Patents by Inventor Lanier Frantz

Lanier Frantz 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).

  • Canister-compactor assembly
    Patent number: 4336042
    Abstract: A canister-compactor assembly insertible as a unit in a housing of a compressed gas filter, the assembly including a canister loadable with a particulate desiccant and a pneumatic compactor mounted in an outlet end of the canister and chargeable with compressed gas for compacting the desiccant, the compactor being chargeable and dischargeable outside the filter housing and in the housing being exposed to filtered compressed gas for maintaining the desiccant compacted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1982
    Assignee: Graham-White Sales Corporation
    Inventors: Virgil L. Frantz, Lanier Frantz
  • Pneumatic compactor for particulate desiccant
    Patent number: 4131442
    Abstract: In a compressed gas filter unit including a housing and, for selective filtering, a particulate desiccant packed in a canister removably seatable from below in a central bore of the housing, a pneumatic compactor automatically charged in any filtering cycle of the filter unit and acting upwardly on the desiccant and therethrough on the canister for compacting the desiccant and pressing the canister fluid-tight against a seat therefor at the upper end of the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1978
    Assignee: Graham-White Sales Corporation
    Inventor: Lanier Frantz
  • Pneumatic compactor for particulate desiccant
    Patent number: 4029486
    Abstract: Pneumatic compactor for compacting a particulate desiccant in a compressed gas filter unit, the compactor being automatically chargeable with the compressed gas during the unit's filter cycle and manually dischargeable during the unit's drain cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1977
    Assignee: Graham-White Sales Corporation
    Inventor: Lanier Frantz