Patents by Inventor Will G. Ryan

Will G. Ryan 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: 4979402
    Abstract: An apparatus and process for obtaining an aliquot of serial liquid samples. A measured aliquot of each serial liquid sample is obtained and passed to an aliquot storage chamber with discard of the remainder of each liquid sample. A liquid collection container is provided sufficiently large for the largest single liquid serial sample with a generally vertical aliquot measurement container forming at least one aliquot measurement chamber. Each aliquot measurement chamber has a cross-sectional area in the same relation to the cross-sectional area of the liquid collection chamber as the quantity of each aliquot that is desired to bear to the liquid samples. The bottom of each aliquot measurement container is in the same general horizontal plane as the bottom of the liquid collection container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Inventors: Will G. Ryan, Norman E. Bullock
  • Patent number: 4854182
    Abstract: An apparatus and process for obtaining an aliquot of serial liquid samples. A measured aliquot of each serial liquid sample is obtained and passed to an aliquot storage chamber with discard of the remainder of each liquid sample. A liquid collection container is provided sufficiently large for the largest single liquid serial sample with a generally vertical aliquot tube forming at least one aliquot measurement chamber, each aliquot measurement chamber having a cross-sectional area in the same relation to the cross-sectional area of the liquid collection chamber as the quantity of each aliquot is desired to bear to the liquid samples and having a bottom in the same horizontal plane as the bottom of the liquid collection container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Inventors: Will G. Ryan, Norman E. Bullock