Patents by Inventor Kris Odell Thacker

Kris Odell Thacker 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: 7033496
    Abstract: A casing surrounds a horizontal axis to define a cavity. The cavity has a top, a bottom, and axially front and rear ends. The casing is configured to conduct a mixture of a liquid and debris through the cavity from the front end to the rear end. Front and rear walls cap the casing at the front and rear ends. A horizontal outlet tube extends through the rear wall and defines a horizontal outlet channel with a bottom. A transversely-extending weir extends upward from the bottom of the cavity. The weir has a horizontal top edge located above the channel bottom and spaced below the top of the cavity, and further has fluid flow apertures below the channel bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Hancor, Inc.
    Inventors: Kris Odell Thacker, Bill Russell Vanhoose, Howard Leander Montgomery
  • Patent number: 6907997
    Abstract: A casing defines a cavity having a top, a bottom, and axially front and rear ends. The casing is configured to conduct a mixture of a liquid and a contaminant through the cavity from the front end to the rear end. A coalescer, located in the cavity, includes an inclined stack of corrugated plates extending rearward and upward. Each plate has corrugations extending rearward and upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Hancor, Inc.
    Inventors: Kris Odell Thacker, Bill Russell Vanhoose, Owen Michael Atchison, Howard Leander Montgomery
  • Publication number: 20040159606
    Abstract: A casing surrounds an axis to define a cavity that has axially front and rear ends. The casing is configured to conduct a mixture of a liquid and a contaminant through the cavity from the front end to the rear end. A porous basket structure, located within the cavity, for holding coalescing media has a top opening. The basket structure is configured for the liquid to flow through the top opening into the basket structure, through the coalescing media, and outward through of the basket structure in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction. A constraining structure, located in the cavity, constrains the liquid flowing through the cavity from the front end to the rear end to flow through the top opening into the basket structure when the liquid is below a predetermined level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2003
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Inventors: Kris Odell Thacker, Bill Russell Vanhoose, Owen Michael Atchison, Howard Leander Montgomery