Patents by Inventor Russell A. Sutherland

Russell A. Sutherland 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: 11033843
    Abstract: A filter element, filter head, a filter system and methods of assembling or mounting a filter element to a filter head are provided. The filter element and filter head have cooperating axially undulating sealing regions. The filter head has a spud that has a non-cylindrical region that extends through a non-circular opening in the filter element to communicate a central bore of the spud with a central cavity defined by filter media of the filter element. The method includes angularly aligning the undulating sealing regions by inserting the non-cylindrical region of the spud through the non-circular opening of the filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Russell A. Sutherland, Bradley W. Harbur
  • Publication number: 20200282349
    Abstract: A filter element, filter head, a filter system and methods of assembling or mounting a filter element to a filter head are provided. The filter element and filter head have cooperating axially undulating sealing regions. The filter head has a spud that has a non-cylindrical region that extends through a non-circular opening in the filter element to communicate a central bore of the spud with a central cavity defined by filter media of the filter element. The method includes angularly aligning the undulating sealing regions by inserting the non-cylindrical region of the spud through the non-circular opening of the filter element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Russell A. Sutherland, Bradley W. Harbur
  • Patent number: 4043404
    Abstract: An improved cutting and drive structure is disclosed that is particularly useful in conjunction with tilling apparatus for sod seeding purposes. The structure includes a tillage blade or cutter wheel mounted for rotation by a drive structure that includes a rotatable drive shaft. The cutter wheel has a thin disc-like body portion and a periphery with a plurality of teeth thereon, with different teeth being offset in opposite directions from the plane of the body portion. The offset teeth which in a preferred embodiment have hard-facing on the cutting surface, have a specific configuration to allow the cutting wheel to produce a furrow in ground contacted by the wheel, with the furrow being wider than the body portion of the wheel due to the offset teeth, and this results in reduced soil compaction at the bottom of the furrow, as well as loose dirt therein to provide cover for seed deposited in the furrow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Donald Thomas Sorlie, David Hoffer Bucher, Gail Russell Sutherland