Patents by Inventor Norman S. Currey

Norman S. Currey 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: 4161301
    Abstract: This apparatus proposes to sequentially deploy stores, such as mines or missiles, from a moving vehicle, such as an airplane or ship, at a predetermined rate and velocity. It includes modular palletized stowage of these stores, limited in size and shape only by vehicle weight and/or space considerations, devices to lock the pallets together and to the vehicle, a cradle to support and facilitate propulsion of the stores prior to launch, a drive mechanism to propel the stores through the pallets, and devices to properly release each store from the vehicle and from its cradle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1979
    Assignee: Lockheed Corporation
    Inventors: Richard G. Beardsley, Norman S. Currey