Patents by Inventor Raleigh A. Smith

Raleigh A. Smith 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).

  • METHOD OF BOGIE REPLACEMENT FOR TURNTABLE STATION
    Publication number: 20240123362
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods, apparatus, and systems for replacing a drive assembly. A system includes a bogie assembly comprising a wheel and a drive assembly configured to drive the wheel to roll on a top surface of a structure. The system further includes a translating cartridge movably mounted to a side surface of the structure. The translating cartridge pivots from a first orientation to a second orientation to couple with the drive assembly and decouple the drive assembly coupled to the translating cartridge from the bogie assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: David Andrew GRIBBIN, JR., Michael David RUSSELL, JR., Harrison Raleigh SMITH, Daniel Roman SWANDO
  • Method of bogie replacement for turntable station
    Patent number: 11857886
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods, apparatus, and systems for replacing a drive assembly of a turntable load station. A system includes a structural pier, a track formed on a top surface of the structural pier, a turntable, a bogie assembly detachably coupled to an underside of the turntable, the bogie assembly including a wheeled drive assembly, a swap rail mounted to a radial side surface of the structural pier, and a translating cartridge movably mounted to the swap rail in a serviceable orientation. The translating cartridge is configured to move along the radial side surface of the structural pier via the swap rail while in the serviceable orientation to an unloading position underneath the bogie assembly, pivot from the serviceable orientation to an upright functional orientation to couple with the wheeled drive assembly, and decouple the wheeled drive assembly from the bogie assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS LLC
    Inventors: David Andrew Gribbin, Jr., Michael David Russell, Jr., Harrison Raleigh Smith, Daniel Roman Swando
  • METHOD OF BOGIE REPLACEMENT FOR TURNTABLE STATION
    Publication number: 20220001286
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods, apparatus, and systems for replacing a drive assembly of a turntable load station. A system includes a structural pier, a track formed on a top surface of the structural pier, a turntable, a bogie assembly detachably coupled to an underside of the turntable, the bogie assembly including a wheeled drive assembly, a swap rail mounted to a radial side surface of the structural pier, and a translating cartridge movably mounted to the swap rail in a serviceable orientation. The translating cartridge is configured to move along the radial side surface of the structural pier via the swap rail while in the serviceable orientation to an unloading position underneath the bogie assembly, pivot from the serviceable orientation to an upright functional orientation to couple with the wheeled drive assembly, and decouple the wheeled drive assembly from the bogie assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: David Andrew GRIBBIN, JR., Michael David RUSSELL, JR., Harrison Raleigh SMITH, Daniel Roman SWANDO
  • Method and apparatus for optimum self-examination of breasts by users of birth control pills
    Patent number: 5020671
    Abstract: A method and associated apparatus in aid of optimum self-examination of the breast by women for early detection of breast cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Inventors: Raleigh A. Smith, Alfred Kager