Patents by Inventor Donald L. Urig

Donald L. Urig 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: 8033241
    Abstract: A supply or feed center for dry particulate material is modular in design with an application module and an exhaust module, along with optimal cabinet modules such as a pump cabinet module. The application module is partitioned into an application section and a utility section, both of which communicate with the exhaust module. An air diverter may be used to change relative air flow into the two sections, and in one embodiment is a swingable door. The exhaust module may include a self-contained exhaust system including after filters, motor, fan and final filters, or may share energy from a remote exhaust system. An inventive suction device is also provided to extract material from a hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Terrence M. Fulkerson, Donald L. Urig, Dean A. Koch
  • Publication number: 20080017103
    Abstract: A supply or feed center for dry particulate material is modular in design with an application module and an exhaust module, along with optimal cabinet modules such as a pump cabinet module. The application module is partitioned into an application section and a utility section, both of which communicate with the exhaust module. An air diverter may be used to change relative air flow into the two sections, and in one embodiment is a swingable door. The exhaust module may include a self-contained exhaust system including after filters, motor, fan and final filters, or may share energy from a remote exhaust system. An inventive suction device is also provided to extract material from a hopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Terrence M. Fulkerson, Donald L. Urig, Dean A. Koch
  • Publication number: 20040177599
    Abstract: A modular powder recovery apparatus includes a base unit, one or more cartridge filters, and a wrapper that at least partially encloses the cartridge filters. The wrapper is designed to allow additional wrappers to be vertically stacked thereon to increase the overall height of the wrapper, thus permitting additional filter capacity without changing the base unit. The base unit is modular in design so that the size of the apparatus may be increased with a minimum of cost and waste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: John W. Stephens, Donald L. Urig
  • Patent number: 6780247
    Abstract: A modular powder recovery apparatus includes a base unit, one or more cartridge filters, and a wrapper that at least partially encloses the cartridge filters. The wrapper is designed to allow additional wrappers to be vertically stacked thereon to increase the overall height of the wrapper, thus permitting additional filter capacity without changing the base unit. The base unit is modular in design so that the size of the apparatus may be increased with a minimum of cost and waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: John W. Stephens, Donald L. Urig
  • Publication number: 20030024218
    Abstract: A modular powder recovery apparutus includes a base unit, one or more cartridge filters, and a wrapper that at least partially encloses the cartridge filters. The wrapper is designed to allow additional wrappers to be vertically stacked thereon to increase the overall height of the wrapper, thus permitting additional filter capacity without changing the base unit. The base unit is modular in design so that the size of the apparatus may be increased with a minimum of cost and waste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: John W. Stephens, Donald L. Urig
  • Patent number: 6514305
    Abstract: A modular powder recovery apparatus includes a base unit, one or more cartridge filters, and a wrapper that at least partially encloses the cartridge filters. The wrapper is designed to allow additional wrappers to be vertically stacked thereon to increase the overall height of the wrapper, thus permitting additional filter capacity without changing the base unit. A modular cartridge assembly is provided to facilitate color change operations. A fan cone is provided in the base unit to permit fan wheel size changes without requiring structural modifications to the base unit housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: John W. Stephens, Donald L. Urig
  • Publication number: 20020095917
    Abstract: A modular powder recovery apparatus includes a base unit, one or more cartridge filters, and a wrapper that at least partially encloses the cartridge filters. The wrapper is designed to allow additional wrappers to be vertically stacked thereon to increase the overall height of the wrapper, thus permitting additional filter capacity without changing the base unit. A modular cartridge assembly is provided to facilitate color change operations. A fan cone is provided in the base unit to permit fan wheel size changes without requiring structural modifications to the base unit housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: John W. Stephens, Donald L. Urig
  • Patent number: 6419720
    Abstract: A modular powder recovery apparatus includes a base unit, one or more cartridge filters, and a wrapper that at least partially encloses the cartridge filters. The wrapper is designed to allow additional wrappers to be vertically stacked thereon to increase the overall height of the wrapper, thus permitting additional filter capacity without changing the base unit. A modular cartridge assembly is provided to facilitate color change operations. A fan cone is provided in the base unit to permit fan wheel size changes without requiring structural modifications to the base unit housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: John W. Stephens, Donald L. Urig
  • Patent number: 5788728
    Abstract: Apparatus and process for extracting powder from a stream of powder laden air drawn from a manual powder spray booth in a first embodiment, with a cyclone recovery system, typically containing two cyclone separators for separating the powder from the air. The cyclone separators have a breakaway design to facilitate cleaning. The resulting cyclone cleaned air is drawn through a prefilter section by a fan section having serially stacked fans. The prefilter section further separates powder from the cyclone cleaned air. The resulting prefilter cleaned air is next filtered in a final filter section and exhausted to the air surrounding the cyclone recovery system. The invention also relates to an improved cyclone separator which incorporates a perforated thimble between the downwardly and upwardly moving vortexes in the cyclone separator to reduce the pressure drop across the cyclone separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher M. Solis, Michael A. Reighard, Peter G. Lambert, Christopher H. Chandler, Donald L. Urig, Robert L. Gielow