Patents by Inventor Robert H. McFarland

Robert H. McFarland 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: 4759341
    Abstract: A slidable support system is formed of two rails having opposed channels. The rails have flat mounting surfaces adapted to be affixed to a support and an element to be slidably mounted, and at least two bearings are provided extending into the channels of both of the rails. The bearings have generally cruciform cross sections, and may be affixed to one of the respective rails, or free-floating with respect to both of the rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: The Tappan Company
    Inventor: Robert H. McFarland
  • Patent number: 4446849
    Abstract: A vent apparatus for a surface cooking appliance comprises a vertically slidable closure mounted to slide in a duct in the surface of the appliance. The closure has a slide engaging a track in the front of the duct below the surface of the appliance, an open side within which filters may be removably mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignee: The Tappan Company
    Inventor: Robert H. McFarland
  • Patent number: 4108139
    Abstract: The gas burner and blower powered oven includes a mixing chamber of appreciable length that receives bottom outflow air from the oven and, in general opposition, an input from the burner which includes make-up room air. A substantial flame is produced in the chamber for combusting volatiles in the oven outflow and the latter is mixed in the chamber before proceeding to the inlet of the blower, the latter discharging the hot air into the oven through a multiplicity of holes in a top manifold for downward substantially uniform flow throughout the oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1978
    Assignee: The Tappan Company
    Inventors: John W. Gilliom, Robert H. McFarland
  • Patent number: 3973551
    Abstract: The oven cooking cavity has a perforated top wall above which there is a substantially full width plenum chamber which receives from a rear exterior duct heated air and gases under pressure for discharge of the same downwardly through the cavity top substantially uniformly over the area of the same. The heated air and gases exit from the cavity at the bottom and comingle with newly heated air and gases from a bottom forward gas burner in passage therewith to motor-driven impeller means which discharges into the delivery duct. In such gas embodiment, a small portion of the circulation within the cavity is vented to the atmosphere at the top front of the oven and compensating make-up room air supplied. The heat source can also be electric, with full instead of substantially full recirculation as in the gas embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1972
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1976
    Assignee: The Tappan Company
    Inventors: Richard E. Caselani, John W. Gilliom, Robert H. McFarland, Richard L. Perl