Patents by Inventor Robert E. Downing

Robert E. Downing 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).

  • Publication number: 20100299273
    Abstract: An improvement using electronic spreadsheet technology for operationalizing a single source (one Workbook) generic planning model of templates, as a unit suitable to microcircuitry and any storage medium, including risks and impacts for organizational, comprehensive, functional, financial, and systems planning (crisis prevention, technology impact, R/D) self-adjusting over one-five-fifteen year planning periods at a personalized or organizational level helping the user plan, manage, and make decisions more efficiently considering changing societal and technological conditions in compliance with 5(D)(1)-(2) Patentability on the drawing especially relevant to individuals, non-profit organizations, small businesses, government, and institutions in accord with documented authentication of origination in Declaration. The user can personalize a predefined master budget, generate non-financial or financial reports, organize resources, assess performance, and store forms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventor: Robert E. Downing
  • Patent number: 5236034
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns an expendable core for molds such as die casting dies, which core has a central aperture which may be elongated. The outside of this core is provided with a plurality of parallel grooves across the elongated sides of the core parallel to the aperture. These grooves may have corresponding ribs in the central aperture. One and the common end of each of these grooves is provided with a bridging web integral with the core for reinforcing and strengthening the core. The opposite end of the core from these webs may be provided with a printout portion also integral with the core by which the core is supported in the mold or die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Doehler-Jarvis Limited Partnership
    Inventors: John P. Cestaro, Robert E. Downing
  • Patent number: 5115856
    Abstract: The core box has a drag and a cope forming a mold cavity for forming a sand base core. This sand is injected into the cope and the air in the cavity is vented through vents remote or spaced away from where the sand is inserted. These vents are usually in the drag, but may also be in the cope. In each vent adjacent the cavity is a cylindrical cup-shaped plug having slotted perforations in its bottom narrower than the diameter of the sand grains. The diameter of this perforated vent plug is at least 50% greater and preferably at least twice the width of the cavity, slot, or groove at the vent whereby air can be vented along the cavity. Furthermore, the plug having the perforations may be contoured to the groove or that portion of the cavity in which the vent is located so that air can also be vented from the sides of the cavity or groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Assignee: Doehler-Jarvis Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Robert E. Downing, Bobby L. Wilson
  • Patent number: 4961458
    Abstract: A method for producing high pressure die castings with undercut regions comprises forming an expendable coated core of specific composition, placing it in the die in a die casting machine, injecting molten metal into the die to form the casting and separating the casting from the die and the core from the casting. The composition of the expendable coated core comprises a base sand core held together by a resin binder; a first, bottom, hard refractory coating comprising fused silica and a refractory binder containing at least two of the following additives: a suspension agent, a dispersant, a wetting agent, and an anti-skinning agent; and a second, top, soft, or release coating containing a release material selected from the group consisting of anhydrous powdered aluminum, graphite, talc, titanium dioxide and zircon, and a resinous binder containing at least two different compounds selected from the group of additives consisting of a suspension agent, a dispersant, and an anti-settling agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Assignee: Farley, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Downing
  • Patent number: 4951731
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns a process of producing expendable coated cores for castings comprising mixing sand with a resinous binder, polymerizing the binder, and then washing the resulting bound sand core with an organic solvent to remove unpolymerized residuals from the surface of the core before applying a coating to the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignee: Farley, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Downing
  • Patent number: 4867225
    Abstract: The coatings are for an expendable sand core for die casting dies, which sand core has spaces between its contacting sand grains at least partially filled with resin binder. The first, base, hard, or refractory coating for this core is applied from an aqueous suspension comprising a finely ground refractory of fused silica, a refractory binder, and at least two different compounds selected from the groups of compounds or additives consisting of: (1) a suspension agent, (2) a dispersant, (3) a wetting agent, and (4) an anti-skinning agent. The refractory in the first coating may also include a minor amount, i.e. less than 50%, of another refractory oxide. The amount of binder in the first coating is less than about 15% by weight of the total liquid suspension, and the amount of additives is less than about 1.5% and usually less than 1% by weight of the total liquid suspension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: Farley, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Downing
  • Patent number: 4303793
    Abstract: A stable, flowable aqueous dispersion of agriculturally acceptable carbamate compound is prepared by wet-milling an aqueous carbamate suspension, said suspension prepared by subsurface injection of molten carbamate into a stirred aqueous salt solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1981
    Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Leo J. Paridon, Robert E. Downing
  • Patent number: D744506
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Inventor: Robert E Downing