Patents by Inventor Carlton G. Jenkins

Carlton G. Jenkins 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).

  • Compound punching apparatus
    Publication number: 20010025557
    Abstract: A compound punching apparatus for providing a substrate having half of the perforations formed from one major surface of the substrate and the other half of the perforations formed from the opposite major surface. The arrangement of the punches create equal and opposite stress forces in the substrate that essentially cancel each other out to provide a product meeting exacting planarity requirements. The compound punching apparatus includes two diametrically opposed dies and punching tools, a feed system, a drive system and a frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Inventors: Carlton G. Jenkins, David R. Hurst
  • Perforated substrate and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 5842398
    Abstract: A perforated substrate having half of the perforations formed from one major surface of the substrate and the other half formed from the opposite major surface, the two major surface being coplanar is described. This introduces equal and opposite stress forces into the substrate which essentially cancel each other and provide a product meeting exacting planarity requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Precious Plate Florida
    Inventors: Carlton G. Jenkins, David R. Hurst
  • Perforated substrate and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 5578398
    Abstract: A perforated substrate having half of the perforations formed from one major surface of the substrate and the other half formed from the opposite major surface, the two major surface being coplanar is described. This introduces equal and opposite stress forces into the substrate which essentially cancel each other and provide a product meeting exacting planarity requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Precious Plate Florida
    Inventors: Carlton G. Jenkins, David R. Hurst
  • Wire wafer fabricating process
    Patent number: 4361174
    Abstract: A process for fabricating wire wafers from wire stock wherein the wire stock is fed against a wire stop member, surrounded by a support member having wire cut-off and back-up tools located integral to the support member with the wire cut-off and back-up tools activated to provide first and second wire wafers and de-activated to return the wire cut-off and back-up tools to a position for a succeeding cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1982
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Carlton G. Jenkins, Robert R. Johnson