Patents by Inventor Thomas F. McGraw

Thomas F. McGraw 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: 10465302
    Abstract: An improved, gaseous electrolysis apparatus can include a cooled header for electric connections or couplings, an exemplary co-disposed, coaxial heat exchanger around the reaction chamber to extract heat from the reaction chamber and exemplary rugged gas source and collection manifold(s) to support fixed and/or mobile applications in an embodiment. The system can include a heated anode and co-disposed cylindrical cathode within the reaction chamber and an improved electronic control circuit in an embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Marathon Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ernest Charles Alcaraz, Monte S. Chawla, Randolph R. Davis, Dorin A. Jannotta, Austin Lowrey, III, Thomas F. McGraw, Frederick Sandel, Donald J. Waltman
  • Publication number: 20180087165
    Abstract: An improved, gaseous electrolysis apparatus can include a cooled header for electric connections or couplings, an exemplary co-disposed, coaxial heat exchanger around the reaction chamber to extract heat from the reaction chamber and exemplary rugged gas source and collection manifold(s) to support fixed and/or mobile applications in an embodiment. The system can include a heated anode and co-disposed cylindrical cathode within the reaction chamber and an improved electronic control circuit in an embodiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Marathon Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ernest Charles Alcaraz, Monte S. Chawla, Randolph R. Davis, Dorin A. Jannotta, Austin Lowrey, III, Thomas F. McGraw, Frederick Sandel, Donald J. Waltman
  • Patent number: 6248221
    Abstract: An improved electrolysis system includes a cylindrical anode, a cylindrical cathode, a cathode material including nanocrystalline particles, and an insulator disposed between the anode and the cathode material to prevent contact between the anode and the cathode material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Inventors: Randolph R. Davis, Thomas F. McGraw, Richard S. Woll
  • Patent number: 5825864
    Abstract: The Personal Automatic Registration System (PARS) is a system of electronic circuits which have been designed to recognize a signal the presence or absence of a designated object or person within a specific area. The basic system consists of a transportable transmitter unit and one or more fixed base stations, or receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Scientific and Commercial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas F. McGraw, Jeffrey A. Mitulla, Richard S. Woll
  • Patent number: 5628050
    Abstract: The Disaster Warning Communications System is a message relay system designed to provide backup warning of impending natural hazard in areas where normal communications are vulnerable to losses imposed by geographic influence. It has been designed to take advantage of the near-hemispheric communications access of existing geostationary weather satellites. This broad coverage allows a single satellite to provide warning to virtually all the inhabited islands in the hemisphere surrounding the subpoint of the satellite, excluding only the extreme polar areas. By extension, three such satellites can cover the entire populated Earth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1997
    Assignee: Scientific and Commercial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas F. McGraw, Jeffrey A. Mitulla, Richard S. Woll
  • Patent number: 4674416
    Abstract: A storage safe for containing securely therein a plurality of flexible media such as optical video disks. The storage safe is made of a sturdy body which is capable of being embedded in a cement floor, or the like. A cover encloses the cavity-like interior of the body and can only be removed by activating a combination mechanism assembly by applying the proper combination thereto. Any tampering with the combination mechanism assembly is defeated by the novel construction of the combination mechanism assembly. The cover has a slot therethrough and a labyrinth-like structure associated therewith so as to allow the flexible media to pass into the interior of the body but which prevents its unauthorized withdrawal therefrom. In addition, this labyrinth-like structure directs any undesireable fluid away from the flexible media stored within the body of the safe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Inventor: Thomas F. McGraw
  • Patent number: 4437937
    Abstract: A continuous trickle-down distillation unit for producing hydrated alcohol having a compact, elongated distillation tube through which a fluid mixture including alcohol as one of its constituents passes. Within the distillation tube only the alcohol-predominant portion of the fluid mixture is vaporized while the remaining constituents of the fluid mixture are removed. The vaporized alcohol-predominant portion is condensed within a chamber which communicates with the distillation tube and is removed therefrom by a collection plate which extends partially into the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1984
    Inventor: Thomas F. McGraw
  • Patent number: 4166445
    Abstract: A solar collector having a frame-like wooden housing which contains therein heat absorbing material in the form of pellets of coal or "diced" automobile tires. This material is sealed within the housing by a transparent cover. The resultant sealed container allows a flow of working fluid to pass therethrough by way of a pair of perforated pipes. The collector is oriented to receive maximum solar radiation in order to heat the heat absorbing material. The working fluid which flows in contact with the heat absorbing material, absorbs heat thereform, and, by means of a circulating system which is not part of the invention is generally carried to a storage tank or the like for use at a later time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1979
    Inventor: Thomas F. McGraw
  • Patent number: 4038651
    Abstract: The miniature digital communicator is a compact communications device intended for use where conditions are noisy, where no noise at all is permitted or where privacy is desired. It is a portable device with a series of alpha-numeric display elements. Radio-transmitted, digitally formatted data is displayed on the miniature digital communicator in the form of alpha-numeric characters which march or ripple across the display from right to left at an advancing rate of two characters per second. The entire package is small enough to be carried on the person, perhaps in a pocket, like the smallest electronic calculator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Inventor: Thomas F. McGraw