Patents by Inventor Erville C. Buck

Erville C. Buck 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: 4947094
    Abstract: An automatically guided vehicle system for steering a vehicle. Optical sensing detects an image of a segment of track mounted above the path of the vehicle. Electrical signals corresponding to the position of the track are generated. A control circuit then converts these signals into movements for the steering of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1990
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Robert D. Dyer, Eugene A. Eschbach, Jeffrey W. Griffin, Michael A. Lind, Erville C. Buck, Roger L. Buck
  • Patent number: 4002271
    Abstract: Pistons of one pair of double-acting cylinders are connected to opposite sides of one point of a lever, one being driven by one chemical and the other supplying the chemical to a mixing and applying gun. A second pair of pistons of a second pair of double-acting cylinders are connected to the lever at a second point on the lever, a distance from the pivot point of the lever either the same or a predetermined fraction of the distance of the first-mentioned point from the pivot point of the lever, and are driven by a second chemical and supplying the second chemical to the gun, the cylinders all being of the same diameter. Valving actuated by the lever reverses the drives of the pistons automatically. In an alternate embodiment, supplies of the chemicals to the gun may be cut off and a solvent supplied to the gun to prevent the chemicals in the gun from setting up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1977
    Assignee: The Willamette Valley Company
    Inventor: Erville C. Buck