Patents Represented by Attorney Joseph M. Noto
  • Patent number: 5534304
    Abstract: Process for treating a substrate, namely a fibre or a fibrous product, with a superabsorbent material, in which process there is applied to the surface of the substrate, which is not an aramid fibre, a layer of a water-in-oil emulsion which contains a superabsorbent material in its aqueous phase, so that there is applied to the substrate, calculated on its dry weight, 0.3 to 40 wt. % of the superabsorbent material, after which the liquid constituents of the emulsion are wholly or partially removed from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel NV
    Inventors: Herman J. Geursen, Stephanus Willemsen
  • Patent number: 5476532
    Abstract: A method for abating the incidence of cluster formation of reducible iron-containing material during the direct reduction of said material is disclosed. The method generally comprises contacting the reducible iron-containing material with a cluster-abating effective amount of either a dispersion which comprises at least one particulate material which is substantially nonhardening in the presence of water and at least one fluxing agent or a dispersion which comprises an aluminum-containing clay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.
    Inventor: Harry R. G. Steeghs