Patents by Inventor Donald Arthur Smith
Donald Arthur Smith 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).
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Patent number: 9745091Abstract: The present description discusses apparatuses and methods for applying straps around a bundle of objects by applying a variable force to tension the strap around the bundle of objects and then actuating a series of cams to control the sealing of the strap around the bundle of objects. The apparatus includes a track assembly extending substantially about a strapping station. The track assembly is adapted to receive a strap and to release the strap during a tensioning operation. An accumulator delivers strap to the track assembly. The accumulator has a strap conveyor system that defines a strap path and an accumulator container adjacent to the strap path. Strap can be accumulated in the accumulator container and subsequently delivered to the track assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Enterprises International, Inc.Inventors: David Richard Doyle, Knut O. Totland, Philip Floyd Jones, Donald Arthur Smith
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Publication number: 20140130686Abstract: The present description discusses apparatuses and methods for applying straps around a bundle of objects by applying a variable force to tension the strap around the bundle of objects and then actuating a series of cams to control the sealing of the strap around the bundle of objects. The apparatus includes a track assembly extending substantially about a strapping station. The track assembly is adapted to receive a strap and to release the strap during a tensioning operation. An accumulator delivers strap to the track assembly. The accumulator has a strap conveyor system that defines a strap path and an accumulator container adjacent to the strap path. Strap can be accumulated in the accumulator container and subsequently delivered to the track assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: Enterprises International, Inc.Inventors: David Richard Doyle, Knut O. Totland, Philip Floyd Jones, Donald Arthur Smith
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Patent number: 8584438Abstract: The present description discusses apparatuses and methods for applying straps around a bundle of objects by applying a variable force to tension the strap around the bundle of objects and then actuating a series of cams to control the sealing of the strap around the bundle of objects. The apparatus includes a track assembly extending substantially about a strapping station. The track assembly is adapted to receive a strap and to release the strap during a tensioning operation. An accumulator delivers strap to the track assembly. The accumulator has a strap conveyor system that defines a strap path and an accumulator container adjacent to the strap path. Strap can be accumulated in the accumulator container and subsequently delivered to the track assembly.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2010Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Enterprises International, Inc.Inventors: David Richard Doyle, Knut O. Totland, Philip Floyd Jones, Donald Arthur Smith
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Publication number: 20110011039Abstract: The present description discusses apparatuses and methods for applying straps around a bundle of objects by applying a variable force to tension the strap around the bundle of objects and then actuating a series of cams to control the sealing of the strap around the bundle of objects. The apparatus includes a track assembly extending substantially about a strapping station. The track assembly is adapted to receive a strap and to release the strap during a tensioning operation. An accumulator delivers strap to the track assembly. The accumulator has a strap conveyor system that defines a strap path and an accumulator container adjacent to the strap path. Strap can be accumulated in the accumulator container and subsequently delivered to the track assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: Enterprises International, Inc.Inventors: David Richard Doyle, Knut O. Totland, Philip Floyd Jones, Donald Arthur Smith
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Patent number: 7770369Abstract: The present description discusses apparatuses and methods for applying straps around a bundle of objects by applying a variable force to tension the strap around the bundle of objects and then actuating a series of cams to control the sealing of the strap around the bundle of objects. The apparatus includes a track assembly extending substantially about a strapping station. The track assembly is adapted to receive a strap and to release the strap during a tensioning operation. An accumulator delivers strap to the track assembly. The accumulator has a strap conveyor system that defines a strap path and an accumulator container adjacent to the strap path. Strap can be accumulated in the accumulator container and subsequently delivered to the track assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2008Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Enterprises International, Inc.Inventors: David Richard Doyle, Knut O. Totland, Philip Floyd Jones, Donald Arthur Smith
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Publication number: 20080256900Abstract: The present description discusses apparatuses and methods for applying straps around a bundle of objects by applying a variable force to tension the strap around the bundle of objects and then actuating a series of cams to control the sealing of the strap around the bundle of objects. The apparatus includes a track assembly extending substantially about a strapping station. The track assembly is adapted to receive a strap and to release the strap during a tensioning operation. An accumulator delivers strap to the track assembly. The accumulator has a strap conveyor system that defines a strap path and an accumulator container adjacent to the strap path. Strap can be accumulated in the accumulator container and subsequently delivered to the track assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventors: David Richard Doyle, Knut O. Totland, Philip Floyd Jones, Donald Arthur Smith
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Patent number: 4089637Abstract: A fuel admission assembly for a tangentially fired furnace that utilizes oil, gas, or other utility grade fuels. The assembly disclosed has the ability to achieve a positive control of the air flow through a specially designed swirler. Because of this unique feature of its design, this assembly will permit efficient tangential boiler operation at 5% excess air or less over a fuel turndown ratio of at least 3 to 1 on each assembly. At the same time, it will not produce unacceptable levels of noxious emissions such as oxides of nitrogen, carbonaceous soot or sulfur smuts over its full operating range. Finally, it requires no additional fan head (windbox pressure drop).Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1977Date of Patent: May 16, 1978Assignee: Combustion Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Donald Arthur Smith, David Joseph Horan
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Patent number: 4057428Abstract: Photographic elements are described which comprise a support having thereon at least one image dye-providing layer unit and at least one layer containing an immobile anionic organic acid having an equivalent weight based on acid groups of at least 70 and less than 800. In one embodiment, photographic elements of this invention can be contacted with a transition metal-ion complex such as a cobalt(III) ion complex before contact with a fixing bath and sufficient transition metal ion will be retained in the photographic element to bleach the silver in said element.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1972Date of Patent: November 8, 1977Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Rowland George Mowrey, Donald Arthur Smith, Richard Calvin Sutton
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Patent number: 4035187Abstract: Photographic elements are described which comprise a support having thereon at least one image dye-providing layer unit and at least one layer containing an immobile anionic organic acid having an equivalent weight based on acid groups of at least 70 and less than 800. In one embodiment of this invention, photographic elements can be contacted with a transition metal-ion complex such as a cobalt(III) ion complex before contact with a fixing bath and sufficient transition metal ion will be retained in the photographic element to bleach the silver in said element.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1976Date of Patent: July 12, 1977Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Rowland George Mowrey, Donald Arthur Smith, Richard Calvin Sutton
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Patent number: 4019851Abstract: A main burner oil gun in which hard to ignite liquid fuels can be burned, including an ignition means for the oil gun which will reliably light the oil gun time after time. The oil is sprayed from the oil gun tip in the shape of a hollow cone. Air is introduced surrounding the oil gun, and flows over a baffle plate located transversely of the oil gun, creating eddies of air, some of which break through the curtain of fuel issuing from the tip in a conical shape. This current of air that breaks through the fuel carries some fine droplets of fuel along with it, and forms a recirculation zone extending back to the oil gun tip. The ignition means is located within the hollow conical fuel flow, along the inner edge of the recirculation zone, so that the initial flame established is carried back to a point directly in front of the oil gun tip.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1975Date of Patent: April 26, 1977Assignee: Combustion Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Donald Arthur Smith, John Joseph Marshall