Patents Represented by Attorney William L. Muckelroy, Esq.
  • Patent number: 5952617
    Abstract: A power transformer is provided with a housing having a plurality of apertures for receipt of a bushing well of a bushing assembly. Each bushing assembly includes a bushing well adapted to be secure in one aperture of the power transformer, and a bushing adapted to be connected to a terminal in the bushing well to permit the conducting of electric current between the bushing assembly and the transformer. The bushing assembly further includes a connector for connecting the bushing conductor to a terminal positioned in the bushing well. The power transformer includes a cap to cover and isolate the unused bushing wells. The cap is preferably a plate structure that attaches to the lip of the bushing well and uses the dielectric formed by the air enclosed by the cap and the bushing well to prevent sparking over to adjacent sites, corona discharge, and accidental contact with a live terminal therein, and to guards against contamination of the bushing well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Jersey Central Power & Light Company
    Inventor: Scott J. Bergstrom
  • Patent number: 5889465
    Abstract: A power service unit suited for providing conditioned power to a consuming device at a remote location. The power service unit includes a charger/rectifier, a back-up power supply, together an automated dialer that contacts a central monitor in the event there is a disruption in the operation of the power service unit. The charger/rectifier accepts an external AC power and converts the external AC power to an internal DC power. The internal DC power maintains the back-up power supply in a fully charged state and the converter accepts the internal DC power and converts the internal DC power to an external DC power as required by the consuming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Jersey Central Power & Light Company
    Inventors: Frank J. Mercadante, Steven B. Sanders, George Cevasco, Robert C. Page, Joseph V. Walsh
  • Patent number: 5866185
    Abstract: A dispensing device for a soluble or dispersible material which comprises a tube formed of a liquid impermeable material and of unitary construction, the tube being closed at both ends and having perforations along a portion of its length or close to one end, and containing a soluble granular material. The device is coated with a material such as sugar or "NUTRA SWEET", the material being rigid in the dry state and soluble when immersed in a liquid. The device is immersed in a liquid which results in a dissolving of material coating permitting the material within device to also disperse into the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Inventor: Edward K. Burkett