Patents by Inventor Colin James Drayrer

Colin James Drayrer 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: 4048012
    Abstract: In a nuclear-reactor power-generating installation having a main and an auxiliary steam-generating boiler, both arranged to receive heat from the reactor core (for example by circulation of reactor coolant gas), and having a turbogenerator which includes a multistage steam turbine through whose stages the steam from the main boiler passes in sequence, there being a steam reheater unit connected between two of the stages to provide reheating of the steam from the main boiler, the invention provides that the auxiliary boiler is connected to supply to the reheater unit steam which reheats the said steam from the main boiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1977
    Assignee: Nuclear Power Company (Whetstone Limited)
    Inventors: Brian Victor George, Colin James Drayrer