Jeffrey D Hadley

US Patent:

7156605, Jan 2, 2007

Filed:

Jan 17, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/347129

Inventors:

Darrell J. Hadley - Oklahoma City OK, US
Jeffrey D. Hadley - Edmond OK, US
Timothy B. Kirk - Oklahoma City OK, US
Michael W. Butler - Oklahoma City OK, US

Assignee:

Hadley Design, Inc. - Edmond OK

International Classification:

B21B 39/14
B65G 25/00
B65G 47/24

US Classification:

414782, 4147464, 4147989, 198409, 1988361, 271150, 493 55

Abstract:

An apparatus for transporting and marking a substrate, such as a collapsed corrugated cardboard carton. A feeder station is configured to receive a substantially vertically aligned stack of substrates. An advancement assembly of the feeder station successively moves the lower portions of the substrates in an inboard direction and a tensioner assembly applies a clamping force to the upper portions of the substrates. A transfer assembly engages the innermost substrate in the stack to rotate and remove the substrate from the rest of the stack and provide the substrate to a transport and marking station, which drives the substrate past a marking mechanism. The transport and marking station advances the substrate into a gravity discharge station which induces sufficient tilt in the substrate so that, upon exiting of the substrate from the transport, gravity induces the substrate to rotate and fall in a controlled fashion into a completed stack.

US Patent:

20040004042, Jan 8, 2004

Filed:

Jul 10, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/381623

Inventors:

Darrell Hadley - Oklahoma City OK, US
Jeffrey Hadley - Edmond OK, US
William Rey - Oklahoma City OK, US
Geir Eriksen - Sellebakk, NO

International Classification:

C02F001/48

US Classification:

210/695000

Abstract:

Apparatus and method for increasing dissolved oxygen levels in a liquid. An oxygenation system () includes a liquid source () from which liquid is introduced into a piping network () by a pump (). Colloidal minerals are injected into the liquid in a dwell chamber (). The mixture of liquid and minerals flows into an oxygenator () where gaseous oxygen is injected into the liquid. The resulting two-phase flow stream is accelerated to supersonic speeds through a linear flow accelerator () comprising a flat Venturi () and electromagnets () positioned adjacent the flat Venturi. The electromagnets generate an electromagnetic field to exert a force on the two-phase mixture in the direction of the flow. The flow stream then passes through a laminar flow grid () to remove turbulence, after which the oxygenated liquid is bottled at a bottling system ().