Patents by Inventor John P. Adams

John P. Adams 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).

  • Publication number: 20250043851
    Abstract: An automatic mechanical tensioner assembly with a shipping and installation position in which a collar engages a fixed hollow sleeve, limiting or securing a moveable tensioner housing in place against the force of a spring. The collar has a semicircular body defining an inner circumference extending from a first end to a second end of the body. The semicircular body has two axially extending flanges defining a cutout, and a collar tab extending radially from the semicircular body. In the shipping and installation position, the first end of the collar engages with a delivery groove of the hollow sleeve, biasing the moveable housing towards an anti-rotation washer engaged with an end of the fixed hollow sleeve and compressing the spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Joseph P. GOODSELL, Joseph MANLEY, Bradley F. ADAMS, John CROCKETT, Sean R. SIMMONS, Richard LOVE
  • Patent number: 5700118
    Abstract: An insulated and logistics track construction for the side and end walls of a refrigerated vehicle includes an exterior metal sheet attached to a plurality of vertical posts that are horizontally spaced. An interior sheet of fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) is spaced from the exterior sheet and attached to the vertical posts by a logistics track attached to each post with the FRP interior sheet captured between the logistics track and post. The logistics track is shorter than the posts, thereby leaving portions of the FRP interior sheet above and below the logistics tracks unattached and unrestrained by the posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Paul F. Bennett, John P. Adams, Arturo C. Gomez
  • Patent number: 4355721
    Abstract: This application is concerned with food packages made from sheet or film into the forms of heat sealable pouches, bags, or covered trays in which the food product is placed, the package sealed, and the packaged food processed in a pressure cooker or retort to permit the packaged food to be stored without refrigeration. Certain food products can be rendered commercially sterile by hot filling the package at temperatures below boiling to permit storage for long periods without refrigeration. While still in the sealed package of the present invention, the consumer can heat or cook the food by immersion in boiling water or by microwave oven. The sheet or film is a multilayer construction wherein each layer performs specific functions and the choice of materials for the layers is interdependent to provide a film structure having all desired properties at the least cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1982
    Assignee: American Can Company
    Inventors: Jack E. Knott, II, Matthew S. Koschak, John P. Adams