Patents by Inventor Christopher Guy Williams

Christopher Guy Williams 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: 11839895
    Abstract: A fully automated land irrigation system to irrigate regular and irregular shapes of land. The system includes a water deliver pipe assembly configured to travel laterally while irrigating adjacent to a stationary row of spaced access valves supplied by a water main. The system includes a single coupler automated connector to automatically supply water to the water delivery pipe assembly. The connector includes a swing arm pivotably mounted to the water delivery pipe assembly, a valve coupler mounted to the swing arm to selectively access water from the water main via the spaced access valves and a water conveyance to operably flow water between the valve coupler and the swing arm. The valve coupler includes a vertical coupler travel configured to provide essentially vertical travel of the valve coupler relative to the swing arm. The water delivery pipe assembly can be center-pivot rotated employing a rotator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams
  • Publication number: 20230320293
    Abstract: A fully automated irrigation system to irrigate regular and irregular shapes of land. The system includes a water delivery pipe assembly configured to travel linearly while irrigating adjacent to a stationary row of water main spaced access valves. The system includes an automated connector configured to supply water from the access valves to the water delivery pipe assembly. The connector includes a swing arm, a compensator, a valve coupler, a lift and a swinger. The swing arm facilitates positioning a coupler body above a next-up access valve and facilitates positioning the delivery pipe assembly. The compensator compensates for distance change between a coupled-to access valve and the delivery pipe assembly when the assembly travels. A coupler body resides at an outer end of the swing arm. The lift raises and lowers the swing arm to couple and uncouple respectively the coupler body along the row of access valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams
  • Patent number: 10687484
    Abstract: A fully automated irrigation system to irrigate regular and irregular shapes of land. The system includes a water delivery pipe assembly configured to travel laterally while irrigating adjacent to a stationary row of spaced access valves supplied by a water main. The system includes a single coupler automated connector configured to supply water to the water delivery pipe assembly. The connector includes a swing arm mounted to and hydraulically connected to the water delivery pipe assembly. The connector includes a valve coupler mounted to the swing arm, the valve coupler configured to raise and lower relative to the swing arm to selectively access water from the water main via the spaced access valves. The connector includes a swing arm length regulator enabling substantially horizontal coupler travel relative to the swing arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams
  • Patent number: 10477784
    Abstract: A land irrigation system to irrigate farmland. The system includes a water delivery pipe assembly having a plurality of drive motors mounted thereto. The water delivery pipe assembly is configured for one or the other or both of linear-move irrigator travel and center pivot irrigator travel. The water delivery pipe assembly is further configured to stagger the operation of select ones of the drive motors wherein when one or more of the selected drive motors are in operation one or more of the selected drive motors are not in operation. Staggering the operation of select ones of the drive motors can serve to reduce the carbon footprint as well as size footprint of the power supply that powers the drive motors whether that supply be a diesel generator or a water motor driven generator or an inverted battery power supply or a fuel cell or other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams
  • Patent number: 9301459
    Abstract: A fully automated land irrigation system to irrigate regular and irregular shapes of land. The system includes a water deliver pipe assembly configured to travel laterally while irrigating adjacent to a stationary row of spaced access valves supplied by a water main. The system includes a single coupler automated connector to automatically supply water to the water delivery pipe assembly. The connector includes a swing arm pivotably mounted to and hydraulically connected to the water delivery pipe assembly, a valve coupler mounted to the swing arm to selectively access water from the water main via the spaced access valves and a water conveyance to operably flow water between the valve coupler and the swing arm. The valve coupler includes a vertical coupler travel configured to provide essentially vertical travel of the valve coupler relative to the swing arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams
  • Publication number: 20120128138
    Abstract: A telephone call handling system includes a sendings receiver configured to receive sendings sent from the telephones of other party's via a telephone service. A sendings registry automatically inventories each received sending and forwards the inventoried sending to a storage where the sending is stored. Subsequently, a delivery trigger is triggered. The triggered trigger initiates a sendings provider to provide one or more of the inventoried and stored sendings to a deliverer. The deliverer then delivers the provided sending or sendings to one or more of: a speaker, a display, a text message display, an image display, a video display, an email delivery, an web-site poster, a service provider delivery, a delivery port, a ring-back delivery, a ring-back forward delivery and a ring-tone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams
  • Publication number: 20110319104
    Abstract: A telephone call handling system includes a text selector to enable a user to select a text message prior to an incoming call. The text message can be stored in a text storage and sent by a text sender from the text storage to a calling telephone. A delivery trigger can initiate the text sender to send the text message at the time of the telephone call. The delivery trigger can be linked to delivery of an audio message, an audio content, an image or a video. The delivery trigger can be linked to call detection, call answer or call hang up. The user can be enabled to initiate the sending of the text message. The system can further include caller I.D. information. The user can employ the caller I.D. information in making a decision to initiate the sending of the text message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams
  • Publication number: 20110190012
    Abstract: A telephone call handling system includes a text selector to enable a user to select a text message prior to an incoming call. The text message can be stored in a text storage and sent by a text sender from the text storage for receipt at a caller's telephone during and/or after the incoming call. A delivery trigger can trigger the text sender to send the text message. The delivery trigger can be linked to delivery of an audio message, an audio content, an image or a video. The delivery trigger can be linked to call detection, call answer or call hang up. The user can be enabled to trigger the sending of the text message. The system can further include caller I.D. information. The user can employ the caller I.D. information in making a trigger decision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams
  • Publication number: 20110188645
    Abstract: A telephone call handling system wherein a user is provided with caller I.D. information. For responding to the information, the system affords the user a plurality of call handling options beyond the simple option of answering the call or not. The user can instruct the system to implement any one of the plurality of options. One option can send a call back message to the caller. Another option can send a hold message to the caller and then places the caller on hold. A third option can send entertainment to the caller such that user and caller can simultaneously enjoy the entertainment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams
  • Patent number: 7415107
    Abstract: A telephone call information delivery system includes answering circuitry to answer a telephone call incoming from a service provider and to attain information input by a caller. The system further includes an information signal provider to provide at least one signal to deliver at least some of the attained information to a user. As an example, from the delivered information the user can decide whether or not to answer the incoming call. In another embodiment, the system further includes an alert signal provider to provide a signal to alert the user and an activator to receive instruction from the user. The information signal provider operates responsive to the activator. This embodiment answers an incoming call, attains information from the caller, alerts the user, the user then instructs the activator and the signal provider responds and delivers attained information to the user. The user then decides whether to answer the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams
  • Patent number: 7062036
    Abstract: A telephone call information delivery system includes answering circuitry to answer a telephone call incoming from a service provider and to attain information input by a caller. The system further includes an information signal provider to provide at least one signal to deliver at least some of the attained information to a user. As an example, from the delivered information the user can decide whether or not to answer the incoming call. In another embodiment, the system further includes an alert signal provider to provide a signal to alert the user and an activator to receive instruction from the user. The information signal provider operates responsive to the activator. This embodiment answers an incoming call, attains information from the caller, alerts the user, the user then instructs the activator and the signal provider responds and delivers attained information to the user. The user then decides whether to answer the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams
  • Publication number: 20020168063
    Abstract: The present invention provides a caller name delivery service telecommunications system having caller screening and other options. The system includes intercepting a call from a calling subscriber to a desired called subscriber, as a first option, prompting the caller to either speak his or her name, or speak or punch a pin number as a second option, reviewing caller screen and caller pass-through lists to determine whether the intercepted call is on either list, playing a called subscriber announcement requesting voice identification of the calling subscriber, recording the voice identification on a recording medium, transmitting to the called subscriber the recorded voice message, recording the telephone number of the calling subscriber and playing the voice identification in a voice format by means of text to speech or recorded digits to speech technology, and requesting the called party to accept the call by a plurality of different options.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams
  • Patent number: 6431475
    Abstract: A fully automated land irrigation system to irrigate regular and irregular shapes of land. The system includes an expanse of water delivery pipe moved laterally while irrigating adjacent to a stationary row of spaced access valves supplied by a water main. A swing arm is pivotally mounted to one end of the delivery pipe and a valve coupler is mounted to the opposite free swinging swing arm end. Valve connection is made and the delivery pipe irrigates while traveling to the next successive access valve. The coupler is then disconnected from the valve and the free swing arm end and coupler are ground pivoted to the next valve where connection is again made. Delivery pipe travel results in rotation of the swing arm about the valve connection. This rotation feature also enables the swing arm and the water delivery pipe to the pivoted about a valve as an anchor to a similar position on the opposite side of the water main.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams