Patents Assigned to The International Nickel Company, Inc.
  • Method for producing electrolytic nickel in particulate forms under condition of high and variable internal stress
    Patent number: 4147597
    Abstract: An electrodeposition mandrel for nickel electrodeposition having islands of bare metal surface finished by grit blasting with either cast iron grit or aluminum oxide grit to a RMS surface finish of about 130 to 300.mu. inch when cast iron grit is employed and about 25 to about 150.mu. inch when aluminum oxide grit is employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1979
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: William G. Borner, Aloys J. Dill, Gordon L. Fisher
  • Flash smelting furnace
    Patent number: 4143865
    Abstract: A flash smelting furnace has an outer metallic shell from which portions are cut out to expose the outer surface of the refractory lining at a depth corresponding to the location of the matte-slag interface, and gaseous cooling jets are directed onto the exposed refractory lining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1979
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas N. Antonioni
  • Production of low expansion superalloy products
    Patent number: 4144102
    Abstract: Nickel-iron and nickel-iron-cobalt alloys contain chromium and gamma-prime hardening elements in proportions balanced according to special compositional relationships providing desired thermal expansion, inflection temperature, strength and ductility characteristics, particularly including notch strength needed in machinery and structures subjected in use to varying temperatures and thermal gradients where operating temperatures become elevated above 500.degree. F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1979
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Darrell F. Smith, Jr., Edward F. Clatworthy, Donald E. Wenschhof, Jr.
  • Roast-reductive leach process for copper recovery
    Patent number: 4135918
    Abstract: A sulfide containing copper and one or more of iron, nickel and cobalt, is dead-roasted at a temperature of 750.degree. C or above, then subjected to a pressure leach under reducing conditions to produce elemental copper and an aqueous solution of the other metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor A. Ettel, Eric A. P. Devuyst, Ramamritham Sridhar, Charles E. O'Neill
  • Undersea mining instrument
    Patent number: 4135395
    Abstract: Electromechanical impact meter enables obtaining real-time on-site collection rate information concerning undersea mining of manganese nodules or other solid minerals at a remote location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur F. Sullivan, William E. Currie
  • Hydrogen storage module
    Patent number: 4135621
    Abstract: Discloses a hydrogen storage module comprising a fluted tube section closed at each end with a gas permeable porous plug and containing a metal adapted to form a hydride or the hydride of such metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre P. Turillon, Gary D. Sandrock
  • Thermal concentration of non-ferrous metal values in sulfide minerals
    Patent number: 4135913
    Abstract: Ferruginous sulfide minerals containing non-ferrous metal values, such as nickel and cobalt are treated to concentrate the non-ferrous metal values in metallic iron. An intimate admixture of finely-divided non-ferrous-metal-bearing ferruginous sulfide minerals, iron oxide, and a suitable reducing agent is maintained at a temperature between about 800.degree. C. and 1000.degree. C. in an atmosphere non-oxidizing to iron to produce a metallic iron alloy containing the non-ferrous metal values from the sulfide minerals. The heated admixture is cooled and the concentrated non-ferrous metal values in the iron alloy are recovered by magnetic separation or hydrocloning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Illis, Louis S. Renzoni
  • Hydride storage containment
    Patent number: 4134491
    Abstract: Discloses the use of collapsible hollow structures within a mass of metal-hydride material used in a pressure vessel for storing hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre P. Turillon, Gary D. Sandrock
  • Gas storage containment
    Patent number: 4134490
    Abstract: Discloses the use of spatially extended particles of a solid characterized by a low apparent density distributed within a mass of metal hydride material used in a pressure vessel for storing hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre P. Turillon, Gary D. Sandrock
  • Process for preparing mixed metal oxide catalysts
    Patent number: 4134852
    Abstract: Mixed metal oxides are prepared as catalyst materials by a method comprising high energy impact milling of a formulated mixture of powders to form a mechanically alloyed product and heat treating said product in an oxidizing atmosphere to form the desired compound. In a preferred embodiment a catalytic material is formed which has the general empirical formula ABO.sub.3 and a perovskite-type crystal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy E. Volin
  • Hydride container
    Patent number: 4133426
    Abstract: A hydrogen-storage vessel having particles of hydrideable alloy in a multiplicity of closed containers permeable to hydrogen within the vessel to prevent localized pressure effects acting against the walls of the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre P. Turillon, Gary D. Sandrock
  • Nickel based alloy
    Patent number: 4127410
    Abstract: Nickel-base alloy containing chromium, aluminum, titanium and molybdenum, and desirably including cobalt and metal from group tungsten and tantalum, has combination of strength and ductility at elevated temperatures, particularly including stress-rupture strength at 1800.degree. F. and ductility at 1400.degree. F., along with resistance against oxidation and to hot corrosion by combustion products from jet propulsion fuels. Alloy is especially useful in production of gas turbine rotor blade castings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1978
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard F. Merrick, LeRoy R. Curwick
  • Bipolar electrode support structures
    Patent number: 4124746
    Abstract: A bipolar electrode support structure for use in a lead acid battery is constituted by a porous matrix of valve metal, impregnated with lead or a lead alloy, and is provided on at least one surface thereof with a rim-portion at which little or no lead is exposed. The rim-portion is used to maintain an electrolyte-tight seal in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1978
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: George F. Nordblom, Pierre P. Turillon, Ernest L. Huston, Stephan L. Keresztes
  • Load sensor for a grinding mill
    Patent number: 4123009
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting predetermined operating conditions of a machine driven by an electric motor, in which a filtered electric signal is utilized. The filter is designed to signal the occurrence of frequencies within a predetermined band, thereby enabling detection of an event characterized by the occurrence of such frequencies. The output of the filter can be used, for example, in a further device to operate an alarm, turn off the motor, reduce the feed to the machine, or any other suitable control action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1978
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Leo T. Kilpinen
  • Alloy for rare earth treatment of molten metals and method
    Patent number: 4121924
    Abstract: Alloy containing special ternary proportions of nickel, iron and rare earths of group cerium, lanthanum, neodymium and praseodymium has density, melting temperature, toughness, stability and other characteristics specially beneficial for production and use as addition agent in rare earth treatment of molten iron-group metals, particularly including steels and nickel-base alloys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventor: John Joseph de Barbadillo, II
  • Negative electrode for lead-acid storage battery
    Patent number: 4121024
    Abstract: A negative lead-acid storage battery electrode having a base made of a porous, sintered metal lighter than lead infiltrated with lead, lead alloy or a metal wetted by pure lead in the molten state. The base is then provided with a protective layer of pure lead and negative active mass atop the pure lead layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignees: The International Nickel Company, Inc., ESB Corporation
    Inventors: Pierre Paul Turillon, Michael Neill Hull, George Frederick Nordblom
  • Production of perforated metal foil
    Patent number: 4119514
    Abstract: Continuous lengths of metal foil, such as 4 micron thick nickel foil stored in coils, are perforated by anodic etching through a perforated titanium mask while foil and mask are simultaneously moving together through electrolytic etching bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1978
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventor: John Edward Whittle
  • Three phase separation
    Patent number: 4119539
    Abstract: A three phase mixture, of organic liquid, aqueous liquid and solid phases, is separated in a settler vessel equipped with means for imparting local agitation in the region of the aqueous/organic interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1978
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Alexander Ettel, Juraj Babjak
  • Electroplating nickel using anodes of flattened nickel forms
    Patent number: 4119501
    Abstract: Nickel forms, such as pellet and shot, are useful as electroplating anode materials; however, due to their small size, it is difficult to retain the nickel forms within conventionally used titanium mesh plating baskets. Nickel forms that have been work flattened are readily retained in conventional anode baskets and provide, in addition, a surprising increase in activity and a desirable coarse residue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1978
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Gordon Lloyd Fisher, Ernest Lee Huston
  • Copper recovery from sulfate solutions containing nickel and cobalt
    Patent number: 4118221
    Abstract: Copper is separated from nickel present therewith in a sulfate solution by neutralizing to precipitate all the copper and some nickel as basic compounds, and thereafter reducing the copper in the basic compounds to elemental form through formation of cuprous sulfite and thermal dissociation of the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1978
    Assignee: The International Nickel Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Alexander Ettel, Eric August Pierre Devuyst