Patents by Inventor Walter Lester Cable

Walter Lester Cable 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: 4108407
    Abstract: An adjustment device includes an internally threaded tubular body having means for securing the body to a first member. A hollow externally threaded tubular body is mounted in threaded engagement with the internally threaded body for adjusting the spaced relationship of the first member with a second member. The externally threaded body has spherical seats disposed at opposite ends thereof. Mounted in the spherical seats are the complimentary spherical seats of a pair of washers, one washer being mounted at each end of the externally threaded body. An elongated threaded screw is mounted within the externally threaded body and extends through the washers. A head at one end of the elongated screw engages one of the washers while the thread at the other end of the screw engages the second member for securing the washers and externally threaded body and thus the first member to the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1978
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Walter Lester Cable, Derek Sidney Binge, Rudolph Francis Korosec
  • Patent number: 4009851
    Abstract: A spacecraft structure comprises a hollow inner cylindrical member and a plurality of planar bulkheads secured to the outer surface of the inner member and extending radially outwardly from the inner member. A plurality of planar enclosure panels are secured to the extended edges of the bulkheads and each other to form an enclosed spacecraft structure. Suitable payload equipment is secured to the enclosure panels while an apogee kick motor is secured within the inner member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1977
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventor: Walter Lester Cable