Patents by Inventor Keith D. Leady

Keith D. Leady 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: 4867095
    Abstract: A cartridge style, pop up, differential pressure indicator includes a threaded body member, a cover structure and a cylindrical indicator button, which carries a magnet at its lower end, and is slidably supported in the cover for movement between a depressed, hidden position and an extended indicating position. The button is engaged at one side by a leaf spring which in the depressed position urges a lip on the button under a ledge in the cover to serve as a detent. A piston slidably supported in the body is subject to differential fluid pressures and carries a magnet at its upper end, poled in a manner to repel the magnet in the indicator button to urge the latter against the bias of the detent spring and upwardly to the extended, indicating position. A semicircular bimetal strip supported in the cover engages the detent spring at lower temperatures to prevent false release of the indicator button due to cold weather, high fluid viscosity situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: Parker Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce E. Shane, Keith D. Leady, Wayne L. Conner, Albert F. Cella