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RE: [compost_tea] (Cryptic post)



Hello All,
 
I hope everyone is well and getting ready for a wonderful holiday with family and friends. 
 
Regarding the cryptic post and the patent description, Point 23 is a description of the air bubbler process of making CT.  It appears they are attempting to patent the air bubble process of making CT, a process that Elaine has mentioned as being years old.  This is nothing more than the classic bucket bubbler method, with a compost basket.
 
Happy Holidays

Matthew Ryan
Research Technician
The Rodale Institute
611 Siegfriedale Road
Kutztown, PA 19530
(610) 683-1405

Below is a previous message from Elaine:
 
The drawings are just the drawings of the Growing Solutions machine.  Jsut the internal specs on that particular machine.  No big deal.  But the first claim, and point 23 have to be a basis for denial of the patent. 

How do we get that information to the patent office?   We were making air bubbler tea makers for years before he drew up the plans for his machine.

Elaine
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: soilfoodweb@aol.com [mailto:soilfoodweb@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:25 AM
To: compost_tea@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] (Cryptic post)

Sorry for the cryptic post - I was working on this, got distracted, and put it in the "to be sent", and when I sent some other e-mails, it got mailed as well.

But let me ask everyone, what is this a description of? 

I'll repeat the description here:

23. A method for producing compost tea, comprising the steps of: (a) filling a tank with a quantity of liquid; (b) providing a source of compost; (c) introducing said compost into a perforate container configured for allowing liquid to flow through said perforations but for retaining particulate matter in said compost within said container; (d) immersing said perforate container in said liquid; (e) bubbling air through said liquid by generating bubbles in said tank to thereby circulate said fluid in said tank and through said perforate container to maintain a desired dissolved oxygen concentration in said fluid and to extract microorganisms and nutrients from said compost into said liquid; (f) maintaining said bubbling for a period of time sufficient to allow said microorganisms to reproduce.

What is being described?  What is it that this person is attempting to patent?

Give it a guess.  The first person to e-mail back with the right explanation gets a free foodweb sample from SFI. 

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com

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