Patents by Inventor Joseph W. Ayers

Joseph W. Ayers 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).

  • Almond shell flour glue extenders
    Patent number: 4778530
    Abstract: Finely divided almond shell flour is used as an extender in plywood- and laminating-adhesives, alone or in combination with other, different, vegetable shell flours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Agrashell, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph W. Ayers
  • Method for finely dividing almond shells
    Patent number: 4770349
    Abstract: Finely divided almond shell flour is used as an extender in plywood- and laminating-adhesives, alone or in combination with other, different, vegetable shell flours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Agrashell, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph W. Ayers
  • High speed capacitance apparatus for classifying pharmaceutical capsules
    Patent number: 4223751
    Abstract: A dielectric tube, such as glass or plastic, having a square cross section extends between the two plates of a capacitance-sensing transducer. The opposite sides of the tube have a spacing only slightly greater than the diameter of the capsules to be checked. The capsules to be classified are oriented prior to their introduction into the tube so that they enter in an end-to-end relationship. The requisite spacing between the capsules is accomplished by an air jet device that rapidly accelerates the leading capsule as it enters the tube to such a velocity that it leaves the transducer before the next capsule enters, thereby assuring that only one capsule is in the transducer at any given moment. The capacitance-sensing transducer is repeatedly charged and discharged by means of a high frequency oscillator circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1980
    Assignee: Modern Controls, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph W. Ayers, Rex C. Wood
  • Zircon sand impacting material
    Patent number: 4035962
    Abstract: The treatment of hard surfaces by impacts of fine hard granules continually bombarded against them, as for peening, brightening, texturizing, compacting, reforming and/or cleaning adhesions from plates and other articles of steel, aluminum, or hard plastics, is accomplished with extraordinary effectiveness, yet with minimal loss of the blasting material due to breakdown, by providing and utilizing for the treatments selectively sized fractions having grain sizes limited to the ranges of -100/+200 mesh, -100/+140 mesh, -140/+200 mesh and -200/+325 mesh grain sizes, of the rounded oblong grains, having a specific gravity of about 4.7, of a mass of refined zircon sand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1977
    Inventor: Joseph W. Ayers
  • Impacting process
    Patent number: 3939613
    Abstract: The treatment of hard surfaces by impacts of fine hard granules continually bombarded against them, as for peening, brightening, texturizing, compacting, reforming and/or cleaning adhesions from plates and other articles of steel, aluminum, or hard plastics, is accomplished with extraordinary effectiveness, yet with minimal loss of the blasting material due to breakdown, by providing and utilizing for the treatments selectively sized fractions, having for example 60-100 mesh, 100-200 mesh and 200-325 mesh grain sizes, of the rounded oblong grains, having a specific gravity of about 4.7, of a mass of refined zircon sand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1973
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1976
    Inventor: Joseph W. Ayers