Patents by Inventor Randolph N. Wendt

Randolph N. Wendt 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: 6263621
    Abstract: An apparatus for securing and leveling equipment includes an anchor bolt installed through a center of an aligning device. Vertical and lateral adjustments of the equipment are facilitated. The aligning device includes a hollow adjuster that is threaded within the equipment to raise or lower the equipment. The anchor bolt has clearance for lateral motion within the aligning device and the adjuster is able to tilt at a spherical joint connection with a leveling pad. The location of the anchor assembly in the center of the aligning device facilitates leveling and alignment of the anchored equipment without causing distortion of the equipment and without the use of spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas R. Murray, Paitoon Nimityongskul, Carmine F. Vara, Randolph N. Wendt, Gene A. Gruber
  • Patent number: 4288700
    Abstract: A device for handling a group of cables running to medical x-ray equipment that is movable in all degrees of freedom comprises: A vertical axle mounted overhead; a boom swingable in a horizontal plane on the axle; a housing on the axle having openings for receiving and clamping the ends of respective flexible cable enclosing tubes, one of which extends over the boom to the equipment and the other of which establishes a cable path continuing to a swivel mechanism that is spaced from the axle and mounted overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1981
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joseph J. Grass, David M. Barrett, Randolph N. Wendt