Patents by Inventor William Bourne

William Bourne 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).

  • Pressure responsive blowout latch
    Patent number: 7578475
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method including a latching device for displaceably retaining a panel relative to a frame. The latching device includes at least a bolt which is carried on the latching device and is operatively associated with the panel to prevent disengagement of the panel. The latching device includes at least one pressure responsive device operatively coupled to the bolt to retain the bolt in a desired position and release the bolt when a predetermined pressure differential occurs relative to two, generally opposite, sides of the panel or when a pressure decrease occurs on one side of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Hartwell Corporation
    Inventors: John D. Pratt, Timothy S. Rozema, Frank T. Jackson, Sr., William Bourne, Manuel Andres Hernandez
  • Electric fireplace
    Publication number: 20080013931
    Abstract: An electric fireplace includes a fireplace housing having a housing first and second side walls and a housing top wall, a housing floor, a housing back wall, and a housing open end opposite the housing back wall; a flame simulator mounted inside the housing; a diffusion screen removably mounted upright within the housing in front of the flame simulator; an ember bed simulating the appearance of fireplace fuel such as fire wood, embers or coal, and removably mounted inside the housing in front of the flame simulator, so that removal of the ember bed and the flame cutout panel provides access to the flame simulator from the housing open end; and a hot air generator removably mounted inside the housing to be accessible from the housing open end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventor: William Bourne
  • Pressure responsive blowout latch
    Publication number: 20050116100
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method including a latching device for displaceably retaining a panel relative to a frame. The latching device includes at least a bolt which is carried on the latching device and is operatively associated with the panel to prevent disengagement of the panel. The latching device includes at least one pressure responsive device operatively coupled to the bolt to retain the bolt in a desired position and release the bolt when a predetermined pressure differential occurs relative to two, generally opposite, sides of the panel or when a pressure decrease occurs on one side of the panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: John Pratt, Timothy Rozema, Frank Jackson, William Bourne, Manuel Hernandez
  • Pressure responsive blowout latch
    Patent number: 6866226
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method including a latching device for displaceably retaining a panel relative to a frame. The latching device includes at least a bolt which is carried on the latching device and is operatively associated with the panel to prevent disengagement of the panel. The latching device includes at least one pressure responsive device operatively coupled to the bolt to retain the bolt in a desired position and release the bolt when a predetermined pressure differential occurs relative to two, generally opposite, sides of the panel or when a pressure decrease occurs on one side of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Hartwell Corporation
    Inventors: John D. Pratt, Timothy S. Rozema, Frank T. Jackson, Sr., William Bourne, Manuel Andres Hernandez
  • Pressure responsive blowout latch
    Publication number: 20030066930
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method including a latching device for displaceably retaining a panel relative to a frame. The latching device includes at least a bolt which is carried on the latching device and is operatively associated with the panel to prevent disengagement of the panel. The latching device includes at least one pressure responsive device operatively coupled to the bolt to retain the bolt in a desired position and release the bolt when a predetermined pressure differential occurs relative to two, generally opposite, sides of the panel or when a pressure decrease occurs on one side of the panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: John D. Pratt, Timothy S. Rozema, Frank T. Jackson, William Bourne, Manuel Andres Hernandez