Patents by Inventor Bernard L. Lantz

Bernard L. Lantz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6874769
    Abstract: A mass transfer column is provided with an external shell defining an internal region. Packing elements are positioned within the internal region of the mass transfer column. The packing elements have one or more plates formed from sheet material that has been shaped to form a plurality of corrugations on each side of the plate as a series of peaks separated by valleys. A plurality of apertures are arranged across at least a portion of the plate and a plurality of tangs extend outwardly from the surface of the plate surrounding at least some of the apertures. At least some of the outwardly extending tangs are deformed toward the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Koch-Glitsch, LP
    Inventors: Bernard L. Lantz, Brian Hanley, Garry M. Gibson, Timothy L. Holmes
  • Publication number: 20040135270
    Abstract: A mass transfer column is provided with an external shell defining an internal region. Packing elements are positioned within the internal region of the mass transfer column. The packing elements have one or more plates formed from sheet material that has been shaped to form a plurality of corrugations on each side of the plate as a series of peaks separated by valleys. A plurality of apertures are arranged across at least a portion of the plate and a plurality of tangs extend outwardly from the surface of the plate surrounding at least some of the apertures. At least some of the outwardly extending tangs are deformed toward the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Bernard L. Lantz, Brian Hanley, Garry M. Gibson, Timothy L. Holmes
  • Patent number: 5520460
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a static-mixing element, which method comprises forming selected subassemblies of the static-mixing element, having at least two layers of mixing blade elements, in a lattice-type structure, assembling the subassemblies in position in a fixture, joining the subassemblies together, to form the static-mixing element or one or more subassembly modules, and then joining the subassembly modules together, to form the entire static-mixing element. The subassemblies may be prepared of metal, by investment-casting or sintering, or a plastic or ceramic, by molding, and the subassemblies and subassembly modules formed by welding, sintering, bonding or fusing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Koch Engineering Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Bernard L. Lantz
  • Patent number: 5435061
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a static-mixing element, which method includes forming selected subassemblies of the static-mixing element, having at least two layers of mixing blade elements, in a lattice-type structure, assembling the subassemblies in position in a fixture, joining the subassemblies together, to form the static-mixing element or one or more subassembly modules, and then joining the subassembly modules together, to form the entire static-mixing element. The subassemblies may be prepared of metal, by investment-casting or sintering, or a plastic or ceramic, by molding, and the subassemblies and subassembly modules formed by welding, sintering, bonding or fusing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Koch Engineering Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Bernard L. Lantz