Patents Assigned to GFI, Innovations
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Methodology and Apparatus for Storing and Dispensing Liquid Components to Create Custom Formulations
Publication number: 20130074982Abstract: The invention is directed to methodologies and apparatuses in which materials are dispensed in order to create a desired finished product. The invention permits the dispensing of a specific amount of material in a controllable, metered fashion. The invention includes a plurality of storage containers may be positioned within (or eternal to) the machine or equipment in a way that allows the containers to be rotated on an axis such that the material inside each container is turned over on itself resulting in the material being thoroughly dispersed within itself. Additionally, the containers, connectors and hosing prevent the material to be dispensed from coming in contact with the air. This would prevent material inside the containers from drying.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: GFI Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Justin Echterling, Senthil Muthuswamy -
Methodology and apparatus for storing and dispensing liquid components to create custom formulations
Patent number: 8011394Abstract: The invention includes a material dispenser that further includes a container containing material, a press plate or puck for exerting pressure on the material, a sensor for detecting the material discharged from the container, and a scale for detecting the amount of material discharged from the container. The sensor and scale provide feedback to a computer which controls the amount of pressure exerted on the material. The computer controls the pulsing of additional material from the container until a targeted amount of material has been discharged from the container. The invention permits the dispensing of a specific amount of material in a controllable, metered fashion.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: GFI Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Luehrsen, John Borkovec, Derek P. Pedraza -
Methodology and Apparatus for Storing and Dispensing Liquid Components to Create Custom Formulations
Publication number: 20110017773Abstract: The invention is directed to methodologies and apparatuses in which materials are dispensed in order to create a desired finished product. The invention permits the dispensing of a specific amount of material in a controllable, metered fashion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: GFI Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Luehrsen, John Borkovec, Derek P. Pedraza -
Methodology and apparatus for storing and dispensing liquid components to create custom formulations
Patent number: 7789111Abstract: The invention is directed to methodologies and apparatuses in which materials are dispensed in order to create a desired finished product. The invention includes a material dispenser that further includes a container containing material, a press plate or puck for exerting pressure on the material, a sensor for detecting the material discharged from the container, and a scale for detecting the amount of material discharged from the container. The sensor and scale provide feedback to a computer which controls the amount of pressure exerted on the material. The computer controls the pulsing of additional material from the container until a targeted amount of material has been discharged from the container. The invention permits the dispensing of a specific amount of material in a controllable, metered fashion.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2009Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: GFI Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Luehrsen, John Borkovec, Derek P. Pedraza -
Methodology and Apparatus for Storing and Dispensing Liquid Components to Create Custom Formulations
Publication number: 20090223997Abstract: The invention is directed to methodologies and apparatuses in which materials are dispensed in order to create a desired finished product. The invention permits the dispensing of a specific amount of material in a controllable, metered fashion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2009Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: GFI Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Luehrsen, John Borkovec, Derek P. Pedraza -
Methodology and apparatus for storing and dispensing liquid components to create custom formulations
Patent number: 7198073Abstract: A methodology and apparatus comprises integral material reservoir cylinders which contain separate material bags in which reside a component required for a formulation, or alternate material reservoir containers, typically drums, with a component required for a formulation in each drum, or a combination of both, that provides a volume of material through a supply tube into a valve that directs the material to either: 1) a dispense tube and through a dispense valve, into a receiving container that sits upon a scale, or 2) into a dispense cylinder in which resides a piston that, through the use of a piston drive plate actuator and the piston drive plate actuators' piston drive plate, directs the material through a valve and through a dispenser tube and through a dispense valve and into a receiving container that sits upon a scale.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2003Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: GFI, InnovationsInventors: Robert A. Luehrsen, Derek P. Pedraza, John Borkovec -
Methodology and apparatus for storing and dispensing liquid components to create custom formulations
Publication number: 20060048841Abstract: The invention is directed to methodologies and apparatuses in which materials are dispensed in order to create a desired finished product. The present invention improves upon the container in which the material is stored, shipped and used and does so by incorporating a pressure responsive silicone dispense valve configured to allow the dispensing of a specific amount of material through it in a controllable, metered fashion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2005Publication date: March 9, 2006Applicant: GFI Innovations, LLCInventors: Robert Luehrsen, John Borkovec, Derek Pedraza -
Methodology and apparatus for storing and dispensing liquid components to create custom formulations
Publication number: 20040216804Abstract: A methodology and apparatus comprises integral material reservoir cylinders which contain separate material bags in which reside a component required for a formulation, or alternate material reservoir containers, typically drums, with a component required for a formulation in each drum, or a combination of both, that provides a volume of material through a supply tube into a valve that directs the material to either: 1) a dispense tube and through a dispense valve, into a receiving container that sits upon a scale, or 2) into a dispense cylinder in which resides a piston that, through the use of a piston drive plate actuator and the piston drive plate actuators' piston drive plate, directs the material through a valve and through a dispenser tube and through a dispense valve and into a receiving container that sits upon a scale.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2003Publication date: November 4, 2004Applicant: GFI, InnovationsInventors: Robert A. Luehrsen, Derek P. Pedraza, John J. Borkovec -
Patent number: 6637471Abstract: An automatic hybrid volumetric method of dispensing (HVD) improves on gravimetric dispensing and volumetric dispensing. The method dispenses ingredients for a mixture, according to pre-selected formulations, utilizing a supply of the fluid ingredients, an ingredient container, a power-driven plunger in the ingredient container, a mixture container, and a calibration weight scale. The plunger is movable to expel fluid in the ingredient container. The method includes several steps. The ingredient container is connected to the supply to receive a first ingredient in the ingredient container. The ingredient container is connected to the mixture container for the mixture container to receive ingredient expelled from the ingredient container by movement of the plunger.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2002Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: GFI Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Luehrsen, Derek P. Pedraza
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Publication number: 20030019885Abstract: An automatic hybrid volumetric method of dispensing (HVD) improves on gravimetric dispensing and volumetric dispensing. The method dispenses ingredients for a mixture, according to pre-selected formulations, utilizing a supply of the fluid ingredients, an ingredient container, a power-driven plunger in the ingredient container, a mixture container, and a calibration weight scale. The plunger is movable to expel fluid in the ingredient container. The method includes several steps. The ingredient container is connected to the supply to receive a first ingredient in the ingredient container. The ingredient container is connected to the mixture container for the mixture container to receive ingredient expelled from the ingredient container by movement of the plunger.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2002Publication date: January 30, 2003Applicant: GFI InnovationsInventors: Robert A. Luehrsen, Derek P. Pedraza, John Borkovec
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Patent number: D714863Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: GFI Innovations, Inc.Inventors: John Borkovec, Justin Echterling