Patents by Inventor Terrance L. Myers

Terrance L. Myers 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: 6786164
    Abstract: A modular material supply system for an automated quilting machine having a variety of fill material supply devices, a cover material tick magazine, a fill laminator, and optionally a digital printer. The system is capable of selecting the desired cover and fill materials and supplying them continuously to a laminator to form a layered material, which is then fed to the quilting machine. The flexibility of the modular system reduces the need for system downtime to changeover component materials for producing different quilted products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Terrance L. Myers, Jeff A. Kaetterhenry
  • Publication number: 20030136319
    Abstract: A modular material supply system for an automated quilting machine having a variety of fill material supply devices, a cover material tick magazine, a fill laminator, and optionally a digital printer. The system is capable of selecting the desired cover and fill materials and supplying them continuously to a laminator to form a layered material, which is then fed to the quilting machine. The flexibility of the modular system reduces the need for system downtime to changeover component materials for producing different quilted products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Applicant: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Terrance L. Myers, Jeff A. Kaetterhenry
  • Publication number: 20020104468
    Abstract: A quilting machine has at least one needle and looper set for forming chain-stitched patterns on a thick multilayered material such as a mattress ticking, preferably a panel of the continuous web clamped stationary on a frame. The stitch forming elements are mounted on separate heads that move independently transversely relative to the panel on a bridge that moves longitudinally relative to the panel. The bridge is longitudinally moved by a servo and the heads are transversely moved on the bridge by separate linear servos. The needle and looper are each driven by a linear servo having an armature to which the element is directly fixed to reciprocate without intervening mechanical linkage assemblies. A controller drives the servos to chain-stitch patterns, differentially move the heads transversely to account for transverse needle deflection and to phase the needle and looper to compensate for longitudinal needle deflection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Applicant: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Terrance L. Myers, James Bondanza, Roland Bulnes, Jeff Kaetterhenry, James T. Frazer, Glenn E. Leavis
  • Patent number: 6363823
    Abstract: A machine, for example machine for cutting discrete sheets of material from a web, which includes a web supply and a processing station such as a cutoff station, is provided with a variable index drive operating feed structure for moving the web intermittently a predetermined but adjustable distance. The web is advanced intermittently and at which the frequency that varies in direct relation to the continuous speed of an input drive motor. The amount at which the web is fed during each cycle of the intermittent motion is settable by an operator by varying a continuous dial of a variable index drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Terrance L. Myers, Robert L. Vytlacil
  • Patent number: 6178903
    Abstract: A quilting machine is provided having at least one set of single needle stitch forming elements for forming chain stitched patterns on a thick multilayered material such as a mattress cover. The machine is preferably web-fed, with a panel of the continuous web being clamped and held stationary on a frame. The stitch forming elements include a needle and a looper mounted on separate heads that are independently moveable on a bridge transversely relative to the panel, which is moveable longitudinally relative to the frame. The bridge is longitudinally moved by a servo and the heads are transversely moved on the bridge by separate servos. The stitching elements on each head are driven by separate servos. A controller drives the servos to chain stitch patterns and differentially move the heads transversely to account for transverse needle deflection. The drives of the needle and looper are phased to compensate for longitudinal needle deflection. The controller determines or predicts needle deflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: James Bondanza, Roland Bulnes, Terrance L. Myers, Jeff Kaetterhenry, James T. Frazer, Glenn E. Leavis
  • Patent number: 5720091
    Abstract: An indexing mechanism for providing intermittent rotation to a device includes a rotatable driven member having a pair of spaced oppositely disposed arcuate slots and a driving member having a pair of angularly spaced driving rollers engageable with the slots for rotatably accelerating and decelerating the driven member. The driven member locking rollers adjacent the slots engageable with the outer periphery of the driving member to prevent rotation of the driven member when it is not being indexed by the driving member. The indexing mechanism further includes a positive lock mechanism actuatable by a cam follower that rides within an endless cam track in the driving member. The positive lock mechanism is actuated by the cam follower to engage the indexed device and prevent rotation of the device when it is not being indexed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: L&P Property Management
    Inventors: John A. Garrett, Terrance L. Myers, Jerry J. Reece
  • Patent number: 4913353
    Abstract: A nozzle tube has a centroidal axis extending therethrough from a first end to a second end of the tube. A bore also extends from the first end to the second end. The bore has a first constant diameter portion extending from the first end toward the second and a second variable diameter portion adjacent the second end. The first portion has a centroidal axis skewed from the centroidal axis of the tube. A retainer retains an orifice in the second portion. The retainer has a variable diameter for mating engagement with the variable diameter of the second portion. The retainer has a centroidal axis which intersects the centroidal axis of the tube at a first angle and intersects the centroidal axis of the bore at a second angle, greater than the first angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventor: Terrance L. Myers
  • Patent number: 4872615
    Abstract: The assembly comprises a centrally-bored nozzle and centrally-bored nozzle body, the two being in substantially collinear alignment along a longitudinal axis, and a collar and locking ring, for swivelingly coupling the nozzle and body together, andd releasably locking the two together in selected, swiveled displacements from such alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventor: Terrance L. Myers