Patents by Inventor Philip A. Knight, Jr.

Philip A. Knight, Jr. 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).

  • Microwave appliance valve
    Patent number: 4190077
    Abstract: A fluid valve for a beverage-making appliance such as a coffee brewer, for example, which valve comprises a housing which contains a valve actuating means and which is closed at its inlet end by a filter, the filter being dome-shaped and having a small central aperture whereby air bubbles in a fluid within the valve may escape upwardly and out so that the valve may be used in appliances subject to microwave radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1980
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Robert F. Bowen, Philip A. Knight, Jr.
  • Flat plate solar heat collector
    Patent number: 4064866
    Abstract: A solar collector which comprises a panel including flat collector plates or absorbers interconnected by integral interfitting members which simultaneously support fluid-conducting tubing and retain the tubing in efficient heat-conductive relation with the plates whereby heat absorbed by the plates may be efficiently transferred to the circulating fluid in the tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1977
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Philip A. Knight, Jr.
  • Plastics sterilizer and melter having an afterburner
    Patent number: 3958936
    Abstract: An appliance for sterilizing and melting plastic items such as found in hospitals or the like, for example, which appliance includes a chamber containing a foil casing within which the items are placed, and means for heating the chamber for a temperature and time cycle sufficient to soften or melt the plastic items which when cooled will form a solid body of plastic material containing within it other non-melted disposable items such as might have been included with the plastic items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1976
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Philip A. Knight, Jr.