Patents by Inventor William K. Murray

William K. Murray 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: 4699189
    Abstract: A combined camp stove or camp lantern fuel tank reservoir cap and pressurizing assembly is presented in which a fuel tank cap body is adapted to include a hollow check-valve assembly base on the top thereof. Into the check-valve assembly base is inserted a check valve assembly. The cap body has an aperture therein so as to be fluidly connected to the base when a compressed air nipple from a hose is inserted into the check-valve assembly. The compressed air flows through the base, past a gasket in the body having a slit therein for air passage and through the body to pressurize a fuel reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1987
    Inventor: William K. Murray
  • Patent number: 4276931
    Abstract: A junk basket having a housing with cutting means on the lower end thereof and junk retaining means supported within the housing, a valve assembly mounted within the housing above the junk retaining means and including a tubular valve housing valve means for controlling flow through the valve housing, pressure responsive operating means for actuating the valve means whereby the valve means is moved between open and closed positions responsive to the stopping and starting of the flow of drilling fluids through the housing, means providing circulating of fluid through the valve housing and the basket housing when the valve means is closed, cam means for supporting the valve means in open position in one position of the cam means and releasing support from the valve means to allow it to close in a second position and stepping means for actuating the cam means between its first and second positions responsive to the starting and stopping of flow of drilling fluid through the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1981
    Assignee: Tri-State Oil Tool Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: William K. Murray