Patents by Inventor Jerry Banta

Jerry Banta 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: 11905695
    Abstract: A waste collection and disposal unit including a tank, a float-switch sensing system, and a grinder pump. The tank contains a contoured and sloping floor, a front section, a back section, two side sections and a one-piece lid, which is securable onto the other sections of the tank. The floor slopes downwardly from below the float-switch sensing system to below the grinder pump at an angle of at least about 5 degrees and is contoured in a downward curved arc between the front and back sections of the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Zoeller Pump Company, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Ulliman, Jerry Banta, David R. Gilbert, Jason Nett, Jason Pyle
  • Publication number: 20240003129
    Abstract: A waste collection and disposal unit including a tank, a float-switch sensing system, and a grinder pump. The tank contains a contoured and sloping floor, a front section, a back section, two side sections and a one-piece lid, which is securable onto the other sections of the tank. The floor slopes downwardly from below the float-switch sensing system to below the grinder pump at an angle of at least about 5 degrees and is contoured in a downward curved arc between the front and back sections of the tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Ulliman, Jerry Banta, David R. Gilbert, Jason Nett, Jason Pyle
  • Publication number: 20220298768
    Abstract: A waste collection and disposal unit including a tank, a float-switch sensing system, and a grinder pump. The tank contains a contoured and sloping floor, a front section, a back section, two side sections and a one-piece lid, which is securable onto the other sections of the tank. The floor slopes downwardly from below the float-switch sensing system to below the grinder pump at an angle of at least about 5 degrees and is contoured in a downward curved arc between the front and back sections of the tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew Ulliman, Jerry Banta, David R. Gilbert, Jason Nett, Jason Pyle
  • Patent number: 11365738
    Abstract: A reversible grinder pump with cutter plate and cutter blade, wherein the cutter plate is attached to an inlet of the reversible grinder pump and is located adjacent to the cutter blade, wherein the cutter plate includes pairs of angled openings, wherein each of the pair of angled openings extends through the cutter plate and has a shape which is a mirror image of the other angled opening of the pair of angled openings, when viewed from above a surface of the cutter plate. The cutter blade of the reversible grinder pump contains a pair of triangular cross section, prism-shaped cutting edges, which are congruent to each other and reflective, extending in opposite directions from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Zoeller Pump Company, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Ulliman, Charles P. Carroll, Jerry Banta, Tanner Gibson
  • Publication number: 20210148365
    Abstract: A reversible grinder pump with cutter plate and cutter blade, wherein the cutter plate is attached to an inlet of the reversible grinder pump and is located adjacent to the cutter blade, wherein the cutter plate includes pairs of angled openings, wherein each of the pair of angled openings extends through the cutter plate and has a shape which is a mirror image of the other angled opening of the pair of angled openings, when viewed from above a surface of the cutter plate. The cutter blade of the reversible grinder pump contains a pair of triangular cross section, prism-shaped cutting edges, which are congruent to each other and reflective, extending in opposite directions from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Andrew Ulliman, Charles P. Carroll, Jerry Banta, Tanner Gibson