Patents by Inventor Michael Sheppard Bolmer
Michael Sheppard Bolmer 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).
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Publication number: 20220211211Abstract: A heating device includes a flexible housing that defines a plurality of heater segments. Each heater segment includes a first compartment containing a first reactant, a second compartment containing a second reactant, and a frangible seal between the first compartment and the second compartment. The first reactant and the second reactant are configured to react exothermically upon contact with one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Michael Sheppard Bolmer, Alan James Maskell, Cullen M. Sabin, Corey R. Blanchette
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Patent number: 11072481Abstract: A metallic product compartment of a single-use, self-heating container has melted onto one or more of its surfaces and re-solidified a shaped fusible material containing a reaction suppressant. A method of manufacturing includes providing the product container, positioning the fusible material, as a solid, in contact with a metallic wall of the container, heating at least a portion of the metallic wall with an electromagnetic induction heater to at least partially melt a portion of the fusible material, and enabling the melted portion of the fusible material to cool and re-solidify, thereby adhering the fusible material to the metallic wall.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2015Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Tempra Technology, Inc.Inventors: Zbigniew R. Paul, Cullen M. Sabin, Michael Sheppard Bolmer
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Patent number: 10478015Abstract: A self-heating assembly includes a product container for holding a product to be heated and a heater container coupled to the product container. There is a reaction space between the product container and the heater container. There is a support structure (made, for example, of open cell foam) in the reaction space and a granular second reactant distributed throughout the support structure. There is a liquid first reactant in the reaction space. A frangible membrane is configured so that, when intact, it separates the liquid first reactant from the support structure and from the granular second reactant. The liquid first reactant and the granular second reactant are adapted to exothermically react upon contact with one another. The support structure is permeable to the liquid first reactant and is configured to support and substantially maintain the distribution of the granular second reactant throughout the support structure before and during the exothermic chemical reaction.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Tempra Technology, Inc.Inventors: Cullen M. Sabin, Alan James Maskell, Michael Sheppard Bolmer
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Publication number: 20160338530Abstract: A self-heating assembly includes a product container for holding a product to be heated and a heater container coupled to the product container. There is a reaction space between the product container and the heater container. There is a support structure (made, for example, of open cell foam) in the reaction space and a granular second reactant distributed throughout the support structure. There is a liquid first reactant in the reaction space. A frangible membrane is configured so that, when intact, it separates the liquid first reactant from the support structure and from the granular second reactant. The liquid first reactant and the granular second reactant are adapted to exothermically react upon contact with one another. The support structure is permeable to the liquid first reactant and is configured to support and substantially maintain the distribution of the granular second reactant throughout the support structure before and during the exothermic chemical reaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Cullen M. Sabin, Alan James Maskell, Michael Sheppard Bolmer
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Publication number: 20150314943Abstract: A metallic product compartment of a single-use, self-heating container has melted onto one or more of its surfaces and re-solidified a shaped fusible material containing a reaction suppressant. A method of manufacturing includes providing the product container, positioning the fusible material, as a solid, in contact with a metallic wall of the container, heating at least a portion of the metallic wall with an electromagnetic induction heater to at least partially melt a portion of the fusible material, and enabling the melted portion of the fusible material to cool and re-solidify, thereby adhering the fusible material to the metallic wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2015Publication date: November 5, 2015Inventors: Zbigniew R. Paul, Cullen M. Sabin, Michael Sheppard Bolmer
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Patent number: 9108789Abstract: A method for adhering a shaped fusible material (6) to a portion of a metallic container wall (2) comprising applying the shaped material to said wall portion in a contacting relationship, heating said wall portion with an induction heater to melt the contacting surface of the shaped fusible material, and cooling the assembly to re-solidify the melted surface of the fusible material; and products of the foregoing method.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2007Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Tempra Technology, Inc.Inventors: Zbigniew R. Paul, Cullen M. Sabin, Michael Sheppard Bolmer
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Patent number: 8369694Abstract: A vaporizing dispenser comprising a user-activatable chemical reaction heat source and a volatile compound inside a container such that convection currents from the activated heat source volatilize the volatile compound and carry it out of the container.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Tempra Technology, Inc.Inventors: Kevin J. Pitz, Michael Sheppard Bolmer, Zbigniew R. Paul, Cullen M. Sabin, Martin W. Sabin
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Publication number: 20100260491Abstract: A vaporizing dispenser comprising a user-activatable chemical reaction heat source and a volatile compound inside a container such that convection currents from the activated heat source volatilize the volatile compound and carry it out of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: TEMPRA TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Kevin J. Pitz, Michael Sheppard Bolmer, Zbigniew R. Paul, Cullen M. Sabin, Martin W. Sabin
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Publication number: 20100239877Abstract: A method for adhering a shaped fusible material (6) to a portion of a metallic container wall (2) comprising applying the shaped material to said wall portion in a contacting relationship, heating said wall portion with an induction heater to melt the contacting surface of the shaped fusible material, and cooling the assembly to re-solidify the melted surface of the fusible material; and products of the foregoing method.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2007Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: TEMPRA TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Zbigniew R. Paul, Cullen M. Sabin, Michael Sheppard Bolmer
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Publication number: 20100089381Abstract: A user-activatable, flexible heat pack (100, 300) has two opposed major surfaces. (102,104/302,304) The heat pack includes a first chamber (106,306) containing a first reactant and a second chamber (108,308) containing a second reactant. The first and second reactants are adapted to react exothermically with one another when mixed. The first (106,306) and second (108,308) chambers are separated by a frangible seal (112,312). A third chamber (110,310) contains solid-to-liquid phase change material that is substantially across one of the opposed major surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2007Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: Tempra Technology, Inc.Inventors: Michael Sheppard Bolmer, Kevin J. Pitz
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Publication number: 20080245358Abstract: Chemical heating using a first reactant, a second reactant and a complexing agent adapted to complex reversibly with the first reactant and, thereby moderate the reaction between the first and second reactants. The heating formula is particularly well suited for heaters that are used to heat materials having relatively high viscosities.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2006Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: Tempra Technology, Inc.Inventors: Michael Sheppard Bolmer, Kevin J. Pitz
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Patent number: 5714651Abstract: A method for extending the life of catalyst used to fluorinate olefins, e.g. a supported Lewis acid catalyst in the catalytic hydrofluorination of vinylidene chloride by conducting the hydrofluorination in the presence of a polymerization inhibitor for the vinylidene chloride.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1995Date of Patent: February 3, 1998Assignee: Elf Atochem North America, Inc.Inventors: Maher Yousef Elsheikh, Michael Sheppard Bolmer
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Patent number: 5639924Abstract: Process for synthesizing 1,1,1-trifluoroethane (143a) in the gaseous phase by reacting 1,1-defluoro-1-chloroethane in gaseous phase in the presence of a Cr catalyst. The process may be run isothermally or adiabatically, without co-feeding air or other oxygen containing gas, in the presence or absence of a Ni, Co, Zn or Mn cocatalyst for the Cr catalyst. The catalyst may be unsupported or supported with a support preferably selected from activated carbon, alumina and fluorided alumina. The formation of olefin byproduct can be kept to less than 10 ppm in accordance with the process of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 1994Date of Patent: June 17, 1997Assignee: Elf Atochem North America, Inc.Inventors: Maher Yousef Elsheikh, Michael Sheppard Bolmer, Jean Pierre Schirmann, John Aloysius Wismer, Wayne E. Brooks