Patents by Inventor Peter James Waters

Peter James Waters 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: 3978912
    Abstract: A regenerative heat exchanger particularly for a gas turbine engine in which there is a stationary heat-storing matrix in each of the flow-paths for the fluids between which heat exchange is to take place and at least one valve member defining a common wall between the flow-paths and movable between two extreme operable positions, in one of which one of the fluids passes through one of the flow-paths and the matrix associated therewith and the other of the fluids passes through the other of the flow-paths and the matrix associated therewith and in the other extreme position the fluid flow through the respective flow-paths is interchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1976
    Assignee: Caterpillar Tractor Co.
    Inventors: Robert Noel Penny, Peter James Waters