Patents by Inventor Shawn R. Sweeney

Shawn R. Sweeney 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).

  • Patent number: 9737900
    Abstract: An in-situ applicator for applying a composition in a pipe comprises a flow diverter configured to receive a composition and eject the composition from at least one outlet. The applicator also comprises a hollow conical body having a narrow end, a broad end, and an interior surface configured to receive the composition ejected from the flow diverter. The conical body also has a plurality of holes forming a band that wraps circumferentially around the conical body which defines a flow region on the interior surface between the band and the narrow end. The band includes first holes adjacent to the flow region where each of the first holes has a first average diameter and second holes disposed between the first holes and the broad end, each of the second holes having an average diameter greater than the first diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Clinton L. Jones, Ryan B. Prince, Cori S. Apel, Scott M. Fabozzi, Carson MacCallum, Shawn R. Sweeney
  • Publication number: 20160303605
    Abstract: A portable delivery system for delivering a multiple part coating composition for in situ coating an internal pipeline surface comprises a housing including a controller, at least two composition containers, a first hose, a hose delivery system, a pump, and at least two mass flow meters. The composition containers contain differing compositions, and each container includes a composition depth monitoring apparatus. The first hose comprises at least two additional hoses, where two of the additional hoses each deliver one of the compositions to a composition applicator. The hose delivery system stores and delivers the first hose to the pipeline, and the pump is coupled to the composition containers and the first hose. The mass flow meters are each coupled to a pump outlet corresponding to an outlet of the respective first or second composition container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Clinton L. Jones, Shawn R. Sweeney, Scott M. Fabozzi, Cori S. Griesgraber, Ryan B. Prince, Carson MacCallum
  • Publication number: 20150367359
    Abstract: An in-situ applicator for applying a composition in a pipe comprises a flow diverter configured to receive a composition and eject the composition from at least one outlet. The applicator also comprises a hollow conical body having a narrow end, a broad end, and an interior surface configured to receive the composition ejected from the flow diverter. The conical body also has a plurality of holes forming a band that wraps circumferentially around the conical body which defines a flow region on the interior surface between the band and the narrow end. The band includes first holes adjacent to the flow region where each of the first holes has a first average diameter and second holes disposed between the first holes and the broad end, each of the second holes having an average diameter greater than the first diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Clinton L. Jones, Ryan B. Prince, Cori S. Apel, Scott M. Fabozzi, Carson MacCallum, Shawn R. Sweeney