Patents by Inventor Alson R. Harm

Alson R. Harm 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: 4664248
    Abstract: Device and a method are taught for specifically orienting and conveying products in a common direction of travel. The products are individually mounted on a plurality of identical, circular, product-carrying pucks. Each circular puck has a flat conveyor-contacting bottom surface and at least one circular peripheral surface contactable by corresponding circular peripheral surfaces of other pucks when located in a random surge thereof. Each puck is surmounted by a product support. Between its bottom surface and its product support, each puck has a peripheral slide surface parallel to the desired direction of travel of the oriented puck and at least one peripheral rotation-producing surface, the slide and rotation-producing surfaces being inset from the circular peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1987
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: William H. Goodman, Jr., Alson R. Harm, Ronald W. Kock, Howard N. Reiboldt