Patents by Inventor Robert B. Burkhead

Robert B. Burkhead 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: 6010548
    Abstract: A spaced pocket filter assembly has a pocket secured to a holding frame and a spacing member within the pocket made of a single sheet of material. The spacing member has an alternately folded Z or zig zag configuration and is secured to the interior of the pocket along each of the fold lines. The pocket assembly can be manufactured by interposing a roll of a sheet media for the spacing member between rolls of filter media for the pocket. The spacing member media is folded into the Z or zig zag configuration, layered between the pocket media, and secured to the pocket media continuously along the fold lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Freudenberg Nonwovens Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Robert B. Burkhead, Klaus Schwobel, Udo Michaelis
  • Patent number: 4325718
    Abstract: A pocket filter cartridge having a plurality of side-by-side filter bags secured to a filter header assembly adapted to be secured across a dirty gas stream in a gas duct. The header assembly includes a generally rectangular frame in which the filter bags are secured by collars mounted in the mouths of each of the bags which are held together by clip members to clamp the bags between the collars and the frame to secure the bags to the header assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1982
    Assignee: Allis-Chalmers Corporation
    Inventor: Robert B. Burkhead