Patents Represented by Attorney Charles L. Harness

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  • Scale inhibiting process
    Patent number: 4001134
    Abstract: A process for inhibiting scale formation in sea water distillation plants by adding threshold quantities of copolymers of maleic anhydride with allylacetate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1977
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.
    Inventors: Sheldon Boris Markofsky, Jacob Block
  • Ammonium and potassium isobutyrates as pathogen growth inhibitors and growth stimulators
    Patent number: 3958009
    Abstract: This invention is the use of ammonium and potassium isobutyrates as a means for inhibiting the growth of plant and animal pathogenic and non-pathogenic organisms. Another effect of this invention is the improvement in the rate of weight gain in animals which have been treated with these isobutyrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1976
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.
    Inventors: Paul D. Lepore, Peter A. Hahn
  • Milk production
    Patent number: 3956482
    Abstract: The invention involves feeding certain rumen microorganisms to dairy cattle to increase milk production, butter fat, and non-fat milk solids. The microorganisms are especially cultured on and adapted to a high concentrate nutrient medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1976
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.
    Inventors: Peter A. Hahn, Kamal M. Abdo
  • Plate conveying apparatus
    Patent number: 3949865
    Abstract: Plates, e.g. aluminum, are carried from one station to another in a plate treating apparatus by means of stabbing a pin into the plate at two points, thereby to brad the plate to at least two anvils. The anvils move on an endless chain from station to station, and the plate is released from the anvils at the final station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1976
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.
    Inventors: William C. Guenst, Jr., Gerold Litschi