Patents by Inventor George L. Turner

George L. Turner 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: 9885140
    Abstract: A method of operating a laundry treating appliance having a foreign object trap located in a bottom of a wash basket underlying a clothes mover, the bottom of the wash basket having an upwardly extending wall, with at least the wash basket rotatable about an axis of rotation, the method including radially expelling liquid through an outlet opening of the foreign object trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Whirlpool Coporation
    Inventors: Dean L. Tietz, George L. Turner
  • Publication number: 20150345060
    Abstract: A method of operating a laundry treating appliance having a foreign object trap located in a bottom of a wash basket underlying a clothes mover, the bottom of the wash basket having an upwardly extending wall, with at least the wash basket rotatable about an axis of rotation, the method including radially expelling liquid through an outlet opening of the foreign object trap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: DEAN L. TIETZ, GEORGE L. TURNER
  • Patent number: 9127394
    Abstract: A laundry treating appliance having a tub a defining an interior, a wash basket within the interior and having a bottom from which extends a peripheral wall to at least partially define a laundry treating chamber, a clothes mover located within the laundry treating chamber in an overlying relationship to at least a portion of the bottom of the wash basket, and rotatable about an axis of rotation, and a foreign object trap located in the portion of the wash basket defines a foreign object passageway for retaining foreign objects, the foreign object trap having at least one outlet opening with a first portion that is not at a right angle to the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Dean L. Tietz, George L. Turner
  • Publication number: 20130160217
    Abstract: A laundry treating appliance having a foreign object trap located in a portion of a wash basket defines a foreign object passageway for retaining foreign objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: DEAN L. TIETZ, GEORGE L. TURNER
  • Patent number: 7866191
    Abstract: An automatic clothes washer having a clothes trap for reducing the likelihood that an article of clothing can escape from a wash basket during the spinning of the basket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: George L. Turner, Eric E. Chang
  • Patent number: 4205441
    Abstract: A razor for wet shaving which is connected to an aspirating device wherein running water creates a suction adjacent the cutting edge of a razor blade for instant removal and transport of severed beard and lather to the stream of running water and also to pull the shaver's skin into tighter conformity with the head of the razor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1980
    Inventor: George L. Turner
  • Patent number: 4018460
    Abstract: A hose coupling for detachably connecting a hose to a threaded fitting such as the outlet of a faucet, a male hose coupling, or a pipe and having a nut type of a housing formed of a metallic shell containing a plastic liner which has threads for attachment to the male fitting and also provides integral seal for preventing leakage from between the threaded fitting and the hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Assignee: American Stamping Company
    Inventors: Roy H. Morris, George L. Turner, Walter L. Hixon