Patents by Inventor Richard Carroll
Richard Carroll 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).
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Publication number: 20040187514Abstract: A method of regulating the refrigerant temperature for a beverage machine, including a refrigeration system for producing a frozen beverage, operating at least one compressor at a speed to flow the refrigerant through the refrigeration system of the beverage machine and cooling the refrigerant with at least one condenser. The method may also include controllably varying the flow of air across the at least one condenser or the speed of the at least one compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2003Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventors: Doug Franck, Darren Wayne Simmons, Daniel J. Peck, Richard Carroll Staten
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Publication number: 20040050863Abstract: A collapsible bag for dispensing liquids which includes at least one sheet sealed to define an enclosure and a fitment (spout) attached to the enclosure and out through which liquid in the enclosure is dispensed. An interior surface of the one or more sheets has an integral texture to assist with withdrawal of the liquid from the enclosure when collapsed. The texture can be provided by sheet surfaces that are mechanically or ultrasonically embossed or are bubble-cushioned or which have sealed pleats or accordion folds. The bottom surface of a lower flange of the fitment may have concentric ridges (or spirals) and/or radial grooves. Also disclosed are methods of making the bag from one, two, three or four sheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventors: Chester Savage, Kenneth Micnerski, Richard Carroll, Nancy Lu, Richard L. Albiani, Rocklin Verespej
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Patent number: 6607097Abstract: A collapsible bag for dispensing liquids which includes at least one sheet sealed to define an enclosure and a fitment (spout) attached to the enclosure and out through which liquid in the enclosure is dispensed. An interior surface of the one or more sheets has integral texture to assist in withdrawal of the liquid from the enclosure when collapsed. The texture can be provided by sheet surfaces that are mechanically or ultrasonically embossed or are bubble-cushioned or which have sealed pleats or accordion folds. The bottom surface of a lower flange of the fitment may have concentric ridges (or spirals) and/or radial grooves. Also disclosed are methods of making the bag from one, two, three or four sheets.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2002Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Scholle CorporationInventors: Chester Savage, Kenneth Micnerski, Richard Carroll, Nancy Lu, Richard L. Albiani, Rocklin Verespej
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Patent number: 6604654Abstract: A dispenser for providing a number of frozen products. The dispenser includes a refrigeration system and a product delivery system. The refrigeration system includes a compressor and the product delivery system includes three product barrels. The dispenser thus may provide three frozen products and up to two blends of the products. The dispenser also may have a frame. The frame may have a width of about seventeen (17) to about twenty-four (25) inches and a length of about twenty-four (24) to about forty (40) inches.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2001Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: Richard Carroll Staten, Douglas John Franck
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Publication number: 20020148857Abstract: A collapsible bag for dispensing liquids which includes at least one sheet sealed to define an enclosure and a fitment (spout) attached to the enclosure and out through which liquid in the enclosure is dispensed. An interior surface of the one or more sheets has integral texture to assist in withdrawal of the liquid from the enclosure when collapsed. The texture can be provided by sheet surfaces that are mechanically or ultrasonically embossed or are bubble-cushioned or which have sealed pleats or accordion folds. The bottom surface of a lower flange of the fitment may have concentric ridges (or spirals) and/or radial grooves. Also disclosed are methods of making the bag from one, two, three or four sheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2002Publication date: October 17, 2002Inventors: Chester Savage, Kenneth Micnerski, Richard Carroll, Nancy Lu, Richard L. Albiani, Rocklin Verespej
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Publication number: 20020108964Abstract: A dispenser for providing a number of frozen products. The dispenser includes a refrigeration system and a product delivery system. The refrigeration system includes a compressor and the product delivery system includes three product barrels. The dispenser thus may provide three frozen products and up to two blends of the products. The dispenser also may have a frame. The frame may have a width of about seventeen (17) to about twenty-four (25) inches and a length of about twenty-four (24) to about forty (40) inches.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2001Publication date: August 15, 2002Inventors: Richard Carroll Staten, Douglas John Franck
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Patent number: 6309517Abstract: This invention comprises a driven conveyor for transporting work pieces into one or more flood plating cells for electroplating a metal onto the planar surfaces and surfaces of the through holes of the work piece. An electrolyte solution is pumped by one or more recirculating pumps into the flood cell at such a rate as to maintain the liquid at a desired level covering the anodes and work pieces while work pieces are moved through the cells. One or more power sources provide direct current to the anodes and to the electrified contactors to transmit electrical current to the work pieces. The electrified contactors are positioned across the path of the work piece and spaced outside of the flood cell such that the electrolyte solution does not contact the contactors. Plating will occur so long as the work piece is in contact with one or more of the electrified contactors and the electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2000Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: Oliver Sales CompanyInventors: Richard Carroll Condra, Richard Malcolm Johnson
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Patent number: 6277181Abstract: This invention is a method to extend the bath life of certain alkaline accelerators used in metal/tin colloid catalyst used in direct plating processes on printed circuit boards. The method is comprised of the following steps: measuring the pH of the alkaline activator bath, and restoring, the pH of the alkaline activator bath to a desired pH range between 12.2 and 12.6.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1999Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: Oliver Sales CompanyInventors: Richard Carroll Condra, Paul Christopher Healey
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Patent number: 6277180Abstract: A method to make volumetric additions of dilute aqueous acid solutions to a colloidal catalyst bath that will retard the salt crystallization. The process includes the steps of measuring the volumetric loss of water by physical measurements and adding dilute aqueous acid solution to the bath in the amount of the loss or by measuring the density or specific gravity of the solution and adding dilute aqueous acid solutions to maintain the specific gravity in the desired range.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1999Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: Oliver Sales CompanyInventors: Richard Carroll Condra, Paul Christopher Healey
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Patent number: 6153064Abstract: This invention comprises a driven conveyor for transporting work pieces into one or more flood plating cells for electroplating a metal onto the planar surfaces and surfaces of the through holes of the work piece. An electrolyte solution is pumped by one or more recirculating pumps into the flood cell at such a rate as to maintain the liquid at a desired level covering the anodes and work pieces while work pieces are moved through the cells. One or more power sources provide direct current to the anodes and to the electrified contactors to transmit electrical current to the work pieces. The electrified contactors are positioned across the path of the work piece and spaced outside of the flood cell such that the electrolyte solution does not contact the contactors. Plating will occur so long as the work piece is in contact with one or more of the electrified contactors and the electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1998Date of Patent: November 28, 2000Assignee: Oliver Sales CompanyInventors: Richard Carroll Condra, Richard Malcolm Johnson
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Patent number: 6004061Abstract: A unitary dual sided album leaf and method of making the same. The method includes the steps of: providing an image retaining media having an image forming side and a back side; printing a plurality of images on the image forming side of the image retaining media, the image retaining media being composed into first and second image retaining sections and; folding the image retaining media along a predetermined line, the first and second image retaining sections being positioned such that when the image retaining media is folded, the back side of the first and second image retaining sections will be substantially co-extensive with each other so as to form the first and second sides of the album leaf.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1998Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joseph Anthony Manico, Richard Carroll Reem
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Patent number: 5957502Abstract: A unitary dual sided album leaf and method of making. The method includes the steps of:providing a image retaining media having an image forming side and a back side;printing a plurality of images on the image forming side of the image retaining media, the image retaining media being composed into first and second image retaining sections;folding the image retaining media along a predetermined line, the first and second image retaining sections being positioned such that when the image retaining media is folded, the back side of the first and second image retaining sections will be substantially co-extensive with each other so as to form the first and second sides of the album leaf.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1998Date of Patent: September 28, 1999Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joseph Anthony Manico, Richard Carroll Reem
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Patent number: 5884823Abstract: A collapsible shoe horn includes a shoe horn tongue having a generally thin and smooth body portion for aiding the user in putting on a pair of shoes. The side edges of the shoe horn tongue are slightly curved upwardly in a concave manner so that the shoe horn tongue conforms to the shape of the heel of a human foot. A neck portion is integral with and extends from the bottom of the shoe horn tongue. The neck portion has a pair of opposing flanges, each flange having a dap opening formed within the interior side thereof for receiving opposing ends of a shoe horn handle. The dap openings have a smooth dimple-like dap surface extending from the outer exposed surface of each neck flange for protecting the shoe horn user from the sharp ends of the shoe horn handle.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1998Date of Patent: March 23, 1999Assignee: The Lorac Company, Inc.Inventor: Richard A. Carroll
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Patent number: 5832047Abstract: A self-timed interface (STI) in which a clock signal clocks bit serial data onto a parallel, electrically conductive bus and the clock signal is transmitted on a separate line of the bus. The received data on each line of the bus is individually phase aligned with the clock signal. The received clock signal is used to define boundary edges of a data bit cell individually for each line and the data on each line of the bus is individually phase adjusted so that, for example, a data transition position is in the center of the cell.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1994Date of Patent: November 3, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Frank David Ferraiolo, Robert Stanley Capowski, Daniel Francis Casper, Richard Carroll Jordan, William Constantino Laviola
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Patent number: 5791692Abstract: A unitary dual sided album leaf and method of making the same. The method includes the steps of:providing an image retaining media having an image forming side and a back side;printing a plurality of images on the image forming side of the image retaining media, the image retaining media being composed into first and second image retaining sections and;folding the image retaining media along a predetermined line, the first and second image retaining sections being positioned such that when the image retaining media is folded, the back side of the first and second image retaining sections will be substantially co-extensive with each other so as to form the first and second sides of the album leaf.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1995Date of Patent: August 11, 1998Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joseph Anthony Manico, Richard Carroll Reem
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Patent number: 5747225Abstract: The invention relates to a light sensing device comprising a spironaphthoxazine dispersed in a layer of gelatin on a base material.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1995Date of Patent: May 5, 1998Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joseph Anthony Manico, Richard Carroll Reem
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Patent number: 5667944Abstract: A method for producing photographic images from a photographic film strip, of the type that uses density values of the photographic film strip to determine the density values of the produced photographic images, the improvement comprising the steps of:a) forming at least two reference patches of differing exposure conditions onto an otherwise unexposed portion of the photographic film strip prior to photographic processing, each reference patch falling within the total scale of the photographic film strip;b) photographically processing the photographic film strip to form densities corresponding to the photographic images and said reference patches;c) scanning said processed photographic film strip to form density representative digital signals for the photographic images and said reference patches;d) obtaining standard film density values representative of the photographic film strip;e) calculating gamma correction values from said density representative digital signals corresponding to said reference patchesType: GrantFiled: April 22, 1996Date of Patent: September 16, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Richard Carroll Reem, James Edward Sutton
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Patent number: 4525899Abstract: A fastener for paper and the like is integrally molded of a plastic material and comprises hingedly interconnected first and second plate members, each having a mating surface thereon, and a wedge-shaped prong which extends from the mating surface of the first plate member. The prong is receivable in frictional interengagement in a slot in the second plate member to detachably maintain the plate members in the closed positions thereof, wherein the abutting surfaces thereof are in mating relation. One or a plurality of sheets of paper or the like interposed between the plate members are penetrated by the prong when the plate members are in the closed positions thereof to secure the sheets in the fastener.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1983Date of Patent: July 2, 1985Assignee: Quality Services IncorporatedInventor: Richard A. Carroll
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Patent number: H1121Abstract: A primer feed mechanism device for use with a carrier assembly of a large liber cannon. The device includes a body for mounting the device to the carrier assembly so as to interface with the carrier assembly to position the device on one side of the breech of the cannon. It further includes a body cam surface and a tray assembly which provides a cam path for movement thereof. The tray assembly includes slide rails for engagement with the body and an injector arm which is operably controlled by the body cam surface. Also included is a control arm assembly housed in the carrier assembly for engaging the cam path at one end and for engaging the tray assembly at its other end. The control arm assembly is adapted to move the tray assembly from a first ready-to-fire position to a primer extract/inject position, the movement being controlled from the control arm assembly and the breech mechanism of the cannon.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1992Date of Patent: December 1, 1992Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Richard Carroll, Kenneth Lucas
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Patent number: D382686Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1996Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignees: The Lorac Company, Inc., Zapatka Enterprises, Inc., Rebecca LitwinInventors: Rebecca Litwin, Richard A. Carroll, Robert Zapatka