Patents by Inventor Michael Woodford Freitas

Michael Woodford Freitas 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: 20140374531
    Abstract: A spool apparatus is described to include in one particular example a cable spool with a first cylindrical lip and a second cylindrical lip on an opposite side of the cable spool. A center of the spool includes a clutch bearing in the center of both the first cylindrical lip and the second cylindrical lip that provides a rotational axis for the cable spool to rotate around. The apparatus may also include a feed slot near the first cylindrical lip that provides a passage for cable to pass from the second cylindrical lip to the first cylindrical lip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Douglas N. Laube, Michael Woodford Freitas
  • Publication number: 20140377983
    Abstract: A spool apparatus is described to include in one particular example a cable spool with a first cylindrical lip and a second cylindrical lip on an opposite side of the cable spool. A center of the spool includes a clutch bearing in the center of both the first cylindrical lip and the second cylindrical lip that provides a rotational axis for the cable spool to rotate around. The apparatus may also include a feed slot near the first cylindrical lip that provides a passage for cable to pass from the second cylindrical lip to the first cylindrical lip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Douglas N. Laube, Michael Woodford Freitas
  • Publication number: 20090294341
    Abstract: A filter for use with overhead sprinkler irrigation systems is disclosed. The filter includes a body, a removable screen, and a manually-actuated plunger adjacent the screen. A water hammer table is partitioned in the body and located above the plunger. The plunger is positioned for reciprocal movement through a debris outlet between an open, debris-discharging position, and a closed filtering position. The plunger defaults to the closed filtering position by pressurized water flowing through the body. The water is simultaneously filtered through the screen and passes out a clean water outlet while debris accumulates within the body. The plunger may be manually retracted to the open, debris-discharging position at any time, whereby accumulated debris is flushed out of the body through the debris outlet by residual water flowing therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: AMERICAN AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Gerald Beer, Michael Woodford Freitas
  • Patent number: 5988911
    Abstract: A washing soap dispensing system and method of manufacture comprising a wand adapted for the discharge of water therefrom in a second mode of operation and for the discharge of water and soap in a first mode of operation. The washing wand is constructed with a chamber adapted for containing concentrated liquid soap. The system includes an adjustable metering device for accurately dispensing concentrated liquid soap from the wand and a fluid assist water valve to control the flow of water through the wand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: The Leland Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Leland Warren Browne, Jr., Leland Warren Browne III, Carl Lammons, James B. Story, Michael Woodford Freitas, David Lee Kearby, John Faris Cunningham, Walter Edward Stewart
  • Patent number: D661266
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: AMX LLC
    Inventors: Douglas N. Laube, Kevin Scott Hodge, Nathan Shawn Wainwright, Jeffrey Alan Garrett, Michael Woodford Freitas, Robert Michael Heilbrun, Mark Gilson, Bryan K. Hunter, Jared Lee Mockler, Rashid Skaf
  • Patent number: D661671
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: AMX LLC
    Inventors: Douglas N. Laube, Kevin Scott Hodge, Nathan Shawn Wainwright, Jeffrey Alan Garrett, Michael Woodford Freitas, Robert Michael Heilbrun, Mark Gilson, Bryan K. Hunter, Jared Lee Mockler, Rashid Skaf
  • Patent number: D674350
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: AMX LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Scott Hodge, Michael Woodford Freitas, Jeffrey Alan Garrett, Jeffrey Hampton Burch
  • Patent number: D685533
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Hunter Products
    Inventors: Paul B. Sides, Robert Larry Brock, Michael Woodford Freitas