Patents by Inventor Thomas L. Lease

Thomas L. Lease 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: 9702505
    Abstract: A cryogenic fluid cylinder includes an inner vessel for holding cryogenic fluid, a cylindrically shaped outer vessel having a vertical longitudinal axis surrounds the inner vessel and forms an insulating space there between, and operating controls located on a top of the outer vessel. Customer or end user operating controls include a liquid-use valve for selectively dispensing liquid cryogen, a pressure-building valve for selectively controlling a pressure building circuit, and a gas-use valve for selectively dispensing cryogen gas. Supplier or maintenance personnel operating controls include an economizer regulator for selectively setting at least one desired pressure of the inner vessel, a vent valve for selectively venting cryogen fluid, and a vacuum pressure port for indicating vacuum pressure between the vessels. The end user controls are located on a front side of the outer vessel while the supplier controls are located on a rear side of the outer vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Worthington Cylinders Corp.
    Inventors: Greg Churchill Ames, James M. Getter, Christopher Carl Hall, Charles T. Hayes, Michael Thomas Kopczweski, Thomas L. Lease, Sean Aaron Murray, Jay F. Perkins, Adam M. Ruggles, Rainer Bernhard Teufel, Joel D. VanGilder, Igor Ivanovich Zemskov
  • Publication number: 20150013350
    Abstract: A cryogenic fluid cylinder includes an inner vessel for holding cryogenic fluid, a cylindrically shaped outer vessel having a vertical longitudinal axis surrounds the inner vessel and forms an insulating space there between, and operating controls located on a top of the outer vessel. Customer or end user operating controls include a liquid-use valve for selectively dispensing liquid cryogen, a pressure-building valve for selectively controlling a pressure building circuit, and a gas-use valve for selectively dispensing cryogen gas. Supplier or maintenance personnel operating controls include an economizer regulator for selectively setting at least one desired pressure of the inner vessel, a vent valve for selectively venting cryogen fluid, and a vacuum pressure port for indicating vacuum pressure between the vessels. The end user controls are located on a front side of the outer vessel while the supplier controls are located on a rear side of the outer vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: Worthington Cylinders Corporation
    Inventors: Greg Churchill Ames, James M. Getter, Christopher Carl Hall, Charles T. Hayes, Michael Thomas Kopczweski, Thomas L. Lease, Sean Aaron Murray, Jay F. Perkins, Adam M. Ruggles, Rainer Bernhard Teufel, Joel D. VanGilder, Igor Ivanovich Zemskov
  • Patent number: 6044741
    Abstract: A unitary tray and blade guide frame including longitudinal members extending from rigid, integral attachment with a back tray. An end frame member transversely, rigidly mounts to the longitudinal frame members and the back tray. A blade guide mounts to the back tray, with its upper surface flush with the upper surface of the back tray. A thickness tray slidably mounts in slots formed in the longitudinal frame members. An adjustment mechanism adjusts the position of the thickness tray. A food product workpiece extends downwardly from a reciprocatably displaceable workpiece retaining carriage, and rests on the upper surface of the thickness tray. The carriage advances the workpiece into a blade, which removes a slice from the workpiece. The lower surface of the remaining workpiece slides against the upper surface of the blade guide and the back tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: J. E. Grote Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael H. Sapp, Thomas L. Lease, Thomas A. Hochanadel
  • Patent number: 5579750
    Abstract: Apparatus for launching a disk-like projectile from a catapult with an aperture formed adjacent one end to receive structure of the catapult to configure the catapult to propel the apparatus forward. A channel in an opposite end is configured to receive the projectile with inner edges formed along internal sides and bottom thereof to engage the projectile. Structure of the apparatus offset from a central rotational axis of the received and engaged projectile holds the projectile in the apparatus during forward movement of the apparatus within the catapult and causes the projectile to rotate as the apparatus reaches the end of it's forward travel and releases the projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Dwight A. Marshall
    Inventor: Thomas L. Lease
  • Patent number: D715402
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Worthington Cylinders Corporation
    Inventors: Greg Churchill Ames, James M. Getter, Christopher Carl Hall, Charles T. Hayes, Michael Thomas Kopczewski, Thomas L. Lease, Sean Aaron Murray, Jay F. Perkins, Adam M. Ruggles, Rainer Bernhard Teufel, Joel D. VanGilder, Igor Ivanovich Zemskov
  • Patent number: D715403
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Wothington Cylinders Corporation
    Inventors: Greg Churchill Ames, James M. Getter, Christopher Carl Hall, Charles T. Hayes, Michael Thomas Kopczewski, Thomas L. Lease, Sean Aaron Murray, Jay F. Perkins, Adam M. Ruggles, Rainer Bernhard Teufel, Joel D. VanGilder, Igor Ivanovich Zemskov