Patents by Inventor Thomas Stirling

Thomas Stirling 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).

  • Publication number: 20110036372
    Abstract: The present invention relates to hard surface cleaning, and has as an object to provide a next time cleaning benefit. The invention provides the use of citric acid and/or a salt of citric acid for facilitating the removal of soil, in particular fatty soil, from a hard surface. Therewith the object of the invention has been achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventor: Thomas Stirling
  • Publication number: 20050214143
    Abstract: A solids entrainment and quick disconnect system for a vertical or submersible pump is disclosed in which a pump distribution plate having guide members is provided for positioning near the floor of a well or sump to facilitate the entrainment of solids into the pump inlet. The quick disconnect system comprises an angled discharge adaptor that allows the pump to be vertically lowered onto the pump distribution plate in a manner to not only assure registration and sealing of the pump inlet to the pump distribution plate, but to provide comprehensive mating and sealing of the pump discharge outlet to the discharge piping of the sump or pit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Stirling, David Rondosh
  • Patent number: 6010687
    Abstract: A deodorant composition for topical application to human skin characterised in that it comprises an effective amount of polyhexamethylene biguanide and an effective amount of chlorhexidine in a cosmetically acceptable carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.
    Inventors: Caroline-Ann Margaret Cox, Thomas Stirling
  • Patent number: 5045202
    Abstract: Apparatus and system for increasing the efficiency of absorption of oxygen by biodegradable waste and particle break-up thereof, by introducing waste and gas, which may be air, into a collector under a highly agitated state, and agitating the air and waste under pressure in the collector by the impeller of a centrifugal pump as back pressure is provided in the collector. The collector is mismatched relative to the impeller to increase the retention and mixing time of the air and waste in the collector. The collector within the impeller forms a pump designed to operate close to its shut-off condition for increased retention time in the collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Inventors: Donald M. Stearns, Walter D. Haentjens, Thomas Stirling