Patents by Inventor Richard D. Markland

Richard D. Markland 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: 4553782
    Abstract: An air resistance reducing assembly for use in tandemly coupled vehicles, one of the vehicles being a hauling, another of the vehicles being a trailing vehicle, the trailing vehicle including a front wall and a top panel, an the air deflector having leading and trailing edges disposed transversely of the direction of forward movement of the vehicles and carried at an upper leading end portion of the trailing vehicle, the deflector overlying the surface of upper leading end portion while remaining disposed respectively behind and below the plane of the front wall and the top panel, the air deflector being formed and disposed to deflect air to pass therebeneath adjacent the surface of the upper leading end portion and along the top of the trailing vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1985
    Assignee: Consolidated Freightways, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard D. Markland