Patents by Inventor LeRoy Yanik

LeRoy Yanik 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).

  • Air compressor with inlet diversion valve
    Patent number: 4060340
    Abstract: An air compressor has an inlet supplied with pressurized air, and is operable in a pumping mode and in a non-pumping unloaded mode. Unloader means is provided for placing the compressor in its unloaded mode. When the compressor is placed in its unloaded mode, diversion valve means operates for blocking communication of the inlet with the pressurized air supply and establishing communication of the inlet with atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1977
    Assignee: Midland-Ross Corporation
    Inventors: LeRoy Yanik, Dario R. Gross
  • Compressor intake valve and control means
    Patent number: 3936236
    Abstract: A compressor intake valve and control means in the form of an unloader by which the intake valve may be controlled to prevent compression of air and in which the intake valve and unloader means is disposed within the thickness of a flat compressor head. The various movable parts of the unloader and the valve are maintained in guided relationship relative to each other by the surfaces of the head itself and access to the valve portion and to the unloader portion of the assembly are independent of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1976
    Assignee: Midland-Ross Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Day, LeRoy Yanik