Patents by Inventor Henry W. Wilkens

Henry W. Wilkens 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: 4253332
    Abstract: A liquid metering device comprises a sealed housing which defines a reserve chamber adjacent the bottom of the housing, and a measuring chamber within the housing above the reserve chamber. The measuring chamber has a pair of liquid-level sensors therein in spaced vertical relation to one another which cooperate with a control mechanism to feed liquid to be measured into the measuring chamber when the liquid level in the measuring chamber is adjacent the lower sensor, and to terminate the feeding of liquid into the measuring chamber while substantially simultaneously dumping liquid from the measuring chamber into the reserve chamber when the level of liquid in the measuring chamber rises to the level of the upper sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1981
    Assignee: Flowtron Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Sabatino, Henry W. Wilkens
  • Patent number: 3937083
    Abstract: An automatic, temperature-compensated liquid or fuel metering device comprises a measuring chamber having a pair of magnetically responsive vertically spaced reed switches therein which are selectively actuated by a magnetcarrying float to control valves associated with the chamber to supply a predetermined increment of liquid to the chamber and thereafter to drain that increment from the chamber into a reservoir. The volume of each increment is dependent upon the spacing between the reed switches, and that spacing is controlled by a bellows having a sample of the liquid being measured sealed therein, the bellows being disposed in the path of flow of liquid to the chamber and being operative to vary the volume of said increments with variations in the temperature of the liquid being measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1976
    Assignee: Flowtron Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Sabatino, Henry W. Wilkens