Patents by Inventor Roy Studebaker
Roy Studebaker 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).
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Patent number: 10264939Abstract: A rotary surface cleaning machine for cleaning floors, including both carpeted floors and uncarpeted hard floor surfaces including but not limited to wood, tile, linoleum and natural stone flooring. The rotary surface cleaning machine has a rotary surface cleaning tool mounted on a frame and coupled for high speed rotary motion relative to the frame. The rotary surface cleaning tool has a substantially circular operational surface that performs the cleaning operation. The rotary surface cleaning tool is driven by an on-board power plant to rotate at high speed. The rotary surface cleaning tool is coupled to a supply of pressurized hot liquid solution of cleaning fluid and a powerful vacuum suction source.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Skagit Northwest Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Roy Studebaker, William Edward Bruders, Brett Alan Bartholmey, Bill Elmer Richardson, Wolfe Kevin Andrew
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Publication number: 20170311769Abstract: A rotary surface cleaning machine for cleaning floors, including both carpeted floors and uncarpeted hard floor surfaces including but not limited to wood, tile, linoleum and natural stone flooring. The rotary surface cleaning machine has a rotary surface cleaning tool mounted on a frame and coupled for high speed rotary motion relative to the frame. The rotary surface cleaning tool has a substantially circular operational surface that performs the cleaning operation. The rotary surface cleaning tool is driven by an on-board power plant to rotate at high speed. The rotary surface cleaning tool is coupled to a supply of pressurized hot liquid solution of cleaning fluid and a powerful vacuum suction source.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Roy Studebaker, William Edward Bruders, Brett Alan Bartholmey, Bill Elmer Richardson, Kevin Andrew Wolfe
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Publication number: 20170049285Abstract: A rotary surface cleaning machine for cleaning floors, including both carpeted floors and uncarpeted hard floor surfaces including but not limited to wood, tile, linoleum and natural stone flooring. The rotary surface cleaning machine has a rotary surface cleaning tool mounted on a frame and coupled for high speed rotary motion relative to the frame. The rotary surface cleaning tool has a substantially circular operational surface that performs the cleaning operation. The rotary surface cleaning tool is driven by an on-board power plant to rotate at high speed. The rotary surface cleaning tool is coupled to a supply of pressurized hot liquid solution of cleaning fluid and a powerful vacuum suction source.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2015Publication date: February 23, 2017Inventors: Roy Studebaker, William Edward Bruders, Brett Alan Bartholmey, Bill Elmer Richardson, Wolfe Kevin Andrew
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Patent number: 9402523Abstract: A rotary surface cleaning machine for cleaning floors, including both carpeted floors and uncarpeted hard floor surfaces including but not limited to wood, tile, linoleum and natural stone flooring. The rotary surface cleaning machine has a rotary surface cleaning tool mounted on a frame and coupled for high speed rotary motion relative to the frame. The rotary surface cleaning tool has a substantially circular operational surface that performs the cleaning operation. The rotary surface cleaning tool is driven by an on-board power plant to rotate at high speed. The rotary surface cleaning tool is coupled to a supply of pressurized hot liquid solution of cleaning fluid and a powerful vacuum suction source.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2011Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventors: Roy Studebaker, William Edward Bruders, Brett Alan Bartholmey, Bill Elmer Richardson, Kevin Andrew Wolfe
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Patent number: 9186031Abstract: An elongated solution injection bar operable in a cleaning system as a combination dry vacuum and fluid carpet cleaner. The elongated solution injection bar having an upper solution distribution and pressure equalization chamber in fluid communication with a lower solution discharge chamber through a solution flow restrictor structured for distributing hot liquid cleaning solution in a substantially uniform flow along substantially the entire length of a cleaning head operating surface. The hot liquid cleaning solution being discharged from the lower solution discharge chamber at a volumetric flow rate of or about 1 gallon per minute (gpm) or less, so that the liquid cleaning solution is discharged to the operating surface as a flood under pressure.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2010Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Inventor: Roy Studebaker
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Patent number: 9179812Abstract: A hard surface cleaner having a cleaning head with rotational assist. In one embodiment, the cleaning head includes a housing having a fluid-supply and vacuum inlets. The housing also includes at least one flow-control inlet arranged with the vacuum inlet to draw a flow of air into the housing through the flow-control inlet. The cleaning head further includes a spray assembly at least partially enclosed within the housing. The spray assembly includes a shaft, at least one spray nozzle operably coupled to the shaft, and a plurality of fins also operably coupled to the shaft. The spray nozzle is configured to receive a pressurized fluid from the fluid-supply inlet and to rotate about the shaft by delivering the pressurized fluid toward a floor surface. The fins are positioned at least partially within the flow of air through the flow control inlet to control the rotational speed of the spray assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Sapphire Scientific Inc.Inventors: William Bruders, Brett Bartholmey, Bill Elmer Richardson, Sean Aldrich, Keith Studebaker, Roy Studebaker
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Patent number: 9107557Abstract: A rotary surface cleaning machine for cleaning floors, including both carpeted floors and uncarpeted hard floor surfaces including but not limited to wood, tile, linoleum and natural stone flooring. The rotary surface cleaning machine has a rotary surface cleaning tool mounted on a frame and coupled for high speed rotary motion relative to the frame. The rotary surface cleaning tool has a substantially circular operational surface that performs the cleaning operation. The rotary surface cleaning tool is driven by an on-board power plant to rotate at high speed. The rotary surface cleaning tool is coupled to a supply of pressurized hot liquid solution of cleaning fluid and a powerful vacuum suction source.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Inventors: Roy Studebaker, William Edward Bruders, Brett Alan Bartholmey, Bill Elmer Richardson, Wolfe Kevin Andrew
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Publication number: 20140137895Abstract: A hard surface cleaner having a cleaning head with rotational assist. In one embodiment, the cleaning head includes a housing having a fluid-supply and vacuum inlets. The housing also includes at least one flow-control inlet arranged with the vacuum inlet to draw a flow of air into the housing through the flow-control inlet. The cleaning head further includes a spray assembly at least partially enclosed within the housing. The spray assembly includes a shaft, at least one spray nozzle operably coupled to the shaft, and a plurality of fins also operably coupled to the shaft. The spray nozzle is configured to receive a pressurized fluid from the fluid-supply inlet and to rotate about the shaft by delivering the pressurized fluid toward a floor surface. The fins are positioned at least partially within the flow of air through the flow control inlet to control the rotational speed of the spray assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: Sapphire Scientific Inc.Inventors: William Bruders, Brett Bartholmey, Bill Elmer Richardson, Sean Aldrich, Keith Studebaker, Roy Studebaker
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Publication number: 20140115816Abstract: Rotary surface cleaning machines with recovery tanks and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A representative rotary surface cleaning machine in accordance with the present disclosure includes a base assembly, a support frame coupled to the base assembly, a recovery tank carried by the support frame, a vacuum blower, and a discharge pump. The vacuum blower draws a mixture of air and fluid from the base assembly to the recovery tank when the base assembly is in operation. Then the discharge pump discharges a liquid portion of the mixture from the recovery tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: SAPPHIRE SCIENTIFIC INC.Inventors: William Bruders, Brett Bartholmey, Bill Elmer Richardson, Kevin A. Wolfe, Keith Studebaker, Roy Studebaker
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Publication number: 20130276257Abstract: A rotary surface cleaning machine for cleaning floors, including both carpeted floors and uncarpeted hard floor surfaces including but not limited to wood, tile, linoleum and natural stone flooring. The rotary surface cleaning machine has a rotary surface cleaning tool mounted on a frame and coupled for high speed rotary motion relative to the frame. The rotary surface cleaning tool has a substantially circular operational surface that performs the cleaning operation. The rotary surface cleaning tool is driven by an on-board power plant to rotate at high speed. The rotary surface cleaning tool is coupled to a supply of pressurized hot liquid solution of cleaning fluid and a powerful vacuum suction source.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2012Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Roy Studebaker, William Edward Bruders, Brett Alan Bartholmey, Bill Elmer Richardson, Wolfe Kevin Adrew
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Patent number: 8464735Abstract: An elongated solution injection bar operable in a cleaning system as a combination dry vacuum and fluid carpet cleaner. The elongated solution injection bar having an upper solution distribution and pressure equalization chamber in fluid communication with a lower solution discharge chamber through a solution flow restrictor structured for distributing hot liquid cleaning solution in a substantially uniform flow along substantially the entire length of a cleaning head operating surface. The hot liquid cleaning solution being discharged from the lower solution discharge chamber at a volumetric flow rate of or about 1 gallon per minute (gpm) or less, so that the liquid cleaning solution is discharged to the operating surface as a flood under pressure.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2009Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Inventor: Roy Studebaker
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Patent number: 8453295Abstract: An in-line bagless dry vacuum cleaning appliance having a vacuum conduit within a separator tube, the vacuum conduit having spaced apart first and second vacuum suction apertures communicating with an exhaust connector; a cyclone chamber communicating with an intake connector and encompassing the first vacuum suction apertures for forming a cyclonic flow region between the central vacuum conduit and an interior wall of the separator tube; a particle receiving chamber communicating with the cyclone chamber; an axial cyclone inlet communicating between the cyclone chamber and the intake connector of the separator tube; a particle separator dividing the particle receiving chamber from the cyclone chamber and forming a first transfer gap therebetween adjacent to the interior wall of the separator tube for receiving disentrained particles into the particle receiving chamber from the cyclone chamber; and a filter between the particle receiving chamber and the second vacuum suction aperture.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Inventor: Roy Studebaker
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Publication number: 20120233804Abstract: A rotary surface cleaning machine for cleaning floors, including both carpeted floors and uncarpeted hard floor surfaces including but not limited to wood, tile, linoleum and natural stone flooring. The rotary surface cleaning machine has a rotary surface cleaning tool mounted on a frame and coupled for high speed rotary motion relative to the frame. The rotary surface cleaning tool has a substantially circular operational surface that performs the cleaning operation. The rotary surface cleaning tool is driven by an on-board power plant to rotate at high speed. The rotary surface cleaning tool is coupled to a supply of pressurized hot liquid solution of cleaning fluid and a powerful vacuum suction source.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2011Publication date: September 20, 2012Inventors: Roy Studebaker, William Edward Bruders, Brett Alan Bartholmey, Bill Elmer Richardson, Kevin Andrew Wolfe
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Publication number: 20120042909Abstract: An in-line bagless dry vacuum cleaning appliance having a vacuum conduit within a separator tube, the vacuum conduit having spaced apart first and second vacuum suction apertures communicating with an exhaust connector; a cyclone chamber communicating with an intake connector and encompassing the first vacuum suction apertures for forming a cyclonic flow region between the central vacuum conduit and an interior wall of the separator tube; a particle receiving chamber communicating with the cyclone chamber; an axial cyclone inlet communicating between the cyclone chamber and the intake connector of the separator tube; a particle separator dividing the particle receiving chamber from the cyclone chamber and forming a first transfer gap therebetween adjacent to the interior wall of the separator tube for receiving disentrained particles into the particle receiving chamber from the cyclone chamber; and a filter between the particle receiving chamber and the second vacuum suction aperture.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2010Publication date: February 23, 2012Inventor: Roy Studebaker
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Patent number: 7971369Abstract: A method and apparatus for drying floors and carpets using a fan for generating a pressurized air stream within a vertical cylindrical shroud that is spaced two to five inches away from the floor on a set of legs such that an opening is formed between the shroud and the floor. The air stream is directed along the cylindrical shroud vertically toward the floor. At least a peripheral portion of the air stream is exhausted from the shroud in a substantially laminar flow at an angle that is inclined from the vertical and is exhausted radially into ambient air as a substantially laminar air stream.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2006Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Inventor: Roy Studebaker
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Publication number: 20110155191Abstract: An elongated solution injection bar operable in a cleaning system as a combination dry vacuum and fluid carpet cleaner. The elongated solution injection bar having an upper solution distribution and pressure equalization chamber in fluid communication with a lower solution discharge chamber through a solution flow restrictor structured for distributing hot liquid cleaning solution in a substantially uniform flow along substantially the entire length of a cleaning head operating surface. The hot liquid cleaning solution being discharged from the lower solution discharge chamber at a volumetric flow rate of or about 1 gallon per minute (gpm) or less, so that the liquid cleaning solution is discharged to the operating surface as a flood under pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventor: Roy Studebaker
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Publication number: 20100206344Abstract: An elongated solution injection bar operable in a cleaning system as a combination dry vacuum and fluid carpet cleaner. The elongated solution injection bar having an upper solution distribution and pressure equalization chamber in fluid communication with a lower solution discharge chamber through a solution flow restrictor structured for distributing hot liquid cleaning solution in a substantially uniform flow along substantially the entire length of a cleaning head operating surface. The hot liquid cleaning solution being discharged from the lower solution discharge chamber at a volumetric flow rate of or about 1 gallon per minute (gpm) or less, so that the liquid cleaning solution is discharged to the operating surface as a flood under pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2009Publication date: August 19, 2010Inventor: Roy Studebaker
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Patent number: 7238006Abstract: A method and apparatus for drying floors and carpets using a double impeller fan for generating a pressurized air stream within a vertical cylindrical fan shroud that is spaced two to five inches away from the floor on a set of legs such that an opening is formed between the shroud and the floor. The air stream is directed along the cylindrical shroud vertically toward the floor. At least a peripheral portion of the air stream is exhausted from the shroud in a substantially laminar flow at an angle that is inclined from the vertical and is exhausted radially into ambient air as a substantially laminar air stream.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2004Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Studebaker Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Roy Studebaker
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Patent number: RE39623Abstract: A cleaning head for carpets, walls or upholstery, including a rigid, exterior, open-bottomed main body which defines the surface subjected to the cleaning process. Mounted within or adjacent to the main body portion coplanar with the bottom thereof is the fluid-applying device, which includes a slot at an acute angle to the plane of the bottom of the body located adjacent the plane of the bottom of the body, configured such that the fluid is applied in a thin sheet which flows out of the slot and into the upper portion of the surface to be cleaned and subsequently into the vacuum source for recovery.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Inventor: Roy Studebaker
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Patent number: RE41367Abstract: A cleaning head for carpets, walls or upholstery, including a rigid, exterior, open-bottomed main body which defines the surface subjected to the cleaning process.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2006Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Hydramaster North America, Inc.Inventor: Roy Studebaker