Thomas J Doherty

US Patent:

41650280, Aug 21, 1979

Filed:

Nov 25, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/854579

Inventors:

Thomas E. Doherty - Setauket NY

Assignee:

Owens-Illinois, Inc. - Toledo OH

International Classification:

B65H 2322

US Classification:

226 4

Abstract:

A method for controlling the movement of a web of material. The web material advances in a forward direction, thus creating an unsupported loop which characterizes the festoon arrangement of the invention. Web material is advanced into the festoon depending upon the size of the festoon. Web material is withdrawn and returned to the festoon on an intermittent basis independently of the flow of material into the festoon.

US Patent:

55357547, Jul 16, 1996

Filed:

Mar 4, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/205553

Inventors:

Thomas E. Doherty - Setauket NY

International Classification:

A61B 1728

US Classification:

128751

Abstract:

An endoscopic biopsy forceps mechanism encompassing a device of integrally designed parts for selectively opening and closing the biopsy forceps cutting jaws of the forceps and dramatically reduce the number of individual parts in the entire device thereby rendering a forcep mechanism of a more simplified construction, more reliable in operation and concurrently reduce the manufacturing and assembly costs.

US Patent:

RE312932, Jun 28, 1983

Filed:

Sep 22, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/189265

Inventors:

Stephen W. Amberg - St. James NY
Thomas E. Doherty - Setauket NY
Clarence A. Heyne - late of Sun City AZ

Assignee:

Owens-Illinois, Inc. - Toledo OH

International Classification:

B31B 116
B31C 100

US Classification:

493 11

Abstract:

The disclosure relates to a machine for making a plastic covering on a rigid base article which in the illustrated form comprises a glass bottle and a conforming shrunken plastic covering thereon. The plastic is fed in oriented sheet form to the turret apparatus, cut into lengths and wrapped and seamed on successive mandrels as sleeves. Bottles are simultaneously processed to preheat condition and indexed over the sleeves, the latter telescopically assembled on the rigid base article, i. e. , the bottle, and the combination carried to a heat tunnel. The plastic sleeve shrinks into snug surface fit on the adjacent surface portion of the rigid base article. The bottle is preheated in one of two embodiments by: (1) a preheat tunnel on the machine which raises the bottles from room temperature to about 220. degree. F. , or (2) the preheat is carried over as latent heat in the glass bottle from the annealing lehr, a part of the bottle manufacturing process. The machine includes novel subassemblies comprised of (1) a bottle chuck and loading station for assuring proper loading of the bottles on the machine, (2) bottle handling, (3) plastic strip handling and feed mechanism for placing oriented cut lengths onto mandrels of the turret, (4) the turret for making seamed sleeves in succession and feeding them onto registered bottles carried by the bottle handling apparatus, and (5) unloading device for transfer of the covered bottles to a conveyor and with said transfer smoothening the bottom surface of the covering on the bottle.

US Patent:

48876127, Dec 19, 1989

Filed:

Apr 27, 1988

Appl. No.:

7/186564

Inventors:

Theodor Esser - Stony Brook NY
Thomas E. Doherty - Setauket NY

Assignee:

Esco Precision, Inc. - Stony Brook NY

International Classification:

A61B 1000

US Classification:

128751

Abstract:

An endoscopic biopsy forceps device incorporating a novel and unique camming arrangement for selectively opening and closing the biopsy cutting jaws of the biopsy forceps which will render the entire device of a simpler construction and reliable in operation, while concurrently making it considerably less expensive to produce.

US Patent:

41998510, Apr 29, 1980

Filed:

Nov 16, 1978

Appl. No.:

5/961339

Inventors:

Thomas E. Doherty - Setauket NY

Assignee:

Owens-Illinois, Inc. - Toledo OH

International Classification:

B23P 1902

US Classification:

29235

Abstract:

The present invention relates to an apparatus for applying a plastic sleeve to a rigid base article, such as a glass bottle. A blank of plastic is wrapped around a mandrel and seamed to form a plastic sleeve. The bottle to which the sleeve is to be applied is preheated and longitudinally aligned over the mandrel. A pressurized fluid is introduced between the plastic sleeve and the mandrel to form a fluid cushion upon which the plastic sleeve can slide without binding or wrinkling. As the pressurized fluid is introduced, a stripper sleeve is actuated to engage the lower edge of the plastic sleeve and block the passage of the pressurized fluid therefrom. Thus, the plastic sleeve is inflated slightly about the mandrel. Then the stripper sleeve is moved upwardly to telescope the plastic sleeve onto the aligned bottle. A gasket is secured to the upper base of the mandrel, upon which the bottle rests during the transfer operation.

US Patent:

42819792, Aug 4, 1981

Filed:

Oct 26, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/088450

Inventors:

Thomas E. Doherty - Setauket NY
William F. Herzog - Perrysburg OH

Assignee:

Owens-Illinois, Inc. - Toledo OH

International Classification:

B29C 1700
B29D 2700

US Classification:

425391

Abstract:

Apparatus for forming the rim on a foam plastic container such as a cup by use of a segmented rim former. The cavity in the rim former is contoured so as to produce a curled rim that is flat on the top. The flat top of the rim is parallel to the bottom of the cup. The apparatus comprises a segmented rim former with a combination of linear and curved surfaces that form a noncircular container rim.

US Patent:

39957403, Dec 7, 1976

Filed:

May 28, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/473998

Inventors:

Stephen W. Amberg - St. James NY
Thomas E. Doherty - Setauket NY

Assignee:

Owens-Illinois, Inc. - Toledo OH

International Classification:

B65D 306
B65D 2102

US Classification:

206520

Abstract:

A fabricated cup or other nestable container in which the sidewall is formed from a rectangular sheet-like blank of a thermoplastic material, particularly an expanded thermoplastic material, the blank having its ends joined to one another in a liquid-tight seam extending the full height thereof to form a sleeve, the blank having a relatively high degree of orientation or heat-shrinkability extending circumferentially of the sleeve, the fabrication of the sidewall from the sleeve being accomplished by telescoping the sleeve over a generally frusto-conically shaped mandrel, by exposing the sleeve to heat to cause it shrink to conform to the configuration of the mandrel and by stripping the shrunken sleeve from the mandrel. A two-piece container may also be formed from such a sidewall by affixing an end closure element to the bottom or smaller end of the sidewall. A one-piece container may also be formed in this manner by using a blank of sufficient height so that a substantial portion of the sleeve formed therefrom extends beyond the smaller end of the forming mandrel, such substantial portion, when the sleeve is exposed to heat, being shrinkable to form an annular planar portion disposed transversely of the longitudinal axis of the mandrel and a relatively small tubulation which extends longitudinally from the interior of the annular planar portion and which, by the application of pressure thereto while at elevated temperature, may be caused to collapse and fuse together to close the bottom of the container in a liquid-tight manner.

US Patent:

40611531, Dec 6, 1977

Filed:

Sep 28, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/727462

Inventors:

Thomas E. Doherty - Setauket NY

International Classification:

B08B 302

US Classification:

134138

Abstract:

An arrangement for cleaning paint rollers after their use. The paint roller is held between bearings within an enclosure, and is freely rotatable on said bearings. The enclosure communicates with a source of cleansing fluid which is directed through an elongated orifice along the length of the roller. The orifice in the enclosure is displaced above the axis of the roller, and the force of the cleansing fluid impinging on the surface of the roller, causes the roller to rotate and become cleansed on the surface thereof.

Address:

322 Carmel Dr, Melbourne, FL 32940

Phone:

3212552752

VIN:

4T1BK36B47U240096

Make:

TOYOTA

Model:

AVALON

Year:

2007