Patents by Inventor Jeffrey B. Farro

Jeffrey B. Farro 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).

  • Method of powder coating a substrate
    Patent number: 6136370
    Abstract: In substrates, such as wood substrates, having sharp edges, corners and other surface discontinuities, in a front appearance surface, non-functional machining, such as formation of grooves, is performed on the rear non-appearance surface adjacent the surface discontinuities. Coating powder is applied, e.g., electrostatically, to the appearance surface of the substrate and the coating powder fused or fused and cured to form a continuous coating on the appearance surface of the substrate. The rear surface machining reduces cracking of the coating at the front surface discontinuities.In some cases, non-functional machining is distributed over the entire non-appearance surface of the work-piece to promote out-gassing of volatiles to the non-appearance surface, thereby eliminating out-gassing-caused defects in the coating formed on the appearance surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Morton International, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeno Muthiah, Paul R. Horinka, Jeffrey B. Farro, Joseph Kozlowski, Robert M. Didrick