urge the sheet material into contact with the spool, rotating the spool, and at the same time, applying the sheet material to the spool, with layers of the material being separated by a liner wrapped around the spool as the sheet material is being applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
    Inventors: Richard David Vargo, Charles Terry Huffstetler, Martin Lamar Sentmanat
  • Method of making a flow channel block
    Patent number: 6497834
    Abstract: Changing the contour of a recess (12) in a body of solid material to a revised contour wherein a pattern (24) is made having the revised contour and this pattern is placed in the recess with a curable plastic material (31). After the curable plastic material is hardened, the pattern is removed providing the revised contour (30) of the recess. The body of solid material can be a flow channel block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
    Inventors: Richard David Vargo, Gary Robert Burg