Patents by Inventor Eric A. Hyde

Eric A. Hyde 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).

  • Non-destructive test apparatus
    Patent number: 4330865
    Abstract: A remotely controlled vehicle capable of roving over the outer surface of a nuclear reactor primary vessel carrying inspection instrumentation. The vehicle comprises an elongate bridge having a pair of suction support pads. Each pad carries gas thrusters for acting in opposition to the suction effort thereby to reduce adherence of the pads and enable displacement of the vehicle over the surface. The vehicle is supported by a services conducting umbilical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1982
    Assignee: Nuclear Power Company Limited
    Inventors: Eric A. Hyde, Hugh A. Goldsmith, Michael J. Proudlove
  • Cleaning coke oven doors or door jambs
    Patent number: 4201630
    Abstract: Machine for cleaning the peripheral sealing surfaces of rectangular coke oven doors or door jambs. A high pressure water jet nozzle is mounted on an eight-wheeled carriage, the nozzle being directed at the sealing surface to be cleaned. The carriage is driven by a chain drive around a closed rectangular track formed by four tubular members which are held in fixed spatial relationship with one another by supports, thereby positively locating the carriage in all directions except its direction of travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1980
    Assignee: British Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Eric A. Hyde