Patents by Inventor William K. Suttie

William K. Suttie 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).

  • Rigid thermal sleeve for a gun barrel
    Patent number: 5400691
    Abstract: A rigid thermal sleeve 5 mountable over at least part of a gun barrel 3 in such a way that it is symmetrical about a longitudinal plane A--A to provide a reduced thermal image and radar cross section. The sleeve 5 comprises thermally insulating material 13 between an inner skin 15 and an outer skin 17. The outer skin 17 is arranged to have two mutually convergent planar faces 7,9, each one of which makes up at least 15% of the outer surface of the sleeve 5 and which have a mutual line of convergence extending externally and longitudinally of the sleeve 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    Inventors: William K. Suttie, Edgar H. Vickers