Patents by Inventor William F. Rush, Jr.

William F. Rush, Jr. 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: 6994819
    Abstract: An apparatus for rerounding plastic pipe includes a housing having a pipe passage extending therethrough. The housing has a moveable outer frame top positionable between an open position and a closed position to enclose a pipe to be rerounded. A pair of opposing jaws are positioned within the housing and on opposite sides of the pipe passage and have a generally symmetrical configuration with respect to one another. A drive mechanism is connected with respect to at least one of the jaws for compressing the jaws with respect to each other resulting in compression of the pipe to be rerounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Gas Research Institute
    Inventors: William F. Rush, Jr., Stephen Reyes, Bruce K. Campbell
  • Patent number: 6146709
    Abstract: A process for application of a protective coating to a steel, concrete, or wooden structure so as to provide protection against corrosion, weathering, or other environmental damage in which the surface to be protected is heated to a temperature in a range of about 75.degree. F. to about 150.degree. F. after which a liquid thermoset primer is applied to the heated material in two stages. The first portion is solidified by heating and then coated with a second portion, forming an uncured liquid thermoset outer primer layer. A melted polymer powder layer is then applied by flamespraying over the uncured liquid thermoset primer layer, forming an intermediate polymer powder layer embedded in the uncured liquid thermoset primer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Institute of Gas Technolgy
    Inventors: Joseph M. Katz, William F. Rush, Jr., Victor Tamosaitis
  • Patent number: 5660202
    Abstract: A hot tap apparatus for insertion of a controllable device into an in-service pipeline comprising a housing adapted to be sealably secured to a pipe and enclose a portion of the pipe. The housing forms a chamber which is partitioned into an insertion chamber and a discharge chamber, the insertion chamber being disposed adjacent to an insertion end of the housing and the discharge chamber being disposed adjacent the discharge end of said housing. The insertion end of the housing is sealable. The apparatus further comprises a cutting apparatus for cutting an opening in the pipe sized to receive the controllable device disposed in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: Institute of Gas Technology
    Inventors: William F. Rush, Jr., Bruce K. Campbell, Kenneth C. Hardy, Lynn A. Sweetwood