Patents by Inventor Ernest Jarvis

Ernest Jarvis 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: 10227768
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide resistance hanging screens, configured for installation into a storm drain or a component of a storm drain, that comprise a front plate and first and second hanging pivots. The combination of the location of the center of gravity of the resistance hanging screens and the first and second hanging pivots confers a bias of the resistance hanging screens to occupy a closed position when the resistance hanging screen is installed in the storm drain or the storm drain component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Bio Clean Enviornmental Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Ernest Jarvis
  • Publication number: 20170022696
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a first storm drain inlet screen, configured for installation in a storm drain inlet opening. The first storm drain inlet screen possesses a front screen, a plurality of front screen perforations, and a plurality of particulate matter capture bars. In such embodiments, the particulate matter capture bars: are fixedly attached to the front screen, traverse at least ΒΌ of the front screen perforations, reduce, by less than 5%, an amount by which the front screen perforations, in aggregate, render open a total frontward surface area of the front screen, and are operative to increase by at least 50% an amount of particulate matter captured outside of a storm drain into which the first storm drain inlet screen is installed, as compared to a second storm drain inlet screen that differs from the first inlet screen by entirely lacking particulate matter capture bars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventor: Ernest Jarvis
  • Publication number: 20160168838
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide resistance hanging screens, configured for installation into a storm drain or a component of a storm drain, that comprise a front plate and first and second hanging pivots. The combination of the location of the center of gravity of the resistance hanging screens and the first and second hanging pivots confers a bias of the resistance hanging screens to occupy a closed position when the resistance hanging screen is installed in the storm drain or the storm drain component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: Ernest Jarvis
  • Patent number: 9322155
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide resistance hanging screens, configured for installation into a storm drain or a component of a storm drain, that comprise a front plate and first and second hanging pivots. The combination of the location of the center of gravity of the resistance hanging screens and the first and second hanging pivots confers a bias of the resistance hanging screens to occupy a closed position when the resistance hanging screen is installed in the storm drain or the storm drain component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Inventor: Ernest Jarvis
  • Patent number: 9151033
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide automatically retractable screens, adapted for installation into a storm drain curb inlet, configured such that the automatically retractable screens are biased toward the closed position and thereby reliably closed during periods of no, low, or moderate surface runoff water flows, yet also reliably open when surface runoff water flow rates increase to moderate or high levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Inventor: Ernest Jarvis
  • Publication number: 20150259896
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide connector pipe screens, configured for installation into a catch basin of a storm drain, that comprise rotatably mounted resistance screens having a bias toward occupying a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventor: Ernest Jarvis
  • Publication number: 20150101971
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide resistance hanging screens, configured for installation into a storm drain or a component of a storm drain, that comprise a front plate and first and second hanging pivots. The combination of the location of the center of gravity of the resistance hanging screens and the first and second hanging pivots confers a bias of the resistance hanging screens to occupy a closed position when the resistance hanging screen is installed in the storm drain or the storm drain component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventor: Ernest Jarvis
  • Publication number: 20150101969
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide automatically retractable screens, adapted for installation into a storm drain curb inlet, configured such that the automatically retractable screens are biased toward the closed position and thereby reliably closed during periods of no, low, or moderate surface runoff water flows, yet also reliably open when surface runoff water flow rates increase to moderate or high levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventor: Ernest Jarvis
  • Publication number: 20130008851
    Abstract: A screen system having a body with a screen having an upper edge, a lower edge and two side edges; a plurality of support rods coupled to the screen; mounting brackets coupled to the side edges of the screen; a plurality of bypass support members coupled to the screen; and a top coupled to the plurality of bypass support members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Ernest Jarvis, JR., Rafael Roy Padilla
  • Publication number: 20130008842
    Abstract: A screen system having a body with a frame, the frame having a bottom member, a top member; a plurality of vertical members coupled to the bottom member and the top member; a plurality of vertical bypass members coupled to the top member; and a top coupled to the plurality of vertical bypass members; wherein a screen having a plurality of openings is coupled to the bottom member, the top member and the plurality of vertical members to form a containment portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Ernest Jarvis, Jr., Rafael Roy Padilla
  • Patent number: 8277645
    Abstract: A screen system having first and second side members, each having a locking gear reversibly movable from a locked position to an unlocked position. A screen is coupled to the side members. The screen has openings and is rotatable from a closed position to an open position. The screen is engagable with the locking gears to preventing the screen from rotating from the closed position to the open position. A trigger plate is movably coupled to the screen, rotates from a first position to a second position and is engagable with the locking gears to prevent the locking gears from moving from the locked position to the unlocked position. The trigger plate disengages with the locking gears when water flows against it, allowing the locking gears to move from the locked position to the unlocked position and the screen to rotate from the closed position to the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Inventors: Ernest Jarvis, Jr., Rafael Padilla
  • Publication number: 20100147752
    Abstract: A screen system having first and second side members, each having a locking gear reversibly movable from a locked position to an unlocked position. A screen is coupled to the side members. The screen has openings and is rotatable from a closed position to an open position. The screen is engagable with the locking gears to preventing the screen from rotating from the closed position to the open position. A trigger plate is movably coupled to the screen, rotates from a first position to a second position and is engagable with the locking gears to prevent the locking gears from moving from the locked position to the unlocked position. The trigger plate disengages with the locking gears when water flows against it, allowing the locking gears to move from the locked position to the unlocked position and the screen to rotate from the closed position to the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Ernest Jarvis, JR., Rafael Padilla