Patents by Inventor Arthur Bentley

Arthur Bentley 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: 9394640
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling sewing machine stitch length based on thread usage are provided. The techniques include a sewing machine computer storing a stitch length setting and using a thread movement sensor to sense the movement of thread as the thread is drawn from a spool due to the user moving an object relative to a sewing machine needle and thereby drawing thread from the needle and the spool. The techniques also include a sewing machine computer receiving information from the thread movement sensor and determining a length of thread drawn from the spool after formation of a previous stitch, comparing the length of thread with the stitch length setting, and operating a sewing machine motor to create a stitch when the length of thread drawn from the spool after formation of the previous stitch corresponds to the stitch length setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Inventor: Arthur Bentley
  • Publication number: 20130276686
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling sewing machine stitch length based on thread usage are provided. The techniques include a sewing machine computer storing a stitch length setting and using a thread movement sensor to sense the movement of thread as the thread is drawn from a spool due to the user moving an object relative to a sewing machine needle and thereby drawing thread from the needle and the spool. The techniques also include a sewing machine computer receiving information from the thread movement sensor and determining a length of thread drawn from the spool after formation of a previous stitch, comparing the length of thread with the stitch length setting, and operating a sewing machine motor to create a stitch when the length of thread drawn from the spool after formation of the previous stitch corresponds to the stitch length setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventor: Arthur Bentley
  • Patent number: 8528491
    Abstract: A computer-controlled quilting machine uses a hand held stylus to create the patterns which are sewn into a quilt. The machine can quilt in real time, following the movement of the stylus as a user traces any desired object or design. The machine allows a user to easily sew a desired pattern into a quilt, and also provides greater access to quilting to those persons who are unable to operate other types of quilting machines, while retaining much of the appeal of hand quilting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Inventor: Arthur Bentley
  • Publication number: 20120055386
    Abstract: A computer-controlled quilting machine uses a hand held stylus to create the patterns which are sewn into a quilt. The machine can quilt in real time, following the movement of the stylus as a user traces any desired object or design. The machine allows a user to easily sew a desired pattern into a quilt, and also provides greater access to quilting to those persons who are unable to operate other types of quilting machines, while retaining much of the appeal of hand quilting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventor: Arthur Bentley
  • Patent number: 8074590
    Abstract: A computer-controlled quilting machine uses a hand held stylus to create the patterns which are sewn into a quilt. The machine can quilt in real time, following the movement of the stylus as a user traces any desired object or design. The machine allows a user to easily sew a desired pattern into a quilt, and also provides greater access to quilting to those persons who are unable to operate other types of quilting machines, while retaining much of the appeal of hand quilting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Inventor: Arthur Bentley
  • Publication number: 20090151612
    Abstract: A computer-controlled quilting machine uses a hand held stylus to create the patterns which are sewn into a quilt. The machine can quilt in real time, following the movement of the stylus as a user traces any desired object or design. The machine allows a user to easily sew a desired pattern into a quilt, and also provides greater access to quilting to those persons who are unable to operate other types of quilting machines, while retaining much of the appeal of hand quilting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventor: Arthur Bentley
  • Patent number: 6369094
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a crystalline, polymorphic form of a compound of formula (I) characterized by a powder X-ray diffraction pattern obtained using copper K-alpha1 radiation (&lgr;=0.15046 nm) which shows main peaks at 9.28, 10.38, 11.37, 12.40, 16.84, 17.46, 17.53, 17.78, 17.98, 19.48, 20.70, 21.29, 21.45, 22.21, 22.64, 23.08, 25.20 and 25.79. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of said form, to pharmaceutical compositions containing same and to its use in medicine, particularly the treatment of conditions for which an agonist of 5-HT1 receptors is indicated, for example, migraine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Bentley, Simon Arnold Howard-Field, Ronald James Ogilvie
  • Patent number: 4687420
    Abstract: A pump for heating high viscosity oil and elevating it to a ground level from a subterranean level. The pump, which is preferrably of the type which produces and is operated by sonic pressure waves of special character, includes a ground level generator for producing pump operating forces that are transmitted to the subterranean level for reciprocally operating a subterranean heating and oil elevating unit which has a special magnetic piston reciprocal in a non-permanently magnetizable housing for generating heat and further has a reciprocal operating mechanism for intaking the heated oil and elevating it to the ground level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1987
    Inventor: Arthur Bentley
  • Patent number: D694783
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Inventor: Arthur Bentley
  • Patent number: D694785
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Inventor: Arthur Bentley
  • Patent number: D694786
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Inventor: Arthur Bentley