Patents by Inventor Mark Merkel

Mark Merkel 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: 20170107893
    Abstract: A rotating suction wand for a cooler box screen including a hollow body for attaching to a suction hose. A first slot and at least a second slot are formed in the hollow body in fluid communication with an interior of the hollow body for facingly engaging a screen. The construction and arrangement of the slots redistributes suction force along the length of the wand in such a way as to compensate for differences in angular rotational speed of the wand at varying radial distances from the center of the wand as well as to overcome suction force reduction which normally occurs from the center to the ends of the wand. Consequently, debris is more effectively removed from the screen from the central regions of the wand to radially distal regions thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Raymond Samuel Trey Davenport, Cameron Jackson Ivey, David Paschal, Panos Tamamidis, Matthew John Gyenes, Mark Merkel, Shekhar Sarpotdar