Patents by Inventor Stephan J. Verosto

Stephan J. Verosto 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: 7374668
    Abstract: An oil/water separator tank having intake, discharge and vent fittings is conditioned for in-situ cleaning of the oil separator plate stacks positioned therein by selective opening of manual valves connected to each of such fittings. When so conditioned by opening of the manual valves, the in-situ cleaning is performed during repeated operational phases under automated control of solenoid operated and motor driven valves through which a plurality of sequential operational steps are performed, consisting of (a) low pressure air injected into an air sparging array within the separator tank, (b) supply of potable water into a mixing tank; (c) mixing of the potable water with the cleaning agent within the mixing tank; (d) introduction of the cleaning agent after the mixing thereof into the separator tank to enhance in-situ cleaning by dispersing the low pressure air from the air sparging array; and (e) drainage of collected waste oil from the separator tank into a waste oil tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Mario DiValentin, Stephan J. Verosto, Richard R. Leung, Mitchell E. Price
  • Patent number: 7163107
    Abstract: In-situ cleaning of the bilgewater processing plates of stacks within a treatment tank chamber of a 50-gpm oil/water separator is performed by an injected chemical cleaning agent dispersed by diverted flow of pressurized air introduced into the tank chamber below the plate stacks by emergence of air bubbles from plural branches of an air sparging array system positioned in underlying alignment with crest formations on the processing plates. The air sparging array system consists of an upper and lower tank arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Stephan J. Verosto, Mario DiValentin, David O. Ferchau, Michael Honan, J. William Citino, III, David E. Freshcoln
  • Patent number: 6659290
    Abstract: In-situ cleaning of the bilgewater processing plates of stacks within the tank chamber of an oil/water separator is performed by an injected chemical cleaning agent while being dispersed by diverted flow of pressurized air introduced into the tank chamber below the plate stacks in the form of air bubbles emerging from plural branches of an air sparging array positioned in underlying alignment with crest formations of the processing plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: John J. Lawson, Steven A. Stetz, Stephan J. Verosto, Nete M. Poret, Richard R. Leung
  • Patent number: 6138724
    Abstract: A storage chamber within a paint dispensing reservoir tank is maintained led with paint from a refill paint source during recirculation of such paint through a paint cleansing filter within the chamber for supply of filter cleansed paint to a paint dispensing outlet under control of a metering system involving use of a valve controlled air-powered pump and flow metering regulating cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Rimi O. Rivera, James M. McDonnell, Drew F. Jackson, Stephan J. Verosto, Jr., Steven A. Stetz, David J. Barnes, Michael R. Murnane