Patents by Inventor Jon Terence Stone
Jon Terence Stone 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).
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Patent number: 9010722Abstract: A switchbox for monitoring the position of a manual quarter-turn valve has a housing mountable to the valve to be monitored/controlled. A handle-driven shaft extends through the housing, with one end of the shaft couplable to the valve stem such that movement of the shaft moves the valve stem. One or more shaft position sensor switches interact with a cam on the shaft to signal shaft position and/or provide control signals. A plate coupled to the shaft articulates within a recess on the surface of the switchbox to limit motion of the valve to an operable range, such as between full ON and full OFF. The switchbox has a pair of lock tabs with lock apertures. A lock aperture in the plate is alignable with the lock tab apertures to receive a pin or padlock for locking the valve in a selected position. A potentiometer can be utilized in place of a switch as a shaft position sensor. The switchbox may be used with an original or new handle and may feature detents to allow a range of valve settings.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2013Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Hayward Industries, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Lee Hoots, Jon Terence Stone
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Patent number: 9010721Abstract: A switchbox for monitoring the position of a manual quarter-turn valve has a housing mountable to the valve to be monitored/controlled. A handle-driven shaft extends through the housing, with one end of the shaft couplable to the valve stem such that movement of the shaft moves the valve stem. One or more shaft position sensor switches interact with a cam on the shaft to signal shaft position and/or provide control signals. A plate coupled to the shaft articulates within a recess on the surface of the switchbox to limit motion of the valve to an operable range, such as between full ON and full OFF. The switchbox has a pair of lock tabs with lock apertures. A lock aperture in the plate is alignable with the lock tab apertures to receive a pin or padlock for locking the valve in a selected position. A potentiometer can be utilized in place of a switch as a shaft position sensor. The switchbox may be used with an original or new handle and may feature detents to allow a range of valve settings.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Hayward Industries, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Lee Hoots, Jon Terence Stone
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Publication number: 20150071729Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are generally directed to a radially compressible and/or expandable threaded insert. Exemplary embodiments of the threaded insert can include a tubular body having a length extending along a central axis between a first end and a second end. An inner surface of the body can include a circumferentially extending internal thread and an outer surface of the body can include one or more surface features extending from an outer surface of the tubular body. A longitudinally extending slot can be formed the tubular body. The slot can extend the length of the tubular body to form a circumferential discontinuity along the length of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: Hayward Industries, Inc.Inventors: Jon Terence Stone, Joshua Lee Hoots
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Publication number: 20150034853Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to valves, generally including a body assembly and handle assembly. The body assembly generally includes a body and a stem passing through the body. The handle assembly generally includes a handle body and an insert. The insert provides an interface between the stem and the handle body. The insert includes protrusions extending therefrom configured to distribute stress resulting from a moment load applied to the handle assembly through the handle body to reduce failure of the handle body. Methods of positioning a valve are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: Hayward Industries, Inc.Inventors: Paul M. Gutmann, Joshua Lee Hoots, Gary A. Moren, Jon Terence Stone
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Publication number: 20150034854Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to butterfly valves, generally including a body assembly and handle assembly. The body assembly generally includes a body, a disc rotationally disposed inside an opening of the body, a cog, and a stem passing through the disc and the body. The handle assembly generally includes a handle body and a force ring. The stem can be rotationally interlocked relative to the disc and the handle assembly. The cog and the force ring can engage to rotationally secure the disc relative to the body. The handle assembly can include a lever and a grip, the force ring, the lever and the grip being pivotally secured relative to each other. The body can include a male radial protrusion and the body assembly can include a liner with a female radial groove. Methods of assembling and positioning a butterfly valve are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: Hayward Industries, Inc.Inventors: Paul M. Gutmann, Joshua Lee Hoots, Gary A. Moren, Jon Terence Stone
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Patent number: 8887757Abstract: Provided is a wafer check valve assembly comprising a body having a mating side including first, second and third surfaces and a shaft groove, a tapered surface of the mating side extends from the third surface toward an inlet side of the body and from a first end to a second end of a port opening; a retainer having a mating side including fourth, fifth and sixth surfaces; and a disc with a shaft; wherein, when the body, retainer and disc are mated together: the shaft is housed between the body and the retainer and within the shaft groove, the first and fourth surfaces are proximal, the second and fifth surfaces are proximal, and the third and sixth surfaces proximal, so to define a pocket housing a gasketing material to form a seal between the body and retainer and to secure together the body, retainer, and disc.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Hayward Industries, Inc.Inventors: Gary A. Moren, Joshua Lee Hoots, Jon Terence Stone, Paul M. Gutmann
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Publication number: 20140060663Abstract: A switchbox for monitoring the position of a manual quarter-turn valve has a housing mountable to the valve to be monitored/controlled. A handle-driven shaft extends through the housing, with one end of the shaft couplable to the valve stem such that movement of the shaft moves the valve stem. One or more shaft position sensor switches interact with a cam on the shaft to signal shaft position and/or provide control signals. A plate coupled to the shaft articulates within a recess on the surface of the switchbox to limit motion of the valve to an operable range, such as between full ON and full OFF. The switchbox has a pair of lock tabs with lock apertures. A lock aperture in the plate is alignable with the lock tab apertures to receive a pin or padlock for locking the valve in a selected position. A potentiometer can be utilized in place of a switch as a shaft position sensor. The switchbox may be used with an original or new handle and may feature detents to allow a range of valve settings.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Hayward Industries, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Lee Hoots, Jon Terence Stone
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Publication number: 20130233412Abstract: Improved flow control assemblies for fluid systems (e.g., industrial and/or commercial systems) are provided. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for advantageous wafer check valve assemblies for fluid systems (e.g., piping systems or the like). The present disclosure provides for advantageous wafer check valve assemblies that include an angled sealing surface, which allows the disc member to seal even with the valve assembly in the horizontal position, and/or to seal without the aid of a spring. Improved, convenient, low-cost and/or effective systems and methods for utilizing improved wafer check valve assemblies in fluid systems (e.g., piping systems or the like) are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2012Publication date: September 12, 2013Inventors: Gary A. MOREN, Joshua Lee Hoots, Jon Terence Stone, Paul M. Gutmann
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Publication number: 20130020246Abstract: Improved filter vessel assemblies for filtering fluids in fluid systems (e.g., industrial and/or commercial systems) are provided. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for advantageous filter vessel assemblies that include a releasable locking assembly for a removable filter member (e.g., a filter bag). The present disclosure provides for improved systems/designs for easily securing and/or unsecuring removable filter members to or from a locking assembly of a filter vessel assembly. Improved, convenient, low-cost and/or effective systems and methods for easily securing and/or unsecuring removable filter members to or from a filter vessel assembly by utilizing advantageous locking assemblies associated with a supporting assembly or basket assembly of the filter vessel assembly are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: HAYWARD INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Joshua Lee Hoots, Jon Terence Stone, Michael Todd Pace
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Publication number: 20120315162Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for an immersible pump. The apparatus can include a shaft for communicating with a motor. The shaft includes a first region having a first diameter, a second region having a second diameter that is less than the first diameter, and a tapering region between the two regions. A sleeve can be provided to receive the shaft. A sealing device includes a receiving area in which the tapering region is at least partially positionable to form a seal, and an abutment that is configured to form a seal with the sleeve and that is responsive to a force directed from the sleeve to enhance the seal with the tapering region. In some embodiments, the sealing device is provided with a circumferential outer wall for centering the sleeve about the shaft and/or for aligning the force with the abutment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2011Publication date: December 13, 2012Inventors: Jon Terence Stone, Gary A. Moren
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Patent number: 8328240Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bulkhead fitting. The bulkhead fitting includes biasing means and a plurality of guide rings. In a preferred embodiment, a first guide ring is provided with an annular sidewall and a base extending radially outward from the sidewall, and a second guide ring is configured to mate with the first guide ring. Biasing means is positioned between the guide rings and radially outward of the sidewall to allow expansion and contraction of the first and second guide rings relative to one another, while preventing or inhibiting the biasing means from catching in the threads of the shaft or otherwise contacting the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Hayward Industries, Inc.Inventor: Jon Terence Stone
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Publication number: 20120193558Abstract: A switchbox for monitoring the position of a manual quarter-turn valve has a housing mountable to the valve to be monitored/controlled. A handle-driven shaft extends through the housing, with one end of the shaft couplable to the valve stem such that movement of the shaft moves the valve stem. One or more shaft position sensor switches interact with a cam on the shaft to signal shaft position and/or provide control signals. A plate coupled to the shaft articulates within a recess on the surface of the switchbox to limit motion of the valve to an operable range, such as between full ON and full OFF. The switchbox has a pair of lock tabs with lock apertures. A lock aperture in the plate is alignable with the lock tab apertures to receive a pin or padlock for locking the valve in a selected position. A potentiometer can be utilized in place of a switch as a shaft position sensor. The switchbox may be used with an original or new handle and may feature detents to allow a range of valve settings.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2011Publication date: August 2, 2012Inventors: Joshua Lee HOOTS, Jon Terence Stone
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Publication number: 20110180168Abstract: Disclosed herein is an end connector for fluid communication with a valve. The end connector includes a fitting body and a lock ring for engagement and disengagement therewith. A nut is provided for securing the fitting body to the valve, and hook and chain assembly is provided for securing an eyehole of the lock ring to an end fitting, such as a cap, which is received at an end of the connector opposite the valve. In some aspects, the fitting body includes radially extending lugs, and the lock ring includes radially extending notches corresponding to the lugs. The lock ring, in a first rotational position, is configured to abut against the lugs to inhibit inadvertent removal of the lock ring. The lock ring, in a second rotational position, is configured to have the lugs in alignment with the notches, such that the lock ring can be removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2010Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventor: Jon Terence Stone
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Publication number: 20110031740Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bulkhead fitting. The bulkhead fitting includes biasing means and a plurality of guide rings. In a preferred embodiment, a first guide ring is provided with an annular sidewall and a base extending radially outward from the sidewall, and a second guide ring is configured to mate with the first guide ring. Biasing means is positioned between the guide rings and radially outward of the sidewall to allow expansion and contraction of the first and second guide rings relative to one another, while preventing or inhibiting the biasing means from catching in the threads of the shaft or otherwise contacting the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2009Publication date: February 10, 2011Inventor: Jon Terence Stone