Patents by Inventor William Ross Davis

William Ross Davis 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).

  • POLYMER MODIFIED ASPHALT ROOFING MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20240076875
    Abstract: A shingle coating asphalt composition is provided that is produced from a paving grade asphalt. The asphalt composition comprises a paving-grade asphalt that has been modified with one or more polymer additives; and a secondary additive comprising one or more of a viscosity reducing agent, a wax, a salt of a fatty acid ester, and an amide of a fatty acid. The shingle coating asphalt coating composition is used to make a shingle. The shingle includes a substrate, the asphalt, and roofing granules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Carmen Anthony LaTorre, Jacob Paul Honsvick, Christopher Patrick Kasprzak, Daniel James Buckwalter, Edward R. Harrington, Jonathan Ross Davis, Laurand Henry Lewandowski, David Michael Ploense, William Edwin Smith, Scott W. Schweiger, Ganesh Latta
  • Drying oven controller
    Patent number: 4098007
    Abstract: A device for controlling the rate at which air is exhausted from a textile drying oven including means for withdrawing gas from the interior of the oven, a heater for heating the withdrawn gas, a catalyst bed for combusting the heated gas, a differential thermocouple for measuring the difference in the temperature between the gas entering the catalyst bed and the gas leaving the catalyst bed and means for varying the rate of exhaust from the oven in response to variations in the temperature difference across the catalyst bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1978
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: William Ross Davis, Charles E. Willbanks