Patents Represented by Attorney Connolly Bove Lodge and Hutz
  • Patent number: 6071984
    Abstract: This invention relates to reinforced thermoplastic moulding compositions prepared from biodegradable polymers, for example aliphatic or polyester amides, aliphatic polyester urethanes, and to the use thereof for the production of mouldings and to the mouldings, wherein the reinforcing materials are selected from wood flour, fibres of natural origin, minerals of natural origin, cellulose and cellulose derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ernst Grigat, Hanns Peter Muller, Wolfgang Schulz-Schlitte, Aziz El Sayed, Ralf Timmermann
  • Patent number: 6071690
    Abstract: Plastic articles made of ionomeric modified poly-ether-ester are stored in a cryogenic fluid containing receptacle. The articles may be tubing or bags or articles of surgical equipment or clothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Denco, Inc.
    Inventor: Dudley W. C. Spencer
  • Patent number: 6069115
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the control of weeds at a crop locus, said method comprising the application of an effective amount of:(a) a glyphosate herbicide which is glyphosate or a derivative thereof; and(b) at least one HPPD-inhibiting herbicide;wherein the crop is tolerant to glyphosate and optionally the HPPD-inhibiting herbicide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Agrochimie
    Inventors: Ken Pallett, Richard Derose, Bernard Pelissier, Alain Sailland, Thomas Edward Vrabel
  • Patent number: 6069227
    Abstract: The present invention relates to curable coatings comprising oligomeric condensation products of aromatic tri- or tetracarboxylic acids and dihydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Bayer A.G.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Podszun, Ludger Heiliger, Michael Mager
  • Patent number: 6069264
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transition metal compound of the formula I ##STR1## where M.sup.1 is a transition metal of group IIIb, IVb, Vb or VIb of the Periodic Table of the Elements,Y are identical or different and are each a hydrogen atom, an OH group, a halogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.40 -hydrocarbon-containing group or an NR.sup.15.sub.2 group, where R.sup.15 is a halogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl group or a C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 -aryl group, k is an integer which corresponds to the valence of the transition metal atom M.sup.1 minus two and, if Y is a butadiene unit, k is 1,R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.7, R.sup.8 and R.sup.9 are identical or different and are each a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.40 -hydrocarbon-containing group, an --SiR.sup.15.sub.3, --NR.sup.15.sub.2, --SiOR.sup.15.sub.3, --SiSR.sup.15.sub.3 or --PR.sup.15.sub.2 radical, where R.sup.15 is a halogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl group or a C.sub.6 -C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Targor GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Riedel, Gerhard Erker, Martin Konnemann
  • Patent number: 6069181
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for obtaining polyarylene sulfide from polyarylene sulfide-containing material. For this purpose, the polyarylene sulfide-containing material is treated with a solvent in which it dissolves, and is subsequently reprecipitated. The invention also relates to the purification of polyarylene sulfide-containing material by separating off extraneous substances, to polyphenylene sulfide particles having a specific surface area of at least 80 m.sup.2 /g and to their use as filter material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Bruck, Andreas Schleicher
  • Patent number: 6068306
    Abstract: A window locking arrangement includes a keeper having a locking tab and a lock having a cam member which is rotatably movable into contact with the locking tab. The inner surface of the cam member is flat at its locked location of contact with the keeper tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Inventor: Richard H. Brautigam
  • Patent number: 6065358
    Abstract: An arrangement determines the height of a multilayer stream of articles such as the rod-shaped cigarettes of the tobacco industry. The arrangement includes a flexible elongate member connected to move up and down with the uppermost articles in the multilayer stream as the height thereof varies. The flexible elongate member has a first end fixed in place and an opposite end connected to a weight which moves in a vertical direction as the flexible elongate member moves up and down in response to the height of the multilayer stream of articles. The flexible elongate member is trained around an idler roller, and a sensor is spaced directly below the weight for determining the elevation thereof. Such elevation is directly related to the height of the multilayer stream of articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Philip Morris Incorporated
    Inventor: Larry Wayne Shepherd
  • Patent number: 6066365
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of low-dust granules, which comprises applying an aqueous solution or suspension of a hydrate-forming compound to a particulate starting material, the particulate starting material being at a temperature below the transition temperature of the hydrate-forming compound during the application of the aqueous solution or suspension and the aqueous solution being at a temperature above the transition temperature, effecting granulation subsequently or simultaneously and, if desired, drying the granules obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Jaekel, Gerd Reinhardt, Gerhard Noltner
  • Patent number: 6063557
    Abstract: A color photographic silver halide material in which at least one of the blue-sensitive silver halide emulsions is doped with mercury and is spectrally sensitised with a sensitising dye of formula (I) ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.2, independently of each other, denote O, S, Se, NR,R denotes alkyl or carboxyalkyl,R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 or R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 denote the remaining members for the completion of a phenanthro- or anthraazole ring, and the remaining R.sub.1 or R.sub.3 radical denotes a hydrogen atom,R.sub.4 and R.sub.5, independently of each other, denote a hydrogen atom, alkyl or aryl, orR.sub.4 and R.sub.5 jointly denote the remaining members of an unsubstituted or substituted benzazole, naphthazole, phenanthro- or anthraazole,S.sub.1 and S.sub.2, independently of each other, denote alkyl, sulphoallyl or carboxyalkyl, andM.sup.+ denotes a cation which is possibly necessary for charge equalisation,is distinguished by an improved latent image stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Cuong Ly, Maria Nietgen, Michael Missfeldt, Heinz-Horst Teitscheid, Edgar Draber, Markus Geiger
  • Patent number: 6063880
    Abstract: If a catalyst consisting of an aluminoxane and a metallocene of the formula I ##STR1## in particular R.sup.5 R.sup.6 C (Ind).sub.2 or R.sup.5 R.sup.6 C (Ind).sub.2 Zr(CH.sub.3).sub.2, is employed for the polymerization of olefins of the formulaR.sup.9 CH.dbd.CHR.sup.10(R.sup.9, R.sup.10 =H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.28 alkyl), the isotacticity of the polymer wax and hence the hardness and melting point can be varied simply by changing the polymerization temperature, without the molecular weight of the polymer being noticeably changed at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Targor GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Winter, Jurgen Rohrmann, Volker Dolle, Martin Antberg, Walter Spaleck
  • Patent number: 6062836
    Abstract: A gear pump comprising two gearwheels moving in opposite senses, the gears whereof engage with one another and thus, separated from one another in a pressure-tight manner, form a delivery side and a suction side; a central plate wherein the gearwheels are accommodated; a front and rear covering plate, which seal the gear pump from the environment, and conventional means of connecting the plates with one another, of supporting the gearwheels, of driving at least one of the gearwheels and of supplying and removing the liquid being pumped, during the delivery of silver halide emulsions exhibits no silver deposits--which bring the pump to a halt--on its faces, if on each face of each gearwheel there is provided at least one indentation having a sharp rear edge viewed in the direction of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Agfa-Gavaert N.V.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Julicher, Gerald Gaumitz, Gert Huppertz
  • Patent number: 6061951
    Abstract: A plastic film covers the compost in a mushroom bed during the spawn run step of the mushroom growing procedure. It is during this step that the spawn begins to colonize the compost with mycelium. The plastic cover is vented by having a pattern of symmetrically arranged holes throughout its area so as to prevent or minimize moisture loss and prevent airborne pathogens from landing on the compost. The vented cover also reduces the CO.sub.2 level while increasing the oxygen rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Gourmet's Delight Mushroom Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Richard E. Pia
  • Patent number: 6063949
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stereorigid metallocene compound having as ligands at least two substituted or unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl groups which are connected to one another via a five-membered ring, where at least one cyclopentadienyl group is fused onto the five-membered ring and the ligand system of the stereorigid metallocene compound is different from 4-[.eta..sup.5 -3'-alkylcyclopentadienyl)-4,6,6-trimethyl-(.eta..sup.5 -2-alkyl-4,5-tetrahydropentalene]. The metallocene compound of the invention is suitable as a catalyst component for olefin polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Targor GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Aulbach, Frank Kuber, Michael Riedel, Freddy Helmer-Metzmann
  • Patent number: 6063180
    Abstract: Magnetic iron oxide-containing granules for producing toners or inks, the granules comprising 95.0 to 99.8 wt. % of a magnetic iron oxide-containing compound and 0.2 to 5.0 wt. % of a binder, wherein the magnetic iron oxide-containing compound has an iron content of 50 to 73 wt. %, and wherein the granules have the following properties: a lightness under brightening L* of 40 to 79 CIELAB units, a color cast a* of -1.0 to 4.0 CIELAB units, a color cast b* of 0.0 to -7.0 CIELAB units, an average particle size of 30 to 250 .mu.m, and a residue of less than 2 wt. % in a flow properties test having a 1 mm sieve and 400 strokes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Bayer AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Korschen, Ulrich Meisen
  • Patent number: 6063483
    Abstract: A biaxially oriented polypropylene film is described. The base ply of the film contains at least 90% by weight of a polypropylene prepared by means of a metallocene catalyst. This polypropylene is distinguished by a mean isotactic block length of greater than 40, an n-heptane soluble fraction of less than 1% and a ratio of the weight average molecular weight M.sub.w to the number average molecular weight M.sub.n of less than 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Herbert Peiffer, Detlef Busch, Thomas Dries, Gunter Schlogl, Andreas Winter, Detlef Schuhmann
  • Patent number: 6063850
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flame-retardant thermoplastic molding composition obtained by treating a mixture containing from 60 to 90% by weight of a thermoplastic polyester and from 10 to 40% by weight of aluminum hydroxide at from 230 to 330.degree. C. under subatmospheric pressure, where from 0.9 to 1.2 mol of water is removed per mole of aluminum hydroxide used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Jerg Kleiner
  • Patent number: 6063482
    Abstract: A biaxially oriented polypropylene film is described. The base ply of the film essentially consists of a polypropylene prepared by means of a metallocene catalyst. This polypropylene is distinguished by a mean isotactic block length of greater than 40, an n-heptane soluble fraction of less than 1% and a ratio of the weight average molecular weight M.sub.w to the number average molecular weight M.sub.n of less than 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Herbert Peiffer, Detlef Busch, Gunter Schlogl, Thomas Dries, Andreas Winter
  • Patent number: 6059194
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling thermal processes, whereby measuring devices measure at least two process parameters at least once within a time interval in which a parameter change occurs that is not negligible for the process sequence, the recorded parameters are fed into a control unit, and the control unit regulates the process parameters in the thermal process by means of quantities obtained from the measurements of process parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Orfeus Combustion Engineering GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Wintrich, Dieter Kaiser, Hartmut Wintrich
  • Patent number: D425460
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: LaFrance Corporation
    Inventor: Peter A. Peroni