Patents by Inventor Peter K. Chifo

Peter K. Chifo 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).

  • Apparatus for plating tubing and other shapes
    Patent number: 5544869
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for continuously applying a zinc plating to tubing is provided having a lower reservoir of molten zinc, an elongated and enclosed plating chamber having a plating trough formed in its upper surface, a pump for transferring molten zinc from the reservoir to the plating trough, a temperature sensor monitoring the temperature of the zinc in the plating trough and gas fired strip burners carried in the plating enclosure for heating the zinc transferred from the lower reservoir into the plating trough, the strip burners cooperating with the sensor for maintaining the bath of zinc in the plating trough within a predetermined temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Inventor: Peter K. Chifo