Patents by Inventor William A. Compton

William A. Compton 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).

  • Apparatus for removing contaminants from heated gases
    Patent number: 4600414
    Abstract: Methods of and apparatus for removing contaminants from heated gases by impact separation. The contaminants are collected by adhering them to a moving surface, and they are thereafter removed from that surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Arthur G. Metcalfe, James C. Napier, William A. Compton
  • Methods of removing contaminants from heated gases
    Patent number: 4568365
    Abstract: Methods of and apparatus for removing contaminants from heated gases by impact separation. The contaminants are collected by adhering them to a moving surface, and they are thereafter removed from that surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Arthur G. Metcalfe, James C. Napier, William A. Compton
  • Radiation pyrometers
    Patent number: 4118985
    Abstract: Temperature measuring apparatus of the photometric type having a fiber optics device for conducting radiation to a signal producing detector. Provision is made for a purging fluid at the opposite end of the fiber optics device to keep foreign matter from accumulating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1978
    Assignee: International Harvester Company
    Inventor: William A. Compton
  • Method of spotting garments to be laundered
    Patent number: 4093418
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of use for a spotting-agent composition for use in laundering garments is provided which consists essentially of a solution of (1) about 10 weight percent or more of a nonionic surfactant produced by reacting a mixture of fatty alcohols containing 10 to 18 carbon atoms (with the proviso that the proportion of such alcohols which is attributable to alcohols containing 17 or more carbon atoms is limited to about 20 percent by weight) with mixed lower-alkylene oxides (ethylene oxide and propylene oxide) to such an extent as to have the mixed oxides comprise about 57 to 68 weight percent of the total fatty alcohol plus alkylene oxides used, with the proportion of ethylene oxide in the mixed oxides used being about 50 to 70%, in (2) an isoparaffinic solvent made of a mixture of isoparaffins containing about 11 to 14 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1978
    Assignee: BASF Wyandotte Corporation
    Inventors: John William Compton, Stephen Ellis Eisenstein
  • Radiation pyrometers with purging fluid
    Patent number: 4037473
    Abstract: Temperature measuring apparatus of the photometric type having a fiber optics device for conducting radiation to a signal producing detector. Provision is made for a purging fluid at the opposite end of the fiber optics device to keep foreign matter from accumulating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Assignee: International Harvester Company
    Inventors: William A. Compton, Thomas E. Duffy, Manfred I. Seegall
  • Low emission burners and control systems therefor
    Patent number: 4008039
    Abstract: A burner for Rankine cycle engines which includes a combustor of the rotating atomizer type and a control system therefor which keeps the ratio of fuel and air supplied to the combustor at an optimum over a wide range of operation to maximize efficiency and minimize the emission of pollutants from the combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1977
    Assignee: International Harvester Company
    Inventors: William A. Compton, Thomas E. Duffy, Richard T. LeCren, Jack R. Shekleton
  • Display stand
    Patent number: D361454
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Tropical Sportswear International Corporation
    Inventors: William Compton, Mark T. Anderson