Patents by Inventor Colin B. Bolton

Colin B. Bolton 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).

  • Protective clothing
    Patent number: 4352353
    Abstract: A respirator comprising a hood and visor adapted to protect a wearer against an undesirable substance and so closely to fit and envelop the wearer's head as to be susceptible of being worn underneath a helmet, the visor being formed to accommodate an oronasal mask and the respirator having purge gas supply means for maintaining a positive pressure within the respirator and for washing over the visor in visual regions thereof as well as breathing gas supply means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    Inventors: Colin B. Bolton, Alan J. Miles, Robert E. Simpson
  • Panel breaking systems
    Patent number: 4275858
    Abstract: A Panel Breaking Apparatus comprising at least one fusible conductor having at least one region of increased fusibility and embedded in intimate contact with the panel material and connected to a source of electrical power operable to produce a high-energy pulse of current sufficient to fuse the conductor and thus to break the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1981
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    Inventors: Colin B. Bolton, Harry D. Rylands, Clara Turner, Henry W. Turner
  • Flotation stoles
    Patent number: 4131974
    Abstract: A flotation stole having a chest portion of greater capacity at one side than the other so that it will invert an unconscious wearer who is face down in the water, even though the wearer may also be wearing clothing and an immersion suit and the stole being disposed to be symmetrical below the water level to ensure that the wearer may then lie in a substantially symmetrical configuration when face up in the water, that is without one shoulder being lower than the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1979
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    Inventors: Colin B. Bolton, Gerald P. Hermer