Patents by Inventor Jerry E. Thompson

Jerry E. Thompson 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: 5370500
    Abstract: A fan support for supporting a fan in an elevated position and oscillating the fan about the support. The device includes an adjustable column supported in a vertical position by a plurality of legs. A fan support channel is pivotally mounted to a top end of the column and is operable to receive and support a fan, such as a box shaped fan, thereon. An oscillation device is provided to effect a repetitive pivoting movement of the support channel in the horizontal plane, and a thermostat for controlling operation of both the fan and the oscillation device is also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Inventor: Jerry E. Thompson
  • Patent number: 5094402
    Abstract: There is disclosed a spray head for an airless spray gun. The spray head has a tubular housing for removable attachment to the discharge end of an otherwise conventional airless spray gun, adjacent the valve member of the spray gun. The housing is counterbored to form an inner annular shoulder and contains a removable plug that is slidably received within the housing. The annular shoulder is stop for the plug which is retained in the housing at the preselected location by a retainer member that is removably threaded into the discharge end of the housing. The plug has, on its upstream end, a valve seat to engage the valve member of the spray gun and, on its downstream end, a discharge orifice formed by divergent angular bores which intersect a through bore of the plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Inventors: Robert J. Perret, Jr., Jerry E. Thompson, Paul L. Zimmerman