The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • Page 52

Central Florida Business January 19-25, 1987 23 TRANSPORTATION By Peter Adams oiro HI Of THE SENTINEL STAFF ontinental Airlines, the new giant of the airline industry, isn't wasting time securing more el FOB- COECTMEMTAL Airline to spend $400,000 at Orlando International gates includes a third gate, recently completed, and a tripling of office space, from 3,500 square feet to 10,500 square feet. a LOOKING UP. Last year was a good one for Florida Express Airlines, the Orlando-based carrier. The airline reported a 47 percent increase in passengers from 1985. Last year it flew 1.41 million passengers, compared with 961,322 passengers a year earlier.

The airline's load factor, the percentage of available seats occupied on all flights, fell 2.2 percent, from 69.6 percent in 1985 to 67.4 percent in 1986. The airline's load factor was still higher than the industry average of 64 percent, according to Airline Economics Inc. of Washington, D.C. On Thursday, the airline began its first international service two daily flights from Orlando to Nassau in the Bahamas. bow room at Orlando International Airport.

Continental plans to spend about $400,000 for improvements at the Orlando airport, said Pat Tallman, Continental's Orlando general manager. Next month Continental is scheduled to merge with two other airlines: People Express and New York Air. All three are subsidiaries of Texas Air which recently bought Eastern Air Lines. All four airlines currently serve Orlando; the Feb. 1 merger of Continental, People and New York Air will mean a wholesale rearranging and expanding of gate, ticket-counter and office space, Tallman said.

People Express' one gate on the terminal's A-side won't be used by Continental passengers. All Continental service will be concentrated at that airline's gates on the terminal's B-side, which will make it easier for passengers who had to cross from the People Express ticket counter on the B-side to the gate on the A-side. People Express, which paid the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority $144,369 a year for its gate and baggage-claim area, could sub-lease the space, said Carolyn Fennell, aviation authority spokeswoman. "Because Continental and People Express are long-term tenants at the airport, they are still financially responsible for paying for that gate space," Fennell said. Tallman said the airline has not decided what to do with the gate and baggage space.

Continental's expansion at its B-side PATENTS lAFSRING TE3E MICROWAVE Inventors design disposable liners to keep inside of oven clean By Robin Foster OF THE SENTINEL STAFF wheel assembly for sliding patio doors. Assigned to Watsco Hialeah. Jerrell P. Holloway, Palm Bay: Remotely controlled flasher. Lawrence E.

Mertons, Palm Bay: Coherent-on-re-ceive radar with prophase correction circuit. Assigned to RCA Princeton, N.J. Eddie Y. Hwang, Winter Park, and Wu-Shl Shung, South Windsor, Overspeed protection control arrangement for a steam turbine generator control system. Assigned to Westinghouse Electric Pittsburgh.

Donald E. Smith and Richard D. Roberts, both ol Palm Bay: Bit synchronizer for decoding data. Assigned to Harris Melbourne. Daniel R.

Morrison, Key Biscayne, Ross J. Petrle, Fort Lauderdale, and Kenneth D. Savage, Key Biscayne: Emergency shutoff for air conditioners. F. Andrew Wolf, Sarasota: Sailboat tiller.

William T. Wright, Orlando, and Edward J. Guard, Maitland: Universal cup holder. Paul M. Julich, Indialantic, and Jeffrey B.

Pearce, Melbourne: Fault detection and redundancy management system. Assigned to Harris Melbourne. Chester P. Fillps, Miami, and Antonio G. Blanco, Miami: Arterial anchor bandage.

Robert C. Webber, Vero Beach: Refrigerant expansion device. Kevin Smith, Miami: Method of joining refractory metals to lower melting dissimilar metals. Assigned to Cordis Miami. Luther G.

Simjlan, Fort Lauderdale: Golf practice putting device. Assigned to Command Automation Fort Lauderdale. Layland and his partner predict there is a big market for the liner, which now exists only as a prototype. "There were 26 million microwaves as of July 1986," Layland said. "They're producing 12 million a year.

The numbers are astounding." The liner's inventors intend to go after the food-service industry once they have a product to sell. "We see that as our true market," Layland said, predicting sales of $1 million a month if they can penetrate the market completely. "For instance, there are 7,000 7-Eleven stores in the country," he said, and each one has a microwave oven in it for heating snacks and sandwiches. Layland and Beavers are two retirees who met before they moved to Florida from Ohio, where Layland owned an electronics store and Beavers owned a Perkins Family Restaurant. Layland now resides in Orlando; Beavers lives in Tangerine.

Other Florida inventors who have recently acquire U.S. patents include: Robert E. Clark, Orlando, and Dennis R. Amos, Rock Hill: Method for repairing a steam turbine or generator rotor. Assigned to Westinghouse Electric Pittsburgh.

James R. Moose, Miami: Track-interlocking roller Jim C. Layland and Jerry E. Beavers have diapered the microwave oven. "Microwave ovens tend to get very dirty," Lay-land said, especially those used in fast-food restaurants.

"They must be cleaned at the end of the day," he said. "The health department doesn't like nasty-looking appliances." What the two Central Floridians have designed for restaurant owners and others is a disposable liner for microwave ovens. The liner, made of fire-retardant paper, has adhesive strips on the outside that stick to the oven's walls. Once it becomes dirty from spilled food, the liner can be pulled from the oven and tossed in the garbage, Layland said. The bags would work just as well on home models, Layland said.

How often those would need changing "depends on how badly the kids misused the microwave oven." Layland said that, once the bags are manufactured, they will probably carry a retail price of three for $1. "We're not selling them yet," he said. "We just got the patent It's not being marketed yet." ASSiST-A-OGAL 'The Alternative to the Yellow Pages" Totally Ffff to the public at Live operators Local business listings Direction in your search for the unknown INVENTORY REDUCTION SALE! Gigantic Warehouse Sale Electronic Data Communications Equipment Computer Accessories, Supplies, Namebrands Saturday, January 24, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. New, used and surplus equipment at reduced prices such as Modems, Matrix LQ Printers, Monitors, CRT's, Test Equipment, Disk Drives, Graphic Devices, Regulators, Paper, Ribbons, (you Know wnai you want out you don't know the name of the business? We'll find 1 Avoid the Yellov Page Headache Pnntwheels, Disk Packs, Diskettes, CRT Screen Filters, Furniture, Plotter Paper Chemicals. ll HcliOtl a 3 4 2 5 VcVtcc.inc.

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