Stephen T Potter

US Patent:

8251015, Aug 28, 2012

Filed:

May 6, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/116139

Inventors:

Stephen D. Potter - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

A01K 45/00
A01K 29/00

US Classification:

119 695

Abstract:

A birdbath is disclosed that recirculates water and includes a substantially hollow pedestal that supports a basin. The pedestal forms a water reservoir therein and has an open top end and a sealed bottom end. The basin has an inner wall and an outer wall, both of which are joined at least at a peripheral edge of the basin and separated by a distance sufficient to allow the water to flow therebetween. The outer wall is open at a central portion and is adapted for engaging the open top end of the pedestal for attaching the basin thereto. The inner wall has an aperture formed therethrough at a center portion thereof, and at least one drainage aperture formed proximate the peripheral edge of the basin. A water pump is disposed within the reservoir of the pedestal for pumping water from the reservoir through a basin supply conduit, through the aperture of the inner wall, and into the basin. Once the water reaches the at least one drainage aperture, it drains between the inner and outer walls, and flows through the central portion of the outer wall and back into the reservoir.

US Patent:

20080142612, Jun 19, 2008

Filed:

Dec 14, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/611062

Inventors:

Stephen Dale Potter - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

B05B 17/08
B05B 17/00

US Classification:

239 17, 239211

Abstract:

An adjustable variable-effect fountain for a liquid, such as water, is disclosed. A support frame includes an upper support level, under which a pump is adapted to fit. The support frame includes a base that has a substantially hollow, water impermeable enclosure with an open top end. A cover plate having at least one apertures therein is adapted to fit at least partially within the top open end of the base to form the upper support level. An elongated pipe has an upper open end and a lower end adapted to engage an outlet port of the pump, and at least one of the apertures in the cover plate is of sufficient size to receive the pipe therethrough. A plurality of stackable members each include at least one aperture therethrough, each aperture being of sufficient size to receive the pipe therethrough. A bottom-most member is supported by the upper support level of the support frame. The plurality of stackable members are each stacked one-on-another on the support frame with the elongated pipe traversing one of the at least one apertures of each stackable member. As such, a user may stack the stackable members in any order and in any rotational orientation to produce any one of numerous waterfall effects.

US Patent:

20140290643, Oct 2, 2014

Filed:

Nov 6, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/073836

Inventors:

Stephen Potter - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

F23C 7/00
F24B 1/19
F24B 1/198
F24B 1/181

US Classification:

126512, 126519, 126518, 431126

Abstract:

A burner for consuming a fuel includes a base with a lower end, an upper end, and at least one side wall. A fuel inlet port of the upper end of the base includes at least an inner wall and a bottom wall. At least one helical conduit is fixed outside of the inner wall of the fuel inlet port and conveys air from an open lower end thereof to an opposing open top end thereof at the upper end of the base. A bottom end of an annular glass burning chamber is fixed with the upper end of the base, such that the second end of the at least one conduit terminates therebetween. As such, the fuel in the fuel inlet port mixes with the air entering the burning chamber from the at least one helical conduit and burns in a helical pattern within the burning chamber.