Patents by Inventor Melvin J. Lonsdale

Melvin J. Lonsdale 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 system for continuous flow grain dryer
    Patent number: 4446631
    Abstract: In a continuous flow vertical grain dryer, heated air is supplied into a closed top plenum through means of a stack opening upwardly therein, and fresh air is supplied to the stack from as nearly as practicable fines-free ambient atmosphere by receiving the fresh air from a relatively fines-free ambient atmosphere zone, e.g., above the discharge from the vertical pervious wall of the dryer of spent grain-drying air. Efficient heat transfer and preheating of the fresh air by association of a fresh air duct with the stack is provided for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignee: Meyer Morton Company
    Inventors: Elmo L. Batterton, Melvin J. Lonsdale
  • Erection means for a transport trailer
    Patent number: 4163626
    Abstract: Erection means for a transport trailer which hauls an elongated object of relatively large cross-section in horizontal position and then with the aid of hydraulic jacks stands the object erectly on a preformed foundation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1979
    Assignee: Meyer Morton Co.
    Inventors: Elmo L. Batterton, Melvin J. Lonsdale
  • Grain dryer sidewall construction and method of drying grain
    Patent number: 4106212
    Abstract: A grain dryer for removing moisture from shelled corn, milo, wheat, barley, oats, soy beans, and various other grains, a pair of walls, of which the outer is perforated throughout the working area while the inner has a plurality of unperforated sections, the walls defining a flow path for the grain therebetween, which path varies in width, air passed through the walls and the grain therebetween forming the drying, and the dryer being substantially of the continuous flow type. The invention also contemplates a new method of drying grain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1978
    Assignee: Meyer Morton Co.
    Inventors: Elmo L. Batterton, Melvin J. Lonsdale