Patents by Inventor Dale L. Linman

Dale L. Linman 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: 4622836
    Abstract: A golf club loft and lie calibration machine has a fixture with a cavity that exactly matches the back of the golf club head for clamping the golf club head. A pin with a tapered end is inserted into the bore of the golf club's hosel. The angular displacement of the pin is mechanically converted into two components of angular displacement which components are then converted to electrical signals. The electrical signals are processed to determine the deviations from the specified loft and lie angles. The deviation is used to activate hydraulic rams distributed around the fixture to bend the golf club head's hosel and bring the golf club back to specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Assignee: MacGregor Golf Company
    Inventors: Dabbs C. Long, Gerald R. Anderson, Dale L. Linman, Thomas M. Moore
  • Patent number: 4443099
    Abstract: A photographic printing system including a masking card for carrying a transparency bearing an image to be printed at an aperture thereof. The card contributes to registration of the image within the printer optical path. The masking cards are carried in a first receptacle in stacking relation to others of the masking cards. A printing station is provided generally at the optical path of the printer and a card transport removes masking cards from the first card receptacle and conveys them to the printing station. A second card receptacle is provided while the printing station includes apparatus for ejecting masking cards from the printing station to the second card receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1984
    Assignee: Lucht Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Dale L. Linman, Stephen A. Bartz