Patents by Inventor Stephen Leon Pulley

Stephen Leon Pulley 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: 6851469
    Abstract: A clamshell heat exchanger panel has a pocket formed in an edge of a land portion of the panel so that a fastener can be inserted into the pocket, with its axis in the plane of the heat exchanger panel. This allows attachments to be made directly to the exchanger panel without affecting the integrity of the gas-carrying conduit portion of the panel. The pocket is made by forming mirror image indentions in the land portions of the two sides of a sheet metal workpiece such that, when the two sides are folded together, the indentions cooperate to form the pocket. Openings can also be formed through the land portions of the two sides so that, upon a folding together, the openings define an opening into the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Merle Dana Sears, Stephen Leon Pulley
  • Publication number: 20030127218
    Abstract: A clamshell heat exchanger panel has a pocket formed in an edge of a land portion of the panel so that a fastener can be inserted into the pocket, with its axis in the plane of the heat exchanger panel. This allows attachments to be made directly to the exchanger panel without affecting the integrity of the gas-carrying conduit portion of the panel. The pocket is made by forming mirror image indentions in the land portions of the two sides of a sheet metal workpiece such that, when the two sides are folded together, the indentions cooperate to form the pocket. Openings can also be formed through the land portions of the two sides so that, upon a folding together, the openings define an opening into the pocket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Merle Dana Sears, Stephen Leon Pulley
  • Patent number: 6564795
    Abstract: A clamshell heat exchanger panel has a pocket formed in an edge of a land portion of the panel so that a fastener can be inserted into the pocket, with its axis in the plane of the heat exchanger panel. This allows attachments to be made directly to the exchanger panel without affecting the integrity of the gas- carrying conduit portion of the panel. The pocket is made by forming mirror image indentions in the land portions of the two sides of a sheet metal workpiece such that, when the two sides are folded together, the indentions cooperate to form the pocket. Openings can also be formed through the land portions of the two sides so that, upon a folding together, the openings define an opening into the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Merle Dana Sears, Stephen Leon Pulley
  • Patent number: 6497570
    Abstract: A gas control assembly for a forced air furnace which includes a support frame having a top surface and two contiguous side walls which define an enclosure. A planar one piece burner assembly which has a plurality of burners and having two opposite side edges with one edge containing indexing means is positioning in a predetermined location within the enclosure of the support frame. A elongated gas manifold having a closed end and an open end which is configured to mate with the burner assembly to provide a source of combustible fuel to each of said burners is connected in fixed engagement to the support frame at its closed end through a hole in one side of said support frame and by a bracket at the open end which is attached to the other side of said support frame. The side walls of the support frame also contain slots which mate with edges of the burner assembly to provide for proper alignment of the burner assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Merle Dana Sears, Rex Russell Mills, Ninev Karl Zia, William Bruce Sutherlin, Stephen Leon Pulley
  • Patent number: 6474329
    Abstract: A one piece cell panel for a forced air furnace which is designed for ease of removal without the necessity of having to dismantle the furnace cabinet. The panel includes a substantially vertically disposed upper section which contains a plurality of cell inlets and cell outlets and an integral lower horizontal shelf which is disposed at a predetermined acute angle downward below the horizontal. The cell panel has a substantially rectangular front profile and an “L” shaped side profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Merle Dana Sears, Stephen Leon Pulley, Brian Alan Reeves