Max F Grandey

US Patent:

39777286, Aug 31, 1976

Filed:

Dec 30, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/537359

Inventors:

Stephen C. Mitchell - West Chester OH
Arthur P. Adamson - Cincinnati OH
Max F. Grandey - Hamilton OH
Lewis J. Stoffer - Cincinnati OH

Assignee:

General Electric Company - Cincinnati OH

International Classification:

B60B 114

US Classification:

301 66

Abstract:

A wheel comprising a plurality of wheel plies, each wheel ply including concentric inner and outer hoops and a plurality of circumferentially spaced spoke loops therebetween, wherein each of the spoke loops is entrapped within the hoops. In one embodiment the wheel comprises a laminate of alternating wheel plies and intermediate plies bonded together. A spoked frame comprising one or more of the wheels is provided, the frame including fairing means to substantially envelope the spokes and retain the individual wheels in their proper spacial relationship.

US Patent:

44601859, Jul 17, 1984

Filed:

Aug 23, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/410783

Inventors:

Max F. Grandey - Monroe OH

Assignee:

General Electric Company - Cincinnati OH

International Classification:

F16J 1516
F16J 1544
F01D 1108

US Classification:

277 53

Abstract:

An abradable seal member, which can be a component of a rotary seal in juxtaposition with another member, includes a non-metallic abradable material comprising a halogenated hydrocarbon, for example Teflon material. Such a material, which preferably is porous, has a solids content of at least about 40 weight %, a heat of combustion of no more than about 4000 BTU per pound, the halogenated hydrocarbon being at least about 60 weight % halogen.