Patents by Inventor Robert A. Newton

Robert A. Newton 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: 5011283
    Abstract: A support device for a workpiece, such as a spectrophotometric flow cell is provided. The device includes a base plate, a mounting bar attached to the base plate, a support arm slidably mounted on the base plate/mounting bar assembly, an adjustment plug contained in an elongate cavity formed in the support arm, and a workpiece rotatably friction mounted on the adjustment plug. With the base plate mounted horizontally, the orientation and position of the work piece may be adjusted horizontally by sliding the support arm along the mounting bar, vertically by moving the adjustment plug within the elongate cavity and rotationally by rotating the workpiece, which is retained in its new position by the friction mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
    Inventors: Tony R. Carrie, Robert A. Newton
  • Patent number: 4920594
    Abstract: The apparatus comprises a pulling over and toe lasting machine and a side and heel seat lasting machine. The pulling over and toe lasting machine comprises two linear potentiometers (102, 104) for monitoring the movement of the heel rest (26) both lengthwise and heightwise of a shoe, a left/right sensor (PrS2) and a proximity switch (PrS1) which senses when the wiper plates (20) reach a predetermined position in their inwiping movement and causes output value information from the potentiometers (102, 104) and left/right sensor (PrS2) to be "read". The side and heel seat lasting machine comprises two side lasting assemblies (36) tiltable in a direction lengthwise of the shoe, to accommodate to the spring of the last, and two adhesive-applying nozzles (40) arranged to track along opposite portions of the shoe. A further linear potentiometer (146) monitors the nozzle movement, and stepping motors (66) are provided for effecting tilting movement of the assemblies (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: British United Shoe Machinery Ltd.
    Inventors: James R. Flanders, Frank Bramley, Francis B. Sharp, Robert A. Newton, Graham J. Mansfield
  • Patent number: 4485512
    Abstract: In a heel seat lasting machine (or combined side and seat lasting machine) the shoe is located lengthwise and heightwise in relation to the heel seat lasting instrumentalities (18) by first locating it lengthwise by the heel band (16), retracting it through a predetermined distance to separate it from the heel band, locating it heightwise against a holddown (20), and returning it to its lengthwise location, moving the holddown therewith during the return movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1984
    Assignee: USM Corporation
    Inventors: James R. Flanders, Robert A. Newton, William H. Berrill
  • Patent number: 4025523
    Abstract: Novel complexes between (a) a compound of the formula ##STR1## where R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl; and (b), salts of one of the cations Li, Na, K, Rb, Mg, Ca, Sr, Mn (II), Mn (III), Fe (II), Fe (III), Cu (I), Cu (II), Ag (I), Zn (II), Sn (II), Au (I), Au (II), Hg (I), Hg (II), Ni (I), Ni (II), Co (II), Co (III), hydronium, ammonium alkylammonium and pyridinium; optionally with solvent molecules in the crystal lattice, which complexes are useful as sources of highly pure salts and as soluble sources of certain inorganic reagents, e.g., KMnO.sub.4, NaNO.sub.2, NaSCN, etc., in hydrocarbon systems. For example, a 1:2 complex of sodium chloride and [CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O] .sub.4 is formed with 5 molecules of water per sodium cation in the crystal lattice of the complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Edwin C. Steiner, Robert A. Newton, F. Peter Boer