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Gerald E. Kunkle — 15 Patents

PIPpg Industries: 15 patents #47 of 1,216Top 4%
New Kensington, PA: #10 of 233 inventorsTop 5%
Pennsylvania: #4,990 of 74,527 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Gerald E. Kunkle has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ppg Industries. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in June 1989. Gerald E. Kunkle ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Gerald E. Kunkle in New Kensington, PA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 1989Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1986.peak 41980: 1 patents19801983: 2 patents19831985: 1 patents19851986: 4 patents19861987: 2 patents19871988: 4 patents19881989: 1 patents1989

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
4838919 Pretreatment of fused cast refractories George A. Pecoraro 1989-06-13 $9,326,000
4789390 Batch melting vessel lid cooling construction George A. Pecoraro, Henry M. Demarest, Jr. 1988-12-06 $7,404,000
4749400 Discrete glass sheet cutting Raymond J. Mouly, DeWitt W. Lampman, Jack A. Bricker 1988-06-07 $11,910,000
4741749 Vertical delivery arrangement for float glass process John E. Sensi 1988-05-03 $4,972,000
4738938 Melting and vacuum refining of glass or the like and composition of sheet Wright M. Welton, Ronald L. Schwenninger 1988-04-19 $4,175,000
4654068 Apparatus and method for ablating liquefaction of materials Joseph M. Matesa 1987-03-31 $29,312,000
4634461 Method of melting raw materials for glass or the like with staged combustion and preheating Henry M. Demarest, Jr., Clement C. Moxie 1987-01-06 $4,999,000
4632687 Method of melting raw materials for glass or the like using solid fuels or fuel-batch mixtures Henry M. Demarest, Jr., Larry J. Shelestak 1986-12-30 $7,909,000
RE32317 Glass batch liquefaction Joseph M. Matesa 1986-12-30
4604121 Method of pretreating glass batch Henry M. Demarest, Jr., Joseph M. Matesa 1986-08-05 $9,573,000
4564379 Method for ablating liquefaction of materials Joseph M. Matesa 1986-01-14 $3,515,000
4559071 Ablating liquefaction method Joseph M. Matesa 1985-12-17 $8,207,000
4395272 Pressure sizing of float glass John E. Sensi, Joseph A. Gulotta 1983-07-26 $7,350,000
4381934 Glass batch liquefaction Joseph M. Matesa 1983-05-03 $4,573,000
4197107 Convex bottomed float glass forming chamber entrance 1980-04-08 $519,000