Patents by Inventor Richard W. Germuska

Richard W. Germuska 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: 4991611
    Abstract: A spray arm assembly for delivering a fluid under pressure into a dishwasher wash chamber consists of a spray arm having a rotational axis and defining a fluid passageway for distributing incoming fluid into the wash chamber, a tower section, structure for mounting the tower section to the spray arm for guided movement relative to the spray arm between a retracted position and an extended position, and structure on the tower section for directing fluid from the fluid supply into the wash chamber with the lower section in its extended position. Mounting structure, integrally formed with the spray arm, prevents the tower section from separating from the spray arm with the tower section in its extended position. Any number of cooperating tower sections can be employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Wilbur W. Jarvis, John I. Smith, Kirk A. Gutmann, Lane S. Duncan, Richard D. Taylor, Richard W. Germuska
  • Patent number: 4406570
    Abstract: An improved material handling and storage system for receiving articles in the form of long rolls or boxes and for storing them in predetermined bin areas. The system includes novel support and transfer assemblies for moving the articles and also transfer loading and packaging stations for respectively initially receiving the articles and loading them on the transfer assemblies prior to storage and for packaging the articles following their removal from their storage bin area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1983
    Assignee: Burlington Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: L. Scot Duncan, Richard W. Germuska, Stephen L. Kral, Robert R. Lasecki, Michael W. Riley
  • Patent number: 4133990
    Abstract: A rotary switch for use with electrical circuits and including a housing having a cavity therein for receiving a rotatable disc. The housing supports a plurality of spaced apart electrical terminals each independently connected to an electric circuit and also supports a plurality of opposed resilient contacts selectively engagable with the electrical terminals. The rotor includes opposed planar surfaces, one of the surfaces parallel to and adjacent the resilient contacts, the rotor surface supporting a plurality of cams projecting from the surface and functional upon rotation of the rotor to force selected ones of the resilient contacts into engagement with the terminals to provide an electrical bridge between pairs of the electrical terminals. The rotary switch rotor can include cam members on both of its opposite surfaces and the housings are constructed such that they can be stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Assignee: Globe-Union Inc.
    Inventors: Vernon W. Wanner, Richard W. Germuska