Patents by Inventor Robert W. Montgomery

Robert W. Montgomery 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: 11976562
    Abstract: A system for controlling blade clearances within a gas turbine engine includes a rotor disk and a rotor blade coupled to the rotor disk. Additionally, the system includes an outer turbine component positioned outward of the rotor blade such that a clearance is defined between the rotor blade and the outer turbine component. Furthermore, the system includes a heat exchanger configured to receive a flow of cooling air bled from the gas turbine engine and transfer heat from the received flow of the cooling air to a flow of coolant to generate cooled cooling air. Moreover, the system includes a valve configured to control the flow of the coolant to the heat exchanger. In this respect, the cooled cooling air is supplied to at least one of the rotor disk or the rotor blade to adjust the clearance between the rotor blade and the outer turbine component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Steven Douglas Johnson, Julius John Montgomery, Brandon Wayne Miller, Robert Proctor, Bradley W. Fintel, Jeffrey Douglas Rambo
  • Publication number: 20170253805
    Abstract: A method of modifying a biobased feedstock derived from agricultural resources and specifically from the non-distillate products of fermentation-derived renewable fuel and distilled spirit processes. The pyrolytic modification of biobased feedstocks results in materials that are thermally stable and better suited for subsequent melt processing in a polymer matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: GENAREX FD LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Cernohous, Brandon J. Cernohous, David J. Winsness, Robert W. Montgomery, III
  • Patent number: 5169233
    Abstract: For the measurement of the temperature of a body (e.g. a melt) whose temperature is such that radiation is emitted from the body surface, a camera sighted on the body surface produces a real image from a selected area of which electronic signals are derived representative of the magnitude of a plurality (preferably three) of color components of radiation. These derived signals are subsequently processed to provide a measure of body temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: British Steel PLC
    Inventors: Robert W. Montgomery, Kenneth H. Mackenzie
  • Patent number: 4852119
    Abstract: A method of monitoring the degree of exposure of an electric arc within a furnace having a molten charge, e.g. an arc furnace or ladle furnace, in which characteristic frequency spectra of the waveforms from the supply associated with (a) arc-exposure and (b) arc-submersion are predetermined and in which signals (e.g. indicative of the arc current) emitted during operation are measured and processed and a comparison effected with a set level established from these characteristic signals whereby to provide an indication of the degree of arc exposure.The predetermined characteristic frequency spectra selected may be the harmonic content of the arc current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: British Steel plc
    Inventor: Robert W. Montgomery
  • Patent number: 4601042
    Abstract: This invention concerns apparatus for selectively connecting an electrode of an electric arc furnace to a source of cooling fluid. The apparatus includes a coupling having passageways extending therethrough for the flow of cooling fluid and comprises at least two separable sections, one such section being connected to receive cooling fluid from the source and the other to convey such cooling fluid to the electrode when coupled to the said one section. Guide means are provided to guide one separable section into close proximity to the other section and to clamp the assembled sections together to connect the electrode to the source of cooling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Assignee: British Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Reynold, Robert W. Montgomery, Harold Swaby, Henry C. Garner
  • Patent number: 4303532
    Abstract: Efficient dewatering of slimes is achieved by admixing the slimes with a flocculating agent, followed by mechanical manipulation to effect rapid removal of water and consolidation of solids. The required mechanical manipulation may be accomplished, e.g., by tumbling the mixture through a rotating cylindrical screen or by passing it across a vibrating screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1981
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior
    Inventors: Annie G. Smelley, Robert W. Montgomery, Bobby J. Hamner
  • Patent number: 4287381
    Abstract: An electrode for an arc furnace comprising a water-cooled tubular column (2) and dependent therefrom a number of interconnected graphite or carbon sections, the column surrounding and being electrically insulated from one or more bus bars (5,6) extending centrally through the column and connected to a conductive screw-threaded member (7) at one end thereof, one of the graphite sections (13) being secured to the member, and that section, together with the other(s), being secured to one another through graphite nipples (15) having screw-threads of the same size as that of the said member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Assignee: British Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Robert W. Montgomery