Patents by Inventor Kenneth Charles Phelps

Kenneth Charles Phelps 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).

  • SUBMERSIBLE INTAKE EQUIPMENT WITH AIR FILLED BLADDERS
    Publication number: 20120138164
    Abstract: An apparatus having flotation ballasts or tanks, a flotation platform having a frame, and on the frame and flotation platform, intake equipment, such as a screen, check valve and/or pump intake and a coupling for a discharge pipe. An embodiment comprises a plurality of substantially symmetrical flotation ballasts, each having a ballast tank forming a chamber with an internal bladder therein, or in lieu of the ballast chamber, at least one exposed bladder coupled to the frame and flotation platform. The method includes the steps of using an apparatus as herein described to ascend and descend intake equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Incon-trol Corp.
    Inventors: Mark Hayes Bolan, Kenneth Charles Phelps
  • Method and apparatus of submersible intake equipment
    Patent number: 8123957
    Abstract: An apparatus having flotation ballasts, a flotation platform and on the flotation platform, an intake equipment, such as a screen, check valve and/or pump intake and a coupling for a discharge pipe. In an embodiment of the present invention comprises, there are a plurality of substantially symmetrical flotation ballasts, each having a ballast chamber. The composition of the flotation ballast may be made of a material having a density appropriate for the fluid in which it is to be submerged. The method includes the steps of using an apparatus as herein described to ascend and descend intake equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Incon-Trol Corp.
    Inventors: Mark Hayes Bolan, Kenneth Charles Phelps, Donnie Wayne Alexander, John Baxter Horton, Jr., Jeremy Scott Smith, Michael Larry Culbreath
  • Method and apparatus of submersible intake equipment
    Publication number: 20110174703
    Abstract: An apparatus having flotation ballasts, a flotation platform and on the flotation platform, an intake equipment, such as a screen, check valve and/or pump intake and a coupling for a discharge pipe. In an embodiment of the present invention comprises, there are a plurality of substantially symmetrical flotation ballasts, each having a ballast chamber. The composition of the flotation ballast may be made of a material having a density appropriate for the fluid in which it is to be submerged. The method includes the steps of using an apparatus as herein described to ascend and descend intake equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Mark Hayes Bolan, Kenneth Charles Phelps, Donnie Wayne Alexander, John Baxter Horton, JR., Jeremy Scott Smith, Michael Larry Culbreath
  • Method and apparatus of submersible intake equipment
    Patent number: 7938957
    Abstract: An apparatus having flotation ballasts, a flotation platform and on the flotation platform, an intake equipment, such as a screen, check valve and/or pump intake and a coupling for a discharge pipe. In an embodiment of the present invention comprises, there are a plurality of substantially symmetrical flotation ballasts, each having a ballast chamber. The composition of the flotation ballast may be made of a material having a density appropriate for the fluid in which it is to be submerged. The method includes the steps of using an apparatus as herein described to ascend and descend intake equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Incon-trol Corp.
    Inventors: Mark Hayes Bolan, Kenneth Charles Phelps, Donnie Wayne Alexander, John Baxter Horton, Jr., Jeremy Scott Smith, Michael Larry Culbreath
  • Method and apparatus of submersible intake equipment
    Publication number: 20100065508
    Abstract: An apparatus having flotation ballasts, a flotation platform and on the flotation platform, an intake equipment, such as a screen, check valve and/or pump intake and a coupling for a discharge pipe. In an embodiment of the present invention comprises, there are a plurality of substantially symmetrical flotation ballasts, each having a ballast chamber. The composition of the flotation ballast may be made of a material having a density appropriate for the fluid in which it is to be submerged. The method includes the steps of using an apparatus as herein described to ascend and descend intake equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Mark Hayes Bolan, Kenneth Charles Phelps, Donnie Wayne Alexander, John Baxter Horton, JR., Jeremy Scott Smith, Michael Larry Culbreath