Patents by Inventor James R. Goins

James R. Goins 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: 5520209
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a fluid relief device for relieving pressure of a fluid stored in a container or tank, or fluid used in a piece of equipment. In one aspect such a device has a body member with a primary channel therethrough in communication with a container of a contained fluid under pressure. When the pressure of the contained fluid under pressure exceeds a predetermined level, the pressure of the contained fluid moves a cover which is sealingly in place to close off the primary channel. During normal conditions the force of the contained fluid is insufficient to move the cover and leakage of the contained fluid past the cover is inhibited by the provision of a barrier fluid supplied into a barrier fluid chamber to oppose the contained fluid, the barrier fluid at a pressure greater than the normal pressure of the contained fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: James R. Goins, John W. Ogle, James R. Ogle
  • Patent number: 4287873
    Abstract: A pair of spring-loaded oven door hinge mechanisms, mounted on a domestic range body and located at the lower corners of a counterbalancing oven door lock in a partially open position upon removal of the oven door to preclude accidental tripping of the non-counterbalanced hinge mechanisms. Reinstallation of the counterbalancing oven door unlocks the spring-loaded hinge mechanisms to permit normal oven door movement between open and closed positions. Each hinge mechanism includes a fixed roller normally engageable with a hinge blade projection to provide a broil position detent mechanism. The fixed roller snaps into a deep recess or notch in a movable hinge blade upon removal of the oven door to provide positive locking of the hinge blade to maintain the associated hinge mechanism in a partially open position, thereby facilitating oven door reinstallation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1981
    Assignee: White Consolidated Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: James R. Goins, Hubert H. Cardin