Patents by Inventor William E. Hard

William E. Hard 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: 8485501
    Abstract: A wirelessly controlled apparatus for pulling a free end of wire into the mouth of a conduit and out of the destination end of the conduit. The apparatus includes a wireless spooling controller having an RF transceiver in cooperating communication with a spooling machine having an RF transceiver, for transmitting signaling activating or deactivating the motor-drive of the spooling machine, and for receiving wire-pull completion signaling from the spooling machine. The spooling machine includes a chock pivot-mounted at a mounted end to a frame anchoring the spooling machine near the destination end of the conduit, the chock engageable with a motor-driven gear-wheel engageable with a cogged spool-wheel driven by the motor-drive. Pivotal movement of the chock to the gear-wheel facilitates the fulcrumatic disengagement of the gear-wheel from the spool-wheel cogs, to ready the spooling machine in a starting configuration; activation of the motor-driven gear-wheel essentially causes unchocking of the gear-wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Inventor: William E Hard
  • Patent number: 7320165
    Abstract: A pipe coupler gripping each pipe with hand grip actuated clamps, and seating the end of one pipe in the aligned end of another pipe using leverage plates having a slot or channel with a drop notch, facilitating additional leveraging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Inventor: William E. Hard
  • Patent number: 3946484
    Abstract: A manufacturing system utilizing a plurality of satellite functional processing stations or sectors, each capable of stand-alone operation. The stations are interconnected by a handler or conveyor, which will transport individual ones of work-pieces from one processing station to the next in accordance with a prescribed sequence corresponding to the processing requirements for the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1976
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jesse Aronstein, William E. Harding