Patents by Inventor Bob G. Harrell

Bob G. Harrell 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: 5205273
    Abstract: A convection and radiant heated oven has a cooking chamber and an air heating chamber below and spaced from the cooking chamber. Shield means above the heating chamber defines, with the oven bottom, a heat space in which an apertured duct receives heated air from the heating chamber and conducts it to a convection fan where it mixes with air from the cooking chamber and is ducted into the cooking chamber. Heated air is also passed upward from the heat space directly into the cooking chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignee: Viking Range Corporation
    Inventors: Michael W. Sparks, Bob G. Harrell
  • Patent number: 4651896
    Abstract: A machine for permitting access to and manual removal of one uppermost article from a stack of vertically positioned articles, such as a newspaper, upon deposit of a predetermined amount of payment in the form of coins and the like, including a manually movable vending mechanism actuated by a machine door that allows access to an article closure having an article access opening that is normally closed by a barrier member which is self-adjusting to the thickness of the article to be vended and which by a pawl and ratchet mechanism is withdrawn from access blocking position upon actuation of the vending mechanism by the machine door. The machine may include a coin receiver and totalizer that permits access through the movable door to the article to be vended through the article access opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: News Vend 1, Inc.
    Inventor: Bob G. Harrell
  • Patent number: 4527711
    Abstract: An article dispensing machine, such as a newspaper vending machine, operable in response to insertion of an appropriate coin, or plurality of coins, has a mechanism which edge engages and dispenses one uppermost article, such as a newspaper, to the purchaser when a mechanism actuator unlocked by insertion of the coins, is manually operated. Upon return to its original position after dispensing one newspaper the actuator cannot be operated again until unlocked by another insertion of appropriate coins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1985
    Assignee: News Vend 1, Inc.
    Inventor: Bob G. Harrell