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Christopher Gavin Brickell, Docklands AU
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| 20110048853 | CLIMBING DEVICE - A climb assist system is disclosed that adjusts the rate and level of assist of a climber and starts/stops the level of assist as the climber needs may change over the period of traverse of the ladder. A sensor may detect a change in the operating state of a motor in the climb assist system. For example, the change in state may indicate a change in the load exerted by the climber indicating that the climber intends to start or stop an active climb. The climb assist system may then adjust the inputs to the motor to initiate a climb or terminate a climb. | 03-03-2011 |
Christopher Gavin Brickell, Renton, WA US
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| 20090095574 | Restraint Device for Traction Sheaves - A restraint device is disclosed that limits the movement of the cable or rope relative to the traction, thus reducing or eliminating the popping noise associated with the cable or rope snapping back against the traction sheave. In one embodiment, the restraint device comprises a molded component that is fitted to encompass the region of the sheave where separation of the wire rope from the sheave is most likely to occur. The restraint device may be mounted so that it is removable and replaceable with minimal dismantling of the hoist containing the sheave. The restraint device may be reversible so that one restraint device may by used for at least two cycles before being replaced. Indication of the need for replacement may be provided by including a second color material at the depth where wear reaches the allowable limit, thereby providing a visual signal to initiate replacement as seen during service. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090200529 | MULTI-USE HOIST SYSTEM - Apparatus and methods repurpose a personnel hoist from a platform whereby at least one person can stand on said platform such that power applied to said hoist lifts the platform and at least one person. The personnel hoist is repurposed for use in material load applications by attaching it to a frame and attaching the frame to a support structure. As a result, applying power to the hoist then causes it to lift a material load. A wire rope from the personnel hoist is fed through a block to redirect the lift direction of the wire rope from the personnel hoist to lift the material load. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090249712 | TOWER CLIMBING ASSIST DEVICE - A climb assist system is disclosed that dynamically adjust the rate and level of assist of a climber as the climber needs may change over the period of traverse of the ladder. A sensor detects the state of a person, such as the load exerted by the climber on a ladder exerts on an assist rope, to provided an upward support force on the climber to compensate the climber's weight. Additionally, a sender is provided to transmit the load data to a receiver and a receiver to receive the data from the sender. A controller interprets the received data and thereafter provides control through a controlled motor and drive to provide energy to the assist rope. | 10-08-2009 |
John W. Brickell, Lawrenceville, GA US
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| 20090196205 | CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION IN A BIDIRECTIONAL NETWORK - An architecture for providing high-speed access over frequency-division multiplexed (FDM) channels allows transmission of ethernet frames and/or other data across a cable transmission network or other form of FDM transport. The architecture involves downstream and upstream FDM multiplexing techniques to allow contemporaneous, parallel communications across a plurality of frequency channels. Furthermore, the architecture allows a central concentrator to support a plurality of remote devices that each have guaranteed bandwidth through connection-oriented allocations of bi-directional data flows. The upstream and downstream bandwidth allocation can support symmetrical bandwidth as well as asymmetrical bandwidth in either direction. The architecture generally can be used to support connection-oriented physical layer connectivity between a remote device and the central concentrator. Furthermore, the architecture may be integrated into other higher level devices such as, but not limited to, bridges, switches, routers, and/or gateways. In addition, the architecture may be used as a local network such as the networks commonly called local area networks (LANs). As a local network, the architecture supports guaranteed bandwidth for delivery of data flows to a plurality of host devices. Each host device might have a network interface card (NIC) that conforms to the architecture of the preferred embodiments of the present invention. Moreover, because the architecture may peacefully coexist with other services commonly-found in cable distribution networks, these other services may also be delivered to a host device. Thus, as a non-limiting example a host device may utilize the preferred embodiments of the present invention for local area network (LAN) data communication, and may also utilize cable television video channels in the same communication medium to carry various multimedia information. | 08-06-2009 |
Joseph Wayne Brickell, Westfield, IN US
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| 20090317554 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPRAY COATING - A spray coating apparatus for spraying material on a substrate includes a frame and a gantry coupled to the frame. The gantry may be configured to provide x-axis, y-axis and z-axis movement. A device is coupled to the gantry. The device may be configured to rotate about the z-axis and pivot about a point on the z-axis. A spray head is coupled to the device. A controller is coupled to the gantry and the spray head. The controller may be configured to control the automated movement of the gantry to provide x-axis, y-axis and z-axis movement and rotational and pivoting movement of the spray head. Other embodiments of the spray coating device and related methods are further disclosed. | 12-24-2009 |