Patents by Inventor Harry R. Swanson

Harry R. Swanson 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: 5610329
    Abstract: An apparatus which uses a sensing device for measuring gauges of elastomeric or rigid articles, or runout of elastomeric articles, has a pivoting arm which holds a means for creating a signal, and is movable relative to the object being measured. The means for creating a signal provides a signal to the sensing device, and the magnitude of the signal depends on the position of the pivoting arm relative to the object being measured. Movement of the pivoting arm, caused by changes in the dimensions of the object, can be recorded and analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Albert J. Yovichin, William F. Dunn, William R. Dutt, Richard C. Houck, David D. Hyde, Raouf A. Ridha, Harry R. Swanson
  • Patent number: 4226656
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for assembling a tire carcass comprising a precarcass band and a pair of inextensible bead rings. The band is built and consolidated on a form having a rigid cylindrical surface. The band includes at least one cord or wire-reinforced ply and one or more tire liners of a rubbery gum, and may include additional tire components, in particular the components which will form the sidewalls of the tire. The band is removed from its building form and then moved axially freely over a shaping apparatus. An axially narrow central part of the band is expanded sufficiently to resist axial displacement of the band, which is then spread and smoothed outward from its central part by expanding and then moving outwardly a pair of expandable spreading elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1980
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Paul E. Appleby, Denver C. Folden, Joseph F. Stalter, Jr., Harry R. Swanson