Patents by Inventor Neil J. Youngers

Neil J. Youngers 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: 9625080
    Abstract: An assembly for machine leveling including a plurality of hydraulic cylinders having upper ends adapted for supporting the machine's base, a lower end, a shaft, and a port opening the cylinder; branch conduits having cylinder ends and pump ends, each branch conduit connecting to one of the ports; first shutoff valves connected to the branch conduits for alternatively permitting and resisting fluid flow within the branch conduits; a manifold conduit connected to the branch conduits; a hydraulic pump connected to the manifold conduit and adapted for raising hydraulic pressure within the manifold conduit to a shaft extending pressure; and an electrically modulated variable pressure relief valve connected to the manifold conduit and adapted for raising and lowering the hydraulic pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Inventors: Stephen A. Youngers, Neil J. Youngers, James J. Youngers, Patrick L. Emerson, Stephen P. Dooley
  • Patent number: 9574613
    Abstract: A machine leveling pedestal incorporating a cylinder and piston defining an interior space, having a helically threaded outer surface, and having an upwardly facing land; a hydraulic fluid port opening the interior expansion space; a nut having a downwardly facing land and gear teeth, the nut being threadedly mounted over the helically threaded outer surface; a drive gear connected to the cylinder and piston for vertically slidably engaging the drive gear with the gear teeth, and, upon alternate rotations of the drive gear, rotating the nut about the cylinder and piston so that the nut vertically moves between a mechanical support position and a hydraulic support position, the upwardly and downwardly facing lands contacting each other upon movement to the mechanical support position, and the downwardly facing land displacing upwardly upon movement toward the hydraulic support position; and a motor connected to the drive gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventors: Stephen A. Youngers, Neil J. Youngers, James J. Youngers, Patrick L. Emerson, Stephen P. Dooley
  • Patent number: 8777177
    Abstract: A hydraulic fluid actuated equipment leveling assembly incorporating a plenum having adjustment ports; an input channel opening the plenum; a disk valve operable for opening and closing the adjustment ports; telescoping and hydraulic ram actuated equipment support pedestals; hydraulic lines spanning between the plenum's adjustment ports, and the pedestal's hydraulic rams; and fluid displacing plungers connected operatively to the hydraulic lines for adjusting the hydraulic line's interior volumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Inventors: Stephen A. Youngers, James J. Youngers, Neil J. Youngers
  • Publication number: 20130098026
    Abstract: A hydraulic fluid actuated equipment leveling assembly incorporating a plenum having adjustment ports; an input channel opening the plenum; a disk valve operable for opening and closing the adjustment ports; telescoping and hydraulic ram actuated equipment support pedestals; hydraulic lines spanning between the plenum's adjustment ports, and the pedestal's hydraulic rams; and fluid displacing plungers connected operatively to the hydraulic lines for adjusting the hydraulic line's interior volumes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen A. Youngers, James J. Youngers, Neil J. Youngers