Patents Represented by Attorney Richard G. Smith
  • Patent number: 4615878
    Abstract: Differentiation, identification and enumeration of sub-populations of lymphocytes including B-cells and T-cells can now be further discriminated into their sub-populations by means of basic orange 21 as a supravital stain to provide distinctive morphologic differences between B-cells, T-suppressor cells, T-helper cells and natural killer (NK) cells without resorting to the use of individual monoclonal antibodies for differentiation of each of the above.The differentiation, identification and enumeration of the foregoing cells can be accomplished by means of both white light absorbance and fluorescence measurements, singly or in sequential combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1986
    Inventor: Lawrence Kass
  • Patent number: 4581223
    Abstract: Lengthy cytochemical procedures for differentiation, identification, enumeration and diagnostic study of leukocytes in human blood have been advanced and shortened by a rapid method of optical differentiation of the five individual white blood cell species by selective use of basic quaternary metachromatic dye staining of supravital blood at controlled temperature. Presently a manual method, the improvement provides essential groundwork for improved accuracy in automated differential leukocyte counting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Inventor: Lawrence Kass
  • Patent number: 4310427
    Abstract: Band ply lubricants, sometimes referred to as inside tire casing lubricants or inside tire dopes, are used as friction reducing and surface protective coatings during the cure of bias ply tires in particular and are applied intermediately between the interior surface of the green tire carcass and the exterior surface of a rubber bladder. A silicone and volatile hydrocarbon free, water reducible paste product comprising a zinc soap of a long chain fatty acid (zinc stearate), a long chain fatty acid ester of sorbitan, an alkylene oxide-alkylene glycol polymer and mica are combined to produce a paste which is reduced to application viscosity by spraying with approximately an equal weight of water is provided to eliminate the more costly emulsions and hydrocarbon solvent containing inside tire curing lubricants without sacrifice in quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1982
    Assignee: Nalco Chemical Company
    Inventor: Ten T. Wun
  • Patent number: 4231668
    Abstract: A coatings application apparatus pumps liquid paint through a flexible conduit within a rotary variable displacement peristaltic pump to a conventional applicator head. Through constant speed rotating lobes peristaltic action squeezes coating liquid within the conduit through the paint applicator control handle and applicator.The control handle permits changes in the paint flow rate. Upon constriction of the conduit within the control handle, flow rate is reduced, back pressure develops with resulting tube distortion. Distortion levered forces act upon a pre-set loaded pump spring. Variation in pump displacement results. The liquid flow rate within the supply conduit is inversely proportional to the back pressure so developed. If fluid flow is completely arrested by full supply tube constriction, back pressure becomes a maximum and pump displacement becomes zero. The pump continues to operate, however, at constant R.P.M., requiring no high starting torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1980
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: Hugh F. Groth, John D. Vogel, Guilbert M. Hunt
  • Patent number: 4216106
    Abstract: This invention discloses that increases above about 1.75 ratio of pigment to vehicle in a dielectric coating for use in manufacture of reprographic (electrostatographic) papers unexpectedly increases the quality of the reproduction when the pigment is a calcined kaolin type clay. The inventive dielectric coating composition reduces the overall cost of static charge transfer reproductions without sacrifices in quality in the ultimate end use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1980
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Co.
    Inventor: Joseph E. Miller
  • Patent number: 4207377
    Abstract: This invention relates to a novel composite pigment and method for its manufacture which comprises a finely-divided inert pigment as a core which has deposited on its surface a non-photoconductive grade of zinc oxide, the weight ratio of zinc oxide ranging from about 30% to about 80% of the total weight of the composite pigment and the composite pigment characterized by a specific surface in excess of about 10 square meters/gram. In rubber compounding, the composite pigment reduces the cost of the zinc essential to produce quality products and the composite pigment because it is itself photoconductive is of utility in photoconductive end uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1980
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventor: Robert H. Kindrick
  • Patent number: 4189328
    Abstract: This invention is concerned with the modification of the hue of Alkali Blue pigments of known organic structures by intimate incorporation under aqueous alkaline conditions of a minor amount of a phenolic compound, illustratively beta naphthol. Upon recovery of the treated pigment under aqueous acid conditions, the hue of Alkali Blue is modified from a generally red shade blue to the greener end of the spectrum. The invention provides a novel means of color control and color modification with consequent correlative new compositions of matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1980
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventor: Robert J. Flores
  • Patent number: 4157163
    Abstract: An airless spray gun reversible spray nozzle unit is provided adapted to replace the normal or standard fixed spray position unit without any modification of the external spray head. The external spray head normally positions and holds the fixed position spray nozzle unit in spray position in the airless spray gun. The present adaptation is made possible by means of a floating or sliding female ferrule axially movably positioned and slideable intermediately between a pair of spaced apart keyed flanges defining the unit size which act as stops therefor and assures a leak-proof machined fit of the reversible nozzle when the inventive spray nozzle unit is positioned to spray, or in reversed position so the orifice of the nozzle can be backwashed and freed of binding occlusions.The size, weight and form of the unit adds substantially no increase in weight or volume to the conventional fixed position airless spray head spray nozzle unit and is easily and quickly manually reversed when desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1979
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: Joseph G. Pinto, Christopher Lawlor
  • Patent number: 4147212
    Abstract: Hydrogen sulfide, sometimes referred to as "rotten egg" gas occurs commonly in nature, particularly about oil and gas wells in drilling, completing and working over of wells and is dangerously toxic to workmen and devastatingly corrosive to bore hole casings and drilling equipment. It also contaminates natural gas produced by some wells.Here it has been found that a water soluble zinc ammonium carbonate complex provides nearly quantitative removal of hydrogen sulfide by intimately contacting the carrier thereof with substantially stoichiometric qualities of said complex in aqueous solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1979
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Co.
    Inventor: Vernon R. Tisdale
  • Patent number: 4124551
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel fast-drying aliphatic solvent soluble acrylic-styrene polymer vehicles of paramount value as the binder vehicle for enamels and particularly for automotive after-market refinishing.Improvement in the quality and durability of automotive enamels in general has been outstanding with the advent of acrylic polymers useful as the adhesive binder in coatings for cars. When applied in production lines to automobile bodies originally under factory conditions, the use of high solvency enamel solvents and reducers has been a relatively obscure problem until recognition of the contribution of aromatic hydrocarbons solvents to smog development. Priorly curing or drying automotive paint films at a rapid speed has been feasible with elevated temperatures with little or no concern for energy consumption or atmospheric pollution. Large capital expenditures for high production rates with concurrent energy consumption have been heretofore acceptable generally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1978
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: John Mathai, Thomas W. Druetzler
  • Patent number: 4101527
    Abstract: Polymer forming reactions have been previously known comprising five and six member oxazoline ring oxazolidines and reaction products containing the basic structure with polyfunctional aromatic and aliphatic isocyanates and moisture. Five types of oxazolidines have been previously illustrated. Use of these polymeric products have been found to be limited as the class of oxazolidines described in the prior art result in objectionable dark colored products. This invention relates to an advance thereover in providing light colored end products by use of a novel and specific dioxazabicyclo octanes, a substituted specialized class of oxazolidine ring compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1978
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: Arthur L. Cunningham, John Mathai
  • Patent number: 4076526
    Abstract: The invention relates to photoconductive N-vinyl carbazole copolymers characterized as having electron donor and electron acceptor groups in the same polymeric chain and the use of said copolymers as photoconductive materials on various substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1978
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: James E. Mulvaney, Raymond W. Rupp
  • Patent number: 4061611
    Abstract: This invention is directed to aqueous compositions and the process for preparing same and more specifically to aqueous coating compositions comprising polymeric resin binders and pigments dispersed in an aqueous system with starch ester dispersants. The dispersant consists of mixed esters of starch derived from (a) low molecular weight hydrolyzed starch having a plurality of anhydroglucose units or a derivative of said starch and (b) at least about 0.5 mole of acylating agent for each anhydroglucose unit of the hydrolyzed starch or its derivative. The acylating agent is a combination of anhydrides or acyl compounds consisting of (i) from about 0.1 to 2.9 moles of at least one anhydride of a polycarboxylic acid and (ii) from 0.1 to 2.9 moles of at least one compound selected from the class consisting of anhydrides of monocarboxylic acids and the acyl halides of monocarboxylic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: Raymond Charles Glowaky, Stephen Edward Rudolph, Gordon Paul Bierwagen
  • Patent number: 4061610
    Abstract: This invention is directed to aqueous compositions and to the process for preparing same which comprises a dispersion of polymeric resin binders and pigments in an aqueous system with a dispersant. The dispersant consists of half-esters of starch derived from (a) low molecular weight hydrolyzed starch having a plurality of anhydroglucose units or a derivative of said starch and (b) at least about 0.25 mole of at least one cyclic anhydride of a polycarboxylic acid for each anhydroglucose unit of the hydrolyzed starch and/or its derivatives.These half-ester starch dispersants are characterized as having pendant carboxyl groups and average molecular weights ranging up to about 100,000 with a high degree of substitution, i.e. wherein on an average of about 0.25 to 3.0 of the hydroxyl groups of each anhydroglucose unit are esterified. The unreacted carboxyl groups pendant from the backbone of the starch esters may be further reacted, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: Raymond Charles Glowaky, Stephen Edward Rudolph, Gordon Paul Bierwagen
  • Patent number: 4032357
    Abstract: An easy dispersing alkali blue type pigment product and a process for making the same is provided which retains the color strength per unit alkali blue present of a flushed color product, but which contains less oil phase than a flushed color and is a free-flowing powder. The pigment can be very easily dispersed in oleoresinous systems such as printing inks, paints, plastics and the like to develop an outstanding fineness of grind and substantially full color strength.The pigmentary product of this invention is free-flowing and contains at least about 50% by weight of alkali blue pigment solids, and preferably more, coprecipitated with at least one organic dispersant of the anionic class containing at least eight carbon atoms, said dispersant is soluble in aqueous alkaline solutions and precipitated therefrom upon acidification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1977
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: Thomas C. Rees, Robert J. Flores
  • Patent number: 4011392
    Abstract: This invention is directed to mixed esters of starch and to the method of preparing and the use of said starch esters which are derived from (a) low molecular weight hydrolyzed starch having a plurality of anhydroglucose units and (b) at least about 0.5 mole of acylating agent per anhydroglucose unit consisting of mono- and polycarboxylic acid anhydrides and acyl halides. These anionic esters of starch with average molecular weights ranging up to 100,000 are characterized as having a high degree of substitution, i.e. ranging up to 3.0 wherein at least about 0.1 of the total degree of substitution consist of ester groups having pendant carboxyl radicals derived from anhydrides of polycarboxylic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1977
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: Stephen Edward Rudolph, Raymond Charles Glowaky
  • Patent number: 3989698
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing benzoxazines and more particularly 2-substituted-4H-3,1-benzoxazine-4-ones, obtained by reacting at least at about room temperature in the presence of an effective amount of a tertiary amine an isatoic anhydride with an acylating compound consisting of either a carboxylic acid anhydride or an acyl halide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: Richard L. Jacobs, Richard L. Hively
  • Patent number: 3985503
    Abstract: This invention is directed to the use of substituted benzotriazoles and more specifically the carboxylated benzotriazoles including the alkali metal salts and alkyl esters thereof as inhibitors for metal in various corrosive organic liquids and aqueous mediums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1976
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventor: Cleveland O'Neal, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3980488
    Abstract: Colored organic solid particles of potential value as pigments are partially milled to an extent less than that required to develop full pigmentary strength by size reduction and further conditioned concurrently with a flushing step. The organic pigment particles are transferred from an aqueous dispersion to an organic hydrophobic vehicle in the presence of an organic breaching agent. The resulting flushed pigmented vehicle has pigmentary strength at least equal to that obtained by fully conditioning the crude particles without the breaching treatment. The conditioned pigments need not be recovered as a dry powdered product. The process is valuable in the manufacture of flushed phthalocyanines, quinacridones, etc., with substantial improvement in equipment utilization in milling. The flushed pigmented vehicles are useful in manufacture of paints, varnishes, lacquers, inks, color concentrates, and formulations for mass coloration of plastics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1972
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1976
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: David W. Barrington, Irwin B. Bernstein, Thomas C. Rees, Anthony P. Wagener, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3971680
    Abstract: This invention is directed to electroconductive paper and to the processes for preparing same which comprises a substrate containing an effective amount of an electroconductive water soluble, quaternary ammonium polymer. The polymer is prepared by reacting substantially stoichiometric amounts of at least one aromatic ditertiary amine and one or more anion-containing organic compound. The polymer is applied to the substrate, e.g. paper by conventional methods to obtain a coated surface characterized as having a resistivity of less than about 10.sup.11 ohms per square centimeter at relative humidities ranging from about 10% to 90%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1973
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1976
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: Charles A. Schneider, William R. Cake