Patents by Inventor Gordon K. Hanks

Gordon K. Hanks 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).

  • Publication number: 20140331516
    Abstract: A method for drying includes positioning an exchanger snout of a portable heat exchanger assembly under an edge of a carpet or flexible barrier, removably coupling a snout of a portable centrifugal air mover with an inlet port of the portable heat exchanger assembly, and activating the centrifugal air mover so that air blown from the snout of the air mover passes through the heat exchanger assembly and exits out through the exchanger snout under the edge of the carpet or flexible barrier, the air being heated as it passes through the heat exchanger assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Jeremiah S. Reets, Gordon K. Hanks
  • Patent number: 8789291
    Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly includes a housing at least partially bounding a chamber and a heat exchanger at least partially disposed within the chamber, the heat exchanger containing tubing adapted to allow a heated fluid to travel therethrough and fins outwardly projecting from the tubing, the fins being spaced apart such that air can freely flow between the fins. The heat exchanger also includes an inlet port into which an air mover can be received to provide blown air for the system and an outlet port through which the heated air exits the heat exchanger assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Bridgewater LLC
    Inventors: Jeremiah S. Reets, Gordon K. Hanks
  • Patent number: 6182911
    Abstract: An injection spraying system includes a container having a compartment configured to hold a first fluid. A valve body is removably coupled with the container and includes a mixing chamber, an inlet passageway configured to deliver a second fluid to the mixing chamber, a discharge passageway extending from the mixing chamber, a stem compartment communicating with the mixing chamber through a control orifice, and a transition passageway in fluid communication with the stem compartment. Movably disposed within the stem compartment is a metering stem having a tapered nose configured to selectively engage the control orifice. An adjustment knob is mounted to the metering stem such that rotation of the adjustment knob selectively advances and retracts the metering stem within the chamber of the meter tube. A siphoning tube has one end disposed within the compartment of the container and an opposing end in fluid communication with the transition passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Bridgewater Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon K. Hanks, William D. Edwards