Patents by Inventor Ronald A. Wolfe

Ronald A. Wolfe 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: 20170354222
    Abstract: An apparatus, a system and a method connects bags around a traveler to allow the traveler to move while carrying the bags. A first bag rests upon a shoulder of the traveler and connects to a third bag near the waist of the traveler by a strap. A second bag extends across the back of the traveler. The first bag connects to the second bag which connects to the third bag by a connector. The traveler lifts the third bag toward the first bag to extend and connect a strap between the first bag and the third bag. The three bags surround the traveler to allow the traveler to have both hands unencumbered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventor: Ronald A. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 8684219
    Abstract: A tank for holding liquid having internal partitions. The partitions have enlarged bottom ends fillable with liquid and restable on the bottom wall of the tank to limit sideways movement of the partitions. The partitions are mounted to the tank only above the liquid within the tank by a channel that loosely receives the top ends of the partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald A. Wolfe, Andrew J. Sander
  • Patent number: 8657142
    Abstract: A tank for holding liquid having internal partitions. The partitions have enlarged bottom ends fillable with liquid and restable on the bottom wall of the tank to limit sideways movement of the partitions. The partitions are mounted to the tank only above the liquid within the tank by a channel that loosely receives the top ends of the partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald A. Wolfe, Andrew J. Sander
  • Publication number: 20140014664
    Abstract: A tank for holding liquid having internal partitions. The partitions have enlarged bottom ends fillable with liquid and restable on the bottom wall of the tank to limit sideways movement of the partitions. The partitions are mounted to the tank only above the liquid within the tank by a channel that loosely receives the top ends of the partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Ronald A. Wolfe, Andrew J. Sander
  • Publication number: 20130248535
    Abstract: A tank for holding liquid having internal partitions. The partitions have enlarged bottom ends fillable with liquid and restable on the bottom wall of the tank to limit sideways movement of the partitions. The partitions are mounted to the tank only above the liquid within the tank by a channel that loosely receives the top ends of the partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Ronald A. Wolfe, Andrew J. Sander
  • Patent number: 5960857
    Abstract: A machine for circulating cooling water through manufacturing process equipment includes a combination pump and heat exchanger assembly. The machine has a cast metal pump case with two upwardly opening sockets receiving the lower ends of two tanks, one of them "the suction tank" communicating through the case with the pump impeller intake, and the other "the discharge tank" communicating with the impeller discharge. The tanks are constructed to function as heat exchangers, and they are readily and removably secured to the pump case by threaded fasteners and are sealed therein by compression seals. The discharge tank has electrical heating elements. The suction tank has a motor-operated modulator valve precisely fixed thereon, so as to enable discharging excessively warm water from the process to drain while cool make-up water from city water supply is admitted through the suction tank to the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip D. Oswalt, Steven E. Wash, Ronald A. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 5761916
    Abstract: A portable, wheel-mounted, mechanically-refrigerated chiller for water used to cool a heat generating manufacturing process machine, has a process cooling water flow sensor assembly with conventional connections into the process water circulation portion of the chiller. The assembly includes a magnetically impregnated plastic vane operated by water flow through it, and a Hall-effect motion sensor responsive to vane operation to provide a signal to a computer. Water temperature to the process and from the process is monitored by sensors producing signals to the computer. The computer combines this information to produce a front panel digital read-out of the percent of capacity at which the chiller is operating or, upon selection, the refrigeration tonnage applied by the chiller to the process water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip D. Oswalt, Steven E. Wash, Ronald A. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 5113931
    Abstract: A combination pump and heat exchanger assembly in a manufacturing process temperature controller uses a cast metal pump case with two upwardly opening sockets receiving the lower ends of two tubes, one of them communicating through the case with the pump impeller intake and the other with the impeller discharge. Closed circuit and open circuit versions are shown. In both types, the tubes are constructed to function as tanks, at least one being a heat exchanger unit, and they are readily and removably secured to the case by threaded fasteners and are sealed therein by compression seals. The heat exchanger tubes employ electrical heating elements or chilled liquid piping units therein. A controller including a microcomputer responds to temperature of liquid pumped from the assembly through a process to be temperature controlled, and returned to the assembly, to control an electric heater and/or a motor-operated modulator valve discharging to drain while cool make-up water is admitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip D. Oswalt, Ronald A. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 5094291
    Abstract: A combination pump and heat exchanger assembly uses a cast metal pump case with two upwardly opening sockets receiving the lower ends of two tubes, one of them communicating through the case with the pump impeller intake and the other with the impeller discharge. The tubes are constructed to function as heat exchanger units and are removably secured to the case by threaded fasteners and are sealed therein by compression seals. The heat exchanger tubes may employ electrical heating units or chilled liquid piping units therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip D. Oswalt, Ronald A. Wolfe
  • Patent number: D415553
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald A. Wolfe
  • Patent number: D869504
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Advantage Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Sander, Ronald A. Wolfe