Patents by Inventor Alan J. Wootton

Alan J. Wootton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Fibre reinforced plastic connecting rod
    Patent number: 4905540
    Abstract: A connecting rod has a rod member formed from fiber reinforced plastic material secured to a cap member to define the big end of the connecting rod. Securement is by a metal member rigidly attached to the rod member, to which the cap member is secured. Attachment of the rod member and the metal member is via a locally transversely expanded end portion of the rod member enclosed within a similarly shaped (e.g. wedge shaped) cavity in the metal member such that the expanded end portion cannot be withdrawn axially of the rod member from the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland
    Inventors: Joseph D. A. Hughes, Alan J. Wootton, Walter A. Lee, Alexander M. Mitchell