Patents by Inventor Brad Vanwinkle

Brad Vanwinkle 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: 11623325
    Abstract: A rotary radial wire brush made of an annular center disc hub having 32 holes circumferentially spaced apart two radially offset distances from a center about which the brush rotates with a brush wire formed of between 22 and 34 filaments or bristles providing increased material removal rates during a longer useful operating life. A preferred brush has a hub with radially outermost openings larger in size than radially innermost openings causing the brush wire anchored by its twist knot thereto to be more flexible and extend farther radially outwardly than a shorter stiffer more aggressive wire produced by anchoring via a longer twist knot to radially innermost openings. Such a construction produces a rotary brush of the invention with brush wires of alternating flexible and aggressive construction increasing surface finish and material removal rates while having increased brush life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: OSBORN, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Keiser, Brad Vanwinkle, Zachary Baumgardner, Zachary Small, Shane Clifford
  • Patent number: 11618130
    Abstract: A double-stringer rotary brush assembly formed of a pair of brush wire mounting hubs having sets of alternating radially staggered radially innermost and outermost brush wire tuft mounting holes having different hole sizes with brush wire tufts extending radially outwardly therefrom having at least one of (a) different lengths, (b) an offset trim, and/or (c) differently sized knots anchoring the tufts thereto. One hub can be angularly offset relative to the other hub angularly offsetting the holes of one hub relative to the other hub from being concentric. The tufts extending from one of the radially innermost and outermost holes are stiffer than the tufts extending from the other one of the radially innermost and outermost holes imparting to the brush assembly tufts having different surface finishing and abrasive removal characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Osborn, LLC
    Inventors: Shane Clifford, Zachary Small, Brian Keiser, Brad Vanwinkle, Zachary Baumgardner
  • Patent number: 11504824
    Abstract: A rotary wire brush, such as a wheel brush, e.g., double-stringer or dually brush, cup brush, bevel brush, or knotted end brush, composed of knotted brush wire tufts of multistrand construction each having at least a plurality of brush wire strands, preferably at least a plurality of pairs of, i.e., at least three, strands each formed of at least a plurality, preferably at least a plurality of pairs of, i.e., at least three, wires. The wires forming strands are twisted, braided, or twisted and braided, and the strands that form tufts are twisted, braided, or twisted and braided. A preferred brush employs a center disc, e.g., hub, with radially offset tuft anchor holes, which can have different sizes, from which twist knot tufts, which also can have different sizes, can outwardly extend from the disc different distances by being configured with an offset trim preferably having different trim lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: OSBORN, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Keiser, Brad Vanwinkle, Zachary Baumgardner, Zachary Small, Shane Clifford
  • Publication number: 20200260855
    Abstract: A rotary wire brush, such as a wheel brush, e.g., double-stringer or dually brush, cup brush, bevel brush, or knotted end brush, composed of knotted brush wire tufts of multistrand construction each having at least a plurality of brush wire strands, preferably at least a plurality of pairs of, i.e., at least three, strands each formed of at least a plurality, preferably at least a plurality of pairs of, i.e., at least three, wires. The wires forming strands are twisted, braided, or twisted and braided, and the strands that form tufts are twisted, braided, or twisted and braided. A preferred brush employs a center disc, e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Brian Keiser, Brad Vanwinkle, Zachary Baumgardner, Zachary Small, Shane Clifford
  • Publication number: 20200198097
    Abstract: A rotary radial wire brush made of an annular center disc hub having 32 holes circumferentially spaced apart two radially offset distances from a center about which the brush rotates with a brush wire formed of between 22 and 34 filaments or bristles providing increased material removal rates during a longer useful operating life. A preferred brush has a hub with radially outermost openings larger in size than radially innermost openings causing the brush wire anchored by its twist knot thereto to be more flexible and extend farther radially outwardly than a shorter stiffer more aggressive wire produced by anchoring via a longer twist knot to radially innermost openings. Such a construction produces a rotary brush of the invention with brush wires of alternating flexible and aggressive construction increasing surface finish and material removal rates while having increased brush life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Brian Keiser, Brad Vanwinkle, Zachary Baumgardner, Zachary Small, Shane Clifford
  • Publication number: 20200139514
    Abstract: A double-stringer rotary brush assembly formed of a pair of brush wire mounting hubs having sets of alternating radially staggered radially innermost and outermost brush wire tuft mounting holes having different hole sizes with brush wire tufts extending radially outwardly therefrom having at least one of (a) different lengths, (b) an offset trim, and/or (c) differently sized knots anchoring the tufts thereto. One hub can be angularly offset relative to the other hub angularly offsetting the holes of one hub relative to the other hub from being concentric. The tufts extending from one of the radially innermost and outermost holes are stiffer than the tufts extending from the other one of the radially innermost and outermost holes imparting to the brush assembly tufts having different surface finishing and abrasive removal characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Shane Clifford, Zachary Small, Brian Keiser, Brad Vanwinkle, Zachary Baumgardner
  • Publication number: 20200138179
    Abstract: A rotary wire brush, such as a wheel brush, e.g., double-stringer or dually brush, cup brush, bevel brush, or knotted end brush, composed of knotted brush wire tufts of multistrand construction each having at least a plurality of brush wire strands, preferably at least a plurality of pairs of, i.e., at least three, strands each formed of at least a plurality, preferably at least a plurality of pairs of, i.e., at least three, wires. The wires forming strands are twisted, braided, or twisted and braided, and the strands that form tufts are twisted, braided, or twisted and braided. A preferred brush employs a center disc, e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Brian Keiser, Brad Vanwinkle, Zachary Baumgardner, Zachary Small, Shane Clifford