Patents by Inventor Brian K. Baer

Brian K. Baer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Pleating apparatus
    Patent number: 6022305
    Abstract: A system for pleating a continuous strip of foldable material including feeding the strip of foldable material between adjacent flights of cooperatively positioned endless conveyors having pleat folding arms pivotally associated therewith which are alternatively and interfittingly positioned to pleat the strip of foldable material as it movingly passes from one end of adjacent flights to the other end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: AAF International
    Inventors: Kyung-Ju Choi, Brian K. Baer
  • Extended life filter apparatus
    Patent number: 5667544
    Abstract: A particulate filter for a fluid stream being of preselected thickness with progressively increasing fibrous density from the upstream face toward the downstream face, the filter having a transversely and uniformly extending planar sheet-like adhesive barrier at a preselected location and quantity between the upstream and downstream faces thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: AAF International
    Inventors: Daniel R. Haas, Brian K. Baer