Patents by Inventor Richard W. Eve

Richard W. Eve 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).

  • Method and apparatus for creating an image on an article, and article resulting therefrom
    Patent number: 7766474
    Abstract: A method of printing an image on an object includes the steps of: providing an object having an exterior surface having a planar portion and a channel recessed from the planar portion; applying a first ground coat on the exterior surface; drying the first ground coat; and spraying droplets of ink on the dried ground coat to form an image, wherein the droplets are sprayed from an ink jet printhead that is maintained at a constant distance from the plane of the planar portion of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: William R. S. Baxter, Richard W. Eve, Karine A. Luetgert, Scott Fellin
  • Method and apparatus for creating an image on an article, and article resulting therefrom
    Patent number: 7168803
    Abstract: A method of printing an image on an object includes the steps of: providing an object having an exterior surface having a planar portion and a channel recessed from the planar portion; applying a first ground coat on the exterior surface; drying the first ground coat; and spraying droplets of ink on the dried ground coat to form an image, wherein the droplets are sprayed from an ink jet printhead that is maintained at a constant distance from the plane of the planar portion of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: William R. S. Baxter, Richard W. Eve, Karine A. Luetgert, Scott Fellin
  • Method and apparatus for creating an image on an article and printed article
    Patent number: 7001016
    Abstract: A method of printing an image on an object includes the steps of: providing an object having an exterior surface having a planar portion and a channel recessed from the planar portion; applying a first ground coat on the exterior surface; drying the first ground coat; and spraying droplets of ink on the dried ground coat to form an image, wherein the droplets are sprayed from an ink jet printhead that is maintained at a constant distance from the plane of the planar portion of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: William R. S. Baxter, Richard W. Eve, Karine A. Luetgert, Scott Fellin
  • Method and apparatus for creating an image on an article and printed article
    Publication number: 20030218663
    Abstract: A method of printing an image on an object comprises the steps of: providing an object having an exterior surface having a planar portion and a channel recessed from the planar portion; applying a first ground coat on the exterior surface; drying the first ground coat; and spraying droplets of ink on the dried ground coat to form an image, wherein the droplets are sprayed from an ink jet printhead that is maintained at a constant distance from the plane of the planar portion of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventors: William R.S. Baxter, Richard W. Eve, Karine A. Luetgert, Scott Fellin
  • Process for impregnating
    Patent number: 4772493
    Abstract: A process for impregnating a continuous sheet of glass fibre web, paper, carbon fibre, cloth etc., which comprises feeding the sheet continuously into a closed vessel filled to a suitable height with a polymer solution, immersing the sheet under the surface of polymer solution while causing solvent boiling to occur and solvent vapor bubbles to flow out of the sheet, whereby bubbles of gas, such as air held or absorbed in the sheet during the immersion, are automatically removed from the sheet and then withdrawing the sheet from the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Perstorp AB
    Inventors: Alan N. Syrop, Richard W. Eve, Stephen Temple