Patents by Inventor René Vinzenz Blum

René Vinzenz Blum 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).

  • Publication number: 20170190915
    Abstract: The present invention concerns the technical sector of mineral pigments containing a product formed in situ by the double and/or multiple reaction between a calcium carbonate and the reaction product or products of the said carbonate with one or more moderately strong to strong H3O+ion donors and the reaction product or products of the said carbonate with gaseous CO2 formed in situ and/or coming from an external supply, and at least one aluminium silicate and/or at least one synthetic silica and/or at least one calcium silicate and/or at least one silicate of a monovalent salt such as sodium silicate and/or potassium silicate and/or lithium silicate, and/or at least one aluminium hydroxide and/or at least one sodium and/or potassium aluminate, containing less than 0.1% by weight silicate of a monovalent salt such as sodium, potassium or lithium silicate or mixtures thereof, relative to the dry weight of calcium carbonate, having a pH greater than 7.5 measured at 20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Patrick Gane, Matthias Buri, René Vinzenz Blum
  • Patent number: 9644101
    Abstract: The present invention concerns the technical sector of mineral pigments containing a product formed in situ by the double and/or multiple reaction between a calcium carbonate and the reaction product or products of the said carbonate with one or more moderately strong to strong H3O+ ion donors and the reaction product or products of the said carbonate with gaseous CO2 formed in situ and/or coming from an external supply, and at least one aluminum silicate and/or at least one synthetic silica and/or at least one calcium silicate and/or at least one silicate of a monovalent salt such as sodium silicate and/or potassium silicate and/or lithium silicate, and/or at least one aluminum hydroxide and/or at least one sodium and/or potassium aluminate, containing less than 0.1% by weight silicate of a monovalent salt such as sodium, potassium or lithium silicate or mixtures thereof, relative to the dry weight of calcium carbonate, having a pH greater than 7.5 measured at 20° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Patrick Gane, Matthias Buri, Rene Vinzenz Blum
  • Publication number: 20170081208
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a process for the preparation of an aqueous solution comprising at least one earth alkali hydrogen carbonate and its uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Matthias Buri, Samuel Rentsch, Patrick A.C. Gane, René Vinzenz Blum, Martine Poffet
  • Publication number: 20170009076
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a mineral filler product is disclosed, the process comprising a step of dry grinding a calcium carbonate-containing material in a mixture obtained by contacting the calcium carbonate-containing material with at least one grinding agent selected from specific styrene-maleic anhydride co-polymers and/or specific derivatives of styrene-maleic anhydride co-polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Samuel Rentsch, René Vinzenz Blum, Patrick A.C. Gane
  • Patent number: 9243122
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a calcium carbonate containing material having increased bulk density at equal or improved flowability, and a method of producing such a material. The inventive process comprises the step of contacting a calcium carbonate containing mineral powder with a solution or emulsion or dispersion of a binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Patrick A. C. Gane, Matthias Buri, René Vinzenz Blum, Samuel Rentsch
  • Publication number: 20150240056
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a surface treated filler material product with succinic anhydride(s), a surface treated filler material product, a polymer composition, a fiber and/or filament and/or film and/or thread comprising the surface treated filler material product and/or the polymer composition, an article comprising the surface treated filler material product and/or the polymer composition and/or the fiber and/or filament and/or film and/or thread as well as the use of a mono-substituted succinic anhydride for decreasing the hydrophilicity of a calcium carbonate-containing filler material surface and the use of a surface-treated filler material product for initiating the crosslinking reaction in epoxide resins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Samuel Rentsch, Matthias Buri, René Vinzenz Blum, Martin Brunner, Patrick A.C. Gane
  • Publication number: 20150175772
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a calcium carbonate containing material having increased bulk density at equal or improved flowability, and a method of producing such a material. The inventive process comprises the step of contacting a calcium carbonate containing mineral powder with a solution or emulsion or dispersion of a binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Patrick A.C. Gane, Matthias Buri, René Vinzenz Blum, Samuel Rentsch
  • Patent number: 8999055
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a calcium carbonate containing material having increased bulk density at equal or improved flowability, and a method of producing such a material. The inventive process comprises the step of contacting a calcium carbonate containing mineral powder with a solution or emulsion or dispersion of a binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Patrick A. C. Gane, Matthias Buri, René Vinzenz Blum, Samuel Rentsch
  • Publication number: 20150010458
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a process for the preparation of an aqueous solution comprising at least one earth alkali hydrogen carbonate and its uses. The process may be carried out in a reactor system comprising a tank (1) equipped with a stirrer (2), at least one filtering device (4) and a grinding device (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Matthias Buri, Samuel Rentsch, Patrick A.C. Gane, René Vinzenz Blum, Martine Poffet
  • Publication number: 20140360940
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a process for the preparation of an aqueous solution comprising at least one earth alkali hydrogen carbonate and its uses. The process is carried out in a reactor system that comprises a tank (1) equipped with a stirrer (2) and at least one filtering device (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Matthias Buri, Samuel Rentsch, Patrick A.C. Gane, René Vinzenz Blum, Martine Poffet
  • Publication number: 20140341792
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an installation for the purification of minerals, pigments and/or fillers and/or the preparation of precipitated earth alkali carbonate and/or mineralization of water and to the use of such an installation for the purification of minerals, pigments and/or fillers and/or mineralization of water and/or the preparation of precipitated earth alkali carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Matthias Buri, Samuel Rentsch, Patrick A.C. Gane, René Vinzenz Blum
  • Patent number: 8808849
    Abstract: The present invention relates to composites comprising inorganic micro pigments and/or fillers in the form of surface-phosphated microparticles, whose surface is at least partially coated with finely divided with alkaline earth carbonate nanoparticles by means of binders based on copolymers comprising as the monomers one or more dicarboxylic acids and one or more monomers from the group of diamines, triamines, dialkanolamines or trialkanolamines and epichlorohydrin, a method for producing such composites, aqueous slurries thereof and the use thereof in papermaking or in the field of production of paints and plastics as well as the use of the binders for the coating of microparticles with nano alkaline earth carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Patrick A. C. Gane, Matthias Buri, René Vinzenz Blum, Catherine Jean Ridgway
  • Patent number: 8808855
    Abstract: The present invention relates to composites comprising inorganic micro pigments and/or fillers in the form of surface-phosphated microparticles, whose surface is at least partially coated with finely divided with alkaline earth carbonate nanoparticles by means of binders based on copolymers comprising as the monomers one or more dicarboxylic acids and one or more monomers from the group of diamines, triamines, dialkanolamines or trialkanolamines and epichlorohydrin, a method for producing such composites, aqueous slurries thereof and the use thereof in papermaking or in the field of production of paints and plastics as well as the use of the binders for the coating of microparticles with nano alkaline earth carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Patrick A. C. Gane, Matthias Buri, René Vinzenz Blum, Catherine Jean Ridgway
  • Publication number: 20140147370
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a calcium carbonate containing material having increased bulk density at equal or improved flowability, and a method of producing such a material. The inventive process comprises the step of contacting a calcium carbonate containing mineral powder with a solution or emulsion or dispersion of a binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: Patrick A.C. Gane, Matthias Buri, René Vinzenz Blum, Samuel Rentsch
  • Patent number: 8685532
    Abstract: The present invention relates to composites comprising inorganic micro pigments and/or fillers in the form of surface-phosphated microparticles, whose surface is at least partially coated with finely divided with alkaline earth carbonate nanoparticles by means of binders based on copolymers comprising as the monomers one or more dicarboxylic acids and one or more monomers from the group of diamines, triamines, dialkanolamines or trialkanolamines and epichlorohydrin, a method for producing such composites, aqueous slurries thereof and the use thereof in papermaking or in the field of production of paints and plastics as well as the use of the binders for the coating of microparticles with nano alkaline earth carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Patrick A. C. Gane, Matthias Buri, René Vinzenz Blum, Catherine Jean Ridgway
  • Patent number: 8563642
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for dry grinding one or more mineral materials which include at least calcium carbonate. The process includes a) crushing the mineral material or materials in at least one crushing unit until a crushed material is obtained with a d95 of less than 10 cm, and dry grinding the material in at least one grinding unit (i) in the presence of at least one comb-type hydrophilic polymer containing at least polyalkylene oxide function grafted on to at least one unsaturated ethylene monomer, and (ii) in such a manner that the quantity of liquid in the grinding unit is less than 15% by dry weight of the material crushed in the crushing unit, wherein recovered material has a d50 of 0.5 to 500 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Matthias Buri, Patrick A. C. Gane, René Vinzenz Blum
  • Patent number: 8541494
    Abstract: The present invention relates to composites comprising inorganic micro pigments and/or fillers in the form of surface-phosphated microparticles, whose surface is at least partially coated with finely divided with alkaline earth carbonate nanoparticles by means of binders based on copolymers comprising as the monomers one or more dicarboxylic acids and one or more monomers from the group of diamines, triamines, dialkanolamines or trialkanolamines and epichlorohydrin, a method for producing such composites, aqueous slurries thereof and the use thereof in papermaking or in the field of production of paints and plastics as well as the use of the binders for the coating of microparticles with nano alkaline earth carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Patrick A. C. Gane, Matthias Buri, René Vinzenz Blum, Catherine Jean Ridgway
  • Publication number: 20130164411
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for treating water and the use of calcium carbonate in such a process. In particular, the present invention is directed to a process for remineralization of water comprising the steps of providing feed water, and injecting gaseous carbon dioxide and a slurry into the feed water, wherein the slurry comprises micronized calcium carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Michael Skovby, Martine Poffet, Matthias Buri, René Vinzenz Blum
  • Patent number: 8444071
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for dry grinding one or more mineral materials which include at least calcium carbonate. The process includes a) crushing the mineral material or materials in at least one crushing unit until a crushed material is obtained with a d95 of less than 10 cm, and dry grinding the material in at least one grinding unit (i) in the presence of at least one comb-type hydrophilic polymer containing at least polyalkylene oxide function grafted on to at least one unsaturated ethylene monomer, and (ii) in such a manner that the quantity of liquid in the grinding unit is less than 15% by dry weight of the material crushed in the crushing unit, wherein recovered material has a d50 of 0.5 to 500 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Omya Development AG
    Inventors: Matthias Buri, Patrick A. C. Gane, René Vinzenz Blum
  • Patent number: 8440298
    Abstract: The present invention provides a product obtained by a method of dry milling a mineral material in at least one milling unit: (i) in the presence of at least one polyalkylene glycol polymer having monomer units forming a backbone, where at least 90% of the monomer units forming the backbone of the polymer are constituted by ethylene oxide, propylene oxide or their mixtures, and where the polymer has a molecular weight of at least equal to 400 g/mole, and (ii) in a quantity of water that is less than 10% in dry weight of the material in the milling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignees: Omya Development AG, Coatex S.A.S.
    Inventors: Patrick A. C. Gane, Matthias Buri, René Vinzenz Blum, Jacques Mongoin