Patents by Inventor Robert Ray Wells

Robert Ray Wells 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: 6991505
    Abstract: A buoyant apparatus for connection to a beverage insulator, comprising an elongate arm having a rod like configuration and including an upper portion and a lower portion, said upper and lower portions being joined at a predetermined angle; a top plate connected to the upper portion of the elongate arm member having a slot and/or air vent located therein; and a stabilizer weight connected to the lower portion of the arm operable for stabilizing the buoyant apparatus in moderately rough aquatic action, wherein the buoyant apparatus is inserted into the beverage insulator by passing the elongate arm through a flexible air vent located in a bottom wall of the beverage insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: USAdvantage, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Ray Wells
  • Patent number: 6041709
    Abstract: A peristaltic type pump for pumping ink to a printing section of a corrugated paperboard finishing machine capable of both pumping ink to the printing section and pumping excess ink from the printing section back to an ink supply as well as pumping a cleaning fluid to the printing section and pumping excess cleaning fluid back to a sump. The pump includes at least one pumping element for pumping the ink or cleaning fluid to the printing section and at least one but preferably two pumping elements for pumping the excess ink or excess cleaning fluid back to the ink supply or sump respectively. Each pumping element includes a rotor having at least two but preferably three or more lobes for compressing two portions of a semicircular portion of a flexible tube surrounding the rotor to confine a finite quantity of ink or cleaning fluid in the tube between two of the lobes in sucession during rotation of the rotor to force the ink or cleaning fluid from an inlet to an outlet of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: USAdvantage, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Ray Wells, George Nick Hochman