Patents by Inventor Robert Smerling

Robert Smerling 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).

  • Clothes treating apparatus and method
    Patent number: 9644299
    Abstract: A clothes treating system includes a treating chamber for receiving clothes and a treating fluid therein, and a piston having a piston head. The piston can be adapted for reciprocating linear motion. Reciprocating motion of the piston head within the chamber agitates the clothes. An inner false wall can be contained within the chamber, and can have a corrugated surface providing frictional agitation of the clothes as the clothes are moved against the corrugated surface by the reciprocal motion of the piston head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: CleanLOGIC LLC
    Inventors: David N. Berglund, Eskil Eriksson, Robert Smerling
  • CLOTHES TREATING APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20150082552
    Abstract: A clothes treating system includes a treating chamber for receiving clothes and a treating fluid therein, and a piston having a piston head. The piston can be adapted for reciprocating linear motion. Reciprocating motion of the piston head within the chamber agitates the clothes. An inner false wall can be contained within the chamber, and can have a corrugated surface providing frictional agitation of the clothes as the clothes are moved against the corrugated surface by the reciprocal motion of the piston head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: David N. Berglund, Eskil Eriksson, Robert Smerling