Patents by Inventor Robert Ryan Slocum

Robert Ryan Slocum 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: 20200115858
    Abstract: A rail tie pad for use with a cast rail tie. The rail tie pad may be flexible, polymeric body having first and second opposite sides and, when viewed in cross-section, includes an upper surface and a lower surface defining a first vertical thickness and including a plurality of undulations with alternating concave portions and convex portions. The rail tie pad further includes a pair of side anchor portions respectively disposed at the first and second opposite sides of the pad, each including at least one anchor projection for embedment within the side portions of a cast rail tie. In this manner, the anchor portions of the rail tie pad are embedded within, and fixably secure, the sides of the rail tie pad to the cast rail tie to mitigate or prevent separation of the rail tie pad from the rail tie during transport and/or positioning of the rail tie during installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Jimmy D. Gamble, Jacob Laurence Bennett Morris, Ronald N. Neuhaus, Robert Ryan Slocum
  • Patent number: 9803784
    Abstract: A gasket is adapted for sealing a joint between bell and spigot ends of corrugated pipes. The gasket generally includes a pair of seal lobes which provide a redundant double seal, together with an anchoring portion sized to be received in a trough defined by the pipe corrugation and at least one anti-roll lip adapted to engage the anchoring corrugation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Press-Seal Corporation
    Inventors: Jimmy Dean Gamble, Robert Ryan Slocum
  • Publication number: 20150240974
    Abstract: A gasket is adapted for sealing a joint between bell and spigot ends of corrugated pipes. The gasket generally includes a pair of seal lobes which provide a redundant double seal, together with an anchoring portion sized to be received in a trough defined by the pipe corrugation and at least one anti-roll lip adapted to engage the anchoring corrugation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Jimmy Dean Gamble, Robert Ryan Slocum