Patents by Inventor William McMinn
William McMinn 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).
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Publication number: 20240066741Abstract: A cutting device for cutting a pipe having a pipe wall. The cutting device includes an elongate carrier having a tool end which is engageable with a power tool and an opposed free end. The device includes a guide wheel located at the free end of the carrier which is loosely mounted thereon for rotation relative thereto, having a bearing surface extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the carrier. The device also includes a cutting element having a peripheral cutting edge which is located adjacent to the guide wheel being positioned intermediate the guide wheel and the tool end. The cutting element is of greater transverse dimension than the guide wheel so that when the bearing surface bears against an internal surface of the pipe the distance between the cutting edge of the cutting element and the bearing surface enables the cutting element to cut through the pipe wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Frelk Industries Pty. Ltd.Inventors: Fraser Thomas O'Keefe, Andrew Loch, William McMinn, Michael James Elkington
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Patent number: 11752653Abstract: A cutting device for cutting a pipe having a pipe wall includes an elongate carrier having a tool end which is engageable with a power tool, and a free end. The device includes a guide wheel located at the free end of the carrier, which is mounted thereon for rotation relative thereto, having a bearing surface extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the carrier. The device also includes a cutting element having a peripheral cutting edge which is located adjacent to the guide wheel being positioned intermediate the guide wheel and the tool end. The cutting element is of greater transverse dimension than the guide wheel so that when the bearing surface bears against an internal surface of the pipe the distance between the cutting edge of the cutting element and the bearing surface enables the cutting element to cut through the pipe wall.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Frelk Industries Pty. Ltd.Inventors: Fraser Thomas O'Keefe, Andrew Loch, William McMinn, Michael James Elkington
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Publication number: 20220274280Abstract: A cutting device for cutting a pipe having a pipe wall includes an elongate carrier having a tool end which is engageable with a power tool, and a free end. The device includes a guide wheel located at the free end of the carrier, which is mounted thereon for rotation relative thereto, having a bearing surface extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the carrier. The device also includes a cutting element having a peripheral cutting edge which is located adjacent to the guide wheel being positioned intermediate the guide wheel and the tool end. The cutting element is of greater transverse dimension than the guide wheel so that when the bearing surface bears against an internal surface of the pipe the distance between the cutting edge of the cutting element and the bearing surface enables the cutting element to cut through the pipe wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: Frelk Industries Pty. Ltd.Inventors: Fraser Thomas O'Keefe, Andrew Loch, William McMinn, Michael James Elkington
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Patent number: 8286269Abstract: A hard hat with attached glasses including a hard hat including a dome portion, the dome portion having an interior surface defining a dome space for receiving a wearer's head and said interior surface including a generally vertical front portion, a pair of glasses and a connection system connecting said pair of glasses to said hard hat, the connection system adapted to allow adjustment of the position of the glasses inside said dome space and down out of said dome space and pivotable about a substantially horizontal axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2009Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Inventors: David J. Springer, William McMinn
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Publication number: 20120125168Abstract: A cutting device (10) for cutting a pipe (32) having a pipe wall is disclosed. The cutting device (10) includes an elongate carrier (12) having a tool end (12.1) which is engageable with a power tool and an opposed free end (12.2). The device (10) includes a guide wheel (16) located at the free end (12.2) of the carrier (12) which is loosely mounted thereon for rotation relative thereto, having a bearing surface (34) extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the carrier (12). The device (10) also includes a cutting element (14) having a peripheral cutting edge (36) which is located adjacent to the guide wheel (16) being positioned intermediate the guide wheel 16 and the tool end (12.1).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: Frelk Industries Pty LtdInventors: Fraser Thomas O'Keefe, Andrew Loch, William McMinn, Michael James Elkington
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Publication number: 20090235437Abstract: A hard hat with attached glasses including a hard hat including a dome portion, the dome portion having an interior surface defining a dome space for receiving a wearer's head and said interior surface including a generally vertical front portion, a pair of glasses and a connection system connecting said pair of glasses to said hard hat, the connection system adapted to allow adjustment of the position of the glasses inside said dome space and down out of said dome space and pivotable about a substantially horizontal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2009Publication date: September 24, 2009Inventors: David John Springer, William McMinn
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Patent number: 5536520Abstract: A substantially oil free fried flavor food product having a fried flavor obtained by cooking a starch and/or a protein from grain flours, vegetable flours, food protein source materials and the like with fats and oils under controlled conditions for producing roux, extracting the oil from the roux resulting in a food product having a definitive fried or peak flavor as can be correlated by the color of the food product. The substantially oil free food product has enhanced fried flavor and is most suitable as an interface coating through enhanced adhesion properties for raw vegetables and consumable meats. The dry powder food product having fried flavor can be utilized in a variety of foods, either as an ingredient or coating, producing a consumable food having fried flavor without the food being fried in oil.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1994Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: Country Flavor, Inc.Inventors: W. R. Seeds, William A. McMinn, III
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Patent number: 5536522Abstract: Peak flavor protein rouxs having applications in food products such as gravies, sauces, soups, breadings, stuffings and as flavor carriers are produced from protein food sources such as protein concentrates from vegetable, animal, dairy, fish and foul food sources which when mixed with shortening and caramelized to a specific color yields a peak flavor roux caramelized protein. The protein roux exhibiting a peak flavor which is correlatable to a specific color is achieved as a result of mixing, heating, caramelizing and quenching of the protein food source and oil mixture upon reaching a specific color--peak flavor. In addition, a snack chip composition and a snack chip having reduced oil content is provided by utilizing the peak flavor rouxs in conjunction with power or particulate vegetable sources and processed by air baking of the chip materials resulting in a reduced oil peak flavor chip.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1995Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: Country Flavor, Inc.Inventors: W. R. Seeds, William A. McMinn, III