Patents Represented by Attorney J. Henry Muetterties

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  • Method for installing submarine pipelines using a marine railway system
    Patent number: 4422799
    Abstract: A method of installing a cold water conduit for use with Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), fossil or nuclear power plants. The method is comprised of installing a marine railway system on the ocean floor and subsequently using the railway system as an aid to the installation of the cold water conduit and as a support structure for the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1983
    Assignee: McDermott Incorporated
    Inventors: William L. Green, Dennis E. Calkins, Gary E. Harrison, Jesse R. Wilkins
  • Face seal system
    Patent number: 4420160
    Abstract: A face seal system for sealing passage of a rotatable shaft through a wall separating regions subject to differential fluid pressure. A seal member is pressure compensated for sealing the passage with a sealing force responsive to the pressure differential across the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1983
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventor: Herman C. Laham
  • Method of assembling and disassembling a control component structure
    Patent number: 4418462
    Abstract: A technique is provided for engaging and disengaging burnable poison rods from the spider in a fuel assembly. The cap on the end of each of the burnable poison rods is provided with a shank that is received in the respective bore formed in the spider. In one illustrative embodiment, the shank is deformed to firmly secure the rod and attached shank in the spider bore. Pressing the shank in the direction of the bore axis overcomes the deformation to release the particular rod from the spider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1983
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventor: Lewis A. Walton
  • Method of creating a cold water conduit to be used in ocean thermal energy conversion systems
    Patent number: 4397582
    Abstract: A method of creating a cold water conduit for use with an ocean thermal energy conversion plant by drilling and blasting at least one passageway completely through an underwater land formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: McDermott Incorporated
    Inventors: William L. Green, Dennis E. Calkins, Edward A. Landers, Jr., Daniel W. Gray
  • Control component structure
    Patent number: 4381283
    Abstract: A technique is provided for engaging and disengaging burnable poison rods from the spider in a fuel assembly. The cap on the end of each of the burnable poison rods is provided with a shank that is received in the respective bore formed in the spider. In one illustrative embodiment, the shank is deformed to firmly secure the rod and attached shank in the spider bore. Pressing the shank in the direction of the bore axis overcomes the deformation to release the particular rod from the spider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1983
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventor: Lewis A. Walton
  • Mixer for dual register burner
    Patent number: 4380202
    Abstract: An improved pulverized fuel burning method and apparatus having means for decreasing the pressure drop through the burner nozzle and decreasing the formation of nitric oxides, including a splash plate to breakup a natural forming fuel-rope, a deflector to deflect the fuel-rope, and a diffuser to disperse the pulverized fuel into a more desirable fuel burning distribution pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1983
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventors: Albert D. LaRue, John J. Wolf
  • Method of assembling and disassembling a control component structure
    Patent number: 4355449
    Abstract: A technique is provided for engaging and disengaging burnable poison rods from the spider in a fuel assembly. The cap on the end of each of the burnable poison rods is provided with a shank that is received in the respective bore formed in the spider. A frangible flange secures the shank and rod to the spider. Pressing the shank in the direction of the bore axis ruptures the frangible flange to release the rod from the spider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1982
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventors: Gerald T. Edwards, Donald C. Schluderberg
  • Foamed insulating refractory
    Patent number: 4341561
    Abstract: An unfired foamed-in-place two component insulating refractory and the method for preparing the same. The composition is composed of hydraulic cement, water and an acid, though it can also include an aggregate and/or fine grain inert filler. In the process, the dry ingredients are mixed with the water to form a slurry and thereafter the acid is added to the slurry and passed through a passive mixer before the acid-slurry mixture is discharged and allowed to foam and set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1982
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventors: James M. Britt, Charles C. Logue
  • Helical steam generator tube support
    Patent number: 4337827
    Abstract: A tube support structure for a helically coiled fluid heat exchanger including a plurality of support strips interconnected by a plurality of support members. Two tubes are nested between support members against a support strip, a spring plate is placed over the tubes and a second strip is pressed on the assembly to the desired spring pressure and affixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1982
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventor: Felix S. Jabsen