Patents by Inventor Tony T. Chiu

Tony T. Chiu 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: 5070762
    Abstract: A dual ammunition transfer mechanism includes a pair of ammunition round feed conveyors for selectively conveying the same size but different types of rounds toward a pivotal round selector finger. One conveyor is stopped while the other conveyor is driven causing the rounds therein to move past a round deflector finger which guides the rounds between driven star wheels and a Z-shaped feeder. A round kicker drives rounds one at a time into a slot in a disc rotating at high speeds and having camming surfaces therein which cooperates with a round lifting finger which momentarily enters the slot and stops the round while the disc continues to rotate while camming the round out of the slot at a rate of up the 400 rounds per minute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Inventors: Donald A. Long, Tony T. Chiu
  • Patent number: 4509414
    Abstract: An apparatus for removing appendages (10A) from articles or produce (10) comprising a first conveyor (12) carrying a plurality of pairs of counter-rotating rolls (16) and (17) for movement along an inclined section (14). The articles are introduced through a chute (15) to roll down the inclined section with the appendages being caught and pulled therefrom by the counter-rotating rolls. A second conveyor (60) carries plows (71) to contact and regulate the dwell time of the articles on the pinch rolls. The dwell time can be regulated by changing the speed of the first and second conveyors and the inclination of the first conveyor. A waste tray (48) catches the removed appendages and blades (49) carried on the bottom side of the first conveyor move the waste debris from the waste tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: Magnuson Corporation
    Inventors: Tony T. Chiu, Charles W. Coatney, Katsuji Hirahara
  • Patent number: 4265168
    Abstract: A spacer assembly for half steam table trays includes a grid-like framework upon which are mounted a plurality of non-metallic support pads adapted to accept the corners of adjacent trays laid thereon in a rectangular pattern. The framework is fabricated of a light metal functioning structurally only to position the support pads. A spacer assembly is laid atop each succeeding layer of trays and the tray corners are compressed a predetermined amount until the pads in a vertical column are in contact, whereby the pads bear the load of the trays stacked thereabove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1981
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Tony T. Chiu, Bruce M. Wright, Jurgen H. Strasser, Bruce M. Harper
  • Patent number: 4225626
    Abstract: A method for supporting and heat processing a layered array of half steam table trays using a spacer assembly. The spacer assembly includes a grid-like framework upon which are mounted a plurality of non-metallic support pads adapted to accept the corners of adjacent trays laid thereon in a rectangular pattern. The framework is fabricated of a light metal functioning structurally only to position the support pads. A spacer assembly is laid atop each succeeding layer of trays and the tray corners are compressed a predetermined amount until the pads in a vertical column are in contact, whereby the pads bear the load of the trays stacked thereabove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Tony T. Chiu, Bruce M. Wright, Jurgen H. Strasser, Bruce M. Harper
  • Patent number: 4027450
    Abstract: In an apparatus for filling pouches with measured quantities of a product, a product filling assembly is disclosed to have a pocket for receiving a measured quantity of the product, means for purging air from the product, means for registering the pouch with the product containing pocket, and means for discharging product from the pocket into the pouch. More than one pocket may be incorporated into a turret assembly, with each of the pockets having doors at the bottoms thereof which are opened to cause the product to gravitate into the pouch. The pouch-filling apparatus of the present invention may further include a magazine for supporting a plurality of empty pouches and pinch rollers for firmly squeezing a pouch and moving the pouch into a carrying means for carrying the pouch to the product filling assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Tony T. Chiu, Jurgen H. Strasser