Patents by Inventor Richard J. Collins

Richard J. Collins 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: 11920307
    Abstract: Provided are tissue webs, and products produced therefrom, that are generally durable, flexible and have improved cross-machine direction (CD) properties, such as CD tensile energy absorption (CD TEA), CD stretch and CD modulus. The inventive tissue products generally comprise multiple tissue plies, such as two or more plies, that have been prepared by through-air drying and more preferably by through-air drying without creping. Moreover, the plies may be produced in a through-air drying process that utilizes a transfer fabric positioned between the forming fabric and the through-air drying fabric where the transfer fabric imparts the nascent web with a high degree of CD strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventors: Mark W. Sachs, Richard A. Zanon, Lynda E. Collins, Kevin J. Vogt, Christopher L. Satori
  • Patent number: 7273234
    Abstract: The invention disclosed herein represents a means for increasing the gripability of a credit-card-sized card. Specifically, dimples raised from, indented in, or embossed in a credit-card-sized card are arranged to from a tread on the front or back of a card. This tread allows fingers to more easily grip a credit-card-sized card for ease of handling or removal from a wallet or carrying case. Moreover, the means disclosed does not interfere with various means such as magnetic stripes commonly used to store encoded information on credit-card-sized cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Collins, R. Bruce Montgomery, Jr., Allen Kendle
  • Patent number: 6848497
    Abstract: A metal distribution system for the simultaneous production of a plurality of logs or round billets from molten metal comprising: 1) a trough for the introduction of molten metal; 2) a plurality of side streams extending from the trough and each of the side streams including a plurality of opposing apertures each of the apertures including a thimble for the shaping of molten metal passing through the trough and the side streams and into the thimbles. A uniform flow of molten metal into the side streams and the individual apertures is provided by the controlled negative angular orientation of the most upstream opposing pair of apertures thereby providing relative uniformity of the temperature of molten metal reaching each of the plurality of apertures. A unique unitized thimble configuration and trough damming arrangement are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Pyrotek, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan R. Sale, Sylvain P. Tremblay, Richard J. Collins
  • Publication number: 20040206473
    Abstract: A metal distribution system for the simultaneous production of a plurality of logs or round billets from molten metal comprising: 1) a trough for the introduction of molten metal; 2) a plurality of side streams extending from the trough and each of the side streams including a plurality of opposing apertures each of the apertures including a thimble for the shaping of molten metal passing through the trough and the side streams and into the thimbles. A uniform flow of molten metal into the side streams and the individual apertures is provided by the controlled negative angular orientation of the most upstream opposing pair of apertures thereby providing relative uniformity of the temperature of molten metal reaching each of the plurality of apertures. A unique unitized thimble configuration and trough damming arrangement are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Alan R. Sale, Sylvain P. Tremblay, Richard J. Collins
  • Publication number: 20030222153
    Abstract: A data card is reduced in size from the conventional standard size credit card. Accessibility of the card is enhanced because the card may be stored in a separate location from conventionally sized cards, such as on a key-chain or similar device. The card of the present invention has a means for storing information, such as a magnetic stripe or computer chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Inventors: Jamily Pentz, Emmet Burns, Richard J. Collins, R. B. Montgomery, A. A. Kendle
  • Publication number: 20020185543
    Abstract: A data card is reduced in size from the conventional standard size credit card. Accessibility of the card is enhanced because the card may be stored in a separate location from conventionally sized cards, such as on a key-chain or similar device. The card of the present invention has a means for storing information, such as a magnetic stripe or computer chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Jamily Pentz, Emmet Burns, Richard J. Collins, R. Bruce Montgomery, A. Allen Kendle
  • Patent number: 6471127
    Abstract: A data card is reduced in size from the conventional standard size credit card. Accessibility of the card is enhanced because the card may be stored in a separate location from conventionally sized cards, such as on a key-chain or similar device. The card of the present invention has a means for storing information, such as a magnetic stripe or computer chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Jamily Pentz, Emmet Burns, Richard J. Collins, R. Bruce Montgomery, A. Allen Kendle
  • Patent number: 6446704
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mold plug activation system and bleedout protection system, which stops the flow of metal during predetermined conditions, such as during the initial introduction of molten metal to the molds or in the event a bleedout is detected in the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Inventor: Richard J. Collins
  • Publication number: 20020092914
    Abstract: A data card is reduced in size from the conventional standard size credit card. Accessibility of the card is enhanced because the card may be stored in a separate location from conventionally sized cards, such as on a key-chain or similar device. The card of the present invention has a means for storing information, such as a magnetic stripe or computer chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventors: Jamily Pentz, Emmet Burns, Richard J. Collins, R. Bruce Montgomery, A. Allen Kendle
  • Patent number: 5647427
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for providing a modular mold table for use in conjunction with a vertical non-ferrous metal casting apparatus. A plurality of longitudinal headers with a coolant passageway and transverse headers with a coolant passageway provide the mold table. A centralized water screen is provided to screen undesired inclusions in the coolant. Pre-cast modules which contain the mold cavities and other interconnections for coolant, oil and gas are operatively connected to the longitudinal headers and can be added or removed in building block fashion. Also disclosed is an oil delivery system and a gas delivery system wherein longitudinally oriented oil and gas passageways are included within the longitudinal headers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Wagstaff, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Collins, Loren Keith Bodeau
  • Patent number: 5323841
    Abstract: As a reversal of previous practice, the annular body of the mold in the unit has an annular case at the bottom thereof, rather than at the top thereof. The case is relatively thick axially of the mold, so as to form the greater portion of the axial length of the mold body at the outer periphery thereof; and at the top thereof, the case has an annular plate thereon, which forms a pair of flanges that overhang the case and enable the metal casting unit to be lowered into an aperture of a casting table from above, and supported on top of the table at the flanges. Meanwhile, the case defines the lower end opening of the mold cavity, and the outlet for liquid coolant that is discharged onto the molten metal body as it emerges from the unit. Commonly, the case is monolithic, and also has an annular sump at the top thereof which is covered by the plate to form a chamber for the coolant in the sump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Wagstaff, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank E. Wagstaff, Robert B. Wagstaff, David A. Fort, Richard J. Collins
  • Patent number: 5318098
    Abstract: A casting unit 6 consists of a monolithic body which is annular in shape and has an annular flange 72 outturned about the axis and monolithically outstanding on the body at the outer periphery, a set of lugs 110 angularly spaced about the axis on the lower end portion of the body and monolithically outstanding in the aperture, and a circumferential groove 114 about the outer periphery of the body in the upper end portion, with mullions 20 monolithically upstanding therein, adjacent the outer periphery of the groove, to form ports 112.The groove is interconnected with the cavity 108 in the lower end portion of the body at the aperture; and passages, 126, 140, a graphite ring 16, and whatever else is required, are added to complete the unit 6 before it is supported in an aperture in a metal casting table 2, having liquid coolant discharge means 14 circumposed thereabout and a stool to support molten metal after being mated with the lugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: Wagstaff, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert B. Wagstaff, David A. Fort, Frank E. Wagstaff, Richard J. Collins
  • Patent number: 4598763
    Abstract: One end opening of an open ended mold cavity has a diameter smaller than the peripheral wall of the cavity and a molten metal mass is introduced to the cavity by continuously filling the one end opening with the mass so that the molten metal splays about the inner peripheral edge of the opening to assume a cross-section between the ends of the cavity having a divergent/convergent outline, the intermediate continuum of which between the planes of maximum divergence and minimum convergence thereof, has a peripheral outline corresponding generally to the outline of the cavity at the peripheral wall thereof. A graphite or graphite-like ring is circumposed about the axis of the cavity in the peripheral wall thereof to form a solid but fluid permeable wall section that is disposed to define the peripheral outline of the intermediate continuum of the metallic mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: Wagstaff Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank E. Wagstaff, William G. Wagstaff, Richard J. Collins
  • Patent number: 4597432
    Abstract: One or more top-opening mold cavity defining members are supported in the chamber of a coolant box adapted for the flow of liquid coolant therethrough about the members. Each member is supported in a telescoping assembly in which the top opening of the member is co-axial with an opening in the top of the chamber to enable molten metal to be introduced to the cavity of the member through the respective top openings of the chamber and the member. Moreover, each member has a greater outer peripheral diameter transverse the axis than the top opening of the chamber, and is engaged with the top of the chamber about the opening thereof in a first horizontal plane of the box. The member is also engaged with the defining surfaces of the chamber in a second horizontal plane of the box spaced below the aforesaid first horizontal plane of the box by a vertical gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: Wagstaff Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Collins, Frank E. Wagstaff, William G. Wagstaff