Patents by Inventor Brian Birk

Brian Birk 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).

  • Publication number: 20220034333
    Abstract: A livestock blower apparatus for blowing air through a flexible hose onto an animal. A pair of blower units are enclosed within an interior space of a housing. The blower units are adapted to draw air through housing inlet openings and force it through a Y-shaped conduit out through a housing outlet opening without the air coming in contact with the housing interior space. A cooling fan is provided at a housing cooling inlet opening and blows air into the housing interior space. Another cooling fan is provided at a housing cooling outlet opening and draws/blows air out from within the housing interior space. The blower units are thereby protected from the elements and noise generated by them is muffled by the housing, and the blower units are cooled for minimizing the heat that may be transferred to the air being blown onto the animal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Xceed Engineering LLC
    Inventors: Jermiah Johnson, Brian Birk, Lance Harris, Mike Ott
  • Patent number: 11156229
    Abstract: A livestock blower apparatus for blowing air through a flexible hose onto an animal. A pair of blower units are enclosed within an interior space of a housing. The blower units are adapted to draw air through housing inlet openings and force it through a Y-shaped conduit out through a housing outlet opening without the air coming in contact with the housing interior space. A cooling fan is provided at a housing cooling inlet opening and blows air into the housing interior space. Another cooling fan is provided at a housing cooling outlet opening and draws/blows air out from within the housing interior space. The blower units are thereby protected from the elements and noise generated by them is muffled by the housing, and the blower units are cooled for minimizing the heat that may be transferred to the air being blown onto the animal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Xceed Engineering LLC
    Inventors: Jermiah Johnson, Brian Birk, Lance Harris, Mike Ott
  • Publication number: 20200352132
    Abstract: A livestock blower apparatus for blowing air through a flexible hose onto an animal. A pair of blower units are enclosed within an interior space of a housing. The blower units are adapted to draw air through housing inlet openings and force it through a Y-shaped conduit out through a housing outlet opening without the air coming in contact with the housing interior space. A cooling fan is provided at a housing cooling inlet opening and blows air into the housing interior space. Another cooling fan is provided at a housing cooling outlet opening and draws/blows air out from within the housing interior space. The blower units are thereby protected from the elements and noise generated by them is muffled by the housing, and the blower units are cooled for minimizing the heat that may be transferred to the air being blown onto the animal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Xceed Engineering LLC
    Inventors: Jermiah Johnson, Brian Birk, Lance Harris, Mike Ott
  • Publication number: 20100047127
    Abstract: A method and system to consistently and automatically conditioning and delivering a solid-free liquid (filtrate) sample suitable for instrumental analysis is disclosed. A slurry, preferably a slurry produced by a sub-atmospheric pressure chlorate dioxide generating process, is fed through a filter to remove the solid phase and to provide the liquid phase on the downstream side of the filter, where the concentration of at least one dissolved component is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Mario Luis Costa, John Brian Birks, Chunmin Pu, Kui Xu
  • Patent number: 7651865
    Abstract: A method and system to consistently and automatically conditioning and delivering a solid-free liquid (filtrate) sample suitable for instrumental analysis is disclosed. A slurry, preferably a slurry produced by a sub-atmospheric pressure chlorate dioxide generating process, is fed through a filter to remove the solid phase and to provide the liquid phase on the downstream side of the filter, where the concentration of at least one dissolved component is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Superior Plus Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Luis Costa, John Brian Birks, Chunmin Pu, Kui Xu
  • Patent number: 6972121
    Abstract: Chlorine dioxide generating processes of the single vessel type which produce chlorine dioxide of high purity are monitored and controlled by a computer using Advanced Control Strategies for steady, stable operation with optimum chemical usage on the basis of a desired chlorine dioxide production rate as the sole input from an operator to the computer program effecting the computer control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Superior Plus Inc.
    Inventors: Chunmin Pu, John Brian Birks, James Johannes Hopmans
  • Publication number: 20030118503
    Abstract: Chlorine dioxide generating processes of the single vessel type which produce chlorine dioxide of high purity are monitored and controlled by a computer using Advanced Control Strategies for steady, stable operation with optimum chemical usage on the basis of a desired chlorine dioxide production rate as the sole input from an operator to the computer program effecting the computer control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Chunmin Pu, John Brian Birks, James Johannes Hopmans