Patents by Inventor Fredrick E. Bowdy

Fredrick E. Bowdy 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: 5168992
    Abstract: The irons of a set of golf clubs are supported in upright condition with their heads at the bottom received in a pan and their shafts in spaced side-by-side relationship. Doors are openable to expose the club shafts or closable to enclose and restrain the clubs against movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Inventor: Fredrick E. Bowdy
  • Patent number: 4681285
    Abstract: A nose landing gear supported deflector for preventing ingestion of nose wheel side spray into wing-mounted engines. The deflector extends horizontally with respect to the runway surface and in front of the nose wheels while permitting landing gear and deflector retraction into the nose gear wheel well through the nose gear doorway. A four-point deflector attachment method permits nose wheel and tire changes without requiring removal of the entire deflector assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Fredrick E. Bowdy, Rudi K. H. Glasenapp, Glen E. Ridgway
  • Patent number: 4172571
    Abstract: A three actuator steering mechanism for rotating a strut type forward landing gear of an aircraft particularly adapted for use in ground steering. The actuators are of a linear push-pull construction and are mounted at both ends by rotatable joints. At one end the joints attach the actuators to a nonrotating segment of the landing gear structure, while at the opposite ends the joints connect the actuators to a steering collar through which the landing gear is actually rotated. With the landing gear aligned in the forward direction, the two laterally mounted actuators form moment arms with the steering collar about the vertical rotational axis of the landing gear, in the conventional fashion. The center actuator is attached with an orientation such that it contributes no steering torque with the landing gear facing forward but increasingly supplements the two lateral actuators as the steering angle of the steering collar diverges in either direction from forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1979
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Fredrick E. Bowdy