Patents by Inventor Robert Seabrooke Hopkins

Robert Seabrooke Hopkins 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: 6537025
    Abstract: An apparatus for diverting, revectoring and accelerating a mass of gas, for example, a rapidly moving air mass traversing the landscape, wherein the apparatus comprises first and second spaced-apart upstanding walls, the first wall being disposed relative to the second wall such that the lower terminus of the first wall is disposed above the lower terminus of the second wall, thereby forming an entry inlet for high velocity air mass to pass between the walls and exit at the other end; the walls are disposed in a convergent rotation in the direction of the exit outlet of the apparatus and further, the upper terminus of the second wall being positioned relative to the upper terminus of the first wall such that an air mass flowing through the space between the first and second walls will exit the apparatus at an accelerated flow rate relative to the entry flow rate and with a vector divergent from the flow vector at the entry inlet and the walls being disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Inventors: Robert Seabrooke Hopkins, Gary Mark McGivney
  • Publication number: 20020110453
    Abstract: An apparatus for diverting, revectoring and accelerating a mass of gas, for example, a rapidly moving air mass traversing the landscape, wherein the apparatus comprises first and second spaced-apart upstanding walls, the first wall being disposed relative to the second wall such that the lower terminus of the first wall is disposed above the lower terminus of the second wall, thereby forming an entry inlet for high velocity air mass to pass between the walls and exit at the other end; the walls are disposed in a convergent rotation in the direction of the exit outlet of the apparatus and further, the upper terminus of the second wall being positioned relative to the upper terminus of the first wall such that an air mass flowing through the space between the first and second walls will exit the apparatus at an accelerated flow rate relative to the entry flow rate and with a vector divergent from the flow vector at the entry inlet and the walls being disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: Robert Seabrooke Hopkins, Gary Mark McGivney