Patents by Inventor Karl L. Westlin

Karl L. Westlin 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: 4455155
    Abstract: A collecting assembly for removing liquid vapors and particulates from a dirty gas stream including a housing having a dirty gas inlet and a clean gas outlet, a gas treating passage extending through the housing interconnecting the gas inlet and the gas outlet, a blower or fan adapted to draw the dirty gas stream into the housing through the gas inlet where it flows through an electrostatic precipitating section, and an oil spraying or fogging assembly adapted to periodically spray an atomized oil mist onto the discharge and collecting plates of an electrostatic collecting assembly mounted in the precipitating section to irrigate and wash accumulated particulates off the plates while continuing gas cleaning operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1984
    Assignee: Allis-Chalmers Corp.
    Inventors: James E. Wooldridge, Karl L. Westlin
  • Patent number: 4272262
    Abstract: A filtering device for removing particulate matter from a gas stream includes a housing with its interior divided by a horizontal partition into an upper plenum chamber and a lower plenum chamber. Planar panel filters arranged in V-shaped banks are suspended from the horizontal partition in the lower plenum chamber. These banks of panel filters coact with the horizontal partition to form a cleaned gas compartment. The housing also has a dirty gas stream inlet to the lower plenum chamber and a clean gas outlet from the upper plenum chamber. A first venturi is located at the horizontal partition and provides a passage for a gas between the cleaned gas compartment and upper plenum chamber, and a second smaller converging nozzle located in the upper plenum chamber coaxially aligned with and spaced from the first venturi. A high energy cleaning gas emitting nozzle is spaced above the second venturi and aligned to direct a jet of high energy cleaning gas axially into the second converging nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1981
    Assignee: American Air Filter Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Monroe Britt, Karl L. Westlin
  • Patent number: 4124362
    Abstract: A filter assembly including a filter frame with filter media disposed therein and a border flange arranged to engage the edge of the filter frame, the border frame being clamped to the frame by a deformable resilient clamp which is inserted between the filter frame and the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1978
    Assignee: American Air Filter Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl L. Westlin, Herbert V. Cork, Jr.