Patents by Inventor Jacques Griffon

Jacques Griffon 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: 6576184
    Abstract: A tank for liquid metal processing tilting about an axis and fed by a fixed chute and pouring the liquid metal into a fixed evacuating chute. The tank includes at least a passage hole for supplying, discharging, or emptying the liquid metal arranged in one of its walls and extended by a mobile nozzle integral with the tank. At least the fixed evacuation chute merges with the tilting axis and the nozzle. Further, the fixed chute is assembled together by a linking device articulated in rotation about the tilting axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Pechiney Rhenalu
    Inventor: Jacques Griffon
  • Patent number: 6527042
    Abstract: The roll body (110) of the invention for a continuous casting machine is able to carry a cylindrical shell (111) in its central part and includes a cooling circuit (200), the circuit having at least one cooling liquid supply conduit (30), at least one cooling liquid evacuation conduit (40), at least one distribution collector (70), at least one evacuation collector (80), at least one distribution pipe (50, 60) connecting each collector to the corresponding conduit, and a plurality of ring channels (90) connecting the supply and evacuation collectors, the collectors and ring channels being used to place the cooling liquid circulating in the circuit in contact with the inner surface of the shell (111) such as to cool the shell, and is characterized in that the collectors (70, 80) are arranged such as to produce both in the peripheral direction and in the longitudinal direction an alternation of distribution collectors (70) and evacuation collectors (80).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Pechiney Rhenalu
    Inventors: Jacques Griffon, Claude Breysse