Patents by Inventor Colt Aaron McDaniel

Colt Aaron McDaniel 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).

  • Multiple screw extruder implemented with vacuum vent and screws configured to densify, or extract fluid from, material processed by the extruder
    Patent number: 11027476
    Abstract: A multiple screw extruder (50) combines application of vacuum to a vacuum vent (62) positioned between material feed locations (70, 72) of the extruder and use of specially configured extruder screws (58) to extract gases, primarily air, out of the extruder to densify the materials introduced into it and to extract unwanted fluid from material introduced for mixture with molten polymeric material flowing through the extruder. The multiple screw extruder is operationally versatile in that it is capable of carrying out the material densification and fluid extraction processes either separately or simultaneously. Implementation of the disclosed vacuum feed technology provides an increase in rate of extrudate throughput as compared with that achievable by implementation of atmospheric venting (16) in a conventionally configured extruder (10a, 10b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Entek Manufacturing LLC
    Inventors: Colt Aaron McDaniel, Dean Justin Elliott, Craig Allen Benjamin
  • MULTIPLE SCREW EXTRUDER IMPLEMENTED WITH VACUUM VENT AND SCREWS CONFIGURED TO DENSIFY, OR EXTRACT FLUID FROM, MATERIAL PROCESSED BY THE EXTRUDER
    Publication number: 20200047390
    Abstract: A multiple screw extruder (50) combines application of vacuum to a vacuum vent (62) positioned between material feed locations (70, 72) of the extruder and use of specially configured extruder screws (58) to extract gases, primarily air, out of the extruder to densify the materials introduced into it and to extract unwanted fluid from material introduced for mixture with molten polymeric material flowing through the extruder. The multiple screw extruder is operationally versatile in that it is capable of carrying out the material densification and fluid extraction processes either separately or simultaneously. Implementation of the disclosed vacuum feed technology provides an increase in rate of extrudate throughput as compared with that achievable by implementation of atmospheric venting (16) in a conventionally configured extruder (10a, 10b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Colt Aaron McDaniel, Dean Justin Elliott, Craig Allen Benjamin