Joseph M Bentvelzen

20080189194, Aug 7, 2008

Dec 21, 2007

11/963676

Joseph Bentvelzen - Edgewood WA, US

Vitality, Inc. - Edgewood WA

G06F 17/30
G06Q 30/00
G06Q 90/00

705 27, 705 26

Systems and methods for customized fitting, building and selling of footwear are disclosed herein. Additionally, footwear assemblies formed using such systems and methods are herein disclosed. Some embodiments of systems can substantially automate and increase accuracy of a customer-specific footwear custom-fitting process while decreasing cost and increasing the convenience of maintaining and tracking a retail footwear inventory. Systems and methods disclosed herein can be used by a provider of footwear (e.g., shoes, boots, sandals, slippers, etc.), such as a retailer or manufacturer, to produce and sell custom-fit, custom-built footwear for a customer. Moreover, the systems and methods can be used to select and build custom-fit footwear for each customer's foot at on on-site location (e.g., retail store, etc.) without the need for on-site complex shoe manufacturing equipment or the services of a professional shoe-maker.

46844422, Aug 4, 1987

Apr 1, 1985

6/718188

Michael D. Meredith - Tacoma WA
Joseph M. Bentvelzen - Sumner WA
Marvin F. Jordan - Longview WA

Weyerhaeuser Company - Tacoma WA

D21C 910
D21C 1106
B01D 1900

162242

A small deaeration tank which may be either at atmospheric pressure on under low pressure or vacuum and a system of operating this tank which allows pulp which has been treated with oxygen to be deaerated before being washed. A closed tank would allow steam or oxygen to be recovered. Preferably it would be the same diameter as an oxygen reactor so that it could be placed on top of the reactor and be supported by the reactor. It would have no moving parts, so there would be no need for motors to be mounted on or near the tank. The deaerator is a small open tank having an inlet pipe, an outlet pipe, and a tangential swirl inducing inlet pipe. The locations and sizes of these pipes provide optimum deaeration. The swirl inducing fluid is the filtrate from the washer after the oxygen bleach.