Patents by Inventor Thomas L. Metz

Thomas L. Metz 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).

  • Publication number: 20240150027
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An apparatus for mounting a gas turbine engine to a pylon includes: a thrust link coupled to the gas turbine engine and an aft mount, the gas turbine engine coupled to the pylon via a forward mount and the aft mount, a bending restraint having a first end and a second end, the bending restraint including an actuator positioned at the first end to apply a force to a fan section of the gas turbine engine, a first joint positioned at the first end of the bending restraint, the first joint coupled to the first end of the bending restraint and the fan section, and a second joint positioned at the second end of the bending restraint, the second joint coupled to the second end of the bending restraint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Coleman, Timothy L. Schelfaut, Anthony M. Metz, Thomas P. Joseph, Mahesh Khandeparker, Kudum Shinde, Donald L. Gardner
  • Patent number: 4083406
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for permanently sealing the lower end of a drill casing to a liquid impermeable layer such as bedrock to prevent contaminating fluid seepage between the casing and the liquid impermeable layer from strata disposed above the impermeable layer. Selected quantities of aggregate, resin monomer and catalyst are introduced into the lower end of the well casing and are caused to mix and polymerize whereafter the resinous mixture is ejected through one or more openings in the casing wall adjacent the bedrock layer to form a plug seal which is chemically and mechanically secured to the well casing and the bedrock layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1978
    Inventor: Thomas L. Metz