Patents by Inventor Dean A. McGee

Dean A. McGee 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).

  • Mining apparatus
    Patent number: 4254993
    Abstract: An improved mining apparatus for excavating material, such as coal, for example, from an earth formation, such as a coal seam, for example, wherein a miner, having a forward and a rearward cutter, is guided through the coal seam and excavates a borehole therein, the borehole being filled with a working fluid during the operation of the miner, the working fluid facilitating the operation of the miner and providing a vehicle for removing the mined material. Substantially all of the operations of the miner are controlled from the earth's surface thereby eliminating the necessity and accompanying hazards and costs involved in utilizing personnel underground during the mining operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1981
    Assignee: Kerr-McGee Corporation
    Inventors: Dean A. McGee, James E. Ingle, Alan J. Lane
  • Mining apparatus
    Patent number: 4160566
    Abstract: An improved mining apparatus for excavating material, such as coal, for example, from an earth formation, such as a coal seam, for example, wherein a miner, having a forward and a rearward cutter, is guided through the coal seam and excavates a borehole therein, the borehole being filled with a working fluid during the operation of the miner, the working fluid facilitating the operation of the miner and providing a vehicle for removing the mined material. Substantially all of the operations of the miner are controlled from the earth's surface thereby eliminating the necessity and accompanying hazards and costs involved in utilizing personnel underground during the mining operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1979
    Assignee: Kerr-McGee Corporation
    Inventors: Dean A. McGee, James E. Ingle, Alan J. Lane