Benjamin G James

US Patent:

6822166, Nov 23, 2004

Filed:

May 31, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/160496

Inventors:

Benjamin B. James - Birchrunville PA
Francis B. Fatato - Exton PA
Matthew P. Frederick - West Chester PA

Assignee:

Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc. - Southfield MI

International Classification:

H02G 1508

US Classification:

174 93

Abstract:

A low-profile sheath for protecting elongated items is disclosed having a pair of substrates formed from flexible sheet material with opposite edges paired together to position the substrates in overlapping alignment. One pair of edges is flexibly attached together by a hinge allowing the substrates to pivot between an open and a closed position for receiving and capturing the items. The substrates are corrugated. The hinge is formed from a plurality of thinned sheet regions which alternate between being oriented in the plane of the sheet and perpendicular to it. The alternating orientation reduces the imbalance of shear stiffness between the hinge connected edges and the free edges of the substrates. An apparatus for forming the sheath having intermeshing gears with beveled teeth and facing edge surfaces is also disclosed.

US Patent:

6932323, Aug 23, 2005

Filed:

Jul 26, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/899347

Inventors:

Benjamin B. James - Birchrunville PA, US

Assignee:

Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc. - Southfield MI

International Classification:

H02G001/08

US Classification:

2541344, 2541343 FT

Abstract:

A drogue for drawing an elongated item through a conduit is disclosed. The drogue includes a flexible bag having a closed end and an oppositely disposed end opening. Shroud lines attached to the bag at the end opening allow attachment of the drogue to the item. A biasing member, preferably in the form of a continuous loop of flexible, resilient interconnected wire legs, is attached to the bag and positioned proximate to the end opening. The loop engages the bag over a portion of its length and biases the end opening into an open configuration to prevent its collapse and loss of pneumatic pressure as it is propelled through the conduit.

US Patent:

7188642, Mar 13, 2007

Filed:

Feb 22, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/063321

Inventors:

Benjamin B. James - Birchrunville PA, US
Angela L. Baer - Conshohocken PA, US

Assignee:

Federal Mogul World Wide, Inc. - Southfield MI

International Classification:

H02G 1/08
D03D 3/00
D03D 1/00
D03D 23/00

US Classification:

139384R, 139383 R, 139387 R, 139426 R, 139406, 174 34, 174 36, 174 19

Abstract:

A pull tape for facilitating positioning of elongated items within a protective sleeve is disclosed. The pull tape is woven of filamentary members preferably using a twill or satin weave that allows floats to form on the surface of the tape that reduce friction between the tape and the sleeve when the tape is drawn through the sleeve. Preferably, the tape is formed of multifilament warp and weft yarns woven in a plain weave with additional monofilament yarns arranged in the warp direction and woven in a twill or satin weave to form the floats in the warp direction. Additional embodiments include tapes having warp members entirely of monofilaments, as well as both warp and weft members being entirely of monofilaments.

US Patent:

8021051, Sep 20, 2011

Filed:

Jun 27, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/769278

Inventors:

Benjamin B. James - Birchrunville PA, US

Assignee:

Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc. - Southfield MI

International Classification:

F16C 33/18
F16C 33/02

US Classification:

384298, 384276, 384282, 384606

Abstract:

A sleeve bearing assembly and method of construction therefore has an inner portion constructed from a plurality of yarns to provide a journal bearing surface for receipt of a journal for relative movement therein and an elastic outer portion injection molded at least partially about the inner portion. The plurality of yarns are woven together with at least some of the yarns being woven in a warp direction corresponding to a length of the journal bearing surface and in a weft direction corresponding to a circumferential direction of the journal bearing surface to form a backing of the inner portion. At least one of the plurality of yarns is provided as a self-lubricating yarn woven with the backing in a weft direction to substantially form the bearing surface radially inwardly of the backing.

US Patent:

8464427, Jun 18, 2013

Filed:

Sep 2, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/224401

Inventors:

Benjamin B. James - Birchrunville PA, US

Assignee:

Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc. - Southfield MI

International Classification:

B21D 53/10
B29D 33/00

US Classification:

29898054, 29898055, 2989812, 87 1

Abstract:

A sleeve bearing assembly and method of construction therefore has an inner portion constructed from a plurality of yarns to provide a journal bearing surface for receipt of a journal for relative movement therein and an elastic outer portion injection molded at least partially about the inner portion. The plurality of yarns are woven together with at least some of the yarns being woven in a warp direction corresponding to a length of the journal bearing surface and in a weft direction corresponding to a circumferential direction of the journal bearing surface to form a backing of the inner portion. At least one of the plurality of yarns is provided as a self-lubricating yarn woven with the backing in a weft direction to substantially form the bearing surface radially inwardly of the backing.

US Patent:

20050127237, Jun 16, 2005

Filed:

Dec 15, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/012435

Inventors:

Benjamin James - Birchrunville PA, US
John Burdy - Morgantown PA, US

Assignee:

Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc. - Southfield MI

International Classification:

B65H057/16

US Classification:

242615300

Abstract:

A tool for aligning a plurality of flexible elongate items is disclosed. The tool has first and second frame members positioned in spaced apart relation to one another. A plurality of cross pieces extends between the frame members. The cross pieces are in spaced relation to one another and define a plurality of openings for receiving the elongate items. The frame members are angularly adjustable relative to the elongate members about an axis parallel to one of the cross pieces so as to vary the apparent size of the openings to accommodate varying thickness of the elongate members. The tool guides the elongate members as they are fed from a supply so that they lie neatly atop one another as they are drawn through the openings.

US Patent:

59156988, Jun 29, 1999

Filed:

Jul 17, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/683681

Inventors:

Benjamin B. James - Birchrunville PA

Assignee:

Federal-Mogul Systems Protection Group, Inc. - Exton PA

International Classification:

F16J 1502

US Classification:

277637

Abstract:

An oven door seal comprises a braided tubular gasket of wire and a mineral fiber, such as glass fiber, a ceramic or quartz or mixtures thereof. The gasket has the characteristic of a braided structure of radial expansion upon axial compression and radial contraction upon axial extension. Clips of resilient wire are prebent in a common plane so as to have an apexed head formed near the mid point of the wire intermediate parallel sections and crossing end sections are disclosed. The clips are inserted into the gasket with the crossing ends spanning one or more filaments in the lattice structure of the braided tubular gasket and the crossing ends pass through the wall structure and are deflected generally parallel to the wall as the clip wire sections at the apex flex together. The apertures are formed in the oven door perimeter at different spacings depending upon the gasket diameter desired along the edge having a particular spacing and the clip inserted at equal spacings in an oven door. The installed gasket may have a smaller diameter along the hinge side of the door and a larger diameter along the side most remote from the door on account of the variable spacing of the apertures.

US Patent:

58280090, Oct 27, 1998

Filed:

Oct 17, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/734440

Inventors:

Benjamin B. James - Birchrunville PA
Denis van Wassenhove - Crepy-en-Valois, FR

Assignee:

Bentley-Harris Inc. - Exton PA

International Classification:

H01B 700

US Classification:

174135

Abstract:

A wiring harness breakout clip for forming and supporting the trunk and branch portions of a wire bundle from a wiring harness is provided. The harness breakout clip mounts on a support surface and includes: a substantially rigid plate for supporting the trunk portion of the wire bundle; locating posts joined to and projecting from the plate, the locating posts being spaced apart to form a locating space for a branch portion of the wire bundle; and flexible straps joined to the plate in adjacent relation to the locating posts for fastening the wire bundle to the plate. In an alternative embodiment, the flexible straps have internesting intermediate and proximal sections and distal sections. The intermediate sections nest within recesses in the proximal sections and the distal sections nest within recesses in the internested sections. Laterally extending interengagable points or barbs on each section fasten the sections together when the intermediate section is looped around a wire bundle and nested in the recess in the proximal section, and the distal section is looped around a second wire bundle and nested in the recess in the intermediate section.