Patents by Inventor John T. Wooten

John T. Wooten 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: 4484370
    Abstract: A gas operated tube emptying apparatus for firing missiles into a tube. The apparatus includes a gas source, a gas control and delivery unit connected to the source for delivering the pressure and amount of gas needed. The apparatus further includes a missile delivery unit having a bin for holding a plurality of missiles and a missile loading tube extending between the delivery unit and a firing chamber. The firing chamber has a barrel extending upwardly therefrom and is connected to the gas source so that as the gas control unit supplies a burst of gas a missile is drawn into the barrel from the chamber and fired through the barrel into a tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1984
    Inventors: Othel D. Easley, Jr., John T. Wooten
  • Patent number: 4411705
    Abstract: A method of emptying tubes containing particles includes the steps of propelling missiles up the tube, striking and dislodging the particles, causing the particles and missiles to fall out of the bottom of the tube into a receptacle from which they are removed by vacuum. A gas controlled, gas activated missile loading and firing apparatus for firing burst of missiles into one or more tubes is used to dislodge and empty the particles contained therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: Reactor Services International, Inc.
    Inventors: Othel D. Easley, Jr., John T. Wooten