Patents by Inventor Fernand Gervais

Fernand Gervais 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: 8322643
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of rock crushers, in particular, rock crusher attachments for earth moving equipment or the like. The rock crusher attachment includes a front bucket portion configured for scooping rocks to be crushed and a rear crusher portion connected to and in communication with the rear of the bucket portion. The crusher portion includes a housing and a crushing assembly accommodated within the housing. The housing including a pair of spaced apart side panels. The crushing assembly has a lower jaw fixed between the side panels of the housing and an upper movable jaw mounted opposite and spaced apart from the lower jaw. The upper movable jaw assembly includes a support, an upper jaw plate attached to the underside of the support and a jaw-actuating drive assembly operable to urge the upper movable jaw assembly to move between an open jaw setting and a closed jaw setting. The support is pivotally connected between the side panels adjacent the front of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Mining Technologies International Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Lucien Fernand Gervais, Nicholas Scott Dickson
  • Publication number: 20120018558
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of rock crushers, in particular, rock crusher attachments for earth moving equipment or the like. The rock crusher attachment includes a front bucket portion configured for scooping rocks to be crushed and a rear crusher portion connected to and in communication with the rear of the bucket portion. The crusher portion includes a housing and a crushing assembly accommodated within the housing. The housing including a pair of spaced apart side panels. The crushing assembly has a lower jaw fixed between the side panels of the housing and an upper movable jaw mounted opposite and spaced apart from the lower jaw. The upper movable jaw assembly includes a support, an upper jaw plate attached to the underside of the support and a jaw-actuating drive assembly operable to urge the upper movable jaw assembly to move between an open jaw setting and a closed jaw setting. The support is pivotally connected between the side panels adjacent the front of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Joseph Lucien Fernand Gervais, Nicholas Scott Dickson
  • Patent number: 6668712
    Abstract: A portable rock crusher (10)is adapted for attachment to a boom (16) of an earthmoving vehicle (14). The crusher has a hopper (32) with a material inlet (49) and a material outlet (44) spaced from the inlet. A pair of jaws (46,48) is located within the hopper and positioned between the inlet and outlet. The jaws are movable relative to one another to vary the spacing therebetween and an actuator (68) is provided to control relative movement between the jaws. Material moving from the inlet to the outlet thereby passes between the jaws and is crushed upon relative movement of the jaws to provide an aggregate at the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: 1401310 Ontario Limited
    Inventor: Joseph Lucien Fernand Gervais
  • Patent number: 4830305
    Abstract: In a room-light load cassette, a web of photographic material is wound on a reel core, and the core is rotatably supported, by means of two core hubs, in hub seats provided in two opposite cassette end walls of a light-tight casing. Each of the hubs which are firmly mounted in the core, comprise a hollow sleeve part which is supported in the respective hub seat. In order to secure the web roll of photographic material in the cassette against unwinding during shipping and storage, a core lock comprising a locking member is provided in one of the end caps. The locking member bears an external gear and is connected via connecting means breakable at a desired rupturing zone, with the hub seat of the respective end cap. The teeth of the external locking member gear engage an internal gear in a sleeve part being part of the corresponding core hub, and prevent the core from rotating as long as the connecting means, preferably in the form of small stays, between the locking member and the hub seat remain unbroken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy AG
    Inventors: Markus Guggi, Fernand Gervais