Patents by Inventor William H. Reams

William H. Reams 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).

  • Safety and arming device
    Patent number: 5821447
    Abstract: A safety and arming device interconnecting a bomb with a target detector ures safe mine laying deployment thereof through a detonation explosive train that is armed in delayed response to payout of a lanyard under enablement control exercised by a hydrodynamic piston in response to water impact during such deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: William H. Reams, Douglas M. Hinely, Brian L. Will, Louis J. Montesi, Gerald R. Laib
  • Protective display case for collectible items
    Patent number: 5379892
    Abstract: The subject device is a holder to protect and display baseballs and other collectible items. It comprises a rigid transparent tube which contains the baseballs and through which they can be viewed, one end cap at each end of the transparent tube to retain the balls, a rigid backboard to which the end caps are attached for the purpose of holding the end caps in their fixed rigid position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Inventors: William H. Reams, Charles K. Bird
  • Combined mine safety deployment and activation system
    Patent number: 5005482
    Abstract: A naval mine combined fail-safe deployment and activation system which, ar the mine has been dropped from an aircraft, deploys a parachute to slow its descent and thereafter arms a target detection device when the mine has settled into the water to a predetermined depth for exploding the mine when a target is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: William H. Reams