Patents by Inventor Bruce Brown

Bruce Brown 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: 4739684
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for finishing pistons (10) and the like from foundry-turned castings during one clamping operation provide enhanced manufacturing productivity. Separate boring and turning modules (34, 24) of the apparatus are mounted on a primary base (18) and a grooving module (54) is mounted on a secondary base (72). The modules automatically groove the ring grooves (11), turn the complex shape of the skirt (15) and bore the wrist pin bore (13) through an ordered sequence of manufacturing steps. The piston stock is mounted for rotation on headstock and tailstock assemblies (82, 84). These assemblies are carried on the secondary base (72) which is slidably mounted on the primary base for movement into operative position with respect to the boring and turning modules according to the ordered sequence. The method and system improve piston quality while reducing manufacturing costs including saving factory floor space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1988
    Assignee: The Cross Company
    Inventors: Bruce A. Brown, Robert W. DeBruyne, Robert W. Smith, Donald S. Akhurst, Ronald E. Compton, Douglas R. Myers, David R. Syrowik
  • Patent number: 4729880
    Abstract: An article for sanitizing toilets comprising a dosing dispenser with a calcium hypochlorite cake composition characterized in that the article is designed (when used) to dispense from 1 ml to 4 mls of a 5% to 15% liquid bleach over the life of the article. When in use, the article is designed to maintain a reserve of liquid bleach in the dispenser wherein the reservoir to dose volumetric ratio of 3:1 to 6:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert S. Dirksing, Bruce Brown, Ray D. Lotts, Louis F. Wong
  • Patent number: 4632350
    Abstract: A vertically adjustable hanger for supporting a dispenser for adding a chemical to a toilet tank on a vertical wall member of such toilet tank at a predetermined height to be selected by the user is described as including a bayonet member having means on its upper end for attachment to such toilet tank wall, and a channel means located on the chemical dispenser. The bayonet member further includes vertical adjustment means and, in a preferred embodiment, vertical control means located below its attachment means. The attachment means is rotatable between a predetermined substantially non-obstructive storage position and a hanging position, and when rotated from storage position to hanging position, increases the effective thickness of the dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1986
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Bruce Brown
  • Patent number: 4558471
    Abstract: A dispenser for cleaning and maintaining the cleanliness of a toilet bowl of a flush toilet is provided to co-dispense doses of two or more chemical solutions in response to the change in water level in the toilet tank reservoir during a flush cycle. The dispenser is to have an operational life based on an approximately predetermined number of flush cycles and includes a first internal reservoir containing a quantity of soluble solid-state first chemical sufficient to provide a saturated dose of first chemical cleaning solution in response to each flush cycle throughout the operational life of the dispenser to thereby maintain bowl cleanliness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1985
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bruce Brown, Wilbur C. Strickland, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4522386
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a paper feeding mechanism primarily for printing presses, or the like machines, comprising a left and right interlocking grill, which supports the stack of paper which is fed to the press. The adjustable grill rests on a center base support and the press side support pieces. The grill is adjustable in a horizontal direction depending on the width of the paper, in conjunction with the left and right hand paper pile support guides. The paper feeding mechanism also comprises an adjusting rear paper pile feeding guide adapted to press against the rear of the paper pile, holding it against the front feeder plate of the press. As the paper pile rises an inverted V-shaped feed guide gradually opens allowing the paper to keep rising until all sheets are fed into the press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1985
    Inventors: Bruce Brown, William C. Brown
  • Patent number: 4139627
    Abstract: Anesthetic lozenges are prepared by combining an acid addition salt of 3-piperidino-p-alkoxypropiophenoneswith a molten hard candy base with either the prior or simultaneous addition of a stabilizing amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable acid such as citric acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Assignee: Beecham Inc.
    Inventors: Philip A. Lane, Bruce A. Brown