Patents by Inventor Edward E. Brook

Edward E. Brook 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).

  • Apparatus and method of filtering fatty acids from cooking oil
    Patent number: 5045200
    Abstract: A device for removing free fatty acids from cooking oil is formed by a pair of superposed reservoirs having a screen and filter pad provided partition dividing the reservoirs from each other through which the cooking is forced from the upper reservoir to the lower reservoir by air pressure. A powder commingled with the oil prior to the filtering step is trapped with free fatty acids on the filter pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Inventor: Edward E. Brook
  • Floor wax stripping apparatus
    Patent number: 4276673
    Abstract: A handle equipped wheel supported horizontal base rotatably supports a motor having its drive shaft parallel with the plane of the base. A vertically adjustable forward platform on the base transversely supports a split sleeve clamp for receiving one end portion of a flexible drive shaft axially connected at its other end with the motor drive shaft. The clamp connected end of the flexible shaft is axially secured to a scrub brush rotating in a vertical plane laterally of the base platform for frictional contact with a floor surface adjacent a mopboard or wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1981
    Inventor: Edward E. Brook