Kenneth George Sowers

US Patent:

D496292, Sep 21, 2004

Filed:

Jan 23, 2003

Appl. No.:

29/174658

Inventors:

Kenneth George Sowers - Frederick MD

Assignee:

Schonstedt Instrument Company - Kearneysville WV

International Classification:

1004

US Classification:

D10 47

US Patent:

6819109, Nov 16, 2004

Filed:

Jan 23, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/348998

Inventors:

Kenneth George Sowers - Frederick MD
Donald Dale Sien - Leesburg VA
Thomas Matthew Parker - Bethesda MD

Assignee:

Schonstedt Instrument Company - Kearneysville WV

International Classification:

G01V 311

US Classification:

324329, 324326, D10 47

Abstract:

A wand-type magnetic metal detector has a telescoping wand which shortens the wand sufficiently for the detector to be comfortably carried in a holster carried on the users body. The users hands are thereby freed for other tasks than carrying the detector.

US Patent:

54401372, Aug 8, 1995

Filed:

Sep 6, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/301107

Inventors:

Kenneth G. Sowers - Walkersville MD

Assignee:

Fusion Systems Corporation - Rockville MD

International Classification:

H05B 3104

US Classification:

250504R

Abstract:

An apparatus and method for curing radiation curable material includes a lamp unit providing radiation in a converging beam directed toward a focal plane and forming a curing zone at a curing position for receiving the curable material. The lamp unit is mounted in a boot member having a spiral external thread for engaging a spiral internal thread on the wall of a housing chamber for receiving the boot member. The engagement of the threads is such that rotation of the boot member controllably varies the intensity of radiation in the curing zone by changing the distance between the radiation outlet of the lamp unit and the curing position. The curing zone may be an elongated band such that rotation of the boot member also provides angular adjustment of the elongated band relative to a curing path for the curable material. The boot member may include internal cooling passages and these passages may contain overlapping light baffles blocking the escape of harmful radiation.