Patents by Inventor Robert W. Decker

Robert W. Decker 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: 4690622
    Abstract: The unit comprises three liquid intensifiers, coupled together in juxtaposition, and fixed between a pair of plates. A support plate at the one end of the intensifiers mounts a rotary valve which, sequentially, supplies operative, low-pressure fluid to the intensifiers. A base plate at the other end of the intensifiers admits liquid into each thereof, for pressure intensification of the liquid by the intensifiers, and provides a common outlet aperture for the pressurized liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventor: Robert W. Decker
  • Patent number: 4621988
    Abstract: The unit comprises three liquid intensifiers, coupled together in juxtaposition, and fixed between a pair of plates. A support plate at the one end of the intensifiers mounts a rotary valve which, sequentially, supplies operative, low-pressure fluid to the intensifiers. A base plate at the other end of the intensifiers admits liquid into each thereof, for pressure intensification of the liquid by the intensifiers, and provides a common outlet port for the pressurized liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventor: Robert W. Decker
  • Patent number: 4464138
    Abstract: A pair of rotatable members, one having a greater inside diameter than the outside diameter of the other are interconnected by flexible members extending tangentially to the first rotatable member from one location on the second rotatable member to a second location on the second rotatable member circumferentially spaced from the first location.The first rotatable member has a plurality of grooves for changing the axial location of each flexible member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1984
    Assignee: Sier-Bath Gear Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert W. Decker
  • Patent number: 3947258
    Abstract: An air-vapor mixture, derived from a vaporous, volatile liquid, has vapors stripped and recovered therefrom, in accordance with the method and apparatus, by first stripping a multi-component vaporous, volatile liquid of at least some of its more volatile constituents and then contacting the air-vapor mixture with a stream of the stripped liquid. Leaning or stripping of the contacting liquid provides an unburdening of cooling means which, selectively, are subsequently deployed to effect vapor absorption condensation. Thus the method and apparatus offer economies in cooling equipment and overall greater efficiency in the liquid absorption. In one embodiment, a jet inductor is used to spray volatitle liquid into the mixture to partially strip the liquid of its more volatile fractions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1972
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1976
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventor: Robert W. Decker