Patents by Inventor Ray L. Newman

Ray L. Newman 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).

  • Temperature compensator for pressure operated fuel regulator
    Patent number: 4781575
    Abstract: A compensator for a pressure operated fuel regulator comprises a housing having an opening for bleeding air therethrough. There is a tapered plug in the opening fastened to a thermostatic metal within the housing. When the thermostatic metal is heated by incoming air, the clearance around the plug in the opening increases, and the amount of air bleeding out of the opening increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1988
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: John L. Ferri, William C. Fulkerson, Ray L. Newman, Jeffrey M. Gonzalez
  • Heat recuperator with cross-flow ceramic core
    Patent number: 4776387
    Abstract: A heat recuperator comprises a cross-flow ceramic core within a housing. Of the six faces on the core, four have openings for gas flow therethrough and two faces are solid. Means are provided to apply compressive force to the solid faces, the means being disposed within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1988
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventor: Ray L. Newman
  • Dual insulated ceramic burner
    Patent number: 4726763
    Abstract: A gas burner comprises a ceramic tube or nozzle through which a gaseous fuel flows, a chamber surrounding the ceramic tube, and means for delivering preheated combustion air to the chamber. The tube is made of an insulating ceramic in order to insulate the fuel from the preheated air. The inner portion of the tube comprises an insulating ceramic having lower thermal conductivity than that of the outer portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventor: Ray L. Newman
  • Ceramic burner having high turndown ratio
    Patent number: 4717334
    Abstract: A gas burner comprises a ceramic tube through which a gaseous fuel flows, a chamber surrounding the ceramic tube, and means for delivering preheated combustion air to the chamber. There is a venturi around the tip of the ceramic tube, angled with respect to the tube, through which the preheated combustion air flows. The venturi enhances mixing of the air with the gaseous fuel forward of the tip of the ceramic tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventor: Ray L. Newman
  • Ceramic burner having high turndown ratio
    Patent number: 4668180
    Abstract: A gas burner comprises a ceramic tube through which a gaseous fuel flows, a chamber surrounding the ceramic tube, and means for delivering preheated combustion air to the chamber. There is a venturi around the tip of the ceramic tube, angled with respect to the tube, through which the preheated combustion air flows. The venturi enhances mixing of the air with the gaseous fuel forward of the tip of the ceramic tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Inventor: Ray L. Newman
  • Heat recuperator with compensator for pressure operated fuel regulator
    Patent number: 4631022
    Abstract: A temperature compensator for a pressure operated fuel regulator is used in combination with a heat recuperator to regulate fuel flow. In the recuperator, air to be used for combustion of the fuel is heated. Some of the heated air is supplied to the compensator, which comprises a housing having an opening for bleeding air therethrough. The rate of bleeding through of the air, and consequently the pressure drop across the compensator, is dependent on the temperature of the air supplied to the compensator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: John L. Ferri, William C. Fulkerson, Ray L. Newman, Jeffrey M. Gonzalez
  • Temperature compensator for pressure operated fuel regulator
    Patent number: 4611984
    Abstract: A multi-pass ceramic recuperator includes a temperature compensator mounted within the gaseous flow of an intermediate pass. The compensator includes a bleed valve actuated by a temperature sensitive mechanism which is mounted outside the compensator body and directly in the gaseous flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Ray L. Newman, Theodore H. Hoffman, Raymond E. Dorazio, John L. Ferri, Jeffrey M. Gonzalez, William C. Fulkerson
  • Heat recuperator with triple pass cross-flow ceramic core
    Patent number: 4503904
    Abstract: A heat recuperator comprises a triple pass cross flow ceramic core within a six sided metal housing. The four sides of the housing through which air or gas flows have cast ceramic material thereat with landed surfaces thereon which are in gasket-sealing engagement with a respective face of the core. Disposed between the closed sides of the housing and the solid faces of the core are spring means for exerting compressive force to the solid faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1985
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Ray L. Newman, David H. Hopkins
  • Method of making ceramic core heat recuperator
    Patent number: 4503905
    Abstract: In the manufacture of a heat recuperator, a ribbed layered cross-flow ceramic core is inserted into a metal housing. The core has divider ribs in the air-flow layers to provide triple pass air flow through the core. There are triple pass gaskets on the air-in and air-out faces of the core, between said faces and cast ceramic landed surfaces of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1985
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Ray L. Newman, David H. Hopkins
  • Insulated housing for ceramic heat recuperators and assembly
    Patent number: 4300627
    Abstract: Cross-flow ceramic recuperators are useful in industrial waste heat recovery in an assembly in which the ceramic recuperator is held by a metallic housing adapted for retrofitting to the metallic fittings of existing furnaces, ovens and preheaters. The assembly is characterized by at least two insulating layers inside the conduit portions leading from the operating hot faces of the ceramic core, whereby the operating efficiency of the assembly is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1981
    Inventors: Joseph J. Cleveland, Ray L. Newman, William L. Mingos
  • Housing for ceramic heat recuperators and assembly
    Patent number: 4279297
    Abstract: Cross-flow ceramic recuperators are useful in industrial waste heat recovery in an assembly in which the ceramic recuperator is held by a metallic housing adapted for retrofitting to the metallic fittings of existing furnaces, ovens and preheaters. The housing is characterized by two pairs of opposing apertured plates held against the inlet and outlet faces of the ceramic recuperator by spring biased through-bolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1981
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Chester J. Dziedzic, Joseph J. Cleveland, Ray L. Newman