Patents by Inventor Albert W. Crumrine, Jr.

Albert W. Crumrine, Jr. 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).

  • Patent number: 4131156
    Abstract: An improved fan construction for use with engines utilizing circulating coolant and radiators, including a shaft adapted to be mounted on an engine or the like, a sheave journalled on the shaft, and fan blades carried by the sheave and rotatable therewith. An annular ring of resilient material is disposed about the fan blades and has an inner diameter spaced slightly radially outwardly of the tips of the fan blades and an outer periphery adapted to slidably, peripherally, sealingly engage a radiator shroud or the like about the periphery of an orifice therein and a perforate support for the ring secured to both the ring and the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1978
    Assignee: Caterpillar Tractor Co.
    Inventors: Albert W. Crumrine, Jr., Theodore H. Fones, James M. Kostas, Raymond M. Vanderburg