Patents by Inventor Gerard Curien

Gerard Curien 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: 9808837
    Abstract: A wireless cleaning apparatus uses electrical energy to produce calories. Steam is generated with a view to carrying out a cleaning operation by spraying steam. The steam generator includes a water tank, a heater of the water in order to produce steam, and an extractor for the steam produced heater of the steam includes storage for calories generated, prior to the cleaning operation, by electrical connections for producing heat that can be reversibly connected to an electric power supply includes a solid body, which is traversed by at least one channel or similar, which links the water tank to the means for extracting steam, and through which the water travels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: ECODROP
    Inventor: Gerard Curien
  • Publication number: 20170241069
    Abstract: A steam iron device for ironing and removing creases, intended for smoothing operations, in particular vertical, includes a heating body, a boiler for producing steam, a water tank, and a metal soleplate pierced with holes to allow the steam to pass. An outer wall of the soleplate has a partially curved shape and includes two parts: a flat front part, and a convex curved rear part. The flat front part is tangent to the convex curved rear part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventor: Gerard CURIEN
  • Patent number: 9532692
    Abstract: A suction device sucks air and liquid from a planar surface, and the scraper blade active portion moves on a surface. The active portion is in the form of a single blade, made from a flexible or semi-rigid material, intended to be moved in one direction against the planar surface. There is an internal cavity connected to a mechanism for sucking air and liquid. At a distal portion of the blade and behind the ridge to be moved on the surface, two walls together form an angle and meet at the ridge. A first wall is presented first towards the surface to be scraped during a scraping operation having, alongside and close to the ridge, a plurality of holes opening into the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ECODROP
    Inventor: Gerard Curien
  • Publication number: 20160007816
    Abstract: A suction device sucks air and liquid from a planar surface, and the scraper blade active portion moves on a surface. The active portion is in the form of a single blade, made from a flexible or semi-rigid material, intended to be moved in one direction against the planar surface. There is an internal cavity connected to a mechanism for sucking air and liquid. At a distal portion of the blade and behind the ridge to be moved on the surface, two walls together form an angle and meet at the ridge. A first wall is presented first towards the surface to be scraped during a scraping operation having, alongside and close to the ridge, a plurality of holes opening into the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventor: Gerard CURIEN
  • Publication number: 20150202659
    Abstract: A wireless cleaning apparatus uses electrical energy to produce calories. Steam is generated with a view to carrying out a cleaning operation by spraying steam. The steam generator includes a water tank, a heater of the water in order to produce steam, and an extractor for the steam produced heater of the steam includes storage for calories generated, prior to the cleaning operation, by electrical connections for producing heat that can be reversibly connected to an electric power supply includes a solid body, which is traversed by at least one channel or similar, which links the water tank to the means for extracting steam, and through which the water travels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventor: Gerard Curien
  • Publication number: 20140308027
    Abstract: The device for heating liquid generates steam, receives a fluid in liquid form at its inlet, and ejects the fluid heated up or in gaseous form at its outlet. The device includes a heater positioned inside a sleeve having a longitudinal axis. There is a scraper that fits onto the heater to scrape it the heater in case of movement along the longitudinal axis. A stopper fits snugly between the heater and the sleeve in order to stopper the passage. The scraper, the stopper, and a spring are configured so that an increase in pressure causes the scraper and the stopper to move along the longitudinal axis so that the stopper is shifted to a point where space between the heater and the sleeve allows fluid to pass, and a reduction in pressure causes a shift in the opposite direction by the spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: ECODROP
    Inventor: Gerard Curien
  • Patent number: 8544146
    Abstract: The invention relates to a scraper, including a device for projecting-onto a surface through an opening, and a scraping body with a resilient scraping element including a ridge capable of scraping a smooth surface. The body includes, towards a surface of the scraping element, a device for collecting liquid on a substrate absorbing residual liquid connected to a conduit. The device for collecting has an end surface-capable of entering into contact with said surface. The invention also relates to a household appliance incorporating such a scraper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Winddrop
    Inventor: Gerard Curien
  • Patent number: 8407850
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vacuum suction and cleaning apparatus comprising a nozzle (38), ventilation means (40), a clean water tank (20), an air-water separator (50), a recovery tank (4) for soiled liquid and/or dirt, a handle (5) for manipulation with one hand, a heating means (19) using a ceramic for electrical and thermal insulation. It is wherein the separator (50) comprises a brush (2) driven in rotation, that prolongs the ventilation means (40), rotating with a turbine (11) or nozzle (51) serving as support, and that the apparatus (100) comprises an air evacuation hose (6) incorporated in the handle (5) prolonging a by-pass, and that the recovery tank (4) is located under the separator (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Winddrop
    Inventor: Gerard Curien
  • Publication number: 20110138554
    Abstract: The invention relates to a scraper, including a device for projecting-onto a surface through an opening, and a scraping body with a resilient scraping element including a ridge capable of scraping a smooth surface. The body includes, towards a surface of the scraping element, a device for collecting liquid on a substrate absorbing residual liquid connected to a conduit. The device for collecting has an end surface-capable of entering into contact with said surface. The invention also relates to a household appliance incorporating such a scraper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: WINDDROP
    Inventor: Gerard Curien
  • Publication number: 20110131756
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum cleaner, in which circulates a flow of drawn-in air loaded with particles, between an inlet nozzle and an aperture communicating with a suction chamber. The vacuum cleaner includes a water-air separator intercalated between an upstream conduit and suction device, capable of orienting the gas phase into the suction chamber, and the particles into a tank. The invention relates to a heating body incorporated in the vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner also includes a filament embedded in ceramic materials, and a spray chamber formed by a helical space between two bodies or casings nested into each other, at least one of the bodies or casings being a ceramic body incorporating, embedded, a metallic filament.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: WINDDROP
    Inventor: Gerard Curien
  • Patent number: 7950630
    Abstract: This invention relates to a gas-liquid mixing device, forming a safety valve, designed capable of being incorporated into a gas-cleaning installation including a liquid tank (4), an inlet (1) for gas to be cleaned and an outlet (7) through which the gas flow is evacuated. It is characterized in that it has: a tube (2) sliding around the gas inlet (1) and including a peripheral float (8) located in its lower end and designed capable of floating in said tank (4), said sliding tube (2) being open in its lower portion, in order to draw liquid from said tank (4) by a venturi effect and to create a mist in a pressure-relief zone (5); a mixing chamber (6) interposed between said sliding tube (2) and said outlet (7), and designed capable of conveying the flow of said mist towards the bottom of said tank (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: WINDDROP
    Inventor: Gerard Curien
  • Publication number: 20100050368
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vacuum suction and cleaning apparatus comprising a nozzle (38), ventilation means (40), a clean water tank (20), an air-water separator (50), a recovery tank (4) for soiled liquid and/or dirt, a handle (5) for manipulation with one hand, a heating means (19) using a ceramic for electrical and thermal insulation. It is wherein the separator (50) comprises a brush (2) driven in rotation, that prolongs the ventilation means (40), rotating with a turbine (11) or nozzle (51) serving as support, and that the apparatus (100) comprises an air evacuation hose (6) incorporated in the handle (5) prolonging a by-pass, and that the recovery tank (4) is located under the separator (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: WINDDROP
    Inventor: Gerard Curien
  • Publication number: 20100043364
    Abstract: This invention relates to a liquid-gas separator (1), namely for a vacuum cleaner, including, on the one hand, an upstream conduit (3) and a downstream conduit (4) connected through a communication opening (9) and, on the other hand, mounted mobile in rotation inside either conduit, filtering means (5), pervious to gas, and designed capable of conveying by centrifugation the liquid collected at its periphery. It is characterized in that said filtering means (5) constitutes means for closing said communication opening (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: WINDDROP
    Inventor: Gerard Curien
  • Publication number: 20100044891
    Abstract: This invention relates to a gas-liquid mixing device, forming a safety valve, designed capable of being incorporated into a gas-cleaning installation including a liquid tank (4), an inlet (1) for gas to be cleaned and an outlet (7) through which the gas flow is evacuated. It is characterized in that it has: a tube (2) sliding around the gas inlet (1) and including a peripheral float (8) located in its lower end and designed capable of floating in said tank (4), said sliding tube (2) being open in its lower portion, in order to draw liquid from said tank (4) by a venturi effect and to create a mist in a pressure-relief zone (5); a mixing chamber (6) interposed between said sliding tube (2) and said outlet (7), and designed capable of conveying the flow of said mist towards the bottom of said tank (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: WINDDROP
    Inventor: Gerard Curien
  • Patent number: D715009
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: ECODROP
    Inventor: Gerard Curien
  • Patent number: D786521
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: ECODROP
    Inventor: Gerard Curien