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Michael E. Brown
Michael E. Brown, Orlando, FL US
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| 20090255142 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRYING CLOTHES - A drying apparatus and method are disclosed. The drying apparatus includes a drying compartment and a heating device that heats air to be provided to the compartment. The heating device includes a coil through which is conducted a heated liquid, and the air is heated as it passes along the coil. The heated liquid can be provided from a source internal or external to the drying apparatus and in at least some embodiments is heated water provided from a hydronic heating device located internal to the drying apparatus. In at least some embodiments, the heated air provided through the drying compartment is returned to the heating device and recirculated through the compartment. In at least some of these embodiments, the heated air emanating from the drying compartment passes through a condensing device that removes moisture from the air before it is returned to the heating device. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20110099834 | HEAT DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR A FABRIC CARE APPLIANCE - A drying machine includes a housing; a drying compartment assembly including a drum having a drum pressure; a guide apparatus for guiding air in a path; an air moving apparatus for moving air through the guide apparatus; a heating apparatus for heating air moving through the guide apparatus; power means for providing power to components of the dryer including at least the drying compartment assembly, guide apparatus, air moving apparatus, heating apparatus, and control apparatus; a control apparatus for controlling at least one of the drying compartment assembly, the guide apparatus, the air moving apparatus, the heating apparatus, the power means; and, restrictor means for restricting the air flow rate through the guide apparatus entering the drum whereby the drum pressure is more than trivially lower than ambient air pressure. | 05-05-2011 |
Michael E. Brown, Kings Mlll, OH US
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| 20110030166 | CARRIER CAR DOOR ASSEMBLY - Carrier car door assemblies respectively comprising a carrier car comprising a body, a door, a drive mechanism, a driven mechanism, and a magnetic release mechanism are disclosed herein. The carrier car travels along a track system between teller and customer stations to transport materials there-between. The door is connected to the body and movable between a door-closed position and a door-open position. The drive mechanism is connected to the body and to the driven mechanism so that the drive and driven mechanisms synchronously move between respective door-closed positions and door-open positions. The magnetic release mechanism is connected to the driven mechanism and moves from a magnetically coupled state to a magnetically de-coupled state when a user manually moves the door from the door-open position to the door-closed position. The magnetic release mechanism in the magnetically coupled state synchronously moves with the driven mechanism between door-closed and door-open positions. | 02-10-2011 |
Michael E. Brown, Hull GB
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| 20110030275 | MOISTURE RESPONSIVE DEVICE AND METHOD - A moisture responsive device is described having a moisture responsive element comprising at least a moisture responsive formation of a first material in association with a less moisture responsive formation of a second material, in that the first material has a greater tendency to absorb moisture and to increase in volume as a result than the second material, the two formations being so mechanically arranged together that such swelling tends to cause mechanical deformation of the moisture responsive element; and an actuation member optionally of flexibly resilient material in mechanical association with the moisture responsive element so that distortion of the moisture responsive element in the presence of moisture tends to mechanically distort the actuation member and thereby cause the actuation member to change between at least a first functional state and a second functional state. A method of use, especially in irrigation control, is also described. | 02-10-2011 |
Michael E. Brown, Kings Mill, OH US
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| 20100166509 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR A PNEUMATIC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A blower assembly for a pneumatic carrier transmission system including a first blower for supplying air; a second blower for exhausting air, wherein the first and second blowers are connected in series; and a dual passageway connecting device connected to and in communication with the first and second blowers, the dual passageway connecting device comprising a connecting tee having a tee inlet, a first tee outlet in communication with the tee inlet, and a second tee outlet in communication with the tee inlet, a first valve connected to and in communication with the first tee outlet, a first passageway connected to and in communication with the first valve, a second valve connected to and in communication with the second tee outlet, and a second passageway connected to and in communication with the second valve, wherein the first blower is operable to supply air through the first passageway and the second blower is operable to exhaust air through the second passageway. A pneumatic carrier transmission system including a first terminal; a second terminal; a transmission conduit connecting the first and second terminals in fluid communication with each other; a dual passageway connected to and in fluid communication with the transmission conduit; a first blower for supplying air to the transmission conduit; a second blower for exhausting air from within the transmission conduit to outside the transmission conduit; a first, non-controlled check valve connected to the transmission conduit for exhausting air from within the transmission conduit; and a second, non-controlled check valve connected to the transmission conduit for permitting air into the transmission conduit. | 07-01-2010 |
Michael E. Brown, Issaquah, WA US
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| 20090327459 | On-Demand Capacity Management - Dynamically upsizing and/or downsizing a network farm in response to network demand. An application message router routes messages to the network farm. When the network farm approaches or is anticipated to be approaching capacity, a group of one or more servers may be added to the network farm. When the added server(s) are capable of participating in the network farm, the application message router is triggered to route also to the added servers. When the network farm has excess capacity, a group of one or more servers may be dropped from the network farm. This may be accomplished by triggering the application message router to no longer route messages to the removed servers. The removed servers may be either immediately or gracefully removed from service. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327460 | Application Request Routing and Load Balancing - An application request router that routes incoming application message to various servers in a network farm, even though the original network request itself does not directly specify which server is to handle the request. The application request routing module uses intra-farm routing policy and characteristics of the request itself to identify which of the servers is to handle the message and then dispatches the message to the appropriate server. This allows a user to reconfigure the network farm by reconfiguring the capabilities of the servers in the network farm, and then altering the routing policy accordingly to take advantage of the reconfigured network farm capabilities. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100057837 | SHARED HOSTING USING HOST NAME AFFINITY - The routing of requests in a shared hosting environment. The shared hosting environment includes a network farm of servers, each capable of processing the request corresponding to the host name. When a request is received, a router determines whether or not there is already a host name affinitization of subset of the servers to the host name corresponding to the request. If so, the message is dispatched to one of those affinitized servers. If not, one or more of the servers are affinitized to the host name to create a subset of affinitized server(s) for that host name. Different host names may have different subsets of servers that they are affinitized to. Over time, the affinitization may be terminated as appropriate. | 03-04-2010 |