Patents by Inventor Richard Patton

Richard Patton 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: 6340004
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine and method is disclosed wherein separate compression and power cylinders are used and a regenerator or pair of regenerators is mounted between them to provide heat for hot-air ignition. The single regenerator embodiment operates as a two-stroke cycle engine and the embodiment with an alternating pair of regenerators operates as a four-stroke cycle engine. Valving is provided for uniflow design and the system allows variable fuel ratios. The resulting engine achieves brake efficiency and thermal efficiency greater than 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Inventor: Richard Patton
  • Patent number: 5182046
    Abstract: Improved sodium borohydride powder compositions have a silica-based anticaking agent. In a method wherein a mixture of sodium borohydride and an anti-caking agent are compacted under pressure, the process is improved, particularly in speed, by the use of a silica-based anti-caking agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1993
    Assignee: Morton International, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard A. Patton, Walter A. Richardson
  • Patent number: 4030690
    Abstract: An intravenous bottle retaining means which comprises a support bracket adapted to be retained on an intravenous bottle post or standard, with the bracket having a bottle receiving means at the outer end thereof. The bottle receiving means is in the form of an open ended generally radially flexible rubber split sleeve with projection means adjacent the bottom end thereof for releasably supporting an intravenous bottle within the split sleeve. Means are also provided for releasably drawing the opposed free edges of the split sleeve arcuately toward each other for additional bottle support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Assignee: Hanauer Machine Works Incorporated
    Inventors: Burton C. Hanauer, Charles Richard Patton
  • Patent number: 3983901
    Abstract: A pivot steering vehicle having a pair of hydrostatically operated driving wheels; and motors for driving those wheels which are driven by variable speed, reversible pumps; a control system is provided, having valve means for controlling the pressure applied to the pumps for controlling the speed and direction of the pumps; and cam means is provided which, in response to turning movements of the steering wheel, reduces the speed of the inside driving wheel, and after a predetermined point in the turning movements of the steering wheel, reverses the direction of that wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Assignee: Clark Equipment Company
    Inventors: Jon Richard Patton, Ronald Loren Sisson
  • Patent number: 3971453
    Abstract: A pivot steering vehicle having a pair of hydrostatically operated driving wheels; and motors for driving those wheels which are driven by variable speed, reversible pumps; a control system is provided, having valve means for controlling the pressure applied to the pumps for controlling the speed and direction of the pumps; and cam means is provided which, in response to turning movements of the steering wheel, reduces the speed of the inside driving wheel, and after a predetermined point in the turning movements of the steering wheel, reverses the direction of that wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1976
    Assignee: Clark Equipment Company
    Inventors: Jon Richard Patton, Ronald Loren Sisson