Patents by Inventor Kenneth A Metcalf

Kenneth A Metcalf 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).

  • Publication number: 20110309158
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for providing a fluid stream into an environment for cooling purposes are disclosed. Such an apparatus includes a body portion and a nozzle, the nozzle being adapted to direct water into the environment. Such an apparatus may include a body portion having a flow channel defined therein for gas flow therethrough; and, a nozzle operatively disposed within the flow channel; said nozzle adapted to direct a liquid therefrom; wherein the channel and the nozzle are operatively disposed relative to each other so that a gas flowing through the channel and the liquid are combined into a fluid stream directed from the apparatus into the surrounding environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Metcalf, Carlton E. Brown
  • Patent number: 8006916
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for providing a fluid stream into an environment for cooling purposes are disclosed. Such an apparatus includes a body portion and a nozzle, the nozzle being adapted to direct water into the environment. Such an apparatus may include a body portion having a flow channel defined therein for gas flow therethrough; and, a nozzle operatively disposed within the flow channel; said nozzle adapted to direct a liquid therefrom; wherein the channel and the nozzle are operatively disposed relative to each other so that a gas flowing through the channel and the liquid are combined into a fluid stream directed from the apparatus into the surrounding environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Metcalf, Carlton E. Brown
  • Publication number: 20090072042
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for providing a fluid stream into an environment for cooling purposes are disclosed. Such an apparatus includes a body portion and a nozzle, the nozzle being adapted to direct water into the environment. Such an apparatus may include a body portion having a flow channel defined therein for gas flow therethrough; and, a nozzle operatively disposed within the flow channel; said nozzle adapted to direct a liquid therefrom; wherein the channel and the nozzle are operatively disposed relative to each other so that a gas flowing through the channel and the liquid are combined into a fluid stream directed from the apparatus into the surrounding environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Metcalf, Carlton E. Brown
  • Patent number: 4193794
    Abstract: A method of producing a liquid developer for electrostatic images by subjecting a low density polymer to a solvent of relatively smaller molecular size so that the solvent activates the polymer chains to form a modifying carrier liquid, and then applying the modifying carrier liquid to particles of solid toner material so that by dilatant action the molecular bonds of the particles are broken to produce a fine developer held in a lattice structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1980
    Assignee: The Commonwealth of Australia
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Metcalfe, Alwin S. Clements, Clive W. Wilson
  • Patent number: 4172905
    Abstract: A method of transferring images from one surface to another, which, instead of using a steady field uses a corona to build up a charge on a roller which transfers the charge to the surface where transfer is required. The device comprises a pair of rollers which are urged toward each other, one of the rollers having an insulator surface, the other roller forming an electrode, the charge being applied to the insulator surface on the one roller by means of a corona generating device spaced from the insulator surface and remote from the electrode roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1974
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1979
    Assignee: The Commonwealth of Australia
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Metcalfe, Alwin S. Clements, Brian J. Horrocks
  • Patent number: 4134762
    Abstract: The method of coating a pervious fibre sheet with a photoconductor in which the photoconductor, a resin and a solvent for the resin are each selected and combined to have different penetrating power when applied to the pervious sheet whereby the photoconductor has a minimum penetration, the resin has a greater penetration and the solvent has the greater penetration, the components being selected to have an increasing dielectric constant inwards from the surface of the sheet, the resin being hydrophobic and capable of wetting both the photoconductor and the fibre.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: The Commonwealth of Australia
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Metcalfe, Alwyn S. Clements
  • Patent number: 4049446
    Abstract: A method of developing electrostatic images in which a liquid developer is maintained in quiescent condition in contact with the base material carrying the electrostatic image and wherein the developer contains in separate coexistence within an insulating carrier liquid toner particles of relatively low dielectric constant and movement-inducing particles having a high dielectric constant. The presence of both sets of particles results in agitation in the liquid due to particle movement in a field by charge exchange between the high dielectric particles and the other particles to produce random agitation of the particles in the liquid and thereby high mobility of the toner particles during developing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1977
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Metcalfe, Clive Westgarth Wilson, Denton Field
  • Patent number: 3992311
    Abstract: A method for making an electrophotographic developer having developer particles suspended in an insulating carrier liquid comprising reactively producing the developer particles by placing into the carrier liquid at least two substances which are both soluble in the carrier liquid and are insulators relative to the carrier liquid and when in a dissolved state in the carrier liquid precipitate in the carrier liquid to form the developer particles. The developer particles are maintained in the carrier liquid so as to be shielded against oxidation until used as a developer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1976
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Metcalfe, Alwin S. Clements
  • Patent number: D577100
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: AirConcepts, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlton E Brown, Kenneth A Metcalf