Patents by Inventor Gilbert Franklin Gordon, III

Gilbert Franklin Gordon, III 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).

  • Device and method of correcting extrudate bow
    Patent number: 10632662
    Abstract: Disclosed apparatus and method to extrude a honeycomb, providing correction in bowing of the extruded honeycomb structure, employs a deflector device having a base plate including an opening aligned in a direction parallel to the extrusion axis through which the plastic material is conveyed to the die. The deflector device includes a bow plate movably mounted to the downstream or upstream side of the base plate. The bow plate includes a constant area aperture. The deflector device positioned upstream of extrusion die imparts a degree of bow reduction by the position of the constant area aperture over the opening imparting a pressure drop gradient on the flow stream entering the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Kevin John Beecher, Jeffrey Owen Foster, Gilbert Franklin Gordon, III, Kevin Bruce Sterner, David Robertson Treacy, Jr.
  • System and method for controlling the peripheral stiffness of a wet ceramic extrudate
    Patent number: 9931763
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of stiffening an outer layer of a wet extrudate, where the extrudate has a honeycomb cellular structure. The method includes extruding the extrudate through an extrusion apparatus and directing a substantially uniform flow of fluid onto the outer layer of the extrudate. The method also includes increasing the temperature of a binder material of the extrudate to its gelation point and stiffening at least the outer layer of the extrudate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Gilbert Franklin Gordon, III, Kevin Bruce Sterner, Ezra Morgan Yarnell
  • DEVICE AND METHOD OF CORRECTING EXTRUDATE BOW
    Publication number: 20170361516
    Abstract: Disclosed apparatus and method to extrude a honeycomb, providing correction in bowing of the extruded honeycomb structure, employs a deflector device having a base plate including an opening aligned in a direction parallel to the extrusion axis through which the plastic material is conveyed to the die. The deflector device includes a bow plate movably mounted to the downstream or upstream side of the base plate. The bow plate includes a constant area aperture. The deflector device positioned upstream of extrusion die imparts a degree of bow reduction by the position of the constant area aperture over the opening imparting a pressure drop gradient on the flow stream entering the die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Kevin John Beecher, Jeffrey Owen Foster, Gilbert Franklin Gordon, III, Kevin Bruce Sterner, David Robertson Treacy, JR.
  • Device and method of correcting extrudate bow
    Patent number: 9393716
    Abstract: Disclosed apparatus and method to extrude a honeycomb, providing correction in bowing of the extruded honeycomb structure, employs a deflector device having a base plate including an opening aligned in a direction parallel to the extrusion axis through which the plastic material is conveyed to the die. The deflector device includes a bow plate movably mounted to the downstream or upstream side of the base plate. The bow plate includes a constant area aperture. The deflector device positioned upstream of extrusion die imparts a degree of bow reduction by the position of the constant area aperture over the opening imparting a pressure drop gradient on the flow stream entering the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Kevin John Beecher, Jeffrey Owen Foster, Gilbert Franklin Gordon, III, Kevin Bruce Sterner, David Robertson Treacy, Jr.
  • DEVICE AND METHOD OF CORRECTING EXTRUDATE BOW
    Publication number: 20150108680
    Abstract: Disclosed apparatus and method to extrude a honeycomb, providing correction in bowing of the extruded honeycomb structure, employs a deflector device having a base plate including an opening aligned in a direction parallel to the extrusion axis through which the plastic material is conveyed to the die. The deflector device includes a bow plate movably mounted to the downstream or upstream side of the base plate. The bow plate includes a constant area aperture. The deflector device positioned upstream of extrusion die imparts a degree of bow reduction by the position of the constant area aperture over the opening imparting a pressure drop gradient on the flow stream entering the die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Kevin John Beecher, Jeffrey Owen Foster, Gilbert Franklin Gordon, III, Kevin Bruce Sterner, David Roobertson Treacy, JR.
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE PERIPHERAL STIFFNESS OF A WET CERAMIC EXTRUDATE
    Publication number: 20140061963
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of stiffening an outer layer of a wet extrudate, where the extrudate has a honeycomb cellular structure. The method includes extruding the extrudate through an extrusion apparatus and directing a substantially uniform flow of fluid onto the outer layer of the extrudate. The method also includes increasing the temperature of a binder material of the extrudate to its gelation point and stiffening at least the outer layer of the extrudate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Gilbert Franklin Gordon, III, Kevin Bruce Sterner, Ezra Morgan Yarnell