Thomas E Hartmann

US Patent:

7028922, Apr 18, 2006

Filed:

Jan 13, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/756628

Inventors:

Brian T. Leonard - Woodcliff Lake NJ, US
Thomas C. Hartmann - Ledgewood NJ, US

International Classification:

B05B 7/30

US Classification:

239318, 137893, 137 4, 137903

Abstract:

A soap dispenser system includes a venturi suction tube having a soap supply bore intersecting the main through bore; a soap dispenser controlling dispensing of soap from a container; and a supply tube connecting the soap dispenser to the soap supply bore of the suction tube; the soap dispenser including an inner tube having fluidly connected with the supply tube, an outer tube movably mounted over the inner tube and connected with the container, the outer tube fluidly connected with soap from the container and adapted to be fluidly connected with the inlet of the inner tube, a spring applying pressure between the inner tube and the outer tube in a direction to move them apart, a valve permitting soap to enter the inlet of the inner tube only when the outer tube is moved toward the inner tube against the force of the biasing device.

US Patent:

7378020, May 27, 2008

Filed:

Jul 23, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/524664

Inventors:

Robert Ieraci - Franklin Square NY, US
Thomas K. Hartmann - Huntington Station NY, US
David Newman - Marlton NJ, US
Nicholas Zerilli - Flushing NY, US

Assignee:

Pall Corporation - East Hills NY

International Classification:

B01D 39/00
B01D 29/46
B29C 65/00

US Classification:

21050036, 21050027, 210490, 156247, 264DIG 47

Abstract:

A porous fluoropolymer membrane comprising a first surface, a second surface, nodes and free fibrils, wherein one of the first and second surfaces has a greater number of free fibrils per unit area of the surface than the other of the first and second surfaces, is disclosed. A process for preparing porous fluoropolymer membranes is also disclosed, comprising splitting a thicker membrane in a dimension different from, e. g. , perpendicular to, its thickness dimension.