Patents Assigned to Gunite Corporation
  • Sealing device for a slack adjuster
    Publication number: 20050126867
    Abstract: A slack adjuster includes a boot to inhibit contamination of the slack adjuster and prolong the lifetime of a vehicle braking system. The boot includes an expandable bellows, a first seal integrally formed with the bellows and a second seal integrally formed with the bellows. The second seal is positionable in the cavity of the body and includes a boss. The boss is engageable with the lip to inhibit removal of the second seal from the cavity. The second seal of the boot is inserted into the cavity, and a link is inserted through the boot and into the cavity after the seal is inserted into the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Applicant: Gunite Corporation
    Inventors: John Crume, Omar Fakhoury, Reginal Pete, Charles Fritts
  • Outboard ribbed wheel hub
    Patent number: 6866345
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wheel hub having a cylindrical main body and a radial flange, with radial ribs extending between the outboard side of the radial flange and the outboard end of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Gunite Corporation
    Inventors: Omar J. Fakhoury, William E. Ott
  • Outboard ribbed wheel hub
    Publication number: 20040017104
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wheel hub having a cylindrical main body and a radial flange, with radial ribs extending between the outboard side of the radial flange and the outboard end of the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Applicant: Gunite Corporation
    Inventors: Omar J. Fakhoury, William E. Ott
  • Outboard ribbed wheel hub
    Patent number: 6612657
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wheel hub having a cylindrical main body and a radial flange, with radial ribs extending between the outboard side of the radial flange and the outboard end of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Gunite Corporation
    Inventors: Omar J. Fakhoury, William E. Ott
  • Brake drum mounting
    Patent number: 5890567
    Abstract: A brake drum for mounting on a wheel hub has first and second drum pilots for facilitating proper alignment when installing the brake drum on the hub. The first drum pilot is configured to engage a first hub pilot and the second drum pilot is configured to engage a second hub pilot. When the brake drum is initially moved toward the hub during installation, the first drum pilot engages the first hub pilot and the second drum pilot is sufficiently spaced away from the first hub pilot to prevent the front edge of the second drum pilot from being caught on the corner edge of the second hub pilot and the drum becoming eccentrically mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Gunite Corporation
    Inventors: Reginal A. Pete, Jeffrey W. Clark
  • Metal alloys and brake drums made from such alloys
    Patent number: 5858127
    Abstract: A metal alloy, structures made from the same, and methods of making the same, especially brake drums containing at least about 50% by weight of a ferritic matrix, up to 50% by weight of pearlitic iron, graphite including at least 10% by weight of nodular graphite, compacted graphite and no more than 20% by weight of flake graphite, and less than about 2.10% by weight of silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Gunite Corporation
    Inventors: William E. Ott, Reginal A. Pete, Laxmi C. Tandon