Patents by Inventor Buckley Crist
Buckley Crist 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).
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Publication number: 20180022065Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention involves substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object may be fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Flatten a substrate layer. Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion. Flattening a substrate layer involves reducing planar inconsistencies or imperfections, and comprises applying heat to each substrate layer, cooling the substrate layers, and optionally applying tension and/or pressure to the heated and cooled substrate layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Patent number: 9833949Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Patent number: 9827754Abstract: In an illustrative implementation of this invention, a 3D object comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Impossible Objects, LLCInventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Joseph Fallon
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Publication number: 20170334133Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20170291223Abstract: A method, product, apparatus, and article of manufacture for the application of the Composite Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM) method to produce objects in metal, and in metal fiber hybrids or composites. The approach has many advantages, including the ability to produce more complex geometries than conventional methods such as milling and casting, improved material properties, higher production rates and the elimination of complex fixturing, complex tool paths and tool changes and, for casting, the need for patterns and tools. The approach works by slicing a 3D model, selectively printing a fluid onto a sheet of substrate material for each layer based on the model, flooding onto the substrate a powdered metal to which the fluid adheres in printed areas, clamping and aligning a stack of coated sheets, heating the stacked sheets to melt the powdered metal and fuse the layers of substrate, and removing excess powder and unfused substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: October 12, 2017Inventors: Robert Swartz, John Bayldon, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore
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Patent number: 9776376Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention involves substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object may be fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Flatten a substrate layer. Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Impossible Objects, LLCInventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20170274595Abstract: An apparatus and method for the automated manufacturing of three-dimensional (3D) composite-based objects is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a material feeder, a printer, a powder system, a transfer system, and optionally a fuser. The method comprises inserting a stack of substrate sheets into a material feeder, transferring a sheet of the stack from the material feeder to a printer, depositing fluid on the single sheet while the sheet rests on a printer platen, transferring the sheet from the printer to a powder system, depositing powder onto the single sheet such that the powder adheres to the areas of the sheet onto which the printer has deposited fluid, removing any powder that did not adhere to the sheet, optionally melting the powder on the substrate, and repeating the steps for as many additional sheets as required for making a specified 3D object.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Robert Swartz, Eugene Gore, Buckley Crist, John Bayldon, Chris Wagner, Nicholas Tarzian, Evangeline Su
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Publication number: 20160339645Abstract: A 3D object (the “New Object”) is fabricated layer by layer by 3D printing. The shape and relative dimensions of the various parts of the New Object match that of another 3D object (the “Target Object”). In addition, the exterior of the New Object appears to be a photographic likeness of the Target Object. The “photographic” likeness is created by variations in visual characteristics of materials in the layers comprising the New Object, and in particular by variations at or near the surface of the New Object. Thus, the photographic likeness is an integral part of these layers comprising the New Object. An object is scanned, from which a texture map is obtained. A CAD model is sliced into slices (bit maps files) which are then colored by a program with the boundary to match the color or gray scale to color the appropriate pixels, derived from the texture map.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Robert Swartz, Stephen Ness, Eugene Gore, Buckley Crist
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Patent number: 9393770Abstract: A 3D object (the “New Object”) is fabricated layer by layer by 3D printing. The shape and relative dimensions of the various parts of the New Object match that of another 3D object (the “Target Object”). In addition, the exterior of the New Object appears to be a photographic likeness of the Target Object. The “photographic” likeness is created by variations in visual characteristics of materials in the layers comprising the New Object, and in particular by variations at or near the surface of the New Object. Thus, the photographic likeness is an integral part of these layers comprising the New Object. An object is scanned, from which a texture map is obtained. A CAD model is sliced into slices (bit maps files) which are then colored by a program with the boundary to match the color or gray scale to color the appropriate pixels, derived from the texture map.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Impossible Objects, LLCInventors: Robert Swartz, Stephen Ness, Eugene Gore, Buckley Crist
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Publication number: 20160082658Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: IMPOSSIBLE OBJECTS LLCInventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20160082695Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: IMPOSSIBLE OBJECTS LLCInventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20160082657Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: IMPOSSIBLE OBJECTS LLCInventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20150231825Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention involves substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object may be fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Flatten a substrate layer. Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20150158246Abstract: A tow stabilization method includes applying liquid to a tow having fibers arranged into a non-stabilized spread-out fiber web, applying powder to the web to adhere the powder where liquid was applied, removing powder from where it did not adhere, and fusing the powder remaining on the web to stabilize the fiber arrangement. The liquid may be volatile. The step of fusing may include heating the fiber web. The liquid and/or powder may be selectively applied. Selective application of powder may be used without application of liquid or powder removal. A tow stabilization apparatus includes a liquid applicator, powder applicator, powder remover, and powder fuser. The liquid applicator may include spray nozzles, applicators based on miniature solenoid valves, inkjet printing heads, and roll applicators. The powder remover may include rollers, air blasters, vibrators, sound wave generators, and vacuums. The powder fuser may include heat applicators and chemical reaction initiators.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2014Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: Impossible Objects LLCInventors: Robert Swartz, John Bayldon, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore
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Publication number: 20140257549Abstract: A 3D object (the “New Object”) is fabricated layer by layer by 3D printing. The shape and relative dimensions of the various parts of the New Object match that of another 3D object (the “Target Object”). In addition, the exterior of the New Object appears to be a photographic likeness of the Target Object. The “photographic” likeness is created by variations in visual characteristics of materials in the layers comprising the New Object, and in particular by variations at or near the surface of the New Object. Thus, the photographic likeness is an integral part of these layers comprising the New Object. An object is scanned, from which a texture map is obtained. A CAD model is sliced into slices (bit maps files) which are then colored by a program with the boundary to match the color or gray scale to color the appropriate pixels, derived from the texture map.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: Impossible Objects, LLCInventors: Robert Swartz, Stephen Ness, Eugene Gore, Buckley Crist
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Publication number: 20130171431Abstract: In an illustrative implementation of this invention, a 3D object comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Inventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Joseph Fallon
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Patent number: 4924092Abstract: A system for creating a uniform corona over a volume of free space. A high frequency electrical corona generator is connected to a first electrode having a corona driving element and a corona emitting element, with the corona driving element being greater in size than the corona emitting element such that corona is emitted from the corona emitting element in a direction away from the corona driving element. A second electrode, essentially identical to the first, is spaced from the first with its corona emitting element oriented toward the corona emitting element of the first electrode. A resonator coil is attached to the second electrode, the coil having resonant frequency the same as a resonant frequency of the corona generator and being situated within an electric field generated by the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1989Date of Patent: May 8, 1990Assignee: Electro-Technic Products CompanyInventor: Buckley Crist, Jr.
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Patent number: 4146150Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for vending or otherwise dispensing small items such as food, toys, toilet articles, greeting cards, and the like. According to one aspect of the invention, the apparatus includes a "dispensing module" adapted and configured for rapid insertion in, and removal from a vending machine or other dispensing device. The dispensing module includes means for releasably holding a number of items, for example by an outwardly extending portion or tab on each item. In this way, the items may be secured to the dispensing module at a central supply point, and the module, with the attached items, may be transported to and inserted in a vending machine or other dispensing device in the field. Once inserted in the dispensing device, the dispensing module may be actuated to release selected items, one at a time. According to another aspect of the invention the apparatus includes a "dispensing strip" having a plurality of items either permanently or removably attached in succession.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1977Date of Patent: March 27, 1979Assignee: United National BankInventors: Jack B. Low, Buckley Crist, deceased, BY United National Bank, executor
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Patent number: 4026470Abstract: A shower flow modulator for providing a massaging effect on the skin of a shower user is adapted to fit within the stem of a shower nozzle for modulating the flow of water leaving the nozzle. The shower flow modulator includes a hydrodynamically-shaped member which is attracted into and then repulsed from a stream of water passing through the modulator thereby varying the direction of travel and intensity of the stream to provide the massaging action.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1975Date of Patent: May 31, 1977Assignee: Jaclo, Inc.Inventor: Buckley Crist
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Patent number: RE30849Abstract: An anti-siphon and back-flow prevention valve having a main valve chamber including air ports, an inlet at its lower end and an outlet at its upper end. Contained within the main valve chamber is a check valve including a check valve seat, through which the flow of liquid in the valve must pass. The check valve seat has a flexible diaphragm which mates with the check valve seat and functions to block any back flow of liquid from the main valve chamber into the inlet. A flexible ring is also contained in the main valve chamber and mates with the air ports to function as an air valve, allowing air to enter the main valve chamber during low pressure conditions down stream from the valve. The check valve and air valve operate independently of each other, responding to the various air and liquid pressures in and around the main valve chamber. Both valves are normally held closed by the force of gravity and static water pressure within the main valve chamber during no-flow conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1980Date of Patent: January 19, 1982Assignee: Jaclo, Inc.Inventor: Buckley Crist