Patents Represented by Attorney William J. Scherback
  • Patent number: 5491399
    Abstract: A combination rejuvenator and trickle charger for lead acid batteries powered by a multi-solar cell unit and/or a rectified a.c. source, the output of which is applied to a capacitor. The output of the capacitor is in turn connected across the primary of an auto transformer. A switching circuit, including a transistor, connects and disconnects the primary coil to and from the capacitor to produce in the secondary coil of the transformer a fast rise time current pulse for application to a battery. A positive temperature coefficient resistor is connected in series with an output terminal of the rejuvenator to protect the rejuvenator components in the event the out, put terminals, through accident or mistake, are connected to battery terminals of opposite polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: William E. Gregory
    Inventors: William E. Gregory, Chester C. Allen, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5294436
    Abstract: Human hair is highlighted by a procedure in which the hair initially is moistened with water and towel dried. The hair is then teased and on the teased hair is sprinkled a dry powder bleach mixture which sifts downward through the hair. A mist of a solution of hydrogen peroxide is applied to the dry powder bleach mixture and thereafter the hair is rinsed and shampooed. The final rinsing and shampoo takes place within five minutes following application of the solution of hydrogen peroxide. A dry solid powder composition used in the procedure includes at least one oxidizing agent, an activator to change the PH of the oxidizing agent from acidic to alkaline, a drying agent for absorbing moisture present in the mixture, an accelerator for accelerating the bleaching process, a thickening agent, a humectant and a chelate agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Hairnetwork, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary M. Cope, Michael S. DeGeorge
  • Patent number: 4509253
    Abstract: A storage battery and a method of making same wherein the positive plates of one cell are electrically connected to the negative plates of an adjacent cell without the need of welding. A conventional battery case is utilized and modified to provide an opening through the partitions between the cells. A conductive material, either lead particles or a low-melt alloy in molten form, is added in the cells and through the openings therebetween. The lugs of the positive plates of the cell are all positioned downward in the cell and are aligned with all the lugs of the negative plates in an adjacent cell. The conductive material electrically connects all the positive lugs of the one cell to the negative lugs of the adjacent cell. Where particulate material is utilized as the conductive material, a sealing agent, for example, epoxy resin, is poured onto the conductive material to render the material impermeable and to seal it in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Inventor: Kelly L. Eberle
  • Patent number: 4402560
    Abstract: A system is described for grounding individuals involved in the assembly or repair of electronic components that are electrostatic sensitive. The system includes a wrist strap of conductive material having one element of an electrical connector connected thereon. A length of copper ground lead is connected at one end by way of a resistor to a metal connecting element designed to meet with the connector on the wrist strap. A woven shield preferably of nylon completely encloses the ground lead and terminates adjacent to the connection to the resistor. A housing of insulating material is provided having a central portion for receiving the resistor and the end portions of the nylon braid and the copper ground lead. The receiving portion of the housing is filled with an insulated material such as epoxy firmly to bond the resistor and portions of the ground lead and insulating braid to the structure of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1983
    Inventor: Sheila O. Swainbank
  • Patent number: 4373594
    Abstract: Described is a rotary drill bit comprising a hollow body having a closed lower end and means on the upper end for securing the body to the lower end of a drill string. The body is provided with a plurality of flow passages and a deflecting means is provided to deflect upwardly and away from the flow passages cuttings and the like to avoid plugging the passages during drilling while permitting unimpeded flow from the passages of all the fluid passing through the hollow body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1983
    Inventor: Thomas R. Barr
  • Patent number: 4253091
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for a condition-sensing system including features of checking the integrity of the system and detecting the presence of an alarm condition. Condition-sensing system is described as a fire alarm system for a central station employing a modification of the McCulloh circuit. A plurality of fire detection loops including normally open circuit detectors are each powered at opposite ends. Each leg of each loop is sequentially checked for integrity and then the detectors are checked for alarm conditions. A switching system is employed for the sequential operations. A programmable controller is disclosed as a switching system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1981
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventor: Jehuda Frydman
  • Patent number: 4242740
    Abstract: In seismic exploration, refracted seismic energy is detected by seismic receivers to produce seismograms of subsurface formations. The seismograms are produced by directing seismic energy from an array of sources at an angle to be refracted by the subsurface formations and detected by the receivers. The directivity of the array is obtained by delaying the seismic pulses produced by each source in the source array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventor: William H. Ruehle
  • Patent number: 4241429
    Abstract: In seismic exploration, linear, multiple fold, common depth point sets of seismograms with three dimensional reflection geometry are used to determine the dip and strike of the subsurface reflecting interfaces and the average velocity of the path of the seismic energy to the reflecting interface. The reflections in each set appear with time differences on a hyperbola with trace spacings determined by the source receiver coordinate distance along the lines of exploration. The offset of the apex of this hyperbola is determined from a normal move-out velocity search of the type performed on two dimensional CDP sets. This search identifies the correct stacking velocity and hyperbola offset which are used to determine dip, strike and average velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Marvin G. Bloomquist, Yung-liang Wang
  • Patent number: 4237422
    Abstract: A chromatograph signal generator employs a plurality of Gaussian-waveform generators and a ramp voltage generator. A summing amplifier combines the outputs of such generators to produce a composite chromatographic output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventor: Wilfried K. Lenhardt
  • Patent number: 4234938
    Abstract: In marine seismic exploration, measurements of reflectivity and water depth are made from seismograms produced by the firing of a seismic energy source towed by a marine vessel. The measurements are made by generating the auto-correlation coefficients of a window of the seismogram and combining these coefficients for different time lags. The time lag producing the minimum energy in the combined autocorrelation coefficients represents water depth. The reflectivity of the water bottom is obtained by generating an estimate of the reflectivity from the values of the auto-correlation function of the window, and modifying this estimate by a factor which converts the estimate to the reflectivity. The measured water depth and reflectivity are converted into an inverse operator. A linear array of sources is then fired in a sequence such that the acoustic pulses combine to produce a resultant acoustic pressure wave having the inverse time domain operator characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Allen, Maynard S. Redeker
  • Patent number: 4231111
    Abstract: A marine cable location system includes a plurality of magnetic compasses located at known spaced intervals along a cable being towed by a marine vessel. These compass readings are recorded along with an onboard magnetic compass reading, an onboard gyrocompass reading, and satellite navigational information. From these recordings, the X-Y coordinates of cable compasses with respect to vessel heading are determined. These X-Y coordinates are recorded along with the vessel's position and heading on magnetic tape and a cathode-ray tube so as to provide a visual display of the cable position with respect to the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventor: Walter P. Neeley
  • Patent number: 4217659
    Abstract: An acoustic source and a spaced-apart acoustic receiver are moved through the casing of a well. Electrical signals indicative of the source signal and the receiver signal are applied uphole by way of a conductor to a time series analyzer and recorder. The time series analyzer provides power-spectral density functions and cross-spectral density functions of the source and receiver signals during reconnaissance logging operations. From these functions there is determined the ability of the casing-cement formation combination to transmit the source signal to the receiver and also the linear correlation of the source signal and receiver signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventor: Edwin E. Glenn, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4210869
    Abstract: In magneto-telluric geophysical exploration, the earth's electric telluric field in two orthogonal directions is determined. Electrodes are positioned on the earth's surface so that measured potentials between adjacent electrodes measures the earth's telluric field in known directions. These measurements are converted to signals representing the earth's telluric field in two specified orthogonal directions. The measurements are made between electrodes spaced along a cable which is laid on the ocean floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Goethe M. Groenendyke, deceased, Gustave L. Hoehn, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4209854
    Abstract: Common depth point seismic signals from a plurality of seismic receivers are recorded on a field recorder. A first time shifter corrects the seismic signals for multiple normal moveout. A linear dip filter rejects unwanted multiple reflection signals. A second time shifter reverses the multiple normal moveout correction of the first time shifter. A third time shifter corrects the primary reflection signals for normal moveout. The primary reflection signal are then stacked and recorded as a composite common depth point seismic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventor: William H. Ruehle
  • Patent number: 4209855
    Abstract: Multiplexed seismic data representing a plurality of seismic channels intensity modulates each sweep of the electron beam of a cathode-ray tube. Each successive sweep of the electron beam is photographically reproduced on a rotating drum plotter to provide a seismic record section. The modulation of the cathode-ray tube is further controlled to provide for various seismic trace presentations on the record section, including wiggle traces, variable area traces, wiggle-variable area traces, and symmetrical-variable area traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventor: Clarence G. Smith
  • Patent number: 4208732
    Abstract: In common depth point seismic exploration, seismic traces are corrected for normal moveout and stacked to form a composite trace. The composite trace is successively time shifted to provide a plurality of reference traces characterized by the normal moveout of the seismic traces. The reference traces are crosscorrelated with the seismic traces, and the resulting correlation functions are utilized to enhance the primary reflection signals of the seismic traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventor: William H. Ruehle
  • Patent number: 4206509
    Abstract: In common depth point (CDP) seismic exploration, a pilot trace is produced from the stacked trace for each CDP set of traces. The pilot trace is crosscorrelated with each trace of the CDP set during selected time windows. The crosscorrelation time shifts are applied to each trace of the CDP set. The time shifted traces of each CDP set are stacked to form a static corrected seismic record section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventor: William H. Ruehle
  • Patent number: 4194580
    Abstract: This specification discloses a technique of providing a wellbore that extends from a surface location to a subsurface location in a mineral bearing formation which subsurface location is spaced a great lateral distance from the surface location. The wellbore is provided to have a first portion that extends essentially vertically from the surface location into the earth's crust and into a formation having good drilling characteristics, a second portion that extends for a great distance within and essentially parallel to the bedding plane of the formation having good drilling characteristics, and a third portion that extends essentially vertically from the farthest extension of the second portion to the subsurface location in the mineral bearing formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph U. Messenger
  • Patent number: 4193454
    Abstract: This invention relates to a super-active clay catalyst material prepared by a special method for treating clay materials, said catalyst for use in catalytic conversion of organic materials such as, for example, hydrocarbon compounds, heavy crude petroleum stock and kerogen. Said special method comprises contacting a clay material, existing in the raw state as found in nature or synthesized, with a solution containing cations selected from the group consisting of transition metal ions, aluminum ions, hydrogen ions, ions of metals from Group IIB of the Periodic Table of Elements and a combination thereof with each other, said clay material having been maintained at a temperature not exceeding about 100.degree. C. prior to and during the contacting with said solution, and thereafter heating said exchanged clay material to a temperature of at least about 50.degree. C. but not exceeding about 250.degree. C. in the presence of air and/or organic material which is to be catalytically converted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventor: Theodore P. Goldstein
  • Patent number: 4193058
    Abstract: Multiplexed seismic data representing a plurality of seismic channels intensity modulates each sweep of the electron beam of a cathode-ray tube. Each successive sweep of the electron beam is photographically reproduced on a rotating drum plotter to provide a seismic record section. The sweep signal for controlling the electron beam is automatically gain controlled so that the number of seismic traces per inch remains constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1980
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventor: Clarence G. Smith