Patents by Inventor Thomas W. Morgan

Thomas W. Morgan 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: 5201605
    Abstract: A positively closing nozzle and method of its use in underground irrigation wherein the nozzle is elongated with inlet means at one end and positively closing means at the other end opened by water pressure applied to the nozzle, one or more nozzle being arranged underground in a selected pattern for irrigating plants or the like, the valve being operated by water pressure for producing a circumferential flow pattern of irrigation, the flow pattern being adjustable either by means of a spring-load or flow emitter means in the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Inventors: Robert J. Lang, Thomas W. Morgan
  • Patent number: 4831420
    Abstract: A system for setting or adjusting the proper registration position of the original document in a copier having a document feeder providing a variable document registration position on the platen, and numeric data key entries programmable in specialized diagnostic modes, and non-volatile memory. The system involves registering and copying a test sheet using the document feeder in its initial, unadjusted, registration setting. The test sheet has a test pattern of registration position indicia with identifying numeric indicia, and also having a registration window at an optically reversed position on the test sheet from the test pattern and a cursor pointing to a specific position within the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Frank R. Walsh, Ernest L. DiNatale, Thomas W. Morgan
  • Patent number: 4497567
    Abstract: Electrostatographic apparatus and method for transferring charged toner present in an image configuration on an insulating layer bearing an electrostatic latent image are illustrated. The technique involves forming a sandwich comprising the insulating layer with a conductive substrate bearing a toner image on its surface, a copy substrate, a dielectric layer, and a conductive electrode together with means for applying a potential to the conductive electrode after the sandwich is formed, the potential being of a magnitude sufficient to create an electric field to transfer toner from the insulating layer to the copy substrate. The apparatus also includes means to discharge the electrostatic latent image on the insulating layer before separation of the sandwich and means to strip the copy substrate from the dielectric layer while the field is applied to provide a toner image on the copy substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Charles A. Gage, Timothy T. Blair, Thomas W. Morgan
  • Patent number: 4496233
    Abstract: Electrostatographic reproducing apparatus comprising a reusable electrostatographic imaging web having an insulating imaging surface positioned between a web supply roll and a web take up roll, each roll being fastened to the end of the web. The web is provided with means to form an electrostatic latent image on the web and develop said image with a toner image. The image is formed and developed on the passage of the web from the supply roll to the take up roll where the web in the toner image therein is brought into contact with a copy sheet and wound around the take up roll during the first cycle of a two cycle imaging process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1985
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Charles A. Gage, Timothy T. Blair, Thomas W. Morgan
  • Patent number: 4494858
    Abstract: Electrostatographic reproducing apparatus comprising a movable imaging surface, transport means to transport the imaging surface along a path past the series of operational processing stations wherein a toner image and copy substrate contact station is provided, and wherein the distance along the imaging surface path from the image forming station where the lead edge of an image is formed on the imaging surface to the initial line of contact of the imaging surface with the copy substrate is equal to the distance along the copy substrate path from the copy sheet entrance to the initial line of contact of the lead edge of the copy substrate with lead edge of the image on the imaging surface. The apparatus further includes means at the beginning of each imaging cycle to simultaneously actuate the movable imaging surface with a copy substrate transport whereby the lead edge of the formed image on the imaging surface and the lead edge of the copy substrate simultaneously arrive at the initial line of contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1985
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Charles A. Gage, Timothy T. Blair, Thomas W. Morgan
  • Patent number: 4490033
    Abstract: Electrostatographic reproducing apparatus comprising a reusable electrostatographic imaging web having an insulating imaging surface positioned between a web supply roll and a web take up roll each roll being fastened to the end of the web. The web is provided with means to form an electrostatic latent image on the web and develop said image with a toner image. The image is formed and developed upon the passage of the web from the supply roll to the take up roll, where the web with the toner image thereon is brought into contact with a copy sheet and wound around the take up roll during the first cycle of a two cycle imaging process. During the second cycle of the imaging process the web is unwound from the take up roll and rewound on the supply roll with the toner image being transferred to the copy substrate, separated from the imaging web, with the web being fully rewound on the web supply roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Charles A. Gage, Timothy T. Blair, Thomas W. Morgan