Patents by Inventor Edward W. Sample

Edward W. Sample 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).

  • CONFIGURABLE APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DECORTICATING, COMMINUTING, AND LIBERATING FIBERS AND HURD FROM HEMP STALKS AND RELATED MATERIALS USING SELECTIVE DIFFERENTIAL FRAGMENTATION
    Publication number: 20220282400
    Abstract: A revolutionary and totally unique apparatus relatively quickly and easily configurable and reconfigurable into more than 829,440 different combinations reduces the particle size of organic and inorganic materials, including components of hemp cultivars and kenaf stalks, from inches to microns in less than one second by gently pulling the structures apart along natural fracture planes and lines of cleavage rather than compressing the material to failure, while simultaneously liberating particles of complex multiphase materials one from the other using selective differential fragmentation, all without agglomeration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Steven L. Sample, Edward W. Sample
  • System and Method for Continuous Citrus Peel Cellular Expansion
    Publication number: 20160029673
    Abstract: A food grade citrus peel product is formed by a process that includes processing pieces of raw citrus peel through a plurality of progressive, continuous clean steaming and mechanical pressing stages. The clean steaming stages of the process utilize clean steam that is free of chemical water treatment additives, and the clean steam is the only water introduced to the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventor: Edward W. Sample
  • System and method for continuous citrus peel cellular expansion
    Patent number: 9192182
    Abstract: A method for treating citrus peel by clean steaming pieces of raw citrus peel; and rupturing at least some of the cells of the pieces of raw citrus peel to release liquid, sugar and oil bound within the pieces of raw citrus peel. The clean steaming step may involve using clean steam that is free of chemical water treatment additives, and the clean steam may be the only water introduced to the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Alarma Patents LLC
    Inventor: Edward W. Sample
  • System and Method for Continuous Citrus Peel Cellular Expansion
    Publication number: 20130156916
    Abstract: A method for treating citrus peel by clean steaming pieces of raw citrus peel; and rupturing at least some of the cells of the pieces of raw citrus peel to release liquid, sugar and oil bound within the pieces of raw citrus peel. The clean steaming step may involve using clean steam that is free of chemical water treatment additives, and the clean steam may be the only water introduced to the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Alarma Patents LLC
    Inventor: Edward W. Sample
  • System and method for continuous citrus peel cellular expansion
    Patent number: 8383186
    Abstract: A method for treating citrus peel by processing pieces of raw citrus peel through a plurality of progressive, continuous clean steaming and mechanical pressing stages; rupturing at least some of the cells of the pieces of raw citrus peel to release liquid, sugar and oil bound within the pieces of raw citrus peel; and transforming the pieces of raw citrus peel into press cake and pressate. The clean steaming step ay involve using clean steam that is free of chemical water treatment additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Alarma Patents LLC
    Inventor: Edward W. Sample
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS CITRUS PEEL CELLULAR EXPANSION
    Publication number: 20110305808
    Abstract: A method for treating citrus peel by processing pieces of raw citrus peel through a plurality of progressive, continuous clean steaming and mechanical pressing stages; rupturing at least some of the cells of the pieces of raw citrus peel to release liquid, sugar and oil bound within the pieces of raw citrus peel; and transforming the pieces of raw citrus peel into press cake and pressate. The clean steaming step ay involve using clean steam that is free of chemical water treatment additives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventor: Edward W. Sample
  • System and method for continuous steam injected citrus peel cellular expansion
    Patent number: 8017171
    Abstract: A system and method for processing citrus peel treating by injecting steam into citrus peel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Inventor: Edward W. Sample
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS STEAM INJECTED CITRUS PEEL CELLULAR EXPANSION
    Publication number: 20090022877
    Abstract: A system and method for processing citrus peel treating by injecting steam into citrus peel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventor: Edward W. Sample