Patents Represented by Attorney Robert Finch
  • Patent number: 4282835
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine, synthesizing CO and H.sub.2 fuels from methanol in a first synthesizer, and also synthesizing H.sub.2 fuel from CO and water in a second synthesizer, thus upgrading a technically difficult to use fuel to a low polluting, easily usable fuel, by use of the energy from exhaust gas waste heat thus improving the fuel heating value by 20%; the engine fuel system also having an alternate energy source for synthesizing the fuel, the engine also having an additional alternate fuel source for engine starting and operation when the synthesized fuel reservoir is low and electrical battery energy is limited thus allowing time for the heat exchanger synthesizers to warm up to produce CO and H.sub.2 fuel, which is especially required during cold operating seasons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1981
    Assignee: Wm. D. Peterson & Associates
    Inventors: William D. Peterson, John M. Lytle
  • Patent number: 4261460
    Abstract: An intermediate assembly for supporting parallel cables stretched between end frames in a conveyor. The assembly including rigid cross members maintaining the cables a fixed distance apart, first and second posts each connected at its top end to one of the cables and at its bottom end to an anchor, and a third post connected diagonally of the first two posts, all of the posts are adjustable in length and the connection of the first and second posts to the anchors is pivotal to enable movement of the posts transverse to the cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1981
    Inventor: William D. Peterson, II