Patents by Inventor Donald G. Martin

Donald G. Martin 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: 4916854
    Abstract: The spinner is formed of a thin film of a type and gauge that normally retains its shape but at the same time is flexible. The spinner has shrink points on opposite side edges of the rounded end portions which are offset from each other relative to the center of the body portion and which due to the distortion of the material at the shrink points form propeller-like, cupped end portions. In the method of forming the spinner, the blank is cut with the rounded end portions and narrowed body portion. The blank is formed into a propeller-like spinner with cupped blades and a propeller pitch by shrinking the film at points of the rounded end portions which are offset from each other and on opposite sides of the longitudinal center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1990
    Inventor: Donald G. Martin
  • Patent number: 4496933
    Abstract: A cooled resistor pack for a dynamoelectric machine wherein cooling water is passed through ducts in a conductive block and plurality of connectors are mechanically attached to the conductive block but electrically insulated therefrom and nichrome wires of varying length and varying in number electrically join the connectors to the conductive block and individually insulated brush segments, which have individual strands and the brush segments are connected to separate connectors in such a manner that the resistance between the brush segments and the block decreases from the trailing end segments to the leading end segments of the brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1985
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Donald G. Martin, Donald M. York