Patents by Inventor James L. Neils

James L. Neils 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: 5503526
    Abstract: A portable, positive pressure fan for fire fighting provides a three-leg frame with a platform supporting the fan and its driving engine. The platform carries two forward, laterally spaced collars and one rearward collar to adjustably receive the three legs for support spacedly above a supporting surface. The legs are adjustably positionable in the collars to allow vertical adjustment to regulate fan height and angulation relative to a supporting surface, have an arcuate configuration and are somewhat resilient to absorb and damp operative forces, and the leg array alleviates or negates walking of the structure on a supporting surface caused by vibrations resulting from operational forces. The fan has a blade with diametrically opposed lobes of the aircraft propeller type to create a narrow cone of pressurized air and preserve as great a volume and velocity of such air as possible at ordinary operating distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Inventors: John J. Neils, James L. Neils
  • Patent number: D684309
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Inventor: James L. Neils