Patents by Inventor Thomas D. Dickson

Thomas D. Dickson 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).

  • Conveyor storage apparatus
    Patent number: 5024318
    Abstract: A selectively operable, continuous-loop conveyor provides support and transporation of containers containing spices or the like to and from a transfer station in which the containers are inserted in or removed from carriers which support them along the conveyor. The carriers include guide members which maintain the relative orientation between the carriers and the track. A drive hub with fingers extending into the track forces carriers disposed in that region adjacent to the fingers along a portion of the track, and thereby forcing other carriers in the track around the track. Further, a bar extending across the face of the rack has two ends, each of which may be pushed to drive the carriers in a corresponding different direction. Each carrier is in the form of a downwardly facing cup with spaced inwardly extending, biased members which engage the edges of a container inserted in the cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Inventors: Ralph W. Schwarze, Thomas D. Dickson, Jr.
  • Rotary foodstuff mill and milling process
    Patent number: 4203555
    Abstract: A rotary mill for milling particulate material is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1980
    Inventor: Thomas D. Dickson, Jr.
  • Foodstuff mill
    Patent number: D261517
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1981
    Inventor: Thomas D. Dickson, Jr.
  • Hand operated foodstuff mill
    Patent number: D277356
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1985
    Inventors: Thomas D. Dickson, Jr., Ralph W. Schwarze