Patents by Inventor Jack Gerber

Jack Gerber 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: 8051767
    Abstract: A conic funnel integrally connected to a supporting planar platform in combination with an essentially flat disposable filter that is transformed into a three-dimensional conic configuration disposed to be inserted into the conic funnel. The apex of the conic funnel is truncated and projected through a first circular orifice at the approximate center of the supporting planar platform such that an effluent is focused into a receiving vessel upon which the supporting planar platform is placed. A second orifice vents air displaced by the effluent. A tab-like member and/or handle are used to hold or hang the apparatus. The apparatus has special applications for brewing beverages such as coffee by using nonproprietary nonpreformed low-cost generic circular paper filters such as those used in consumer coffeemakers as well as eliminating auxiliary laboratory equipment needed to vertically hold Buchner type funnels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Inventor: Jack Gerber
  • Publication number: 20100089245
    Abstract: Avionic funnel integrally connected to a supporting planar platform in combination with an essentially flat disposable filter that is transformed into a three-dimensional conic configuration disposed to be inserted into the conic funnel. The apex of the conic funnel is truncated and projected through a first circular orifice at the approximate center of the supporting planar platform such that an effluent is focused into a receiving vessel upon which the supporting planar platform is placed. A second orifice vents air displaced by the effluent. A tab-like member and/or handle are used to hold or hang the apparatus. The apparatus has special applications for brewing beverages such as coffee by using nonproprietary nonpreformed low-cost generic circular paper filters such as those used in consumer coffeemakers as well as eliminating auxiliary laboratory equipment needed to vertically hold Buchner type funnels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventor: Jack Gerber
  • Patent number: 7479859
    Abstract: An apparatus and method in which three or more permanent or electromagnets are mounted in a support structure on rotatable axes in spaced relationship to each other such that the magnetic lines of force of the same magnetic polarity continuously repel each other to generate a field in “opolarity.” The magnets are focused to a generally central spherical shell-like space and upon continuous synchronous rotation generate a magnetic vortex. Magnetic materials or materials that can be made susceptible to the effects of a magnetic field are placed in a material processing portion of a material containment vessel that is positioned in the magnetic vortex where upon continuous synchronous rotation of the magnets, the material is subjected to the quantum and wave mechanical effects of the magnetic vortex so as to be compacted, aggregated, separated, reaggregated, manipulated, tumbled, and levitated and in the process the physical, chemical, and magnetic properties and chemical composition of the material is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Inventor: Jack Gerber
  • Publication number: 20070210886
    Abstract: An apparatus and method in which three or more permanent or electromagnets are mounted in a support structure on rotatable axes in spaced relationship to each other such that the magnetic lines of force of the same magnetic polarity continuously repel each other to generate a field in “opolarity.” The magnets are focused to a generally central spherical shell-like space and upon continuous synchronous rotation generate a magnetic vortex. Magnetic materials or materials that can be made susceptible to the effects of a magnetic field are placed in a material processing portion of a material containment vessel that is positioned in the magnetic vortex where upon continuous synchronous rotation of the magnets, the material is subjected to the quantum and wave mechanical effects of the magnetic vortex so as to be compacted, aggregated, separated, reaggregated, manipulated, tumbled, and levitated and in the process the physical, chemical, and magnetic properties and chemical composition of the material is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Inventor: Jack Gerber