Patents by Inventor David A. Bray

David A. Bray 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: 5381921
    Abstract: A refuse container comprising a hollow body with an upper access opening closed by a displaceable cover, and a bag suspension frame, carried by a body wall, said wall movable between a closed position in which the frame is positioned below an access opening, and an open position in which the frame is exposed for bag replacement. The frame has a movable frame element projecting away from the wall. The body has internal surfaces for deflecting the frame element upwardly during closing movement and downwardly during opening movement of the body wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: Glasdon Group Limited
    Inventors: David A. Bray, Robert Dixon
  • Patent number: 5259815
    Abstract: A air outlet for a passenger compartment of a vehicle has a duct forming a jet of air, a pair of lateral sidewalls, bounded by the top and bottom walls diverging from each other from their upstream ends to their downstream ends at a rate sufficient to preclude a stable wall effect and for causing aperiodic oscillation of the jet into the passenger compartment of said vehicle. Various means are disclosed to further destabilize the wall effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Bowles Fluidics Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald D. Stouffer, Michael C. David, David A. Bray