Patents by Inventor Erich F. Bevensee
Erich F. Bevensee 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: 20120222621Abstract: A pneumatically operated egg injection machine includes a sealed frame structure with a pair of in line parallel tracks through an injection section and a transfer section in series. An injection assembly includes a plurality of injectors gripped in a support plate to simultaneously inject vaccine into the same injection region irrespective of egg height and orientation. Fluid delivery systems meter prescribed vaccine dosages to the injecting needles with reduced turbulence, friction, heat and residence time to increase the delivered titer to the injected eggs. A transfer assembly lifts the injected eggs by causing a reduced pressure around the injection hole while maintaining the injection hole at atmospheric pressure. The injection assembly is sprayed with a sanitizing solution at the same time that the injected eggs are moved from the injection section to the transfer section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2011Publication date: September 6, 2012Inventors: Rafael S. Correa, Marco A. Quiroz, William D. Samson, Erich F. Bevensee
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Patent number: 8132535Abstract: A chicken or fowl grow out facility utilizes a ventilated floor assembly including a ventilated floor through which liquid and gas can flow, but which retains manure deposited thereon, and a closed bottom floor plenum underneath the ventilated floor, which includes a liquid and vapor barrier covering the ground surface. Blowers in an attic plenum can discharge warm air through hanging pleated conduit tubes into the floor plenum to provide heat through the ventilated floor. A plurality of indirect evaporative coolers and associated air blowers in the facility walls force outside air, cooled or uncooled, into the growth facility, and create higher pressure in the growth facility than the pressure in the floor plenum. Vacuum blowers associated with the floor plenum cause the flow of air and air-borne contaminates through the floor and exhaust same from the plenum to outside the facility which dries manure on the floor and reduces ammonia formation and pathogen growth.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2006Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Avihome, LLCInventors: Rafael S. Correa, Mark A. Dekich, William D. Samson, Erich F. Bevensee
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Patent number: 8025028Abstract: A pneumatically operated egg injection machine includes a sealed frame structure with a pair of in line parallel tracks through an injection section and a transfer section in series. An injection assembly includes a plurality of injectors gripped in a support plate to simultaneously inject vaccine into the same injection region irrespective of egg height and orientation. Fluid delivery systems meter prescribed vaccine dosages to the injecting needles with reduced turbulence, friction, heat and residence time to increase the delivered titer to the injected eggs. A transfer assembly lifts the injected eggs by causing a reduced pressure around the injection hole while maintaining the injection hole at atmospheric pressure. The injection assembly is sprayed with a sanitizing solution at the same time that the injected eggs are moved from the injection section to the transfer section.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Avitech, LLCInventors: Rafael S. Correa, Marco A. Quiroz, William D. Samson, Erich F. Bevensee
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Patent number: 7878147Abstract: A pneumatically operated egg injection machine includes a sealed frame structure with a pair of in line parallel tracks through an injection section and a transfer section in series. An injection assembly includes a plurality of injectors gripped in a support plate to simultaneously inject vaccine into the same injection region irrespective of egg height and orientation. Fluid delivery systems meter prescribed vaccine dosages to the injecting needles with reduced turbulence, friction, heat and residence time to increase the delivered titer to the injected eggs. A transfer assembly lifts the injected eggs by causing a reduced pressure around the injection hole while maintaining the injection hole at atmospheric pressure. The injection assembly is sprayed with a sanitizing solution at the same time that the injected eggs are moved from the injection section to the transfer section.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: AvitechInventors: Rafael S. Correa, Marco A Quiroz, William D. Samson, Erich F. Bevensee
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Publication number: 20090126636Abstract: An improved needle design is cut diagonally from two sides to form a sharpened cutting edge, rather than a point. The needle has an external diameter and wall thickness sufficient to provide the rigidity necessary to punch the egg shell while the sharpened edge provides a sharp cutting edge able to sever the underlying membrane cleanly and penetrate an embryo if necessary. The needle's penetrating edge design prevents needle tip fold-over and the resulting formation of a hook which can lead to cross-contamination of eggs and shortened needle life.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2007Publication date: May 21, 2009Inventors: Rafael S. Correa, Mark A. Dekich, William D. Samson, Erich F. Bevensee
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Patent number: 7503279Abstract: A pneumatically operated egg injection machine includes a sealed frame structure with a pair of in line parallel tracks through an injection section and a transfer section in series. An injection assembly includes a plurality of injectors gripped in a support plate to simultaneously inject vaccine into the same injection region irrespective of egg height and orientation. Fluid delivery systems meter prescribed vaccine dosages to the injecting needles with reduced turbulence, friction, heat and residence time to increase the delivered titer to the injected eggs. A transfer assembly lifts the injected eggs by causing a reduced pressure around the injection hole while maintaining the injection hole at atmospheric pressure. The injection assembly is sprayed with a sanitizing solution at the same time that the injected eggs are moved from the injection section to the transfer section.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2007Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Avitech, LLCInventors: Rafael S. Correa, Marco A Quiroz, William D. Samson, Erich F. Bevensee
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Publication number: 20080202428Abstract: A pneumatically operated egg injection machine includes a sealed frame structure with a pair of in line parallel tracks through an injection section and a transfer section in series. An injection assembly includes a plurality of injectors gripped in a support plate to simultaneously inject vaccine into the same injection region irrespective of egg height and orientation. Fluid delivery systems meter prescribed vaccine dosages to the injecting needles with reduced turbulence, friction, heat and residence time to increase the delivered titer to the injected eggs. A transfer assembly lifts the injected eggs by causing a reduced pressure around the injection hole while maintaining the injection hole at atmospheric pressure. The injection assembly is sprayed with a sanitizing solution at the same time that the injected eggs are moved from the injection section to the transfer section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2007Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventors: Rafael S. Correa, Marco A. Quiroz, William D. Samson, Erich F. Bevensee
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Publication number: 20080202427Abstract: A pneumatically operated egg injection machine includes a sealed frame structure with a pair of in line parallel tracks through an injection section and a transfer section in series. An injection assembly includes a plurality of injectors gripped in a support plate to simultaneously inject vaccine into the same injection region irrespective of egg height and orientation. Fluid delivery systems meter prescribed vaccine dosages to the injecting needles with reduced turbulence, friction, heat and residence time to increase the delivered titer to the injected eggs. A transfer assembly lifts the injected eggs by causing a reduced pressure around the injection hole while maintaining the injection hole at atmospheric pressure. The injection assembly is sprayed with a sanitizing solution at the same time that the injected eggs are moved from the injection section to the transfer section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2007Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventors: Rafael S. Correa, Marco A. Quiroz, William D. Samson, Erich F. Bevensee
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Patent number: 7360500Abstract: An injection apparatus for injecting eggs of varying sizes and different orientations in an incubating tray that includes a substantially horizontal support plate with vertical openings therethrough, and vertical injectors resting in the openings and able to slide therein with respect to the plate such that the injectors can move vertically in the openings while remaining engaged with the support plate so as to maintain their vertical orientation throughout an injection sequence. For each opening, an expandable ring is positioned in the plate and pneumatically expanded to tighten around its respective injector after the injector has adjusted vertically in its respective opening to the height of an associated egg in order to maintain the injectors in their vertical orientation for injection of their associated eggs.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2006Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: AviTech, LLCInventors: Rafael S. Correa, Marco A Quiroz, William D. Samson, Erich F. Bevensee
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Patent number: 7185603Abstract: A pneumatically operated egg injection machine includes a sealed frame structure with a pair of in line parallel tracks through an injection section and a transfer section in series. An injection assembly over one parallel track includes a plurality of injectors gripped in a support plate to simultaneously inject vaccine into the same injection region irrespective of egg height and orientation. Fluid delivery systems meter prescribed vaccine dosages to the injecting needles with reduced turbulence, friction, heat and residence time to increase the delivered titer to the injected eggs. A transfer assembly includes a plurality of transfer suction cups which lift the injected eggs by causing a reduced pressure in a ring around the injection hole while maintaining the injection hole at atmospheric pressure, thus avoiding negative pressure in the egg. Once the eggs are lifted, the plate and suction cups move horizontally across the machine over to the other parallel track to deposit the injected eggs.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2004Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: Avitech, LLCInventors: Rafael S. Correa, Marco A Quiroz, William D. Samson, Erich F. Bevensee
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Patent number: 7096820Abstract: A pneumatically operated egg injection machine includes a sealed frame structure with a pair of in line parallel tracks through an injection section and a transfer section in series. An injection assembly over one parallel track includes a plurality of injectors gripped in a support plate to simultaneously inject vaccine into the same injection region irrespective of egg height and orientation. Fluid delivery systems meter prescribed vaccine dosages to the injecting needles with reduced turbulence, friction, heat and residence time to increase the delivered titer to the injected eggs. A transfer assembly includes a plurality of transfer suction cups which lift the injected eggs by causing a reduced pressure in a ring around the injection hole while maintaining the injection hole at atmospheric pressure, thus avoiding negative pressure in the egg. Once the eggs are lifted, the plate and suction cups move horizontally across the machine over to the other parallel track to deposit the injected eggs.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2003Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: AviTechInventors: Rafael S. Correa, Marco A. Quiroz, William D. Samson, Erich F. Bevensee
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Publication number: 20040163602Abstract: A pneumatically operated egg injection machine includes a sealed frame structure with a pair of in line parallel tracks through an injection section and a transfer section in series. An injection assembly over one parallel track includes a plurality of injectors gripped in a support plate to simultaneously inject vaccine into the same injection region irrespective of egg height and orientation. Fluid delivery systems meter prescribed vaccine dosages to the injecting needles with reduced turbulence, friction, heat and residence time to increase the delivered titer to the injected eggs. A transfer assembly includes a plurality of transfer suction cups which lift the injected eggs by causing a reduced pressure in a ring around the injection hole while maintaining the injection hole at atmospheric pressure, thus avoiding negative pressure in the egg. Once the eggs are lifted, the plate and suction cups move horizontally across the machine over to the other parallel track to deposit the injected eggs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2003Publication date: August 26, 2004Inventors: Rafael S. Correa, Marco A. Quiroz, William D. Samson, Erich F. Bevensee
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Publication number: 20030056729Abstract: A pneumatically operated egg injection machine includes a sealed frame structure with a pair of in line parallel tracks through an injection section and a transfer section in series. An injection assembly over one parallel track includes a plurality of injectors gripped in a support plate to simultaneously inject vaccine into the same injection region irrespective of egg height and orientation. Fluid delivery systems meter prescribed vaccine dosages to the injecting needles with reduced turbulence, friction, heat and residence time to increase the delivered titer to the injected eggs. A transfer assembly includes a plurality of transfer suction cups which lift the injected eggs by causing a reduced pressure in a ring around the injection hole while maintaining the injection hole at atmospheric pressure, thus avoiding negative pressure in the egg. Once the eggs are lifted, the plate and suction cups move horizontally across the machine over to the other parallel track to deposit the injected eggs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2001Publication date: March 27, 2003Inventors: Rafael S. Correa, Marco A. Quiroz, William D. Samson, Erich F. Bevensee