Robert Mccullough

US Patent:

43345247, Jun 15, 1982

Filed:

Apr 18, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/141475

Inventors:

Robert W. McCullough - Tarrytown NY
Thomas A. Hewett - Chappaqua NY

Assignee:

Union Carbide Corporation - New York NY

International Classification:

F24J 302

US Classification:

126449

Abstract:

A solar heater including a housing having a transparent front wall for passing incident solar radiation, a radiation absorbent collector element positioned in the housing and arranged to accept incident solar radiation passing through the front wall, means for passing a fluid medium to be heated through the housing in heat transfer relationship with the collector element and a transparent heat trap disposed in the housing between the collector element and the front wall. The heat trap is made from a cellular structure containing a multiplicity of adjacent cells having walls which are integrally formed with the walls of other cells in one continuous piece from a thermoformable material. The thermoformable material used for the heat trap may be glass or a clear plastic composition which is opaque to infrared radiation emitted from the collector element.

US Patent:

43230539, Apr 6, 1982

Filed:

Apr 18, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/141328

Inventors:

Robert W. McCullough - Tarrytown NY
Thomas A. Hewett - Chappaqua NY

Assignee:

Union Carbide Corporation - Danbury CT

International Classification:

F24J 302

US Classification:

126441

Abstract:

A solar heater including a housing having a combined transparent front wall and heat trap, a radiation absorbent collector element positioned in the housing and arranged to accept incident solar radiation passing through the front wall, and means for passing a fluid medium to be heated through the housing in heat transfer relationship with the collector element. The combined front wall and heat trap are integrally formed in one piece from glass or a clear plastic composition which is opaque to infrared radiation emitted from the collector element.

US Patent:

46631038, May 5, 1987

Filed:

Aug 9, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/521749

Inventors:

Robert W. McCullough - Riverside CT
Clarence A. Peoples - Rockwell NC
Maurice J. Sacks - Denver NC
Ronald L. Adams - Mahwah NJ
Klaus Kapfer - Ramsey NJ
Graham M. Talbott - Concord NC

Assignee:

Collins & Aikman Corporation - New York NY

International Classification:

B29C 4740

US Classification:

264 404

Abstract:

Apparatus and method are provided in a system for continuously feeding disparate materials into a compounding extruder for the inline sheet extrusion of a highly filled thermoplastic material having at least about 65 percent by weight of filler. The apparatus and method of the present invention are particularly suitable in conjunction with the continuous lamination of the inline sheet extruder product with carpet.

US Patent:

42626579, Apr 21, 1981

Filed:

Aug 12, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/824100

Inventors:

Robert W. McCullough - Tarrytown NY
Thomas A. Hewett - Chappaqua NY

Assignee:

Union Carbide Corporation - New York NY

International Classification:

F24J 302

US Classification:

126436

Abstract:

A solar air heater including a housing having a transparent front wall and an inlet and outlet for establishing a flow path for a gas such as air to be heated and a porous radiation absorbent collector plate positioned across the flow path and arranged to accept incident solar radiation passing through the front wall wherein a radiation trap is placed inside the housing either adjacent to the front wall, directly on top of the collector plate or between the collector plate and the front wall. The radiation trap has a cellular structure such as honeycomb and is made from a material which is light-transmitting but opaque to infrared radiation emitted from the collector plate in a direction toward the front wall. When the radiation trap is placed adjacent to the front wall the trap can additionally serve as an air buffer layer. In this instance, however, the radiation trap must be maintained in at least firm mechanical contact with the front wall and preferably the trap is actually bonded to the front wall.