Patents Represented by Attorney James A. Cairns
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Patent number: 6894137Abstract: A polyorganosiloxane block hydrocarbyl block polymer having utility as a release agent in toner fusing systems. The polymer has one or more polar linkages, with each such linkage bonding a polyorganosiloxane block and a hydrocarbyl block, and also including a polar functionality.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2003Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Easman Kodak CompanyInventor: Jerry A. Pickering
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Patent number: 6861192Abstract: A binder polymer composition for electrostatographic toners comprises a carboxysubstituted precursor polymer crosslinked by reaction with an N,N,N?N?-tetrakis(2-hydroxyalkyl) bisamide compound of the structure wherein R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group containing 1 to about 10 carbon atoms and R2 is H or an alkyl group containing 1 to about 6 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2002Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: John C. Wilson, Thomas A. Jadwin, Paul L. Nielsen
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Patent number: 6165534Abstract: A food composition having a softening point of at least about 115.degree. F., and composed of an emulsion and a chemically set gel. The emulsion is prepared from water and a fat; the chemically set gel is prepared from a carbohydrate and water.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 1994Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: Hercules IncorporatedInventors: Gary Andrew Luzio, Anne Elizabeth Tieleman
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Patent number: 5877238Abstract: Disclosed are elastomeric compounds including an elastomer and a silicon-treated carbon black, and optionally including a coupling agent. The elastomeric compound exhibits poorer abrasion resistance, lower hysterisis at high temperature and comparable or increased hysterisis at low temperature compared to an elastomer containing an untreated carbon black. Elastomeric compounds incorporating an elastomer and an oxidized, silicon-treated carbon black are also disclosed. Also disclosed is method for preparing elastomers compounded with the treated carbon black.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1995Date of Patent: March 2, 1999Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Khaled Mahmud, Meng-Jiao Wang, Robert A. Francis
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Patent number: 5830930Abstract: Disclosed are elastomeric compounds including an elastomer and a silicon-treated carbon black, and optionally including a coupling agent. The elastomeric compound exhibits poorer abrasion resistance, lower hysterisis at high temperature and comparable or increased hysterisis at low temperature compared to an elastomer containing an untreated carbon black. Elastomeric compounds incorporating an elastomer and an oxidized, silicon-treated carbon black are also disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for preparing elastomers compounded with the treated carbon black.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1995Date of Patent: November 3, 1998Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Khaled Mahmud, Meng-Jiao Wang, Robert A. Francis
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Patent number: 5823759Abstract: An apparatus and method for burning the combustible components of a gas stream. The apparatus comprising a a stack pipe having one end in communication with a gas supply pipe for receiving a gas stream and an air supply pipe. Gas and air are introduced into a stack pipe having a mixing zone, stabilization means, an igniter and means to prevent downwash of gaseous products resulting from combustion within the stack pipe.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1995Date of Patent: October 20, 1998Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventor: Joshua Swithenbank
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Patent number: 5747562Abstract: Ink and coating compositions are disclosed comprising a silicon-treated carbon black. The silicon-treated carbon black may have at least one attached organic group, and the ink and coating compositions may comprise a combination of silicon-treated carbon black products, with and/or without at least one attached organic group, and untreated carbon black. Methods are disclosed for improving the jetness, improving the blue tone, improving the platewear, reducing the premix residue, modifying rheological properties, or improving waterfastness, of ink and coating compositions by incorporating therein silicon-treated carbon black.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1996Date of Patent: May 5, 1998Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Khaled Mahmud, James A. Belmont, Curtis E. Adams, John K. Foster
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Patent number: 5747563Abstract: A treated carbon black may be produced by treating carbon black with at least one polyethylene glycol having a molecular weight of from about 1,000 to about 1,000,000. The treated carbon black may be used in forming polymeric compositions, such as semi-conductive and insulating compounds, for example for use in electrical cables.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1997Date of Patent: May 5, 1998Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Cindy L. Flenniken, Jameel Menashi, Robert S. Whitehouse
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Patent number: 5713988Abstract: A non-aqueous coating or ink composition having incorporated therein a modified carbon product comprising carbon having attached a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group is described. Also described is a modified carbon product comprising carbon and an attached organic group having a) an aromatic group and b) at least one group of the formula SO.sub.2 NR.sub.2 or SO.sub.2 NR(COR) wherein R is independently hydrogen, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.20 substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl, (C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkyleneoxy).sub.x R' or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl; R' is hydrogen, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.20 substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 substituted or unsubstituted alkanoyl or substituted or unsubstituted aroyl; and x is from 1 to 40.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1995Date of Patent: February 3, 1998Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: James A. Belmont, Curtis E. Adams
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Patent number: 5707432Abstract: A modified carbon product is described which comprises carbon having attached at least one organic group. The organic group comprises a) at least one aromatic group or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl group and b) at least one ionic group, at least one ionizable group, or a mixture of an ionic group and an ionizable group. The aromatic group or the C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl group of the organic group is directly attached to the carbon and the organic group is present at a level of from about 0.10 to about 2.5 micromoles/m.sup.2 of the carbon used based on CTAB or t-area of the carbon or in an amount such that the modified carbon product has a residue value of more than about 5 wt %. Also described are aqueous and non-aqueous inks and coatings containing the modified carbon product. A method to increase the flow of an ink, as measured by glass plate flow, by incorporating the modified carbon product as part of the ink is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1996Date of Patent: January 13, 1998Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Curtis E. Adams, James A. Belmont
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Patent number: 5700845Abstract: Disclosed are foamable EPDM compositions comprising EPDM, a carbon black having a CTAB of about 50 to 60 m2/g and DBP of 90 to 115 cc/100 g and a blowing agent which are advantageous for use in applications where UHF microwave curing is utilized and for replacing foamable EPDM compositions incorporating similar amounts of conventional blends of carbon blacks. Also disclosed are foamed, cured EPDM compositions comprising: EPDM and a carbon black having a CTAB of about 50 to 60 m2/g and DBP of 90 to 115 cc/100 g which have advantageously lower sponge density and lower sponge compression set than EPDM compositions incorporating similar amounts of conventional low reinforcing carbon blacks. Further disclosed is a process for producing the foamed, cured EPDM compositions of the present invention. Additionally disclosed is use of the foamed, cured EPDM compositions of the present invention as weatherstripping.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1994Date of Patent: December 23, 1997Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Bin Chung, Bruce E. Mackay, Ivan Zlatko Podobnik
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Patent number: 5698016Abstract: A composition is disclosed which comprises a) an amphiphilic ion, and b) a modified carbon product comprising carbon having attached at least one organic group. The organic group has a charge opposite to the amphiphilic ion. Also disclosed are aqueous and non-aqueous ink and coating compositions incorporating this composition. Ink jet ink compositions are further described incorporating this composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1996Date of Patent: December 16, 1997Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Curtis E. Adams, James A. Belmont, Robert M. Amici
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Patent number: 5688317Abstract: Novel carbon blacks that impart advantageous properties to rubber and plastic compositions and may be utilized in the place of lamp blacks, thermal carbon blacks and blends of carbon blacks. Also disclosed are novel rubber and plastic compositions incorporating the novel carbon blacks which exhibit the advantageous combinations of compound processing and physical performance properties.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1995Date of Patent: November 18, 1997Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventors: Bruce E. Mackay, Mark A. Wilkinson, Barrie J. Yates
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Patent number: 5672198Abstract: Aqueous ink compositions are described which include a modified carbon product comprising a carbon having attached at least one organic group that is substituted with an ionic or an ionizable group. A coating composition is also described and comprises water, a binder, and a modified carbon product having at least one organic group attached to carbon wherein the organic group is substituted with an ionic or an ionizable group.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1995Date of Patent: September 30, 1997Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventor: James A. Belmont
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Patent number: 5405546Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to a composition comprising:(A) at least 50% by weight of a fluorine-containing hydrocarbon having one or two carbon atoms; and(B) from about 9% to about 30% by weight of a phosphorus-containing lubricant composition comprising at least one compound characterized by the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently hydrocarbyl groups or hydrocarbyloxyalkylene groups and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 taken together have from 2 to about 24 carbon atoms excluding any oxyalkylene carbon atoms; and Z is a hydrocarbyl group having 1 to about 18 carbon atoms.The present invention provides phosphorous-containing compositions which are compatible with fluorine-containing hydrocarbons used in refrigerators and air-conditioners, and are accordingly useful as refrigeration liquids in refrigerators and air-conditioners including auto, home, and industrial air-conditioners.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1993Date of Patent: April 11, 1995Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: Scott T. Jolley, Richard M. Lange, Frederick W. Koch
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Patent number: 5403501Abstract: This invention relates to lubricating compositions comprising:(A) a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity;(B) at least one borated overbased Group I or II metal salt of an organic acid;(C) at least one polysulfide-containing organic composition; and(D) at least one phosphorus-containing composition other than a zinc dithiophosphate.Lubricating compositions of the present invention have beneficial viscosity and friction characteristics required by a manual transmission as well as beneficial extreme pressure protection required for a gear assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1994Date of Patent: April 4, 1995Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventor: James J. Schwind
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Patent number: 5368758Abstract: The present invention relates to the composition comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity or water and a reaction product of at least one dimercaptothiadiazole or derivative thereof; and at least one aliphatic olefin or salt of the reaction product. These reaction products generally show an ability to improve antiwear (including extreme pressure) and antioxidant properties in lubricants.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1992Date of Patent: November 29, 1994Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventor: Richard E. Gapinski
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Patent number: 5366516Abstract: Various heterocyclic compounds have been discovered that impart improved fuel economy and friction modification to lubricant and fuel compositions. These heterocyclic compounds of the invention preferably contain nitrogen and may be further reacted with hydrocarbyl carboxylic acid acylating reactants or hydrocarbyl phenolic reactants to give higher molecular materials. These higher molecular weight materials have higher oil-solubility and impart dispersancy properties to lubricant and fuel compositions.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1994Date of Patent: November 22, 1994Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: Joseph W. Pialet, Paul E. Adams
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Patent number: 5336439Abstract: The present invention provides for a novel salt composition comprising: (A) at least one salt moiety derived from (A)(I) at least one high-molecular weight hydrocarbyl-substituted polycarboxylic acylating agent, said hydrocarbyl-substituent of said acylating agent (A)(I) having a number average molecular weight of at least about 280, and (A)(II) one or more members selected from the group consisting of ammonia, at least one amine, at least one alkali or alkaline earth metal, and at least one alkali or alkaline earth metal compound; (B) at least one salt moiety derived from (B)(I) at least one low-molecular weight polycarboxylic acylating agent, said acylating agent (B)(I) optionally having at least one hydrocarbyl substituent having up to about 18 carbon atoms, and (B)(II) one or more members selected from the group consisting of ammonia, at least one amine, at least one alkali or alkaline earth metal, and at least one alkali or alkaline earth metal compound; said moieties (A) and (B) being coupled together bType: GrantFiled: August 8, 1991Date of Patent: August 9, 1994Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: John W. Forsberg, Richard W. Jahnke, Richard M. Lange, Marvin B. DeTar
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Patent number: 5330662Abstract: This invention relates to a composition comprising a mixture of a brine and a liquid hydrocarbon, and (A) an emulsifying amount of (i) at least one reaction product of a hydrocarbyl-substituted succinic acylating agent, and at least one of (a) ammonia, (b) an alcohol, or (c) an amine, or at least one salt of the reaction product; or (ii) at least one reaction product of a hydroxyaromatic compound, an aldehyde, and an amine, and (B) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of a polyoxyalkylene amine, a polyoxyalkylene amide, a polyoxyalkylene alcohol, a polyoxyalkylene phenol, a polyoxyalkylene ester, a fatty acid salt, an amine or an alkaline earth or transition metal sulfonate, or a reaction product of a hydroxyamine or a polyalkylenepolyamine with an acylating agent selected from the group consisting of a fatty monocarboxylic acylating agents, a dicarboxylic acylating agent other than a succinic acylating agent, and a tricarboxylic acylating agent.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1992Date of Patent: July 19, 1994Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: Richard W. Jahnke, Lawrence J. Kocurek, James H. Bush