Patents by Inventor Bruce T. Wenham

Bruce T. Wenham 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: 4712339
    Abstract: Apparatus for providing a vector connection between openings in an enclosed walkway and an adjacent structure. The apparatus is mountable at the walkway opening to vector seal between the walkway and the apparatus. A tubular sealing part of flexible material provides a passageway with open ends for surrounding the walkway opening and structure opening, and a plurality of expandable chambers extend peripherally about the passageway. Expansion of the chambers flexes the sealing part causing it to project from the walkway and abut with a surface of an adjacent structure and surround the structure opening, whilst contraction of the chambers retract the sealing part from the structure back to adjacent the walkway opening. At least one of the chambers is adjacent the open end of the passageway near the structure and deforms as necessary upon abutment of the sealing part with the structures so that the sealing part conforms to the structure surface and vector seals completely about the structure opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1987
    Assignee: Astarni Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: Bruce T. Wenham, Raymond Cook, Clifford R. Hunter