Patents by Inventor Scott Charles Andrews

Scott Charles Andrews 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).

  • Process for fabricating a colored powder coating composition from solid filaments
    Patent number: 11396112
    Abstract: A process for fabricating a powder coating composition having a desired color from solid input filaments. A plurality of solid input filaments is fed to a mixer in accordance with an input formulation for a color. The input filaments are liquefied at the mixer, and the liquefied input filaments are combined together in the mixer into an extrudate mixture. The extrudate mixture is removed from the mixer, solidified, and then the solidified extrudate mixture is milled into a powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Inventor: Scott Charles Andrews
  • PROCESS FOR FABRICATING A COLORED POWDER COATING COMPOSITION FROM SOLID FILAMENTS
    Publication number: 20210016468
    Abstract: A process for fabricating a powder coating composition having a desired color from solid input filaments. A plurality of solid input filaments is fed to a mixer in accordance with an input formulation for a color. The input filaments are liquefied at the mixer, and the liquefied input filaments are combined together in the mixer into an extrudate mixture. The extrudate mixture is removed from the mixer, solidified, and then the solidified extrudate mixture is milled into a powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventor: Scott Charles Andrews
  • Process and system for fabricating a colored powder coating composition from solid filaments
    Patent number: 10836077
    Abstract: A process and system for rapidly fabricating small batches of powder coating compositions having desired colors from one or more solid input filaments. An additive manufacturing filament fabricator feeds one or more single-color solid polymer input filaments into a heated mixer in accordance with an input formulation to be liquefied and mixed to produce a homogenous extrudate mixture. The extrudate mixture is solidified on an extrudate receiving platform and is then comminuted by an extrudate mill into a finished powder coating composition having a desired color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Inventor: Scott Charles Andrews
  • PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR FABRICATING A COLORED POWDER COATING COMPOSITION FROM SOLID FILAMENTS
    Publication number: 20190077047
    Abstract: A process and system for rapidly fabricating small batches of powder coating compositions having desired colors from one or more solid input filaments. An additive manufacturing filament fabricator feeds one or more single-color solid polymer input filaments into a heated mixer in accordance with an input formulation to be liquefied and mixed to produce a homogenous extrudate mixture. The extrudate mixture is solidified on an extrudate receiving platform and is then comminuted by an extrudate mill into a finished powder coating composition having a desired color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventor: Scott Charles Andrews