Patents by Inventor John W. Turley

John W. Turley 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: 4462236
    Abstract: A new rolling mill configuration is provided containing fourteen rolls and which may be described as an improved six-high arrangement. The mill contains two substantially identical upper and lower roll clusters. Each roll cluster comprises a floating work roll, a chock mounted intermediate roll and a chock mounted back-up roll. The work roll is supported laterally by a pair of chock mounted side intermediate rolls and each side intermediate roll is supported by a single side backing roller assembly. The chocks of each side intermediate roll and the adjacent side backing roller assembly are supported by an adjustable stationary rigid support beam assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1984
    Assignee: T. Sendzimir, Inc.
    Inventors: John W. Turley, Michael G. Sendzimir
  • Patent number: 4270377
    Abstract: A new rolling mill configuration providing improved performance and lower cost than is possible for conventional four-high and six-high mills.This mill configuration contains eighteen rolls and may be described as an improved six-high arrangement, the improvement being in the provision of side support assemblies for the work rolls, thus enabling smaller work roll diameters to be adopted than is possible with four-high or six-high mills, resulting in lower separating forces and thus a lighter and less expensive mill construction for a given duty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1981
    Assignee: T. Sendzimir, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert C. Verbickas, John W. Turley
  • Patent number: 4248073
    Abstract: A cluster type rolling mill intended to provide work roll sizes in the range between the small sizes available with current cluster mill designs and the large sizes available with current four-high mill designs is disclosed.This mill combines the advantages of existing cluster mills (heavier reductions per pass and between anneals) with the advantages of four-high mills (easier to maintain thermal equilibrium of work roll giving ability to roll at higher speeds).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1981
    Assignee: T. Sendzimir, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert C. Verbickas, John W. Turley
  • Patent number: 4212193
    Abstract: Apparatus and method of measuring moment of inertia of golf clubs and like objects, about an axis remote from the center of gravity, in which object to be tested is mounted in the apparatus so that said axis is vertical and object is oscillated about said axis in a horizontal plane. Low cost electronic means are used to measure period of oscillation and to compute and display the moment of inertia of said object about said axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1980
    Inventor: John W. Turley
  • Patent number: 4197731
    Abstract: A rolling mill arrangement is disclosed in which a basically six-high mill has intermediate rolls which have no necks and are supported laterally by side support roller assemblies, and in which the work rolls are also laterally supported, whereby higher torque may be delivered to the mill to obtain heavier reductions without lateral flexure of the intermediate rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1980
    Assignee: T. Sendzimir, Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert C. Verbickas, John W. Turley
  • Patent number: 4022040
    Abstract: In a cluster mill having individual crown adjustment drives to each saddle on at least one backing shaft to adjust the roll gap in line with each saddle, means to synchronize the drives mechanically to produce a tapered roll gap so that strip having a transverse taper in thickness can be rolled. Also means to control automatically the operation of the synchronized drives in response to the behavior of the rolled strip. Also means to synchronize the drives mechanically to produce a roll gap having a parabolic profile or any required profile to suit the incoming strip or to compensate for the crown of the mill itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1977
    Assignee: T. Sendzimir, Inc.
    Inventor: John W. Turley