Patents Represented by Law Firm Rines and Rines Shapiro and Shapiro
  • Method of recovering hydrogen-reduced metals, ions and the like at porous catalytic barriers and apparatus therefor
    Patent number: 4422911
    Abstract: This disclosure relates primarily to the recovery of hydrogen-reduced metals from aqueous solutions of salts thereof, such as, for example, copper from copper sulphate solution, by hydrogen reduction at a catalytic barrier made pervious to the solution, in an apparatus provided with means to supply hydrogen along a face of said barrier at which the aqueous solution is applied to effect deposition thereupon and flowing the solution transversely through the barrier to continue deposition upon the other face of the barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1983
    Assignee: Prototech Company
    Inventors: Walter Juda, Robert J. Allen, Robert Lindstrom, Amiran Bar-Ilan
  • Level detector and its application to a grabbing apparatus for containers or the like
    Patent number: 4422683
    Abstract: This level detector comprises a tubular body closed at each of its ends and displaying a planar or slightly concave roller track, a ball suited to roll on the said roller track toward one or the other of the said closed ends of the body as a function of the inclination of the detector to the horizontal, and two receptors to detect the presence of the ball respectively at one and the other of the said ends and to emit a signal in response to this detection. This level detector can be installed on a grabbing apparatus in order to remember and preserve during hoisting the initial attitude of a load seized by the grabbing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1983
    Assignee: Brissonneau et Lotz Marine
    Inventor: Henri Charonnat
  • Pulsed, pseudo random position fixing radio navigation method and system and the like
    Patent number: 4423419
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with a technique and apparatus for reducing CW and other inband interference in a broad bandwidth RF pulse navigation system to inobtrusive noise through the use of pulse-position random modulation, including, where desired, superimposed random phase modulation, with signal-random modulation code cross-correlation in reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1983
    Assignee: Megapulse Incorporated
    Inventor: Paul R. Johannessen
  • Hydrostatic guide bearing of a seat
    Patent number: 4417823
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with improvements in hydrostatic guide bearings of a shaft in which the journal of the shaft takes on the form of a sleeve and the bearing comprises a first and a second set of chambers placed within concentric races respectively opposite the internal and external walls of the journal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1983
    Assignee: Jeumont Schneider Corporation
    Inventors: Michel Drevet, Jean Trouillet
  • Procedure and device for rolling metals without stress
    Patent number: 4408470
    Abstract: The invention involves a procedure having three key stages: In the first stage, just prior to the introduction of the metal into stand (n+1), the value of the rolling torque in stand (n) is determined and recorded. Then, in the second stage, when the metal is introduced into stand (n+1), the value of the rolling torque in stand (n) is held constant by controlling the speed regulator of stand (n) up to the time the metal is introduced into stand (n+2). Finally, in the third stage, which continues until the rolling operation in stand (n) has been completed, the voluminal flow of the metal is held constant at the line of each stand by applying a multiplier coefficient to the signal representing the ratio between the speeds of two successive stands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: Jeumont-Schneider Corporation
    Inventors: Jacques Fromont, Marcel Plancon
  • Adapter for intermediary circuit of a static converter assembly
    Patent number: 4405888
    Abstract: The invention concerns the transformation of alternating or direct current input power to alternating current output power with intermediary transformation in direct current by means of static converters.According to the invention, an adapter placed in the direct current intermediary circuit (4) comprises a branch connected between the output terminals of the input converter (5), and contains in series a free wheel thyristor (18) and an inductance (16) whose value is equal to the total loss inductance of the motor (1) connected to the reversible output inverter (20).The purpose is to reduce the current wave harmonics in the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1983
    Assignee: Jeumont Schneider Corporation
    Inventor: Albert C. Wiart
  • Process and apparatus for fish growth acceleration
    Patent number: 4399770
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with novel cover arrangements for providing dark stacking and rest areas in confined water volumes for fish growth acceleration, including salmonoids and the like, and involving pluralities of closely spaced covers contacting the water and providing successive dark areas while influencing water circulation by the edges of the covers to swirl feed thereat; forms of these arrangements being adapted both for land-constructed pools or ponds, and confined effective pool or pond volumes in the sea constructed as netted sea cages bordered by floating or exposed walkways and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1983
    Inventors: Albert H. Knowles, Robert H. Rines
  • Low pressure-drop catalytic mat and method of preparing the same
    Patent number: 4399185
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with a novel limp, low-pressure-drop catalytic mat, particularly adapted for use in ignitible gas-flow systems, such as heated hair curlers and the like, comprising in preferred form a loosely packed quartz fiber mat to the fibers of which have been adhered oxide particles as of alumina and the like, coated with platinum catalytic particles, without, however, impairing the limpness, looseness and flexibility of the mat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: Prototech Company
    Inventor: Henry G. Petrow
  • Hydrostatic bearing with security of function
    Patent number: 4396302
    Abstract: In a hydrostatic bearing for pumps of fluid under pressure which is supplied by the pumped fluid, the operation of the bearing is ensured regardless of the conditions present in the pump.To this end, the nozzles of fluid supply of the openings of the race bearing are connected upstream to two compartments of the pump containing the fluid under two different pressures, through the intermediary of a ball valve, and two expansion chambers are arranged in the race on one side and the other of the openings and are connected downstream to the two compartments through the intermediary of ball valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Assignee: Jeumont Schneider Corporation
    Inventors: Michel Drevet, Jean Trouillet
  • Adhesive applicator and method for cigarette-to-filter adhesion and similar applications
    Patent number: 4391856
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with enabling the use of multiple liquid adhesive nozzles principally to provide continuous uniform adhesive layers, particularly in relatively small items such as cigarette filter tips or the like, wherein a critically oriented adhesive shear surface adjacent the nozzles causes the plurality of adhesive beads simultaneously deposited by the nozzles to merge into a full, continuous, uniform coating, and with additional control features provided to control the degree of merger from separate adjacent beads to uniform merged coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1983
    Assignee: Acumeter Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald B. McIntyre, Frederic S. McIntyre
  • Adhesive applicator and method for cigarette-to-filter adhesion and similar applications
    Patent number: 4386998
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with enabling the use of multiple liquid adhesive nozzles principally to provide continuous uniform adhesive layers, particularly in relatively small items such as cigarette filter tips or the like, wherein a critically oriented adhesive shear surface adjacent the nozzles causes the plurality of adhesive beads simultaneously deposited by the nozzles to merge into a full, continuous, uniform coating, and with additional control features provided to control the degree of merger from separate adjacent beads to uniform merged coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1983
    Assignee: Acumeter Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald B. McIntyre, Frederic S. McIntyre
  • Method of preventing the normal reversion of salmon smolt and the like in fresh water back to parr characteristics, and for effectively imbuing sea salmon with land-locked salmon characteristics
    Patent number: 4385589
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with applications of the discovery that the normal reversion of fresh-water-developed sea-type salmon smolt back to parr, usually within several weeks of smolting, can be prevented, and at the very least significantly retarded, by not removing the smolt to salt water, but by maintaining the same in dark volumes of fresh water with external contrastedly illuminated feed zones(s) to hold the fish in a continual smolt condition with continuing growth and without reversion to parr characteristics; and in some applications, effectively rapidly converting sea-type salmon to, or imbuing the same with, land-locked salmon characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1983
    Inventors: Albert H. Knowles, Robert H. Rines
  • Process and apparatus for converged fine line electron beam treatment of objects
    Patent number: 4382186
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with the use of fine line converged electron beams of high aspect ratio for effecting physical, chemical, mechanical and other changes in the surface of objects, and also volume effects, including applications, for example, to semiconductor and other materials surface modification technology, annealing, welding, etching, polishing, cutting, curing and other surface and volume alteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1983
    Assignee: Energy Sciences Inc.
    Inventors: A. Stuart Denholm, William A. Frutiger, Kenneth E. Williams
  • Hydrostatic bearing with rotating sleeve
    Patent number: 4381126
    Abstract: The invention concerns hydrostatic bearings supplied with fluid under pressure for a shaft rotating at high speed in a fixed bed, with the goal of reducing the power dissipated by shear of the fluid in the said bearings.According to the invention, a sleeve (5) is disposed coaxially to the shaft (1) in a chamber arranged for this purpose between the bed (3) and the shaft (1), with apertures being arranged respectively in the shaft and in the bed, opposite the sleeve on one side and the other, in such a way that a movement in rotation can be imparted to the sleeve (5), the structure being particularly applicable to fluid pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1983
    Assignee: Jeumont Schneider Corporation
    Inventors: Michel P. Drevet, Jean Trouillet
  • Water-turbulence light-shielding method and apparatus for confined-volume fish growth and the like
    Patent number: 4379436
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with creating relatively darkened or light-shielded coverings along and upon a substantial selected area of the surface of a pond or other confined fish-holding water volume in the form of surface turbulence generated over said selected area by water spraying or other agitation, with calm illuminated feed zones adjacent but external to said selected area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1983
    Assignees: Robert H. Rines, Carol M. Rines
    Inventor: Albert H. Knowles
  • Wide-band and continuous line adhesive applicator and method for cigarette filter attachment and the like
    Patent number: 4371571
    Abstract: This disclosure involves periodically bumping webs such as a cigarette filter paper or the like against a shear surface disposed beyond a multi-nozzle adhesive extruder to provide longitudinally intermittent bands of adhesive coatings for the filters or the like, with optional provision for continuous marginal lines of adhesive along and between the bands for adhesion on the head and tail ends of such filters or other articles as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1983
    Assignee: Acumeter Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald B. McIntyre, Frederic S. McIntyre
  • Process of and apparatus for cold-cathode electron-beam generation for sterilization of surfaces and similar applications
    Patent number: 4367412
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with a process of and apparatus for producing relatively low energy electron beams through pulsed cold-cathode beam generation in a mode of operation involving an important intermediate region of a substantially linear depth-dose profile characteristic that reduces the sensitivity to possible voltage variations, and with improved triggering structures that significantly improve reliability and minimize erratic pulse generation and missing pulses, thus particularly adapting the process and apparatus for such stringent applications as production-line sterilization of surfaces, materials or workpieces passed by the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1983
    Assignee: Tetra Pak Developpement SA
    Inventor: Richard N. Cheever
  • Process and apparatus for time card preparation and utilization and the like
    Patent number: 4361092
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with presequencing machine-readable time card identifications in the printing of decks of time cards, automatically using the time-recording clock to fill in corresponding human-readable identification, and with a correspondence map memory between machine-and-human readable identifications, enabling repetitive assignment of the machine-readable identification of subsequent decks of time cards to provide complete use of the decks by changing such assignment correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1982
    Assignee: Kronos, Incorporated
    Inventor: Lawrence J. Krakauer
  • Stepper motor for data recorder
    Patent number: 4359751
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with a novel digital multi-point recorder that is microprocessor-controlled and enables impact printing from in back of the recorder paper to provide a front visible flat print-out of pages of on-line running summary data suited for operator viewing in industrial and similar locations, and providing a record for direct use in reports and logs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1982
    Assignee: Kaye Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Goldschmidt, Charles C. Ku, David A. Townzen
  • Thermocouple recorder
    Patent number: 4359747
    Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with a novel digital multi-point recorder that is microprocessor-controlled and enables impact printing from in back of the recorder paper to provide a front visible flat print-out of pages of on-line running summary data suited for operator viewing in industrial and similar locations, and providing a record for direct use in reports and logs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1982
    Assignee: Kaye Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Goldschmidt, Charles C. Ku, David A. Townzen