Patents by Inventor R. Dallas Clayton

R. Dallas Clayton 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: 6049997
    Abstract: Specifically configured dual rotor, multi-lobed, rotary gas compressors in a piping system will provide clean gas heating and re-circulation that will quickly and efficiently heat a connected process chamber or process piping section. Substantial heat is quickly generated through mechanical agitation of the gas molecules that pass through the inlet and outlet of a dual rotor, multi-lobed, rotary gas compressor. The invention application of a dual rotor, multi-lobed, rotary gas compressor as a means of imparting heat to a gas stream provides an economical source of convective heat for closed and open loop piping applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Inventors: Charles Grenci, R. Dallas Clayton
  • Patent number: 5979075
    Abstract: Specifically configured dual rotor, multi-lobed, rotary gas compressors in a piping system will provide clean gas heating and re-circulation that will quickly and efficiently heat a connected process chamber or process piping section. Substantial heat is quickly generated through mechanical agitation of the gas molecules that pass through the inlet and outlet of a dual rotor, multi-lobed, rotary gas compressor. The invention application of a dual rotor, multi-lobed, rotary gas compressor as a means of imparting heat to a gas stream provides an economical source of convective heat for closed and open loop piping applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Inventors: Charles Grenci, R. Dallas Clayton
  • Patent number: 5906055
    Abstract: Specifically configured dual rotor, multi-lobed, rotary gas compressors in a piping system will provide clean gas heating and re-circulation that will quickly and efficiently heat a connected process chamber or process piping section. Substantial heat is quickly generated through mechanical agitation of the gas molecules that pass through the inlet and outlet of a dual rotor, multi-lobed, rotary gas compressor. The invention application of a dual rotor, multi-lobed, rotary gas compressor as a means of imparting heat to a gas stream provides an economical source of convective heat for closed and open loop piping applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Inventors: Charles Grenci, R. Dallas Clayton
  • Patent number: 5678759
    Abstract: Specifically configured gas compressors in a piping system will provide clean, gas heating and recirculation that will quickly and efficiently heat a connected process chamber or process piping section. Substantial heat is quickly generated through mechanical agitation of the gas molecules that pass through the inlet and outlet of a dual rotor-multiple lobe per rotor, rotary gas compressor. The application of a rotary gas compressor as a means of imparting heat to a gas stream provides an economical source of convective heat for closed and open loop piping applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Inventors: Charles Albert Grenci, R. Dallas Clayton
  • Patent number: 5548895
    Abstract: A method of connecting an end of a plastic, male vacuum-component to a female component in a vacuum system, by attaching an elastomeric sealing member to the end of the male vacuum-component, and inserting the end of the male vacuum-component into a female vacuum-component until the elastomeric sealing member is in at least partial contact with a mating surface-portion of the female vacuum-component, repeating the steps a plurality of times for other mating male and female vacuum-components, and then creating a vacuum in the vacuum-system in which the male vacuum-component has become part, in order to erect a stand-alone structure which is held firmly together by binding forces formed by the vacuum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Inventors: Charles Grenci, R. Dallas Clayton
  • Patent number: 5542828
    Abstract: Close tolerance, oil free scroll type vacuum pumps, when run at RPM speeds in excess of 1800 RPM, prevent pump exhaust outlet to pump vacuum inlet back diffusion (backwards migration) of light atmospheric gases from a process vacuum is useful in a number of vacuum applications. The light gas isolation capability of the invention scroll type vacuum pumps is due to the close tolerance pumping mechanism that these pumps employ, the RPM speed that the mechanism is operated at, and the absence of light gas absorbing materials inside the pump such as oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Inventors: Charles A. Grenci, R. Dallas Clayton
  • Patent number: 5516154
    Abstract: The Invention relates specifically to an improved method of joining plastic socket fit piping components for vacuum, pressure, and structural applications where a leak and contamination free connection is needed. A unique Dual Face/Circumferential Elastomer Seal is installed in a special Seal Groove located on the end of the male component. The male components are then inserted into the female sockets until contact is made between the Dual Face/Circumferential Elastomer Seals and the Female Socket Base Surfaces. The final assembly is evacuated with a vacuum pump to actuate and fully compress the seals. The final assembly is then checked for leaks. If the connections are to remain under vacuum and the ability to disassemble is advantageous, no further work is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Inventors: Charles Grenci, R. Dallas Clayton
  • Patent number: 5425264
    Abstract: A method for making vacuum components from plastic material, and in particular, PVC and CPVC, where the plastic component is exposed to a high vacuum or ultra high vacuum for an extended period of time, by which the outgas rate drops considerably to levels that are well within required limits for high vacuum and ultra high vacuum applications. Residual gas analysis may be used to certify this low outgas level for the plastic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Inventors: Charles A. Grenci, R. Dallas Clayton
  • Patent number: 5406753
    Abstract: The Invention relates specifically to an improved method of joining plastic socket fit piping components for vacuum, pressure, and structural applications where a leak and contamination free connection is needed. A unique Dual Face/Circumferential Elastomer Seal is installed in a special Seal Groove located on the end of the male component. The male components are then inserted into the female sockets until contact is made between the Dual Face/Circumferential Elastomer Seals and the Female Socket Base Surfaces. The final assembly is evacuated with a vacuum pump to actuate and fully compress the seals. The final assembly is then checked for leaks. If the connections are to remain under vacuum and the ability to disassemble is advantageous, no further work is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Inventors: Charles Grenci, R. Dallas Clayton
  • Patent number: 5366358
    Abstract: The invention relates specifically to a simplified and subsequently improved method to produce a scroll type vacuum pump that is capable of achieving vacuum pressures below 1 torr through the placement of at least one dynamic orbital vacuum seal between the two scroll halves at the outside diameter of the scroll spirals to prevent atmospheric gas from entering. Prior to this invention, in order to achieve vacuum pressures less than 1 torr with a scroll pump it has been necessary to either seal the two scroll halves with a large diameter metal bellows that accommodates the required orbital travel or to locate the orbiting scroll plate or plates and the components that convert the rotary drive to the required orbital motion inside the vacuum space with a dynamic vacuum seal on the rotary drive shaft. Both of these designs have been expensive to produce, limiting the application of scroll technology in the vacuum industry to special applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Inventors: Charles A. Grenci, R. Dallas Clayton
  • Patent number: 5341567
    Abstract: The invention relates specifically to an improved method of joining plastic socket fit piping components for vacuum, pressure, and structural applications where a leak and contamination free connection is needed. A unique Dual Face/Circumferential Elastomer Seal is installed in a special Seal Groove located on the end of the male component. The male components are then inserted into the female sockets until contact is made between the Dual Face/Circumferential Elastomer Seals and the Female Socket Base Surfaces. The final assembly is evacuated with a vacuum pump to actuate and fully compress the seals. The final assembly is then checked for leaks. If the connections are to remain under vacuum and the ability to disassemble is advantageous, no further work is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Inventors: Charles A. Grenci, R. Dallas Clayton