Patents by Inventor Frederick A. Nichols

Frederick A. Nichols 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).

  • Sheet stacking apparatus with angled sheet transport belts
    Patent number: 5172904
    Abstract: A sheet stacking apparatus for stacking a wide variety of sheets including flimsy sheets has a rotatable disc that receives each sheet in a slot thereof and inverting the sheets. A transport belt is closely adjacent one surface area of the disc and has a portion thereof positioned at an acute angle with respect to a line tangent to the one surface of the disc so that the trail edge of all sheets being inverted by the disc contact the belt and are inverted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Cho Sze, Frederick A. Nichols, Richard F. Scarlata
  • Adherence of metal films to polymeric materials
    Patent number: 4101402
    Abstract: The addition of copper, either as a thin film or as an alloy constituent, to nickel-chromium alloys improves the adhesion of such alloys to polymeric substrates and coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1978
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: John Louis Vossen, Jr., Frederick Russell Nyman, George Frederick Nichols
  • Metal coating for video discs
    Patent number: 4004080
    Abstract: An improved metal coating for a video disc of a grooved polymer disc, a conductive metal coating thereon and a dielectric coating on said metal coating, wherein said metal coating comprises a film of a pseudoalloy composition of an alloy of nickel and chromium and, optionally, iron, containing from about 10 to about 25 atomic percent of oxygen admixed with from about 10 to 15 atomic percent of copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1977
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: John L. Vossen, Jr., Frederick Russell Nyman, Dennis Glendon Fisher, George Frederick Nichols
  • Adherence of metal films to polymeric materials
    Patent number: 3984907
    Abstract: The addition of copper, either as a thin film or as an alloy constituent, to nickel-chromium alloys improves the adhesion of such alloys to polymeric substrates and coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1976
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: John Louis Vossen, Jr., Frederick Russell Nyman, George Frederick Nichols
  • Metal coating for video discs
    Patent number: 3982066
    Abstract: An improved metal coating for a video disc of a grooved polymer disc, a conductive metal coating thereon and a dielectric coating on said metal coating comprising a trilayer film of a first layer of copper about 25-50 angstroms thick, a second layer about 200 angstroms thick of an alloy of nickel, and chromium and, optionally, iron, containing from about 20 to about 30 atomic percent of oxygen, and a third layer, of copper, about 25-50 angstroms thick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1976
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick Russell Nyman, John Louis Vossen, Jr., Dennis Glendon Fisher, George Frederick Nichols