Patents Assigned to Metal Parts, Inc.
  • Fabricated bucket tooth
    Patent number: 5210965
    Abstract: A replaceable point is disclosed for attaching to the nose of an adapter to provide a tooth for an earth digging and moving bucket. The point is made up of a plurality of flat-sided, rolled steel plates that are held in aligned side-by-side relationship. The plates have edges that are contoured to form a point of the desired shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Metal Parts, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles F. Funk, Sr., Charles F. Funk, Jr.
  • Method of attaching a wear strip to downhole members
    Patent number: 4445727
    Abstract: A method of encircling the outside surface of a downhole tool joint with wear strips of cast, relatively brittle, drillable material in which the strips have notches in their abutting ends, and weld metal is puddled in openings formed by the notches. The weld metal is fused to the tool joint surface but not to the wear strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: Metal Parts, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles F. Funk