Patents by Inventor William J. Sewell

William J. Sewell 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: 5650065
    Abstract: A skimmer cover for a secondary dispersement system orifice in a storm water catch basin prevents inflow of floatable materials, and especially hydrocarbons from motor vehicles, from entering the orifice. The orifice is defined in a neck extending spacedly above the bottom of the catch basin surface to carry the skimmer cover. The skimmer cover provides a top with a peripheral skirt diametrically larger than the neck and supported on the neck to depend therebelow to a point spacedly above the catch basin bottom surrounding the neck. An internal cylinder depends from the cover top within the skimmer cover skirt and defines plural spaced orifices to allow fluid passage therethrough and into the orifice defined by the neck. A depending fastening structure having opposed pivotal lever arms moved by a medial screw therebetween is carried by the skimmer cover top to allow releasable fastening of the skimmer cover within the neck orifice for positional establishment and maintenance of the skimmer cover thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Inventor: William J. Sewell
  • Patent number: 4937034
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for cofeeding additive concentrates in the form of pellets with a polymer flake stream flowing in a supply chute to a melt extruder. The pellets are introduced through an opening in the chute which is covered by an umbrella-like housing that has an opening facing the melt extruder. The flake flows around the umbrella-like housing creating a pocket to provide unimpeded entry of the pellets into the polymer stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: William J. Sewell