Patents by Inventor Roy E. Crews

Roy E. Crews 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: 3958824
    Abstract: A lifting frame is provided for use in lifting elongated room-size prefabricated building modules and other large, heavy and bulky elongated loads having asymmetrical or lopsided weight distributions in the direction of elongation. The lifting frame includes a pair of generally parallel, side-by-side, spaced apart elongated beams and a pair of cross-brace beams running at right angles to the elongated beams and located therebetween. The elongated beams are adapted to be releasably fastened to the upper portion of the building module or other load with the longer dimension of such beams running in the same general direction as the longer dimension of the building module or other load. The cross-brace beams are adapted to receive and laterally position the lower ends of the cables of a cable-type lifting sling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1976
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Roy E. Crews, Eugene D. Legg
  • Patent number: RE30229
    Abstract: Modular operating centers for use in electric power generating plants and other industrial and commercial plants, processes and systems are constructed by using a novel prefabricated modular technique. This technique includes loading a plurality of transportable room-size building modules with control system equipment at a factory site. Typically, the control system equipment includes sophisticated and complex electrical and electronics data processing and control equipment. The control system equipment is installed and bolted down in the different building modules and the equipment in each module is inter-wired at the factory site. Temporary inter-module connections are established between the control system equipment in different ones of the building modules and such equipment, as a whole, is then thoroughly tested and adjusted under simulated use conditions. Thereafter, the loaded and tested building modules are separated and separately transported to the industrial or commercial installation site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1980
    Assignee: Robert L. Ziegelman
    Inventors: Paul A. Berman, Theodore C. Giras, Roy E. Crews, Robert L. Ziegelman
  • Patent number: RE30280
    Abstract: Modular operating centers for use in electric power generating plants and other industrial and commercial plants, processes and systems are constructed by using a novel prefabricated modular technique. This technique includes loading a plurality of transportable room-size building modules with control system equipment at a factory site. Typically, the control system equipment includes sophisticated and complex electrical and electronics data processing and control equipment. The control system equipment is installed and bolted down in the different building modules and the equipment in each module is inter-wired at the factory site. Temporary inter-module connections are established between the control system equipment in different ones of the building modules and such equipment, as a whole, is then thoroughly tested and adjusted under simulated use conditions. Thereafter, the loaded and tested building modules are separated and separately transported to the industrial or commercial installation site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1980
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Paul A. Berman, Theodore C. Giras, Roy E. Crews