Patents by Inventor Kent L. Ross

Kent L. Ross 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).

  • Publication number: 20220405779
    Abstract: A tile graphic and/or tile color system for generating at least one customized tile graphic and/or tile color to at least one user, the tile graphic and/or tile color system includes an input module configured to input a plurality of attributes, an analysis module configured to analyze the plurality of attributes by using one or more mathematical algorithms to identify one or more color or graphic for a tile graphic and/or tile color corresponding to each of the plurality of the attributes, a categorization module configured to determine at least one category, and a display module configured to display the customized tile graphic and/or tile color to the at least one user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Kent L. Ross, SR.
  • Patent number: 5197366
    Abstract: A roller assembly for supporting a running web of corrugated paperboard in a slitting apparatus includes a pair of rollers which define therebetween a slot for receipt of a rotary slitting blade. The rollers are mounted on separate rotational axes which are angled slightly with respect to one another so that the axially inner edge portions of the rollers where the blade enters the slot therebetween actually engage the blade edge and the diametrically opposite edge portions of the rollers are maximally spaced to define between the adjacent roller faces a downwardly divergent slot. Roller contact with the blade faces helps prevent paperboard adhesive build up and the entry of scrap into the slot. The downwardly divergent shape of the slot allows scrap which does enter therein to be discharged readily with rotation of the rollers. The roller assembly is adapted to be carried with the slitting blade and automatically positioned with the mechanism used to drive and lock the slitting blade in operating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: Marquip, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard F. Paulson, Kent L. Ross
  • Patent number: 5090281
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing longitudinal, laterally spaced slits in a continuously moving sheet or web of corrugated paperboard or the like includes a plurality of upper tool heads each supporting a thin, circular rotary slitting blade. The blades are coaxially mounted and driven by a common drive shaft and each blade-carrying tool head is independently positionable across the width of the paperboard sheet. Each slitting assembly includes a lower tool head or counterhead carrying a roller assembly which supports the underside of the moving board and provides a firm surface to support the board against the upper rotary slitting blade. The roller assembly includes a circumferential radially extending slot in its outer surface through which an edge portion of the upper cutting blade travels with the sheet firmly supported by the roller surfaces on each side of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Marquip, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard F. Paulson, Kent L. Ross, Timothy C. Prochnow, David W. Dix, Luke A. Stout
  • Patent number: RE35086
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing longitudinal, laterally spaced slits in a continuously moving sheet or web of corrugated paperboard or the like includes a plurality of upper tool heads each supporting a thin, circular rotary slitting blade. The blades are coaxially mounted and driven by a common drive shaft and each blade-carrying tool head is independently positionable across the width of the paperboard sheet. Each slitting assembly includes a lower tool head or counterhead carrying a roller assembly which supports the underside of the moving board and provides a firm surface to support the board against the upper rotary slitting blade. The roller assembly includes a circumferential radially extending slot in its outer surface through which an edge portion of the upper cutting blade travels with the sheet firmly supported by the roller surfaces on each side of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Marquip, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard F. Paulson, Kent L. Ross, Timothy C. Prochnow, David W. Dix, Luke A. Stout