Patents Examined by Ramon Britts
  • Patent number: 5249630
    Abstract: A tubing retrievable safety valve, lockout tool and method of use are disclosed that are adapted to lock the valve open permanently and provide access to control line pressure by perforating the piston in the valve. The lockout tool comprises a track mandrel having a ramp slidably disposed beneath a punch that is adapted to penetrate the piston wall of the valve at a point adjacent to the control fluid annulus, thereby creating a protrusion adapted to lock the valve open and establishing fluid communication between the control fluid annulus and the valve bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Otis Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Michael W. Meaders, Rennie L. Dickson
  • Patent number: 4886231
    Abstract: A portable bookstand is formed from a sheet of rigid card with transverse hinge lines dividing the card into a number of panels to form a base panel, an upstanding front panel, a rearwardly inclined edge receiving panel, an upwardly inclined book face receiving panel and a rearward support structure. Hook and loop fasteners are provided toconnect the junction line between the inclined panels to the base panel and to adjustably position the support panel structure to provide different inclinations of the book receiving panel. The device can be folded flat by lifting the inclined panels away from the base panel to allow the support panel to fold in between. Separate arms are pivotally and swivally mounted on the front inclined surface so that they can project upwardly and rearwardly from outer edges thereof to outer edges of the book receiving panel to engage the outer edges of the book.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Inventor: Bradley L. J. Doerksen