Patents by Inventor Robert Elder Gray

Robert Elder Gray 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: 4090511
    Abstract: A valve housing has a mouth port in one side and a vent opening in its opposite side, with another opening between them for connection to a carbon dioxide removing and oxygen generating canister. Around the mouth port inside the housing is a valve seat, toward which a valve member is urged by a spring to normally close the valve. Surrounding the valve member and spring is a bellows that has an open end secured to the housing around the vent opening to thereby expose the inside of the bellows to the pressure of water or other liquid in which the valve may be submerged. Connected to the outer end of the mouthport is a mouthpiece adapted to be held in the mouth of a user, and encircling the mouthpiece is a ring that is connected with the valve member for movement with it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1978
    Assignee: Mine Safety Appliances Company
    Inventor: Robert Elder Gray