Patents Assigned to Advantage Engineering, Inc.
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Patent number: 8684219Abstract: A tank for holding liquid having internal partitions. The partitions have enlarged bottom ends fillable with liquid and restable on the bottom wall of the tank to limit sideways movement of the partitions. The partitions are mounted to the tank only above the liquid within the tank by a channel that loosely receives the top ends of the partition.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2013Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Ronald A. Wolfe, Andrew J. Sander
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Patent number: 8657142Abstract: A tank for holding liquid having internal partitions. The partitions have enlarged bottom ends fillable with liquid and restable on the bottom wall of the tank to limit sideways movement of the partitions. The partitions are mounted to the tank only above the liquid within the tank by a channel that loosely receives the top ends of the partition.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2012Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Ronald A. Wolfe, Andrew J. Sander
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Patent number: 5960857Abstract: A machine for circulating cooling water through manufacturing process equipment includes a combination pump and heat exchanger assembly. The machine has a cast metal pump case with two upwardly opening sockets receiving the lower ends of two tanks, one of them "the suction tank" communicating through the case with the pump impeller intake, and the other "the discharge tank" communicating with the impeller discharge. The tanks are constructed to function as heat exchangers, and they are readily and removably secured to the pump case by threaded fasteners and are sealed therein by compression seals. The discharge tank has electrical heating elements. The suction tank has a motor-operated modulator valve precisely fixed thereon, so as to enable discharging excessively warm water from the process to drain while cool make-up water from city water supply is admitted through the suction tank to the pump.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1996Date of Patent: October 5, 1999Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Philip D. Oswalt, Steven E. Wash, Ronald A. Wolfe
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Patent number: 5761916Abstract: A portable, wheel-mounted, mechanically-refrigerated chiller for water used to cool a heat generating manufacturing process machine, has a process cooling water flow sensor assembly with conventional connections into the process water circulation portion of the chiller. The assembly includes a magnetically impregnated plastic vane operated by water flow through it, and a Hall-effect motion sensor responsive to vane operation to provide a signal to a computer. Water temperature to the process and from the process is monitored by sensors producing signals to the computer. The computer combines this information to produce a front panel digital read-out of the percent of capacity at which the chiller is operating or, upon selection, the refrigeration tonnage applied by the chiller to the process water.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1996Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Philip D. Oswalt, Steven E. Wash, Ronald A. Wolfe
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Patent number: 5113931Abstract: A combination pump and heat exchanger assembly in a manufacturing process temperature controller uses a cast metal pump case with two upwardly opening sockets receiving the lower ends of two tubes, one of them communicating through the case with the pump impeller intake and the other with the impeller discharge. Closed circuit and open circuit versions are shown. In both types, the tubes are constructed to function as tanks, at least one being a heat exchanger unit, and they are readily and removably secured to the case by threaded fasteners and are sealed therein by compression seals. The heat exchanger tubes employ electrical heating elements or chilled liquid piping units therein. A controller including a microcomputer responds to temperature of liquid pumped from the assembly through a process to be temperature controlled, and returned to the assembly, to control an electric heater and/or a motor-operated modulator valve discharging to drain while cool make-up water is admitted.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1991Date of Patent: May 19, 1992Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Philip D. Oswalt, Ronald A. Wolfe
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Patent number: 5094291Abstract: A combination pump and heat exchanger assembly uses a cast metal pump case with two upwardly opening sockets receiving the lower ends of two tubes, one of them communicating through the case with the pump impeller intake and the other with the impeller discharge. The tubes are constructed to function as heat exchanger units and are removably secured to the case by threaded fasteners and are sealed therein by compression seals. The heat exchanger tubes may employ electrical heating units or chilled liquid piping units therein.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1990Date of Patent: March 10, 1992Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Philip D. Oswalt, Ronald A. Wolfe
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Patent number: D415553Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1999Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.Inventor: Ronald A. Wolfe
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Patent number: D869504Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Andrew J. Sander, Ronald A. Wolfe