Richard J Hooper

US Patent:

55775934, Nov 26, 1996

Filed:

Jan 27, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/379370

Inventors:

Richard G. Hooper - Southfield MI

Assignee:

FKI Industries, Inc. - Fairfield CT

International Classification:

B61B 900

US Classification:

1983461

Abstract:

A carrier conveyor system wherein carriers are disengaged from a main conveyor in advance of a work station and re-engaged beyond the work station. A transfer conveyor is positioned such that it receives the carriers as they are disengaged from the main conveyor, transfers them as required to the work station, removes them from the work station after the work is performed, and returns them to the main conveyor. The transfer conveyor comprises a plurality of transfer assemblies arranged in succession along the carrier travel path, and each include right and left hand mirror-imaged belt modules that are mechanically drivingly cross-connected to each other.

US Patent:

40317536, Jun 28, 1977

Filed:

Aug 20, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/716304

Inventors:

Richard G. Hooper - La Crescenta CA

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air
Force - Washington DC

International Classification:

G01N 100

US Classification:

73170R

Abstract:

An instrument for sampling both solid and liquid water particles in the atmosphere and continuously producing an electrical output response directly equivalent to the total percentage water content of the atmosphere sampled. The solid and/or liquid water particles are collected by using a large funnel shaped scoop of 100 cm. sup. 2 to allow high volume collection at nominal aircraft speeds. The water is routed into the detection device which includes a concentric cylinder flow-through capacitor that varies in capacitance according to the dielectric of the fluid enclosed.

US Patent:

59721120, Oct 26, 1999

Filed:

Oct 3, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/943701

Inventors:

Christopher A. Wood - Livonia MI
Richard G. Hooper - Southfield MI

Assignee:

Acco Systems, Inc. - Warren MI

International Classification:

B05C 300

US Classification:

118423

Abstract:

A system for dipping workpieces into a coating tank that includes a conveyor disposed above the tank and a workpiece carrier movable on the conveyor along a path above the tank. The carrier includes a box frame having pivotal corner connections and vertically spaced guide rollers disposed on laterally opposed sides of the frame. Longitudinally spaced cables suspend the carrier frame from winches on the conveyor for selectively raising and lowering the carrier with respect to the conveyor. The winches and cables are also selectively operable for rocking the carrier frame about a horizontal axis lateral to the path of travel along the conveyor. A pair of track rails are disposed in fixed position on laterally opposed sides of the conveyor for engaging the guide rollers on laterally opposed sides of the carrier frame during lowering of the frame into the tank and maintaining horizontal position of the carrier frame during rocking thereof within the tank.

US Patent:

55706398, Nov 5, 1996

Filed:

Oct 11, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/540742

Inventors:

Richard G. Hooper - Southfield MI
Robert E. Mahu - Eastpointe MI
Thomas A. Moroney - Troy MI

Assignee:

FKI Industries Inc. - Fairfield CT

International Classification:

B61K 700
B61B 1000

US Classification:

104251

Abstract:

Apparatus for preventing runaway of trolleys in a power-and-free conveyor system that includes a friction bar that extends lengthwise of the free conveyor track on a side of the track remote from the power conveyor for motion lengthwise of the track at an acute angle to the direction of motion of the trolleys along the track. The friction bar is releasably biased laterally outwardly from the track and in a direction lengthwise of the track opposed to the direction of trolley motion on the track so that trolleys may travel freely along the free conveyor track past the bar. In the event that a trolley is traveling at excessive velocity along the tree conveyor track, the friction bar is moved in the direction of motion of the trolley and at the acute angle laterally into a position for frictional engagement with the trolley on the track, such that momentum of the trolley cooperates with frictional engagement of the bar with the trolley to wedge the bar against the trolley and arrest motion of the trolley on the track. Thus, momentum of the trolley along the track cooperates with angulated motion of the bar into frictional engagement with the trolley for automatically and inherently increasing frictional forces that arrest motion of the trolley on the track.

US Patent:

61744239, Jan 16, 2001

Filed:

Dec 2, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/203456

Inventors:

Christopher A. Wood - Livonia MI
Richard G. Hooper - Southfield MI

Assignee:

Acco Systems, Inc. - Warren MI

International Classification:

C25D 1300

US Classification:

204512

Abstract:

A system for dipping workpieces into a coating tank that includes a conveyor disposed above the tank and a workpiece carrier movable on the conveyor along a path above the tank The carrier includes a box frame having pivotal corner connections and vertically spaced guide rollers disposed on lateraly opposed sides of the frame. Longing spaced cables suspend the carrier frame from winces on the conveyor for selectively raising and lowering the carrier with respect to the conveyor. The winches and cables are also selectively operable for rocking the carrier frame about a horizontal axis lateral to the path of travel along the conveyor. A pair of track rails are disposed in fixed position on laterally opposed sides of the conveyor for engaging the guide rollers on laterally opposed sides of the carrier frame during lowering of the frame into the tank and maintaining horizontal position of the carrier frame during rocking thereof within the tank. The method of this invention then includes lowering the vehicle body into an electrostatic dip tank, preferably at an angle, then rocking the forward and rearward ends of the vehicle upwardly and downwardly about a lateral axis generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, then raising the vehicle body out of the dip tank preferably at an angle relative to horizontal.