Patents by Inventor Edward Tompkins

Edward Tompkins 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).

  • Publication number: 20200096276
    Abstract: A firearm comprising a frame defining a trigger assembly receptacle between opposed sidewalls. A trigger assembly received in the trigger assembly receptacle and including pivot pins, with the sidewalls defining pin apertures adapted to receive pivot pins. The pin apertures being oversized with respect to standard pin apertures. The trigger assembly having a pivoting safety selector and having a safety selector detent adapted to engage the safety selector in a stable rotational position. The sidewalls defining a safety selector aperture adapted to receive the safety selector. The safety selector aperture being oversized with respect to standard safety selector apertures, such that the frame is incompatible with standard trigger assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: Edward Tompkins
  • Patent number: 10393459
    Abstract: A firearm comprising a frame defining a trigger assembly receptacle between opposed sidewalls. A trigger assembly received in the trigger assembly receptacle and including pivot pins, with the sidewalls defining pin apertures adapted to receive pivot pins. The pin apertures being oversized with respect to standard pin apertures. The trigger assembly having a pivoting safety selector and having a safety selector detent adapted to engage the safety selector in a stable rotational position. The sidewalls defining a safety selector aperture adapted to receive the safety selector. The safety selector aperture being oversized with respect to standard safety selector apertures, such that the frame is incompatible with standard trigger assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Inventor: Edward Tompkins
  • Publication number: 20180100712
    Abstract: A firearm comprising a frame defining a trigger assembly receptacle between opposed sidewalls. A trigger assembly received in the trigger assembly receptacle and including pivot pins, with the sidewalls defining pin apertures adapted to receive pivot pins. The pin apertures being oversized with respect to standard pin apertures. The trigger assembly having a pivoting safety selector and having a safety selector detent adapted to engage the safety selector in a stable rotational position. The sidewalls defining a safety selector aperture adapted to receive the safety selector. The safety selector aperture being oversized with respect to standard safety selector apertures, such that the frame is incompatible with standard trigger assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventor: Edward Tompkins
  • Patent number: 8135170
    Abstract: A process for making an image for a papermaking belt wherein the image is the product of: (a) providing an image, said image being a simple geometric figure; (b) performing a first alpha image modification algorithm on said image; (c) performing a first beta image modification algorithm upon said image to provide a resultant image, said beta image modification algorithm being a three-dimensional image modification algorithm; and, (d) using said resultant image to form a pattern for said papermaking belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Grant Edward Tompkins, IV, Rebecca Howland Spitzer, Ward William Ostendorf
  • Publication number: 20110207058
    Abstract: A process for making an image for a papermaking belt wherein the image is the product of: (a) providing an image, said image being a simple geometric figure; (b) performing a first alpha image modification algorithm on said image; (c) performing a first beta image modification algorithm upon said image to provide a resultant image, said beta image modification algorithm being a three-dimensional image modification algorithm; and, (d) using said resultant image to form a pattern for said papermaking belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Grant Edward Tompkins, IV, Rebecca Howland Spitzer, Ward William Ostendorf
  • Patent number: 7894625
    Abstract: A process for making an image for a papermaking belt wherein the image is the product of (a) providing an image; and (b) performing at least one image modification algorithm thereon, one of the at least one image modification algorithms being a beta image modification algorithm and the beta image modification algorithm being a three-dimensional image modification algorithm to provide a resultant image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Grant Edward Tompkins, IV, Rebecca Howland Spitzer, Ward William Ostendorf
  • Publication number: 20080232638
    Abstract: A process for making an image for a papermaking belt wherein the image is the product of (a) providing an image; and (b) performing at least one image modification algorithm thereon, one of the at least one image modification algorithms being a beta image modification algorithm and the beta image modification algorithm being a three-dimensional image modification algorithm to provide a resultant image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Grant Edward Tompkins, Rebecca Howland Spitzer, Ward William Ostendorf
  • Publication number: 20080230200
    Abstract: A papermaking belt for making a fibrous structure product that has a machine direction, a cross machine direction orthogonal and co-planar with the machine direction, and a Z-direction mutually orthogonal to both the machine and cross machine directions. The papermaking belt also has a framework having a structure formed by a first layer wherein the first layer comprises a plurality of deflection conduits that correspond to a resultant image and extend in the Z-direction, where the resultant image being the product of at least one image modification algorithm. Further, at least one of the image modification algorithms is a beta image modification algorithm such that the beta image modification algorithm is a three dimensional image modification algorithm. The papermaking belt also has a reinforcing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Grant Edward Tompkins, Rebecca Howland Spitzer, Ward William Ostendorf
  • Patent number: 6561498
    Abstract: A bubbler for use in vapor generation systems that minimizes splashing and the formation of aerosol droplets of liquid, which are carried out of the bubbler in the vapor stream and result in erratic mass transfer of the process chemical liquid. A closed stainless steel vessel contains a carrier gas distribution plenum that distributes the carrier gas to a plurality of small diameter generator tubes, which are submerged into the process chemical liquid. The length, inside diameter and number of the generator tubes are designed to inject a high velocity, small diameter stream of carrier gas into the liquid such that a long small diameter cylinder of carrier gas is created in the process chemical liquid. The surface tension of the liquid-gas interface causes the cylinder of gas to be pinched off at intervals along the length of the cylinder to produce a plurality of small bubbles the diameter of which is largely independent of the carrier gas flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Lorex Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Edward Tompkins, Don Nus Sirota, Raymond Carl Logue
  • Publication number: 20020145210
    Abstract: A bubbler for use in vapor generation systems that minimizes splashing and the formation of aerosol droplets of liquid, which are carried out of the bubbler in the vapor stream and result in erratic mass transfer of the process chemical. A closed stainless steel vessel contains a carrier gas distribution plenum that distributes the carrier gas to a plurality of small diameter generator tubes, which are submerged into the process chemical. The length, inside diameter and number of the generator tubes are designed to inject a high velocity, small diameter stream of carrier gas into the liquid such that a long small diameter cylinder of carrier gas is created in the liquid. The surface tension of the liquid-gas interface causes the cylinder of gas to be pinched off at intervals along the length of the cylinder to produce a plurality of small bubbles the diameter of which is largely independent of the carrier gas flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: Gregory Edward Tompkins, Don Nus Sirota, Raymond Carl Logue
  • Patent number: D570118
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth Ann Kreider, Grant Edward Tompkins, IV, Joseph Jay Bullock, Douglas Jay Barkey, LaTisha Evette Salaam
  • Patent number: D570608
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: LaTisha Evette Salaam, Elizabeth Ann Kreider, Joseph Jay Bullock, Douglas Jay Barkey, Grant Edward Tompkins, IV
  • Patent number: D662327
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stacey Ann Espinosa, Cathy Marie Sanders, Grant Edward Tompkins, IV, Nakomi Lee Feldmann
  • Patent number: D662328
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stacey Ann Espinosa, Cathy Marie Sanders, Grant Edward Tompkins, IV, Nakomi Lee Feldmann
  • Patent number: D668878
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stacey Ann Espinosa, Cathy Marie Sanders, Grant Edward Tompkins, IV, Nakomi Lee Feldmann