Patents by Inventor Ronald E. Steffey

Ronald E. Steffey 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: 4802859
    Abstract: An electrical connecting device for use with a multiple layered circuit-containing device wherein at least two layers of the multiple layered circuit-containing device each contain a circuit including a plurality of circuit contacts to be electrically connected by the electrical connecting device. The electrical connecting device includes an upper longitudinal peripheral surface joined to a lower longitudinal peripheral surface by an intermediate longitudinal surface to form an elongated member which has a Z-shaped configuration in cross section and is formed from a plurality of Z-shaped connectors shaped from each other in a predetermined amount to effect a moire pattern when superimposed relative to the circuit contacts of at least one of the layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas E. Gouldy, William C. Knoll, Ernest R. Ritter, deceased, Thomas M. Lynch, Ronald E. Steffey, Donald R. White, Robert E. Brown
  • Patent number: 4207643
    Abstract: An endless conveyor type chamois-like curtain drier for vehicles wherein a plurality of spaced drying curtains hang down into the frontal path of a vehicle and are pulled over the vehicle surfaces by the lower run of the conveyor to wipe the moisture therefrom. The curtains are returned in overlapping relationship by the upper run to the point of beginning after removing moisture therefrom by wringer roll or vacuum. An accelerator means in the form of a rotatable paddle wheel intercepts each of the curtains adjacent the head end of the conveyor to speed up the linear movement of the curtains and lift the individual curtains free of their laminated relationship and over and around the conveyor end returning the curtains to the beginning of the lower run in a freely hangable condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1980
    Assignee: Sherman Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl C. Beer, Ronald E. Steffey