Patents by Inventor Floyd E. Dowell

Floyd E. Dowell 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: 5467700
    Abstract: A device for cleaning, shelling, and sizing nuts in a single step which includes a cleaning section, mounted in front of and in communication with a shelling section, which removes debris, small pods and loose shelled kernels using screens, separating air columns, and stepped rollers; a shelling section that shells nuts and separates the kernels from mixtures of pods, hulls, and kernels using separating air columns mounted behind and in communication with the sheller; a sizing section, mounted below and in communication with the separating air columns, which separates large and small kernels using roller sizers. A single step process performed by the device significantly reduces hand labor and time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Floyd E. Dowell, Harry T. Sheppard, Lawrence A. Dettore, Clyde T. Bennett