Patents by Inventor Richard C. Ayers

Richard C. Ayers 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).

  • Stiffener for use with a heat exchanger
    Patent number: 5181561
    Abstract: For use in a heat exchanger having a plurality of tubes, a stiffener plate for supporting the tubes, the plate being in the form of a unitary relatively thin planar metal plate having an opening for each tube to be supported, each opening being in the form of an integral short-length tubular ferrule portion of internal diameter slightly greater than the external diameter of the tube to be received therethrough, each integral ferrule portion having an end surface that is in a plane paralleled to and spaced from the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1993
    Assignee: Lansing Overhaul And Repair, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Ayers, Thomas G. Wilson