Patents by Inventor Vernon A. Mellentin

Vernon A. Mellentin 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: 4307367
    Abstract: One reed of a pair of parallel reeds has a rod extending to opposite sides of the pair. A bimetallic snap disc can be heated to snap against one end of the rod and thus flex the reed to engage a contact on that reed with a contact on the other reed and thus close a circuit to be controlled. A resilient latch holds that reed in its flexed position, even after the disc cools and snaps back to its normal configuration, until a second snap disc is heated and pushes the rod and reed back to its open-contact position. A selectively operable switch serves to provide electric current to a selected one of a pair of resistance heaters, one heater being near each of the snap discs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1981
    Assignee: Magic Chef, Inc.
    Inventors: Vernon A. Mellentin, Kenneth E. Davis, Sheldon W. Mandel