Patents by Inventor Louis F. Cole
Louis F. Cole 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).
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Publication number: 20100229485Abstract: Perimeter and transverse troughs, possibly 3-5 inches wide and deep, can be formed in an existing building subterranean concrete floor, with the perimeter trough being immediately adjacent and extended along the foundation wall and the traverse trough connecting the perimeter trough to a nearby sump pit formed in the floor. Each trough can be formed by cutting narrow shallow grooves outlining its desired location, and then breaking away the concrete there between. Water seepage through the wall will collect in the perimeter trough and drain away via the transverse trough to the sump pit, eliminating water pooling on the building floor itself. The troughs can be covered by separate metal or plastic covers, secured by adhesives, sealants and/or nails relative to the floor and/or foundation wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2009Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventors: Timothy Wilkerson, Louis F. Cole
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Publication number: 20100055430Abstract: The disclosed planar vapor barrier is comprised of three thin planar sheets sandwiched fixedly together. One outer sheet is of aluminum foil, with a very thin reinforcing film of polyethylene on its outer face. The other outer sheet is of plastic, preferably with embedded reinforcing filaments. The middle sheet is of a foamed plastic. The outer sheets can have generally similar thicknesses, while the middle sheet can be significantly thicker. The entire planar vapor barrier can between 0.01?-0.05? thick. The planar vapor barrier is durable and tough, and most effective when spread over a dirt crawl space floor for blocking ground vapors from entering the building. To cover larger areas, several different planar barriers can be laid out to overlap at adjacent edges, whereby tape can secure the adjacent edges together.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2008Publication date: March 4, 2010Inventors: Timothy Wilkerson, Louis F. Cole
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Publication number: 20090183444Abstract: The disclosed inventive system vents Radon gas from a building crawl space disposed below ground level floor, where such gas can enter via a dirt floor or the like. An impervious sheet is spread over the floor and up the adjacent foundation walls, and is sealed to the wall near its top, thereby isolating Radon gas from the crawl space. A thin porous mat extends to the wall spread between the floor and sheet operable to direct the collected Radon gas to the wall. A perforated pipe encircles the crawl space and overlies the mat at the wall, and is vented by a solid wall pipe to the outside atmosphere, thereby effectively removing the Radon gas from the crawl space.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventors: Timothy Wilkerson, Louis F. Cole
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Publication number: 20090183785Abstract: The disclosed sump pump pit is modular, being formed from substantial planar lightweight top, bottom and side walls that when disassembled can be carried compactly stacked on one another to an intended sump hole, and can then be assembled and secured together as the rigid pit defining an enclosure sized to hold at least one sump pump (preferably two sump pumps side-by-side). Cooperating tongue and groove configurations on the side wall edges interlock these components in a tubular configuration, and the end edges of the side walls can be fitted into and secured in channels in the top and bottom walls, making the pit rigid. The pit walls are perforated for communicating the sump hole with the pit enclosure. Piping extended through the top wall allows water to be pumped from the sump hole via the pit pump(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventors: Louis F. Cole, Douglas Chirichiello
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Patent number: 6241125Abstract: The invention teaches a kit-like system and apparatus for dispensing a multiple component reactive material from two cartridges each having an exteriorly threaded semi-cylindrical outlet nozzle, where the respective components need not be mixed together immediately, but only in close proximity of the intended use of the material. Thus, the cartridge nozzles will be spaced from one another, and at least one will be paired up with a dummy nozzle having a like exteriorly threaded semi-cylindrical nozzle, but with no outlet. Special universal fittings are provided in the kit that fit over the paired cartridge and dummy nozzles, and over a separate conventional mixer, and further that allow for hoses to be connected thereto, to define separate component flow paths from the separate cartridges to the remotely located mixer and then to the intended discharge location.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1999Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Inventors: Kenneth H. Jacobsen, Louis F. Cole
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Patent number: 6129249Abstract: A material handling fitting consisting of a tube having inlet and outlet ends, with the tube being stepped between its ends and having a plurality of respectively opposed outer and inner land areas of progressively smaller to larger diameters from one of its ends to the other. The different respective outer and inner land areas are sized to correspond to and telescopically cooperate selectively with inner and outer land areas respectively of substantially conventional material dispensing members, over a wide range of sizes and types. Upon two of such members being telescoped simultaneously with the opposite fitting ends, separable leakproof joints can be established for defining a continuous passageway between the dispensing members via the fitting, suited for conveying therethrough material under pressure.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 1999Date of Patent: October 10, 2000Inventors: Kenneth H. Jacobsen, Louis F. Cole
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Patent number: 5984152Abstract: The disclosed port device has a tube with a base that can be permanently bonded to a surface with its outlet throughbore aligned with a crack therein, for funneling the material into the crack; and the port device tube can have a low silhouette of possibly 3/8" high overall, suited for leaving the device in place after crack filling had been completed. The material under pressure can be communicated to the port device via a flexible hose connected between special fittings, that respectively can be seated across leakproof joints established with the material dispensing system and with the port device. This means that the material dispensing system can be well spaced physically from the crack itself, by almost the hose length, and that the operator need not hold the material dispensing system relative to the crack.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1996Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Inventors: Kenneth H. Jacobsen, Louis F. Cole
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Patent number: 5566866Abstract: The disclosed port device has a tubular inlet end stepped with progressively smaller land areas sized to establish a leakproof separable joint with outer land areas of conventional material mixing/dispensing tubes. Separate radial base blades hinged from the port device near its outlet end fit either unfolded flush against a flat surface aligned over a crack therein or back-folded into the crack itself, for alternative uses of the port device. The port device beyond the base is beveled across end edges, for cooperating with corner surfaces and guiding material discharge under pressure into an underlying corner crack, where two partly folded base blades can then fit flush against the corner surfaces. An expandable sleeve fitted into the structure crack can be deformed radially upon tightening a nut for retaining the port device in the structure even when dispensing material under high pressures into the crack, as by an accessory fitting mechanically locked to the port device.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1995Date of Patent: October 22, 1996Inventors: Kenneth H. Jacobsen, Louis F. Cole
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Patent number: 5443183Abstract: A check valve disposed to fit between paired outlet nozzles of adjacent cartridges of a multiple component reactive fluid system and a mixing tube sealed over the nozzles and having a single outlet for discharging the mixed reactive material. The check valve has a flat portion and an upstanding wall formed therefrom, each sized and shaped to seat over the nozzles and against the mixing tube. Openings formed in the flat portion commumicate with the nozzles and provide separate flow paths of the respective materials to the mixing tube. Check structure as separate flaps integral with the wall cover and close the openings. The internal flap resilience normally holds the check valve closed, but allows flap flexture to open the outlet nozzle when the cartridge pressures exceed the closing forces. The check valve restricts back flow of either material into either outlet nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1994Date of Patent: August 22, 1995Inventors: Kenneth H. Jacobsen, Louis F. Cole
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Patent number: 5441175Abstract: The disclosed universal tool has a front plate with an open ended slot extended from near the front wall center, with the front wall defining the slot having one thickness and the wall spaced from the slot having a greater thickness. The front wall further can be mounted in the tool in two different arrangements, respectively flipped over 180 degrees. This tool thereby accommodates different paired material cartridges, both as to size to give different component ratios and as to constructions, such as from different manufactures. The cartridges further can be shifted along the slot as needed to remain parallel to the plunger rods that drive plungers through the cartridges to cause material discharge therefrom. The stable front wall-cartridge cooperation also holds the cartridge and easily allows rearward plunger withdrawl from the emptied cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1994Date of Patent: August 15, 1995Inventors: Kenneth H. Jacobsen, Louis F. Cole
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Patent number: 5433354Abstract: The surface port device has a tube with a throughbore between its inlet and outlet ends, and an enlarged flat base at the outlet end, suited to be bonded by adhesive securely to a structure surface with the tube bore aligned over a surface crack. The inlet tube end is stepped, having several adjacent generally cylindrical axially extended land areas of progressively smaller diameters I.D. in moving downstream toward the outlet end. The land areas are sized both in diameter and axial length to correspond to certain more common generally cylindrical land areas of conventional available material mixing/dispensing tubes proximate the outlet nozzles thereof. This allows the establishment of a mechanically sound leakproof separable joint between the material dispensing tube end the surface port device. A captive check ball in the tube bore automatically can be shifted between opening the port bore or closing it to preclude material backflow.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 1993Date of Patent: July 18, 1995Inventors: Kenneth H. Jacobsen, Louis F. Cole
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Patent number: 5386931Abstract: A material dispensing tool has restraining and rear walls spaced apart to receive a material cartridge therebetween, and has an elongated rod supporting a plunger for movement between the walls and within the cartridge. A power ratchet mounted rearwardly of the rear wall over the elongated rod incrementally moves the elongated rod. Linkage including a spring concentrically arranged on the elongated rod effectively couples the power ratchet relative to the restraining wall, whereby the elongated rod can be resiliently biased by the strained spring. Output movement of the elongated rod relative to the power ratchet can thus be substantially independently of the plunger movement relative to the cartridge, the strained spring generating nearly uniform resilient plunger forces to discharge material from the cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1993Date of Patent: February 7, 1995Inventors: Kenneth H. Jacobsen, Louis F. Cole
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Patent number: 5314092Abstract: The disclosed tool dispenses material from a tubular cartridge having a front closure wall and nozzle, and having a wiper closing an open cartridge end and slidable forwardly within the cartridge. A plunger sized to fit within the cartridge is carried on a rod for moving the plunger axially within the cartridge against the wiper. The plunger has a conically ramped surface expanding from its smallest adjacent a front shoulder to its largest adjacent a rear shoulder, and rear and front peripherical guide surfaces extended endwardly from the radial shoulders to cooperate with the cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1993Date of Patent: May 24, 1994Inventors: Kenneth H. Jacobsen, Louis F. Cole
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Patent number: 5263614Abstract: The improved dispensing tool has linkage that includes a spring connected between a power ratchet and a wall restraining the material cartridge against plunger movement through the cartridge for discharging material, thereby allowing resilent independent plunger movement within the limits of spaced stops. When subjected to only static force conditions, the spring bottoms the linkage solid against one of the stops, to provide in-unison forward indexing of the plunger and ratchet drive rod. In the event plunger displacement occurs that is less than the expected in-unison indexing, the one linkage stop is gapped to subject the spring to additional dynamic force conditions that biases the plunger resiliently and continuously in the forward direction toward the restraining wall, up to maximum dynamic force conditions that bottoms the linkage solid against the other stop. The dynamic spring forces move the plunger forwardly within the cartridge for discharging the contained material.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1992Date of Patent: November 23, 1993Inventors: Kenneth H. Jacobsen, Louis F. Cole