Patents by Inventor Keith Schloer

Keith Schloer 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).

  • Patent number: 8387171
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a microflush urinal that includes a piece of chinaware in fluid communication with a pre-existing water supply and a waste removal conduit. A valve means in electrical communication with each of a sensor means and a fluid manifold effects delivery of incoming fluid to a water delivery means. The water delivery means is desirably a nozzle means selected from one of a plurality of fluidic nozzles that delivers pressurized water through an ingress defined in a rear wall of the chinaware. The nozzle desirably oscillates water for full coverage of the urinal's rear and side walls. A tarp portion that aesthetically obstructs the ingress assumes a generally scalloped shape to optimize the water distribution along the urinal's rear and side walls. At least one trough is integrated into one or more urinal sidewalls to guide water from the nozzle toward the waste removal conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Bowles Fluidics Corporation
    Inventors: Jason Farber, Alan Romack, Greg Russell, Aland Santamarina, Keith Schloer, Steven Crockett
  • Patent number: 7766261
    Abstract: A compact, molded liquid oscillator nozzle having a longitudinal axis and a power nozzle, an interaction region having diverging sidewalls, top and bottom walls, and a pair of control ports at opposing sides of the interaction region, and an inertance loop connecting the control ports, characterized in that the inertance loop is molded in a plane that is transverse to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Bowles Fluidics Corporation
    Inventors: Aland Santamarina, Keith Schloer, Alan Romack, Rosa Korobkov
  • Publication number: 20080216222
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a microflush urinal that includes a piece of chinaware in fluid communication with a pre-existing water supply and a waste removal conduit. A valve means in electrical communication with each of a sensor means and a fluid manifold effects delivery of incoming fluid to a water delivery means. The water delivery means is desirably a nozzle means selected from one of a plurality of fluidic nozzles that delivers pressurized water through an ingress defined in a rear wall of the chinaware. The nozzle desirably oscillates water for full coverage of the urinal's rear and side walls. A tarp portion that aesthetically obstructs the ingress assumes a generally scalloped shape to optimize the water distribution along the urinal's rear and side walls. At least one trough is integrated into one or more urinal sidewalls to guide water from the nozzle toward the waste removal conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Jason Farber, Alan Romack, Greg Russell, Aland Santamarina, Keith Schloer, Steven Crockett
  • Patent number: 6904626
    Abstract: There is disclosed a fluidic spa tub nozzle having a fluidic oscillator with diverging sidewalls and a cooperating mode-change member for changing the mode from an oscillatory swept jet mode to a straight jet mode and positions thereinbetween. The fluidic oscillator has an inertance loop formed by groove plates secured to the top and bottom walls of the fluidic oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Bowles Fluidics Corporation
    Inventors: Russell Hester, Steven Crockett, Jerry Wayne Thurber, Jr., Keith Schloer
  • Patent number: 6575386
    Abstract: An air entrainment spa nozzle having a jet of water which passes over an air entrainment port with the air entrainment port having a downstream structure which enhances the air entrainment. In one embodiment, the air enhancement structure is a ramp which extends in a downstream direction from the air entrainment port. In another embodiment, the air entrainment port projects or protrudes into the jet of water by a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Bowles Fluidics Corporation
    Inventors: Jerry Wayne Thurber, Jr., Keith Schloer