Patents by Inventor Thomas Edwin Lippert

Thomas Edwin Lippert 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).

  • Hot gas filter and system assembly
    Patent number: 5944859
    Abstract: A filter element for separating fine dirty particles from a hot gas. The filter element comprises a first porous wall and a second porous wall. Each porous wall has an outer surface and an inner surface. The first and second porous walls being coupled together thereby forming a substantially closed figure and open at one end. The open end is formed to be coupled to a hot gas clean up system support structure. The first and second porous walls define a channel beginning at the open end and terminate at the closed end through which a filtered clean gas can flow through and out into the clean gas side of a hot gas clean up system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Edwin Lippert, Kathryn Miles Palmer, Gerald Joseph Bruck, Mary Anne Alvin, Eugene E. Smeltzer, Dennis Michael Bachovchin
  • Filter holder and gasket assembly for candle or tube filters
    Patent number: 5876471
    Abstract: A filter holder and gasket assembly for holding a candle filter element within a hot gas cleanup system pressure vessel. The filter holder and gasket assembly includes a filter housing, an annular spacer ring securely attached within the filter housing, a gasket sock, a top gasket, a middle gasket and a cast nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Edwin Lippert, Mary Anne Alvin, Gerald Joseph Bruck, Eugene E. Smeltzer