Patents by Inventor Daniel R. Messner

Daniel R. Messner 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: 5616975
    Abstract: A motor with a hollow housing with an open mouth defined by a side wall, and a cover for its mouth, an electrical motor circuit and power conductors electrically connected to the circuit at one end and adapted to be connected to a source of power at another end, has, when it is assembled, a current supply connecter receptacle. The housing has integral with it, a housing receptacle part with conductor-receiving seats in which the power conductors are seated. The cover has a cover receptacle part integral with the cover. The cover is latched into position, closing the housing mouth and completing the receptacle, by at least one deflectable finger, one end of which is integral with one of the cover and housing and a free end of which is provided with a latching lip, and a complementary ledge integral with the other of the housing and cover, the ledge being spaced and shaped to receive and be engaged by the lip. Provision is made for permitting the lip to be displaced from the ledge to free the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Kevin M. May, S. Duke Snider, Daniel R. Messner
  • Patent number: 5332188
    Abstract: A bracket for mounting a motor which drives a fan in a dehumidifier or the like includes two or more arms secured directly to the motor's housing. The bracket includes a rib which spans nearly the full length of an extender of the arm and gussets at the various junctions of the arm. The use of the rib and gussets in the arm substantially isolates motor vibration and reduces imbalance of the impeller and/or the driven component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1994
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: William L. Davis, Daniel R. Messner
  • Patent number: 4904893
    Abstract: An improved stator end cap insulator assembly for a stator core wherein molded end cap insulator structure for the stator core includes end turn restraining structure having ventilation recesses for the end turns of the magnetic wire coils wound about the pole pieces and further includes structure for securing external lead wires cooperative with the restraining and ventilating structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1990
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: S. Duke Snider, Daniel R. Messner
  • Patent number: 4492888
    Abstract: This invention relates to a dynamoelectric machine having a stator and rotor with the latter including a hollow shaft extending from the body of the rotor and with the rotor shaft being journalled by bearings carried by the end shields or bearings supports of the dynamoelectric machine. A tubular wire way extends through the hollow rotor shaft and is stationarily secured to the stator. Specifically, an opening is provided in one of the end shields for threadably receiving the wire way and the end of this wire way protrudes beyond the one end shield. A locking nut is threadably received on the end of the wire way protruding beyond the end shield so as to lock the wire way with respect to the end shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1985
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: C. Theodore Peachee, Daniel R. Messner