John Alexander Mccoy

20130313837, Nov 28, 2013

May 10, 2013

13/891529

Rajesh Patel - Brooklyn NY, US
John J. McCoy - Washington DC, US

F03G 7/08

290 1 R

A meta-material vibration energy harvester includes a housing element encapsulating a multiplicity of oscillators capable of harvesting a significant percentage of the total mechanical energy diffusely distributed throughout the vibrating structure, the harvester design resulting in a rapid transfer of mechanical energy entering it via the housing element from the element to the oscillators wherein the energy remains trapped while accumulating over an extended time, the percentage of energy transfer primarily depending on the ratios of the sum of the oscillator masses to the sum of the housing mass and of the measure of the mass of the vibrating structure and of the width of the band spanned by the oscillators to its center frequency, both the relevant measure of the vibrating structure mass and the values of the mass and frequency ratios that maximize the percentage of internal energy transfer depending on the harvesting scenerio.

44495897, May 22, 1984

Oct 16, 1981

6/312142

John T. McCoy - Kansas City KS

A62C 700

169 48

A fire activated device which closes off a wall opening through which a plastic pipe or other fusible member extends. The device includes a back plate which is mounted to the wall with an opening in the plate in alignment with the wall opening which receives the pipe. A spring loaded cutting blade is normally held away from the pipe by a fuse plug which melts in the event of a fire. The blade is then released and cuts through the pipe under the influence of the springs. A stop plate holds the blade in position to cover the opening to prevent fire from passing through it to the adjoining room. The springs are shielded from the heat by telescoping tubes which contain them.

50727478, Dec 17, 1991

May 26, 1989

7/356960

John W. McCoy - Elmwood Park NJ
Wayne Steenrod - Monroe NY

Avon Products, Inc. - New York NY

B08B 902

134 48

A pre-soak station, a washing station, and a drying station are arranged in an in-line manner so that a multiplicity or group of mold support units or workpiece holders arranged single file may be moved sequentially from station to station. A first group of such units after being submersed in a hot water/detergent bath at the pre-soak station is placed on an open rail support or trackway for conveyance to the washing station where nozzles supported on corresponding manifolds surrounding the trackway direct pressurized streams of hot water against the individual units for a predetermined interval or washing cycle. The group of washed units are then conveyed along the same trackway to a tray supported within the interior of a drying chamber having movable baffle means for directing forced, heated air through the interior of each mold or mold support unit during the initial portion of the drying cycle, and for directing the forced, heated air against the top and exterior side portions of each unit during a second or later portion of the drying cycle upon selective movement of the baffle means from a first position to a second position. A plenum defining a surface for supporting the mold support units in their tray in the drying station is connected to a vacuum pump to facilitate rapid and effective drying during both phases of the drying cycle. A hinged door in the assembly comprising the baffle means facilitates removal of the tray housing the dried units so that a subsequent tray may be inserted into the drying station for receiving the next group of units to be dried.

50317490, Jul 16, 1991

Apr 11, 1989

7/336378

John W. McCoy - Elmwood Park NJ

Avon Products, Inc. - New York NY

B65G 1500

198408

Apparatus and method for extracting tubular articles from their molds and inserting them into corresponding workpiece holders comprising a first orienting device for delivering the molded tubular articles in their molds to a first conveyer whereupon the axis of each mold and the tubular article therein has been rotated 90. degree. , i. e. from an upstanding position to a horizontal position; a second conveyer moving in synchronism with said first conveyer for carrying a series of workpiece holders disposed horizontally and in axially opposed alignment with respect to the molds on said first conveyer; a transfer device for extracting the articles from their molds while in the horizontal position and inserting them in inverted fashion into corresponding workpiece holders along a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of each mold as first and second conveyers move in synchronism, and a second orienting device for receiving the workpiece holders from said second conveyer and for returning them to an upright position.