Patents Represented by Attorney David O. Simmons
  • Patent number: 7762320
    Abstract: A bearing cooling system comprises a bearing assembly, a heat exchanger, a coolant flow circuit apparatus and a lubricant flow circuit apparatus. The bearing assembly is configured for being removably seated within a well drilling head housing and for having a stripper rubber assembly attached thereto. The bearing assembly includes bearings and a lubricant flow path configured for allowing lubricant to be circulated through the bearings. The heat exchanger has a lubricant core portion and a coolant core portion, which are jointly configured for allowing heat transfer between respective fluids of the core portions. The coolant flow circuit apparatus is coupled to the coolant core portion and is configured for circulating coolant through the coolant core portion. The lubricant flow circuit apparatus is coupled to the lubricant core portion and lubricant flow path, and is configured for circulating lubricant through the coolant core portion and the lubricant flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Inventor: John R. Williams
  • Patent number: 7743529
    Abstract: A protective foot covering article comprises two adjacent layers of water impermeable sheet material. A water impermeable seam is provided between the layers of water impermeable sheet material. A shape of the water impermeable seam provides for an interior space between the layers of water impermeable sheet material. The interior space includes a closed end portion and an open end portion. A portion of the water impermeable seam defining the closed end portion of the interior space is contoured inwardly with respect to the interior space thereby providing a contoured foot arch portion. A plurality of water drainage apertures each extending through at least one of the layers. Means for cinching the open end portion of the interior space is engaged with at least one of the layers of water impermeable sheet material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Inventor: Seth Otto Thompson
  • Patent number: 7726416
    Abstract: A well drilling head housing comprises a sidewall structure, a ram and selective displacement means. The sidewall structure defines a central bore configured for having a bearing assembly removably seated therein. The ram is slideably mounted on the side wall structure and is disposed within a passage extending through the sidewall structure. The selective displacement means is coupled between the ram and the sidewall structure. The selective displacement means is configured for moving the ram to an engaged position in which the ram is engaged with the bearing assembly for securing the bearing assembly in a seated position within the central bore and a disengaged position in which the ram is disengaged from the bearing assembly thereby allowing the bearing assembly to be removed from within the central bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Inventors: John R. Williams, Theresa J. Williams, legal representative
  • Patent number: 7722765
    Abstract: A molecular arrangement magnetic treatment apparatus and method includes an apparatus including a material passageway configured for having material flow therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Gemini Environmental Corp
    Inventor: Roy Lee Garrison
  • Patent number: 7717170
    Abstract: An upper stripper rubber canister system comprises a canister body and a canister body lid. The canister body includes an upper end portion, a lower end portion and a central passage extending therebetween. The central passage is configured for having a stripper rubber assembly disposed therein. The upper end portion of the body includes a plurality of bayonet connector structures. The canister body lid includes an exterior surface, an upper end portion, a lower end portion and a central passage extending between the end portions thereof. The exterior surface is configured for fitting within the central passage of the canister body. The canister body lid includes a plurality of bayonet connector structures integral with its exterior surface. Each canister body lid bayonet connector structure is configured for being engaged with one of the canister body bayonet connector structures for interlocking the canister body lid with the canister body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Inventor: John R. Williams
  • Patent number: 7717169
    Abstract: A well drilling head comprises a well drilling head housing, a bearing assembly, a first lubricant manifold and a second lubricant manifold. The well drilling head housing has a sidewall structure defining a central bore. The bearing assembly is configured for being removably seated within the well drilling head housing and for having a stripper rubber assembly attached to a lower end portion thereof. The bearing assembly includes a plurality of bearings and a bearing lubricant flow path configured for allowing bearing lubricant to be circulated through the bearings. The first lubricant manifold has a bearing lubricant passage coupled to the first end portion of the bearing lubricant flow path. The second lubricant manifold has a bearing lubricant passage coupled to a second end portion of the bearing lubricant flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Inventors: John R. Williams, Theresa J. Williams, legal representative
  • Patent number: 7717168
    Abstract: A reinforced stripper rubber assembly with a stripper rubber body including a drillstring engaging portion having a drillstring bore extending axially therethrough. The drillstring engaging portion of the stripper rubber body is made from an elastomeric material, has an inner surface that engages a drillstring when the drillstring is dispose therein and has a reinforcing insert receiving recess within an exterior surface thereof extending at least partially around the drillstring bore. A reinforcing insert is disposed within the reinforcing insert receiving recess. The reinforcing insert includes an elastomeric material bonded to the stripper rubber body within the reinforcing insert receiving recess. A support structure is disposed within a support structure engaging portion of the stripper rubber body. The support structure includes a central opening generally aligned with the drillstring bore thereby allowing the drillstring to pass jointly through the central opening and the drillstring bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Inventors: John R. Williams, Theresa J. Williams, legal representative
  • Patent number: 7708089
    Abstract: An upper stripper rubber canister apparatus has a canister body and a canister body lid. An upper end portion of the canister body includes a breech lock structure exposed within the canister body central passage. A lower end portion of the canister body lid is configured for fitting within the central passage of the canister body. The canister body lid includes a breech lock structure that is configured for allowing the canister body lid to be fixedly engaged with the canister body by inserting a lower end portion of the canister body lid into a canister body central passage and rotating the canister body lid with respect to the canister body such that at least a portion of the canister body breech lock structure become at least partially overlapped with a respective one of the canister body lid breech lock structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Inventors: John R. Williams, Theresa J. Williams, legal representative
  • Patent number: 7704391
    Abstract: A molecular arrangement magnetic treatment apparatus and method includes a material container with an inlet and an outlet where the material to be treated is introduced at the inlet and is released at the outlet and where the material container is sized so as to provide an enclosed space into which the material expands and loses velocity. A material passageway is connected at one end to the inlet and at another end to the outlet such that the material must pass through the material passageway. And at least one pair of magnets is provided that are oriented such that material in the passageway must pass between a north pole and a south pole of the pair of magnets. In one embodiment, the at least one pair of magnets is self aligning such that the north pole and the south pole are free to move so that the north pole and the south pole are always facing each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Gemini Environmental Corporation
    Inventor: Roy Lee Garrison
  • Patent number: 7690310
    Abstract: A high-pressure fixed munition for a low-pressure launching system having a cylindrical body with a centrally located bore is provided. The bore of the munition has a reduced diameter on the charge end in which a primer charge is positioned. The bore is filled above the primer charge with a propellant and above the propellant with a payload. The payload may include multiple buckshot pellets, frangible buckshot pellets, tear gas, multiple slugs, frangible slugs, paint balls, rubber pellets, bean bags, or the like. The munition may also include a pressure disk between the propellant and the payload, and tactile ridges or on the outside surface of the munition body or be of a specific color for purposes of identification of the payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Inventors: John Whitworth Engel, Kevin Dexter Dockery, Christopher Luchini
  • Patent number: 7676385
    Abstract: One embodiment of the disclosures made herein is a method adapted for verifying presence of a medical implant within a patient. Such an embodiment includes performing an operation for authenticating a medical implant patient, whereby the patient includes an authenticated-patient. In response to successfully authenticating the medical implant patient, an operation is performed for creating an authenticated-patient medical implant verification account (MIVA) for the medical implant patient. An operation is performed for issuing an authenticated-patient medical implant verification card (MIVC) to the medical implant patient in response to creating the authenticated-patient MIVA for the medical implant patient. After creating the authenticate-patient MIVA and issuing the MIVC, an operation is performed for facilitating patient-authorized access to the MIVA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Inventor: Mark Andrus Flood
  • Patent number: 7669375
    Abstract: A building block arrangement comprises a first layer of building blocks and a second layer of building blocks. The first layer of building blocks includes two spaced apart rows of building blocks whereby a space is provided between adjacent side faces of the building blocks of the first layer. The second layer of building blocks includes two spaced apart rows of building blocks whereby a space is provided between adjacent side faces of the building blocks of the second layer. The space includes communicative horizontal and vertical portions such that that the space at least partially isolates an interior wall portion from an exterior wall portion. The second layer of building blocks is positioned on top of the first layer of building blocks. The second layer of building blocks spans across at least a portion of the space in the first layer of building blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Inventor: Steve Eugene Everett
  • Patent number: 7669649
    Abstract: A stripper rubber insert comprises a central bore and a plurality of retention member bores substantially perpendicular to the central bore. The retention member bores are angularly spaced apart around a perimeter of the stripper rubber insert. Each one of the retention member bores extends through an exterior insert edge face and an interior insert edge face. Each one of the retention member bores includes a respective retention member securing structure therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Inventors: John R. Williams, Theresa J. Williams, legal representative
  • Patent number: 7666340
    Abstract: A method for fabricating structural building blocks having a cured binding material dispersed within block forming media thereof comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for depositing a volume of block-forming media within a media receiving cavity of block forming equipment. The block-forming media includes a curable binding material dispersed therein and curing of the curable binding material is caused by contact with a prescribed activation material. After or in conjunction with depositing the volume of block-forming media, an operation is performed for depositing the prescribed activation material into the media receiving cavity. Such depositing of the prescribed activation material causing at least a portion of the prescribed activation material to be dispersed within the volume of the block-forming media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Inventors: Steve Eugene Everett, Jay Dean Everett
  • Patent number: 7648666
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for depositing a quantity of article-forming media within a media receiving cavity of article forming equipment. After depositing at least a portion of the article-forming media within the media receiving cavity, an operation performed for depositing a volume of a prescribed fluid into the media receiving cavity. Depositing the prescribed fluid includes moving a first fluid delivery device through the quantity of the article-forming media while injecting the prescribed fluid through the first fluid delivery device into the quantity of the article-forming media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Inventor: Steve Eugene Everett
  • Patent number: 7635034
    Abstract: A top drive apparatus for a well drilling head comprises a top drive structure, a seal body and a plurality of resilient members. The top drive structure is configured for being fixedly attached to an upper end portion of a bearing assembly and having a seal-carrying portion. The seal body has a mounting portion and a wiper portion extending from the mounting portion. The mounting portion is slideably disposed within a groove of the seal-carrying portion of the top drive structure. The plurality of resilient members are disposed within the groove between the mounting portion of the seal body and the top drive structure such that the entire seal body is resiliently displaceable with respect to the top drive structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Inventors: John R. Williams, Theresa J. Williams, legal representative
  • Patent number: D603928
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Inventor: Marlin Daniel Ballard
  • Patent number: D605247
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Inventor: Marlin Daniel Ballard
  • Patent number: D606159
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Inventor: Marlin Daniel Ballard
  • Patent number: D611790
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Getagadoet Inc.
    Inventor: James Douglas Welch