Patents by Inventor Ronald C. Oxford

Ronald C. Oxford 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: 5597128
    Abstract: A chip destructuring and fissuring machine for destructuring wood chips or the like. The chip destructuring machine includes a support frame and two swing assemblies that provide parallel side-by-side squeeze rollers are swing-mounted on the frame to swing the rollers toward about a swing axis and away from one another between active and inactive positions. A drive motor having a drive shaft with a rotational axis aligned with the swing axis is mounted to the support frame, and drive assemblies couple the drive shaft to the rollers for rotating the rollers in opposite directions at the same rotational speed. Co-acting stops are mounted on the swing assemblies and are positioned to define a spacing between the rollers when they are in the active position for squeezing and destructuring of the chips. A biasing mechanism yieldingly urges the rollers toward one another into the active position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1997
    Assignee: Acrowood Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel M. Terrenzio, P. Robert Diehl, Ronald C. Oxford