Patents by Inventor Richard E. Mindler

Richard E. Mindler 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: 5336348
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a coherent vermiculite film which can be performed on a continuous basis. An exemplary method comprises the steps of providing a non-flocculated dispersion of delaminated vermiculite platelets, providing a flexible release carrier having a surface operative for retaining thereupon a wet film of said dispersion and further operative for releasing the vermiculite film when dried, applying a wet vermiculite film to the moving carrier, and drying the vermiculite film, whereby the dried film is releasable from the carrier. The flexible release carrier preferably comprises paper having a release agent coating thereon. The invention also provides a flexible carrier-supported releasable vermiculite film, a film made from an vermiculite-aziridine composition, a composition of vermiculite and an aziridine, and a composition of vermiculite and amine resulting from an aziridine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1994
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn.
    Inventor: Richard E. Mindler