To Form Particulate Product (e.g., Flakes, Etc.) Patents (Class 264/140)
  • Publication number: 20140265003
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a stone speaker is disclosed. The stone speaker is placed in a garden and blended with the environment. Raw stones of various sizes and colors are crashed and provided as a kind of material for the stone speaker. The manual painting spray step is neglected. The stone speakers has an appearance like real natural stone and no disadvantages of the stone speakers made by the manual painting spray step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicants: BLACK CRYSTAL CRAFT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, YUN TONG ELECTRONIC (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Stephen YU, Shu-Hsun KAO
  • Patent number: 8834760
    Abstract: Described herein are extrusion processes to produce hollow pellets. Also disclosed are pelletizer devices that can be used to produce the hollow pellets. The processes and devices make use of an extrusion die having a die orifice and an insert that is placed in the die orifice to produce the hollow pellets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Gala Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Wayne Martin, Roger Blake Wright
  • Publication number: 20140199351
    Abstract: A Personal care 100% plant derived, biodegradable solid granules that sustain beneficial essential oils, and or plant/herbal extracts and emulsify in hot water to create an emulsified therapeutic solution is disclosed. This invention improves over existing liquids in that it's solid granule form is completely plant derived and biodegradable and can sustain essential oils and antioxidants without the requirement of chemical preservatives, and can be packaged in eco-friendly, compostable paper. It improves over existing solid forms in that it is a 100% water soluble granule that emulsifies easily in hot water to form an easy to use liquid product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Inventor: Sarah McCoy
  • Publication number: 20140197564
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing fine particles in which fine particles having a uniform particle size distribution can be simply obtained with a low environmental load. The present invention relates to a method for producing fine particles including the step of preparing minute pieces by cutting a resin film at equal intervals into a width of 0.05 to 500 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Inventors: Masato Tanaka, Takahiro Oomura
  • Publication number: 20140194510
    Abstract: The subject invention provides a solid dispersion of rasagiline citrate, a composition and a process for the manufacture thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Keith Lorimer, David Engers
  • Patent number: 8771455
    Abstract: Provided is a process for production of composite fine particles with heterogeneous surfaces. The process ensures a high productivity and enables a voluntary control of particle diameters. Further, the process imposes no restrictions on heterogeneous substances added for functional expression, and allows a heterogeneous substance to be encapsulated in central portions of composite fine particle spheres. A composite film obtained by laminating two or more kinds of films is cut into minute pieces, followed by melting the same to obtain spherical minute pieces. Particularly, liquid films are separately formed with two or more kinds of liquids containing polymerizable monomers. Further, two or more kinds of films can thereby be obtained through polymerization. The two or more kinds of films thus obtained are then laminated to further allow polymerization to take place, thus obtaining the composite film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignees: Niigata University, Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Masato Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20140179615
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition of glutathione and acetaminophen and preparation method thereof. The active ingredients of the composition include glutathione with composition ration of 0.1%˜99.9% and acetaminophen with composition ratio of 99.9%˜0.1%. The further purpose of the invention is to prepare glutathione and acetaminophen composition (raw materials) into various pharmaceutically acceptable dosage forms, such as tablets, sustained/controlled release preparations, capsules, pills, syrups, films, granules, oral solutions, oral suspensions, oral emulsions and oral powders. The beneficial effects of the invention is reflected in that glutathione and acetaminophen combination can effectively prevent the liver cell damage and necrosis caused by acetaminophen overdose and is strongly in favor of cancer pain relief and chemotherapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Liuyi Wang, Jincan Wang
  • Publication number: 20140167312
    Abstract: A method of preparing a cured thermoplastic material includes curing a thermoplastic polymer having a thermal decomposition temperature greater than or equal to about 200° C., at a temperature of about 200° C. to about 400° C., for a total time of less than or equal to 200 hours. A method of making a shape memory material also includes curing a thermoplastic polymer to prepare a cured thermoplastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jiaxiang Ren, David Gerrard, James Edward Goodson, Ping Duan, Lillian Guo
  • Publication number: 20140167313
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a pellet mill 2 for forming pelleted material, the pellet mill 2 comprising: A die 4 having a cylindrical inner surface 6 with a plurality of apertures 8 formed therein and extending to the outside of the die 4, the volume bounded by said inner cylindrical surface 6 defining a die chamber 10. At least two cylindrical rollers 12, 14, 16 adapted to travel over said inner cylindrical surface 6 of the die 4 in a rolling motion. Drive means for causing relative rotation of the die 4 and the rollers 12, 14, 16, so that the rollers 12, 14, 16 will travel over the inner cylindrical surface 6 of the die 4, thereby forming wedge-shaped spaces 18, 20, 22 between the rollers 12, 14, 16 and the inner cylindrical surface 6 of the die 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: ANDRITZ AG
    Inventors: Jesper Blok, Tomas Kire Hordum, Steen G. Lassen
  • Publication number: 20140159274
    Abstract: A fiber reinforced part is formed from a compression molded thermoplastic resin reinforced with individual fibers of differing lengths randomly oriented substantially throughout the part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: David E. Gideon, Edward M. Fisher, JR.
  • Publication number: 20140145376
    Abstract: A process for homogenizing and pelletizing a polyethylene composition comprising the steps of a) providing a polyethylene composition having a density of from 0.90 g/cm3 to 0.97 g/cm3 and a melt flow rate MFR21.6 at 190° C. under a load of 21.6 kg of from 1 g/10 min to 80 g/10 min, b) melting the polyethylene composition; c) passing the melt through a combination of screens consisting of screens having a mesh opening of at least 205 ?m and comprising at least two screens having a mesh opening of from 205 ?m to 350 ?m; and e) pelletizing the molten polyethylene composition, the use of a polyethylene composition obtained by such a process for the preparation of films, fibers, pipes, blow-molded articles, injection-molded articles, compression-molded articles or rotomolded articles and films, fibers, pipes, blow-molded articles, injection-molded articles, compression-molded articles or rotomolded articles prepared from a polyethylene composition obtained by such a process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhardus Meier, Ulf Schueller, Jens Wiesecke, Decio Malucelli, Marco Consalvi
  • Patent number: 8728368
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a semicrystalline polymer, said method comprising the following steps: producing a polymer melt from a crystallizable polymer; shaping particles and solidifying the polymer melt, the step of shaping the particles being carried out before or after solidification; cooling the particles; treating the particles to reduce their tendency to agglomerate; crystallizing the particles. The invention is characterized in that the treatment is carried out by shaking at a temperature T1 which is below the glass transition temperature of the polymer plus 10° C., i.e. T1<Tg+10° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Bühler Thermal Processes AG
    Inventors: Brent Allan Culbert, Andreas Christel, Mauricio Rodrigues
  • Patent number: 8722839
    Abstract: A fiber comprises a composition including a poly(phenylene ether) having less than or equal to 240 parts per million by weight of hydroxyl groups associated with ethylene bridge groups and less than or equal to 800 parts per million by weight of hydroxyl groups associated with rearranged backbone groups, both amounts based on the weight of the poly(phenylene ether). Fiber of low denier can be formed from this composition. The fiber can be formed by melt spinning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventor: Robert John Hossan
  • Patent number: 8715807
    Abstract: A mixture of fused grains mainly comprising or composed of an oxide phase of pseudo-brookite type and comprising titanium, aluminum and magnesium, the fused grains having the following chemical composition, in weight percentages on the basis of the oxides: less than 55% of Al2O3; more than 30% and less than 70% of TiO2; more than 1% and less than 15% of MgO, the fused grains also corresponding to the following composition, in molar percentages and on the basis of the single oxides Al2O3, TiO2, MgO: 180?3t+a?220, a?50, m=100?a?t, in which: a is the molar percentage of Al2O3; t is the molar percentage of TiO2; m is the molar percentage of MgO. A ceramic product obtained from such fused grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Europeen
    Inventors: Yves Boussant-Roux, Isabelle Cabodi, Samuel Marlin
  • Patent number: 8703833
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to solid surface sheets and methods of making solid surface sheets, wherein the method comprises dissolving post-consumer recycled polystyrene in a first liquid resin precursor to form a blend, solidifying the blend via curing, grinding the solidified blend into recycled particles, adding the recycled particles and filler into a second liquid resin precursor to produce a solid surface precursor, and molding and curing the solid surface precursor to produce the solid surface sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: The Diller Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin O'Brien, Dave Swenson
  • Publication number: 20140079647
    Abstract: The invention features pharmaceutically acceptable salts of cefdinir, including primary, secondary, and tertiary amine salts of cefdinir, and preparation methods, and pharmaceutical compositions including cefdinir. The invention also features water dispersible pharmaceutical dosage forms including cefdinir as active agent and methods for preparing the dosages. The invention also features tablet forms of cefixime characterized in that the tablets are in effervescent form. The invention also features the process for preparing effervescent tablet forms with cefdinir as active agents and pharmaceutical formulations obtained by the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventor: Mahmut BILGIC
  • Publication number: 20140031436
    Abstract: A polylactide hydrosol polymer formulations suitable for thin film articles and methods of making the thin film articles are provided. The formulations and methods can be use to make articles such as gloves, condoms, catheters and the like using dip forming, and various casting processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SMARTHEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: Curtis P. Hamann, Sebastian S. Plamthottam
  • Patent number: 8636929
    Abstract: Process for the production of nanoporous foamed active substance-containing preparations, wherein the active substance is present embedded in a pharmaceutically acceptable polymer, wherein, in stage a) loading of a polymeric molding composition or a polymer melt with a propellant is effected at a pressure and at a temperature at which the propellant is in the supercritical state, in stage b) heating of the laden polymer molding compound or melt is carried out under pressure at a temperature which lies in the range from ?40 to +60° C., preferably ?20 to +55° C., and especially preferably 0 to +50° C. around the glass transition temperature of the unladen (prior to loading) polymeric molding compound and in stage c) a depressurization of the polymeric molding compound or melt laden in stage a) and heated under pressure in stage b) is effected out with a depressurization rate in the range from 15,000 to 200,000 MPa/sec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Basf SE
    Inventors: Jan Kurt Walter Sandler, Ingo Bellin, Dejan Djuric, Karl Kolter, Holger Ruckdäschel
  • Patent number: 8632709
    Abstract: A process for efficiently producing a water-dispersible particulate agricultural-chemical composition having improved disintegrability/dispersibility in water, the composition having a particular size in the range of 50-1,000 ?m. The process is characterized by comprising the following steps (a) to (e): (a) a step of kneading an agricultural-chemical active ingredient, a surfactant, and water; (b) a step of extruding the resultant mixture through a screen having pores 600-2,000 ?m in diameter to form granules; (c) a step of drying the granules; (d) a step of rotating two toothed rolls with irregularities on the surface arranged in parallel to each other, and leading the dried granules to pass between the toothed rolls thereby pulverizing the granules; and (e) a step of sieving the pulverized granules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignees: Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Fujita, Kazunori Kurita
  • Publication number: 20130337015
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions and unit dosage forms comprising Compound I are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventor: Jo Ann Wilson
  • Publication number: 20130320585
    Abstract: A method of preparing R—Fe—B-based rare earth magnetic powder for a bonded magnet and magnetic powder prepared thereby, and a method of manufacturing a bonded magnet using magnetic powder and a bonded magnet manufactured thereby. Further, a method of preparing R—Fe—B-based rare earth magnetic powder having improved magnetic properties including grinding rare earth sintered magnet products as a raw material, performing a hydrogenation process where a ground product is charged into a furnace, and the furnace is then filled with hydrogen and a temperature of the furnace is increased, performing a disproportionation process where the temperature of the furnace is further increased in the same hydrogen atmosphere above, performing a desorption process where hydrogen is exhausted from an inside of the furnace, and performing a recombination process where hydrogen in the inside of the furnace is exhausted, and magnetic powder prepared thereby, and a method of manufacturing a bonded magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials
    Inventors: Ji-Hun Yu, Dongwon Lee, Junggoo Lee
  • Publication number: 20130323507
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substantially flat nanosheet with a first side and a second side, the first side having substantially different properties than the second side. The nanosheet may have self-assembly properties under certain anisotropic conditions such as phase separation boundaries, sheer stresses, friction, temperature gradients, viscosity, density, and/or combinations therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventor: Pavlo Rudenko
  • Patent number: 8597556
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing long-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin pellets, comprising pultruding a plurality of reinforced fiber bundles in a molten thermoplastic resin while twisting the plurality reinforced fiber bundles to form a strand in which the reinforced fibers are coated with the thermoplastic resin, and cutting the strand to a predetermined length to form pellets, wherein the strand is pultruded under the conditions that the melt viscosity of the thermoplastic resin is adjusted such that the melt flow rate is 500 to 1500 g/10 min, and the twisting angle ? of the reinforced fiber bundles with respect to the pultruding direction of the strand is set as follows: 0°<??50°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventor: Takayasu Fujiura
  • Publication number: 20130307172
    Abstract: A method of converting asphaltic shingles to a formed product, comprising the steps of providing a charge of recovered asphaltic shingles, comminuting the charge into small particles, adding to the charge a quantity of hydrated aluminosilicate, heating the charge while simultaneously mixing the comminuted charge to a homogeneous state, placing the mixed charge into molds to form the product, applying pressure to the charge in the mold for a determinable dwell time, ejecting the product from the mold, and cooling the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventors: Steven B. Seder, William E. Pounds, Kent A. Pugsley, Bruce L. Shippey
  • Patent number: 8580171
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of latent heat storage composites is provided. The process comprises the steps of preparation of an expanded graphite material with a bulk density between 5 and 200 grams/liter which is readily wetted by a liquid phase change material, preparation of a pre-compressed matrix or a packed bed of the expanded graphite material, and manufacture of a latent heat storage composite by infiltration of the matrix or a packed bed with a phase change material in a liquid state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: SGL Carbon AG
    Inventors: Martin U. Christ, Oswin H. Ottinger, Jurgen J. Bacher, Bastian Hudler
  • Publication number: 20130280184
    Abstract: Methods of preparing a dentifrice comprising polymer matrix film with a low solubility flavorant therein are disclosed. The methods comprise combining a polymer matrix film that are free of a low solubility flavorant with a dentifrice base comprising a low solubility flavorant and maintaining the combined polymer matrix film with the dentifrice base comprising low solubility flavorant for an amount of time sufficient for an amount of a low solubility flavorant to transfer from the dentifrice base comprising low solubility flavorant to the polymer matrix film Products comprising low solubility flavorant-free polymer matrix film in a dentifrice base comprising low solubility flavorant are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Ben Gu, Mahmoud Hassan
  • Patent number: 8562882
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the continuous production of semicrystalline polycondensate pellets. Said method comprises the following steps: producing a polycondensate material; shaping polycondensate pellets and solidifying the polycondensate melt in a liquid cooling medium, wherein the shaping of the pellets can be carried out prior to or after solidification; separating the pellets from the liquid cooling medium once the polycondensate pellets have cooled down to an average temperature that lies within the crystallization temperature range of the polycondensate; and crystallizing the pellets in a treatment chamber, the treatment gas being led in said treatment chamber in a countercurrent to the polycondensate pellets, the flow rate of the treatment gas being above the incipient fluidization point of the polycondensate pellets and the polycondensate pellets having a narrow dwell time spectrum in the treatment chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Bühler AG
    Inventors: Fernando Eusebio, Brent Allan Culbert, Andreas Christel, Peter Locker
  • Publication number: 20130274296
    Abstract: A method of preparing an orally ingestible hard boiled product, comprising: i) heating a sugar material to a first temperature sufficient to liquefy the sugar material; ii) cooling the liquefied sugar material to provide a cooled sugar material having a solid or semi-solid form; iii) heating the cooled sugar material to a second temperature, which is lower than the first temperature; iv) combining the sugar material with one or more temperature sensitive ingredients before, during, or after said heating step iii), but after said cooling step ii), such that an intimate mixture of the second liquefied sugar material and the one or more temperature sensitive ingredients is provided; and v) cooling the intimate mixture to form an orally ingestible product. Orally ingestible hard boiled products prepared according to this method are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Thaddeus J. Jackson, Frank Kelley St. Charles
  • Patent number: 8529812
    Abstract: Pearls based on expanded polymers are produced by extruding an expandable composition containing a thermoplastic polymer and an expanding agent, and thereafter cooling and chopping the expanded material thus obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Rhodia Polyamide Intermediates
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Estur, Eric Roche, Jean-Francois Briois
  • Patent number: 8529808
    Abstract: Process for the production of nanoporous polymer foams, comprising the stages a) loading of a single-phase, thermoplastic polymer melt with a gas under a pressure and at a temperature at which the gas is in the supercritical state, b) heating of the laden polymer melt to a temperature which lies in the range from 40° C. under to 40° C. over the glass transition temperature of the unladen polymer melt determinable by means of DSC according to DIN-ISO 11357-2 at a heating rate of 20 K/min, c) depressurization of the polymer melt loaded in stage a) and heated in stage b) with a depressurization rate in the range from 15,000 to 200,000 MPa/sec, and the nanoporous polymer foams with a cell count in the range from 1,000 to 100,000 cells/mm and a density in the range from 10 to 500 kg/m3 obtainable according to the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jan Kurt Walter Sandler, Timothy Francis, Pedro Manuel Sampaio Lopes
  • Publication number: 20130214198
    Abstract: In order to provide a noise suppression sheet whose imaginary part magnetic permeability ??, representing a magnetic loss component, is large at a GHz-band frequency, thus having an excellent noise suppression effect, the noise suppression sheet comprises a flat magnetic powder having a saturation magnetostriction of 12.0×10?6 or more and 38.0×10?6 or less and an organic binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: NEC TOKIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiyuki IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20130216471
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing chromium(III) oxide by reaction of alkali metal chromate with gaseous ammonia, subsequent hydrolysis, isolation of the hydrolysis product and calcination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: LANXESS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Ortmann, Matthias Stenger, Matthias Boll, Holger Friedrich
  • Publication number: 20130203759
    Abstract: Disclosed are compressed tablets containing atazanavir sulfate and an acidifying agent, optionally with another active agent, e.g., anti-HIV agents, and optionally with precipitation retardant agents. Also disclosed are processes for making the tablets, and methods of treating HIV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Faranak Nikfar, Munir Alwan Hussain, Feng Qian
  • Publication number: 20130172175
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are photocatalyst powder and a production method thereof, and by having photocatalyst particles corn binded without reduction of a specific surface area, the reduction of the specific surface area is nearly none while the pores are developed, as well as the absorption rate with respect to light is superior, the method of producing photocatalyst powder includes forming initial photocatalyst powder by molding nanoparticles of photocatalyst substance into a certain shape through extrusion, and splitting the initial photocatalyst powder into a plurality of photocatalyst powder by injecting the initial photocatalyst powder into a predetermined splitting solution, the initial photocatalyst powder being split into the plurality of photocatalyst powder by the predetermined spliting solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130172509
    Abstract: Microfabricated particles are dispersed throughout a matrix to create a composite. The microfabricated particles are engineered to a specific structure and composition to enhance the physical attributes of a composite material. The microfabricated particles are generated by forming a profile extrudate. A profile extrudate is an article of indefinite length that has a cross sectional profile of a desired structure with micro-scale dimensions. Upon or after formation, the profile extrudate may be divided along its length into a plurality of microfabricated particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Interfacial Solutions IP, LLC
    Inventors: Adam R. Pawloski, Jeffrey Jacob Cernohous
  • Patent number: 8445552
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to solid surface sheets and methods of making solid surface sheets, wherein the method comprises dissolving post-consumer recycled polystyrene in a first liquid resin precursor to form a blend, solidifying the blend via curing, grinding the solidified blend into recycled particles, adding the recycled particles and filler into a second liquid resin precursor to produce a solid surface precursor, and molding and curing the solid surface precursor to produce the solid surface sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: The Diller Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin O'Brien, Dave Swenson
  • Patent number: 8444892
    Abstract: In order to manufacture articles in the form of sheets or blocks of conglomerate stone or stone-like material, single mixes are prepared in mixers (18a,b,c,) arranged in a line and at intervals along a conveyor belt (12), each mixer depositing on said conveyor belt a layer of single mix which is arranged on top of the mix deposited by the mixer immediately upstream, forming a multiple mix which is then fed in an axially offset position to a rotating support (24) provided with homogenizing means and then passes to the vacuum vibrocompression section, after a deaeration step. A crushing device (32) is inserted between each mixer and the underlying belt so as to control the size of the agglomerations in each mix. Means (34) are envisaged for cleaning the upper surface (12a) of the conveyor belt (12) and the crushing devices (32) between the cycles for preparation of the multiple mix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Inventor: Luca Toncelli
  • Publication number: 20130119575
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for recycling plastic waste material, including shredding the waste material in a universal shredder apparatus and washing the waste material. The apparatus and method includes a dryer apparatus for drying substantially all moisture from the plastic, and an agglomeration process that is performed in an agglomeration apparatus which receives the dry film material from the dryer and creates a course mix of chopped material. Multiple in-line extruders process the cleaned plastic with filter screens positioned after each extruder to mix and filter the plastic into a final uniform mixed product harvested by a pelletizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: NEXTLIFE ENTERPRISES, LLC
    Inventor: NEXTLIFE ENTERPRISES, LLC
  • Publication number: 20130123433
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing poly(allylamine) hydrochloride, sevelamer hydrochloride, sevelamer carbonate and colesevelam hydrochloride. The present invention also relates to a process for preparing oly(allylamine) hydrochloride, sevelamer hydrochloride, sevelamer carbonate and colesevelam hydrochloride with low allylamine content and high specific gravity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: FORMOSA LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: YU-LIANG LIU, CHING-PENG WEI
  • Publication number: 20130115397
    Abstract: A moulded article comprising sugar beet pulp is provided. In addition a method of making the such moulded articles is described. Such articles are particularly useful in the packaging of food; and for medical applications where moulded articles are needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicants: 3B SOLSTAR LIMITED, AB AGRI LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Tom Holmes, William Barry Jones
  • Publication number: 20130109659
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oral pharmaceutical compositions comprising co-crystals of tramadol and celecoxib and processes for the preparation of these oral pharmaceutical compositions. The present invention also relates to methods of using oral pharmaceutical compositions comprising co-crystals of tramadol and celecoxib as medicaments, more particularly for the treatment of pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: LABORATORIOS DEL DR. ESTEVE, S.A.
    Inventors: Luis Soler Ranzani, Albert Falivene Aldea
  • Publication number: 20130069270
    Abstract: A granulating method is a method in which powder containing a water-soluble component is granulated. In the disclosed granulating method, a dispersion element, wherein fine water droplets are dispersed in superheated steam, is expelled from a nozzle, and thus the dispersion element and powder in a flowing state come into contact with one another. It is preferable that the mass ratio of superheated steam contained in the dispersion element, as a mass ratio found from the theoretical flow amount of superheated steam expelled from the nozzle, and the actual flow amount of water supplied to the nozzle, be set in a range of 20-70 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicants: POKKA CORPORATION, INCORPORATED ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY NATIONAL AGRICU
    Inventors: Itaru Sotome, Seiichiro Isobe, Takao Katagiri, Takashi Inoue, Hironobu Mano, Joju Niida, Hirokazu Takeuchi, TAkeshi Itou, Yuichiro Mizoguchi
  • Publication number: 20130045338
    Abstract: Microstructured pigments include a dielectric core having a diffraction grating. The microstructured dielectric core is encapsulated with one or more encapsulation layers which are deposited using chemical vapor deposition in a fluidized bed. The fluidizing conditions allow for providing uniform and highly-conforming encapsulation layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventor: Alberto Argoitia
  • Patent number: 8361358
    Abstract: A method of recycling fiberglass reinforced plastics. The steps include grinding used fiber reinforced plastic material such as scraps with a grinder into a predetermined length to form a grinded reinforced plastic material. The grinded reinforced material is then mixed with a mixing agent to form a composite material that is heated in order to cure the composite material to form a panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Astoria Industries of Iowa, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Wolf
  • Patent number: 8361362
    Abstract: A method for supplying molten polymer and expanding agent flows to a mixing area, by dispersing the expanding agent in a polymer melt by a rapid dividing mixing in a first static mixer, holding and intensively dividingly mixing the thus obtained mixture in a second static mixer, cooling the mixture, during mixing, in a third static mixer to an intermediate temperature, cooling the mixture to a granulation temperature, extruding polymer threads and subsequently quenching and granulating them. During processing, a weight ratio between the polymer melt flow Gp and the expanding agent flow GBA ranges from 13.0 to 19.0, a temperature in the first static mixer for rapid dividing mixing is calculated according to formula (I), in the second and third static mixed according to formulas (II) and (III), respectively, wherein GBA max. is the quantity of a maximum possible expanding agent flow, GBBct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sulzer Chemtech Ltd.
    Inventors: Maxim Nikolaevich Rogov, Halyl Halafovich Rahimov, Marat Hafisovich Ishmijarov, Sergei Ivanovich Mjachin, Alexej Vladimirovich Prokopenko, Alexandr Alexeevich Krasheninnikov, Irina Vladimirovna Mjasitsheva, Leonid Isaakovich Ginzburg, Eugenia Michailova Tarkova
  • Patent number: 8343395
    Abstract: A powder particle shaping device includes a closed cavity capable of changing between multiple shapes as an external pressure changes, and the closed cavity compresses and moves powder particles with which the closed cavity is filled full while the shape changes. A powder particle shaping method is further provided, which includes a. filling a cavity full with powder particles to be shaped; and b. applying a varying external pressure to make the cavity change repeatedly between multiple shapes, thereby making the powder particles under compression move and be subject to friction, where the cavity is kept in a closed state during an effective processing process. The shaping device and method have highly controllable shaping processing intensity of powder particles and stable processing strength, and thus are applicable to shaping and pulverization of various powder particles, and also applicable to pulverization and further shaping processing of dispersed agglomerates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Inventors: Xinyu Hu, Xijun Hu
  • Patent number: 8334018
    Abstract: A method of preparing a green-ceramic pigment for reduction firing using copper oxide that includes mixing tin oxide (SnO2) and copper oxide (CuO); providing a fired product by applying oxidation firing to the mixture at a firing temperature of 1000 to 1300° C.; and grinding the fired product. Aspects also provide a green-ceramic pigment prepared by this method, as well as a method of manufacturing a green ceramic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Myongji University Industry and Academia Cooperation Foundation
    Inventor: Byung-Ha Lee
  • Patent number: 8326024
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a three-dimensional object from a solidifiable material such as a photopolymer is shown and described. In accordance with the method, positions relative to a build axis are subdivided into first and second exposure data subsets, and the first and second exposure data subsets are solidified in alternating sequences to reduce the surface area of solidified material in contact with a solidification substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Global Filtration Systems
    Inventors: Alexandr Shkolnik, Ali El-Siblani
  • Publication number: 20120301387
    Abstract: A known method for producing a porous carbon product comprises producing a monolithic template from inorganic matrix material having pores connected to each other, infiltrating the pores of the template with carbon or a carbon precursor substance forming a green body framework containing carbon surrounded by matrix material and calcining the green body framework forming the porous carbon product. In order to provide a method proceeding herefrom which permits cost-effective production of a product from porous carbon, according to the invention the production of the template comprises a soot separation process in which a hydrolyzable or oxidable starting compound of the matrix material is supplied to a reaction zone, therein converted to matrix material particles by hydrolysis or pyrolysis, the matrix material particles are agglomerated or aggregated and formed to the template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: HERAEUS QUARZGLAS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Christian Neumann
  • Publication number: 20120302119
    Abstract: A short-cut, water non-dispersible polymer microfiber is provided comprising at least one water non-dispersible polymer wherein the water non-dispersible polymer microfiber has an average fineness of less than 1 denier per filament; and wherein said water non-dispersible short-cut polymer microfiber has an aspect ratio of about 300 to about 1000. A process for producing water non-dispersible polymer microfibers and a process for producing nonwoven articles are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark Dwight Clark, Melvin Glenn Mitchell, Marvin Lynn Mitchell