Patents by Inventor Joseph W. Laubenstein

Joseph W. Laubenstein 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).

  • Methods of Treating Waste from a Chicken House using Short Paper Fibers
    Publication number: 20110303157
    Abstract: A method of treating waste from poultry such as chickens in a chicken house is described wherein the method includes applying a layer of short paper fibers over a floor of the chicken house horizontally below the chickens in the chicken house, mixing manure from the chickens with the layer of short paper fibers, and removing the mixed manure and short paper fibers from the chicken house. The manure is turned with the layer of short paper fibers such that the manure and the short paper fibers are intimately mixed together. The removed mixture can be spread over land as fertilizer, mulch, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventor: Joseph W. Laubenstein
  • Method of treating waste from a chicken house using short paper fibers
    Patent number: 7971555
    Abstract: A method of treating waste from chickens in a chicken house includes applying a layer of short paper fibers over a floor of the chicken house horizontally below the chickens in the chicken house, mixing manure from the chickens with the layer of short paper fibers, and removing the mixed manure and short paper fibers from the chicken house. The manure is turned with the layer of short paper fibers such that the manure and the short paper fibers are intimately mixed together. The removed mixture can be spread over land.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Inventor: Joseph W. Laubenstein