Patents Examined by Michael E Gallion
  • Hoist drive train torque sensor
    Patent number: 10696527
    Abstract: A drive train for a rescue hoist includes a mounting portion for mounting the drive train within the rescue hoist. A load pin extends through the mounting portion and into a static structure of the rescue hoist to secure the drive train to the rescue hoist. The load pin is configured to sense the strain generated when the drive train imparts torque to the cable drum to rotate the cable drum. The sensed strain is communicated to a computer configured to calculate a torque generated by the drive train based on the sensed strain and further configured to calculate the load on the cable based on the sensed strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventor: Bejan Ijadi-Maghsoodi
  • Crane and method for influencing a deformation of a jib system of said crane
    Patent number: 10696526
    Abstract: A crane having at least one jib system, a sensor unit for detecting a deformation of the jib system transversely to a load plane, and to an activatable adjustment unit for influencing the deformation of the jib system transversely to the load plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Terex Global GmbH
    Inventors: Alfons Weckbecker, Frank Schnittker
  • Cable reel and reel carrying caddy
    Patent number: 10689223
    Abstract: A cable caddy with a portable housing stores cable reels. Each reel includes a drum coupled to end caps. Plugs inserted in the end caps are irrotatable with respect to the housing and rotatable with respect to the drum. During transport reels are stacked vertically atop one another with a plug of a first reel inserted in a plug of a second reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: PERFECTVISION MANUFACTURING, INC
    Inventors: Robert J. Chastain, Denton McDonald, James S. Carter, Chrispin A. Bowen, David A. Kelly, Glen David Shaw
  • Deadline anchor pigtail clamp
    Patent number: 10670112
    Abstract: An anchor for clamping a handling system deadline and controlled by an actuator, such as a hydraulic cylinder or a gearbox coupled to an electric motor. The anchor may generally operate using a pivoting clamping mechanism, wherein the deadline is held between a static clamp plate and a pivoting clamp plate. The pivoting clamp plate may pivot at a pivot point arranged between the two plates. A bolt may be arranged through an opening in each of the clamp plates. A first end of the bolt may extend beyond an outer surface of the pivoting clamp plate and couple to an end block. At a second end, the bolt may extend beyond an outer surface of the static clamp plate and couple to the actuator. As a linear force is applied to the bolt by the actuator, the bolt may pull the pivoting clamp plate toward the static clamp plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.
    Inventors: Reece William Kaybidge, Lucas Arnesen Nealon
  • Bed loader
    Patent number: 10668849
    Abstract: A bed loader for loading game animals and other loads on a four-wheel recreational vehicles and more particularly, a bed loader mounted on a winch-equipped recreational vehicle with a roof and a bed for loading game animals onto the bed of the recreational vehicle. In a preferred embodiment the bed loader comprises a front guide, a top forward guide, and a top rear guide, and the bed loader is designed to operate with the winch comprised of a rotating drum and a winch line wound on the drum. The front guide, the top forward guide, and the top rear guide provide a guiding means guiding the winch line from the winch over the roof of the vehicle to a load at the rear of the vehicle allowing the winch line to attach to the game animal, and pull the game animal into the bed of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Inventor: Allen Lee Terrell
  • Cable tensioning device
    Patent number: 10669136
    Abstract: An affordable tension device for maintaining tension on a wire rope of a cable-based lifting system is provided. The tension device has an elongated casting weight adapted to govern the casting weight as it rides along a predetermined wire rope for maintaining tension thereon. The tension device provides a clevis with a sheave for operatively associating with the tension wire rope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Inventor: Jeffrey Edward Robb
  • Heave compensation system
    Patent number: 10669137
    Abstract: A compact and simplified heave compensation system for reducing the effect of waves or wavelike movements on a lifting device. The system can have active and passive heave compensation components. An overload protection to protect lifting equipment can also be implemented. The system enables accurate load and displacement calculations, as well as simplifying the control schemes utilized for lifting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: WT INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Douglas Patrick Trail
  • Device providing safe access to a confined space, notably a lateral-access confined space
    Patent number: 10669133
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for safe access to a confined space, comprising: a rectilinear support strut (12), two arms (14, 16) each fixed rigidly to an end (12a) of the strut, at right angles thereto and in opposite directions. A first arm (14) comprises at least one anchoring element (18), the second arm (16) being provided with at least two pulleys (20, 22) whose axis of rotation is at right angles to the plane defined by the strut and the arms. The anchoring element (18) and the two pulleys (20, 22) are arranged so as to allow the passage of a cordage of the anchoring element to the pulleys without interfering with the strut and the first and second arms. The strut (12) has at least one fixing member intended to cooperate with an opening (84) of the confined space in order to ensure the fixing thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Total Raffinage Chimie
    Inventors: Nicolas Le Vern, Olivier Gervais
  • Vehicle covering apparatus
    Patent number: 10661645
    Abstract: An apparatus for raising and lowering a vehicle cover is provided. The apparatus includes a flexible member having a first end and a second end, the flexible member configured to flex so that, with the first end positioned adjacent to a vehicle and the second and positioned generally higher than the vehicle, the second end raises the vehicle cover up from the vehicle and lowers the vehicle cover down towards the vehicle. The second end of the flexible member is configured to retain the vehicle cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Inventor: Daniel Cornew
  • Monitoring system for dispenser
    Patent number: 10660486
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a sheet material dispenser. The dispenser can include support for supporting a supply of the sheet material, and a feed roller arranged along a feed path of the sheet material downstream from the supply of sheet material that is operable to pull the sheet material from the supply of sheet material for feeding thereof. Additionally, the dispenser can include a controller that is in communication with the feed roller and includes programming for monitoring rotation of the feed roller during a dispensing cycle for feeding a selected length of the sheet material from the supply of sheet material. A material supply monitoring system further can be in communication with the controller, and operative to detect a number of rotations or an angle of rotation of the supply sheet material during at least a series of dispensing cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Valve Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles A. Osborne, Jr.
  • Apparatus for transporting and dispensing wire or cable from a barrel pack
    Patent number: 10666026
    Abstract: An apparatus for the movement of a barrel pack containing spooled wire or cable. The apparatus comprising a frame, a handle attached to the frame, a plurality of wheels rotatably attached to the frame, securing structures attached to the frame, the securing structures securing the barrel pack to the frame and a footage counting assembly attached to the handle. The footage counting assembly counts the amount of footage of wire or cable passing through the footage counting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Encore Wire Corporation
    Inventors: Justin Abraham Hrbacek, John Lamar Rhoads, David Wayne Maxey
  • Winch including integrated contactor and motor
    Patent number: 10662036
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a winch including a motor and a contactor assembly positioned within a same housing. In one example, the contactor assembly is coupled to the motor and includes two or more coils spaced apart from one another within a contactor housing of the contactor assembly and a brush assembly including a plurality of brushes surrounding a rotational axis of the motor and arranged axially to the motor armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: WARN INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Darren G. Fretz, Bryan Averill, Clark Brumet, Thomas Paasch, Kevin Christensen
  • Self-braking pulley
    Patent number: 10661103
    Abstract: A self-braking pulley is disclosed for controlling a rate of extraction of a tether wound upon the pulley. The pulley includes a spool for receiving a tether, the spool being arranged to rotate about an axle of the pulley as the tether is removed therefrom. The pulley further includes a braking assembly for applying a braking force to the spool and a drive assembly which is engagable with the spool via an engagement member. The engagement member is arranged to rotationally couple the spool with the drive assembly for driving the braking assembly, in dependence of a rate of rotation of the spool about the axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SWISSLOGO AG
    Inventors: Stephen Griffiths, Dion Owen
  • Cable machine
    Patent number: 10662038
    Abstract: A machine for manufacturing cables includes a winch that includes a tube, which includes at least a pulley, a reducer and an input shaft to the reducer in its interior. A system for attaching the reducer includes two concentric bearings. An outer bearing is attached to the reducer and the tube, and an inner bearing is attached to the pulley and outer bearing, such that the pulley is supported by the inner bearing and by bearings of the input shaft of the reducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: CONSTRUCCIONES MECANICAS CABALLE, S.A.
    Inventor: Antonio Berenguer Atenza
  • Electric winch
    Patent number: 10662037
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an electric winch which comprises a motor having a motor housing, a first terminal, a second terminal and a third terminal, and an insulating cover plate having a mounting hole, a first inner bore column and a second inner bore column. A first through hole, a second through hole and a third through hole are provided on an outer edge of the motor housing. The embodiment allows pre-mounting of the terminals on the insulating cover plate before they are fixed to the motor housing and provides higher efficiency in the assembly process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Inventor: Xiaojun Cui
  • Apparatus and method for raising a ladder tree stand
    Patent number: 10662049
    Abstract: A ladder tree stand raising apparatus for raising a ladder tree stand into position adjacent to a tree. The apparatus comprising an elongated member, a first lateral member, and a second lateral member. The elongated member having a first end and a second end. The first end of the elongated member is connectable to the tree. The first lateral member is connected to the second end of the elongated member. The second lateral member is connected to the elongated member and spaced a distance from the first lateral member. The second lateral member has at least one arm having a substantially U-shaped configuration. The at least one arm is engageable with a rung of the ladder tree stand. An open end of the at least one arm extends away from the second lateral member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Inventor: Ronald Berkbuegler
  • Hook block base body
    Patent number: 10662041
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hook block base body for fastening to a pulley set of a hoisting apparatus having a plurality of deflection pulleys comprising a means for installing the hook block base body at the pulley set and a load suspension means for suspending a load, characterized by at least one projection element that is configured to cooperate with a deflection pulley on an installation of the hook block base body at the pulley set and only to permit an installation of the hook block base body at the pulley set when the deflection pulley cooperating with the projection element is rope-free.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH
    Inventor: Bernd Boos
  • Coil clamp
    Patent number: 10662015
    Abstract: A device for holding a coil structure that is wound in multiple coils. The device includes a coil clamp that retains the coil structure and a base substrate that the coil clamp engages in order to support the coil clamp and, in turn, the coil structure. The coil clamp is formed as a single piece coil clamp that includes a main circular portion and a base substrate engagement portion that is contiguous with the main circular portion. The main circular portion is arranged for receipt of the coil structure, and said base substrate engagement portion has a retaining recess for receiving and engaging with a side edge of the base substrate. The container box is preferably constructed of a cardboard material, and a part, or all of, the container box, is foldable and useable as the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Inventor: Phillip M. Guerin
  • Bearing supported pick-up pin for spincast reel
    Patent number: 10660322
    Abstract: A fishing reel designed to retain rotational functionality under load. The reel has a spool and spinner head assembly. A first pin arm is pivotally mounted to a plate portion of the spinner head assembly. A plate facing surface of the first pin arm has at least a portion that defines a planar surface from the first pivot end to the first pin arm for providing deflection resistance. A first pick-up pin selectively extends the first pin arm through a first pick-up pin orifice in a wall portion of the spinner head assembly. A first pick-up sleeve is rotationally mounted on the first pick-up pin for engaging fishing line when fishing line is wound onto said spool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: W.C. Bradley/Zebco Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Kent L. Zwayer, Kyle O'Dell, Mike Mao
  • Rope guidance for second device used on durahoist arm
    Patent number: 10662040
    Abstract: A line guidance device (40) is provided for use with a confined space entry/retrieval hoist and fall protection anchorage system (10) and includes a line guide (46) that guides a line from an extend/retract line device (22) past another extend/retract line device (20) with both devices (20, 22) mounted on a backside (24) of a mast (12) of the system (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Radim Svoboda, Jan Hrouzek