Patents by Inventor Clarence W. Walker

Clarence W. Walker 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: 6180885
    Abstract: A method for sealing joints, gaps, and surfaces in an electrical busway distribution system comprises selecting a self-leveling sealant, applying the self-leveling sealant directly to joints, gaps, or surfaces of the busway system, and allowing the sealant to cure to form continuous seal between the joints, gaps, and surfaces. After applying the sealant, it subsequently flows into the joints, gaps, and across the surfaces solely under gravitational influence so that the joints, gaps and other surfaces are sufficiently filled by the sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ira Goldman, Clarence W. Walker, Walter Thomas McCabe, Jr., Joseph F. Hutcheson
  • Patent number: 5916276
    Abstract: A wringing device is provided including a housing with a top face, a bottom face, a front face, a rear face and a pair of side faces formed therebetween thus defining an interior space. The top face has an entry opening formed therein and the front face has an exit opening formed therein. A roller assembly is situated within the housing. A drive mechanism is also positioned within the housing and remains in communication with the roller assembly for wringing a piece of cloth when put in the entry opening, whereafter the piece of cloth is dispensed from the exit opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Inventor: Clarence W. Walker, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5854445
    Abstract: An electric power busway system comprises a bus bar support housing with the opposite side plates of the housing shaped with troughs to hold the bus bars in their relative positions, preventing the bus bars from moving towards or away from one another and providing the necessary short-circuit protection and bending resistance. The metal side plates are preferably fastened together without the use of fasteners or the need for welding, through the use of a punch and die tool set. A protective insulating sheet is sandwiched between the insulated bus bars and the housing to protect the bus bar insulation coating from ruptures or tears. Clamping blocks are provided outside the protective busway housing to apply friction on the bus bars within, keeping them from sliding out of the housing assembly. The integral busway housing and clamping serve as a ground conduction facility, with the clamping blocks providing a mechanism to connect the busway section to an adjoining section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric J. Graham, Louis A. Rosen, Ira Goldman, Jeffrey Scott Berliner, Thomas D. Collins, Clarence W. Walker
  • Patent number: 5828006
    Abstract: An electric power busway system has multi-phase power bus bar conductors that are each housed within an individual duct. Individually housing the bus bar conductors provides short-circuit bending resistance as well as superior thermal heat dissipation characteristics because of the improved conductive heat transfer between the bus bar conductors to the individual housing, as well as convective heat transfer from the individual housing assemblies into the ambient air. Wedge-type support braces retain each housed bus bar in position and provide short circuit support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric J. Graham, Clarence W. Walker, Louis A. Rosen, Steven E. Richard
  • Patent number: 5821464
    Abstract: A power busway distribution section length which may be adjusted before, during, or after installation to better facilitate proper busway location and reduce installation and modification costs. The section length comprises two busway stubs which slide independently between a center busway splice-plate joint. Overlapping sheet metal enclosures are used to provide protection from inadvertent contact with live bus bars and allow the busway section length to be adjusted to a discrete length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric J. Graham, Clarence W. Walker, Louis A. Rosen
  • Patent number: 5783779
    Abstract: A busway construction with a standard elbow section that can be adjusted to a wide range of positions to eliminate the need for specialized elbow sections. This adjustable elbow standard busway section with a full-range rotation is designed to connect to other sections of busway which are at non-standard angles to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric J. Graham, Clarence W. Walker, Louis A. Rosen
  • Patent number: 4950841
    Abstract: An electric power bus removable joint includes three spacer-connectors that automatically align the intervening splice plates and insulative plates used to electrically connect between adjoining busway sections. The spacer-connectors automatically attach between the opposing joint face plates without requiring any additional fastening means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Clarence W. Walker, David A. Hibbert
  • Patent number: 4886468
    Abstract: An electric power busway system includes a plurality of closely spaced bus bar conductors with each bus conductor having at least one offset contact blade extension welded or brazed thereto. The contact blades engage corresponding contact spring type receiver stabs within a power take-off assembly with interphase insulators arranged between the corresponding blade receive stabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Lynn M. Harton, Bruce R. Rosenberger, John D. Anderson, Clarence W. Walker
  • Patent number: 4849581
    Abstract: The outer surfaces of adjoining electrical busway side frames are shaped to define a protruding rail extending along the vertical axis thereof. A pair of recessed channels formed within the inner surfaces of the side frames of an intervening busway joint receive the busway rails at opposing ends thereof. Clearance arranged within the respective busway joint channels allows lateral movement of the busway side frames relative to the busway joint. Slots are provided on the busway joint side frames for visual indication of the position of the busway rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Harold F. Larkin, David A. Hibbert, Julie A. Beberman, Clarence W. Walker