Patents by Inventor Kenneth R. Donahue

Kenneth R. Donahue 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).

  • Method of constructing a drive tensioning device
    Patent number: 4489475
    Abstract: Meshing radially serrated annular pads projecting from the meeting surfaces of two members of a belt drive tensioning device to provide locked incremental angular adjustment of the members are formed by depressing an annular indentation in each member in the side thereof opposite its meeting side so as to cold flow metal to the meeting side thereof and in coining a serrated annulus in the metal thus transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Hilarious S. Struttmann, Kenneth R. Donahue, Paul W. Cooper