Patents by Inventor Tracy L. Fields

Tracy L. Fields 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: 5953872
    Abstract: A barrier assembly for blocking the spread of fire and smoke includes a building partition having a partition outer face and having a substantially circular partition opening, the partition opening having a certain opening inner diameter, a plastic pipe having a pipe outer diameter and passing through the partition opening, a tube having a tube outer diameter sized to fit snugly through the partition opening and having a tube inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of the pipe so that there is a substantially annular space between the pipe and the tube, flange means extending from a first end of the tube to abut the partition outer face around the opening, a substantially annular gasket fit into the tube for receiving the pipe acting as a smoke barrier around the pipe, the annular gasket having a gasket inner diameter substantially larger than the pipe outer diameter to permit non-concentric positioning of the pipe within the annular gasket during barrier installation and during pipe adjustment and repl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Inventors: George S. MacMillian, Tracy L. Fields
  • Patent number: 5105592
    Abstract: In accordance with the invention there is provided a fire barrier device for stopping passage of fire through openings in partitions for plastic pipe. The device includes an outer metallic sleeve; a radially extending flange attached to one end of the sleeve; an inner, tubular, non-metallic coupling axially disposed between the sleeve and the plastic pipe, spaced radially inward from the sleeve, forming a space between the sleeve and the coupling; a wrapping or filling of intumescent material that fills that space; and a layer of caulking material abutting an end surface of the wrapping of intrumescent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: Fire Barrier Installations, Inc.
    Inventors: George S. MacMillan, Tracy L. Fields