Patents by Inventor Robert D. Mutch

Robert D. Mutch 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: 20140072373
    Abstract: A treatment slurry is emplaced in soil in columns formed by displacement of soil by a direct push rod, a vibrating beam, or otherwise. The treatment slurry is pumped into the impression created as the rod or vibrating beam is withdrawn from the subsurface, creating a vertical column in the subsurface with a cross-sectional shape of the rod or vibrating beam that is filled with the treatment slurry. The vertical columns are spaced at suitable distances to allow for diffusion of a treatment agent in the treatment slurry into the surrounding soils or sediments to treat the target contaminants in the subsurface soils or sediments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventor: Robert D. Mutch
  • Patent number: 4335978
    Abstract: Induced hydraulic intragardient system for, and method of preventing flow migration of liquid leachate from, a secure landfill arrangement, which contemplatesa low permeability inner primary liner for confining liquid leachate containing waste material landfill and a low permeability outer secondary liner for separating the arrangement from the surrounding subsurface formation thereat, and an intermediate permeable piezometric pressure blanket separating the liners from each other,plus a supply mechanism for supplying sufficient control liquid, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1982
    Inventor: Robert D. Mutch