Patents Represented by Attorney Gough, Shanahan, Johnson, and Waterman PLLP
  • Patent number: 7445087
    Abstract: A mill head assembly apparatus utilizing centrifugal hydrodynamic force to circulate lubrication oil while retaining the lubricant without the need for a replaceable (contact-type) seal, the apparatus comprising a set of stationary components including a trunnion, an oil ring, a bearing-retainer, and a collector ring and rotating components including a housing, a pump ring, and a baffle-ring, front and rear bearing means. The oil ring receives and circulates the lubrication oil to the bearing means, the housing is disposed with a plurality of housing passages to re-circulate the lubrication oil, and the forward and rear rotating interfaces to retain the lubrication oil within the front and rear mill head assembly. Potential lubrication oil leakage is retained and re-circulated back to the collector ring by close-tolerance seal means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: MT Hydraulics, LLC
    Inventor: Richard L. Hogan
  • Patent number: 7425015
    Abstract: A apparatus having a height adjustment mechanism to adjust the height of a trailer. The height adjustment mechanism is comprised of, among other elements, an outer tube, a crank assembly having a drive gear, an inner tube having an internally threaded acme nut, and an acme screw assembly. The acme screw assembly is linearly and cooperatively assembled such that the crank assembly causes the elongated acme screw to thread vertically through the internally threaded acme nut and the acme screw assembly to concurrently move vertically. The outer tube telescopically and slidably encases the inner tube, such that the outer tube can be vertically adjusted with respect to the inner tube when the crank assembly is operated. The trailer has a trailer hitch including a hitching end integrally secured to the outer tube outside surface, and is integrally attached to the trailer hitch at the trailer end. The trailer is adjusted vertically, concurrently when the crank assembly to the height adjustment mechanism is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Inventor: Leslie Lynn Schipman