Patents Examined by S. L. Childs
  • Patent number: 4344771
    Abstract: Vegetable oils such as corn oil, peanut oil, and soy oil are reacted with polyamines to form a mixture containing amides, imides, half esters, and glycerol with subsequent treatment with a strong acid such as sulfonic acid to produce a product mix that has good detergent properties in fuels and lubricants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1982
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventors: Benedict R. Bonazza, Albert N. DeVault
  • Patent number: 4342796
    Abstract: An improved method for inhibiting corrosion of internal structural members of reinforced concrete, such as the corrosion of reinforcing steel members in a concrete bridge deck or a concrete paved driving surface, due to salt migration into the reinforced concrete. In general, the method comprises applying an effective amount of a hydrolyzable organo silicon compound to the surface of the reinforced concrete to substantially cover the surface of the structure with the organo silicon, and contacting the resulting organo silicon coated surface, after a period of time effective to allow the organo silicon compound to migrate into the structure, with an effective amount of water to substantially wet the surface of the organo silicon impregnated structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1982
    Assignee: Advanced Chemical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy N. Brown, Mike F. Stout
  • Patent number: 4341824
    Abstract: A method is provided for upgrading rock in the form of aggregate, block, shaped stone or concrete structures involving the treatment of such rock with a dilute aqueous solution of polyelectrolyte. Enhanced degradation resistance is achieved by further wetting the polyelectrolyte treated rock with a multi-valent ion metallic salt solution. Treated aggregate, portland cement and bituminous concrete compositions containing such treated aggregate are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1982
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Donald G. LeGrand
  • Patent number: 4339479
    Abstract: A process for rendering cellulosic material water repellent that requires no subsequent neutralization step while retaining the desired water repellent and strength characteristics thus provided by selecting a cellulosic material having a water content of up to about 10%, preferably below about 2% and contacting the material with vapors of a lower alkyl silicon halide during which contacting the concentration and temperature of the halide vapor, the pressure within the treating chamber and the contact time are all maintained so as to provide a water repellent cellulosic material having a pH greater than 2.5. In one aspect of the invention, the cellulosic material subjecting to contacting is substantially frozen and in another aspect contacting is conducted under vacuum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1982
    Inventor: Edward Robbart
  • Patent number: 4338360
    Abstract: An improved method for coating a porous metal laminated structure having air flow holes on the coated side of the structure including in part, the steps of roughening an exposed surface of the porous laminated material and thereafter spraying a bond layer on the roughened surface at an angle selected to coat it with a thin bond coat layer while depositing only a limited amount of the bond coat material internally of the air flow holes and thereafter spray coating the bond coated surface with a top ceramic coat of heat resistant composition and characterized by requiring a bond coat for adherence to the porous metal laminated material and wherein the top ceramic coat spray angle is inclined opposite to that of the spray angle of deposition of the bond coat material to prevent deposition of the top coat on bond material internally of the air flow holes so as to prevent bonding of the ceramic top coat in the air flow holes thereby to minimize restriction of flow through the air flow hole in the exposed surface o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1982
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Cavanagh, Kenneth R. Cross, David L. Clingman, Berton Schechter
  • Patent number: 4336279
    Abstract: Apparatus for practicing the process of the present invention includes a flashing section which emits high-velocity, hot air onto the substrate, and a drying and curing section disposed downstream of the flashing section which emits high-velocity, hot air and radiant energy onto the substrate. The flashing and drying/curing sections are fluidically connected to an exhaust duct disposed upstream of the flashing section whereby the spent hot air, and entrained volatiles, are exhausted and recirculated for subsequent flashing and drying/curing process steps. The flashing section comprises air knives having their exhaust directions inclined in the upstream direction toward the exhaust duct, and fresh ambient air may also enter the exhaust stream from a downstream position so as to alter the percentage of volatiles within the recirculated air stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1982
    Inventor: Wesley A. Metzger
  • Patent number: 4336287
    Abstract: A process for preparing coated glass containers is disclosed. This process comprises applying a coating of an unhydrogenated thermoplastic elastomer on the outside of the glass container and then baking the coated glass container in the presence of oxygen gas at a temperature of from about 150.degree. to about 170.degree. C. for a time period of from about 10 to about 45 minutes. The coated glass containers are both glass fragment retentive and returnable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1982
    Assignee: Celanese Corporation
    Inventor: Alex S. Forschirm
  • Patent number: 4331738
    Abstract: A composition of a blend of a carboxylated copolymer latex having a Tg of not less than about -30.degree. C. such as a copolymer of styrene, itaconic and methacrylic acids and butadiene-1,3 and an acrylate copolymer latex having a Tg of not less than about +30.degree. C. such as a copolymer of ethylacrylate, methyl methacrylate and acrylamide containing a minor amount by weight of a heat sensitizer sufficient to gel the composition and which also can contain fillers, wetting agents and stabilizers, and so forth can be used to provide a water resistant film on the surface of a hot rubber compound or composition which subsequently can be cooled rapidly with water and dried. The resulting latex coated rubber can then be stacked or assembled without sticking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1982
    Assignee: The General Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Tiong H. Kuan
  • Patent number: 4330574
    Abstract: A finishing method and apparatus for conventional continuous hot-dip coating of the type wherein a ferrous base metal strip is caused to pass beneath the surface of a coating bath of molten coating metal and is thereafter subjected to jet finishing, the ferrous base metal strip having been appropriately pretreated so as to be at the proper coating temperature and so as to have its surfaces oxide-free when passing through the bath of molten coating metal. The method comprises the steps of providing an enclosure for the two-side coated strip as it exits the coating bath, locating a finishing jet nozzle to either side of the coated strip within the enclosure, jet finishing the coated strip with a non-oxidizing or inert gas. The apparatus comprises the above mentioned enclosure with the jet finishing nozzles located therein and an appropriate system to provide a non-oxidizing or inert atmosphere within the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1982
    Assignee: Armco Inc.
    Inventors: Marvin B. Pierson, Charles Flinchum
  • Patent number: 4330572
    Abstract: A method of repairing cracks or damaged areas in glass, in particular, glass coatings provided on tile. The method includes removing the damaged area using a high speed diamond burr drilling out a cavity that extends slightly into the base material of the tile. All loose material is then cleaned from the drilled out cavity and the cavity is filled adjacent the upper surface of the coating with a filler material including chopped silica fibers mixed with a binder. The filler material is packed into the cavity and a repair coating is applied by means of a brush or sprayed thereover. The repair includes borosilicate suspended in solution. Heat is applied at approximately 2100.degree. F. for approximately five (5) minutes for curing the coating, causing boron silicide particles of the coating to oxidize forming a very fluid boron-oxide rich glass which reacts with the other frits to form an impervious, highly refractory layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1982
    Inventors: Robert A. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with respect to an invention of Frosch, Jack W. Holt, Donald D. Helman, Laurence W. Smiser
  • Patent number: 4329379
    Abstract: A tin oxide coating is formed on a hot glass substrate during conveyance through two successive coating zones in the first of which it is contacted with an acetylacetonate or alkylate of titanium, nickel or zinc to cause deposition of a metal oxide undercoating on the substrate, and in the second of which zones such metal oxide coating on the still hot substrate is contacted by a gaseous medium comprising a tin halide to cause deposition of a coating of tin oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1982
    Assignee: BFG Glassgroup
    Inventors: Robert Terneu, Albert Van Cauter
  • Patent number: 4328267
    Abstract: A member to be coated is placed in a hollow portion of an external member and a coating material is charged in a gap between the member to be coated and the external member. The member to be coated has another member fixed thereto. The member to be coated is drawn from the hollow portion of the external member to form a coated film thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takehiko Matsuo, Ken Masuda
  • Patent number: 4322458
    Abstract: An encapsulated ceramic molded member for high-temperature isostatic pressing which precludes the danger of deformation caused by a capsule material and in which, more particularly, a capsule material comes into consideration which will withstand the extremely high temperatures encountered during high-temperature isostatic pressing and which will be compatible with the ceramic material of the molded member, as well as a method for the encapsulation of such molded members. The molded member is coated with a material having the composition Ag.sub.2 O. (refractory metal . O.sub.x), or mixtures of such materials according to the composition Ag.sub.2 O. (refractory metals . O.sub.x).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1982
    Assignee: Motoren-und Turbinen Union
    Inventor: Wilhelm Siebmanns
  • Patent number: 4321301
    Abstract: Process for stabilizing particles of peroxygenated compounds by coating by means of a solid coating agent comprises applying a coating agent which contains at least one boron compound from metaboric acid, orthoboric acid and tetraboric acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Assignee: Interox
    Inventors: Jean Brichard, Jean-Claude Colery
  • Patent number: 4321308
    Abstract: Metal working operations, especially drawing, are facilitated by applying to the metal a composition which provides lubricity thereto and which melts within the range of about 30.degree.-100.degree. C. The composition comprises at least one ester of a carboxylic acid, with a carboxylic acid or derivative thereof, a phosphorus acid salt and an antioxidant being preferred optional ingredients. The composition may be applied in liquid from and solidifies on cooling to ambient and normal storage temperatures. Prior to application, the composition is preferably heated to a temperature higher than its melting temperature for ease of flow and uniform dispersion thereof onto the metal. In a preferred method of application, a reservoir is located beneath the composition applicator and composition is pumped therefrom to the applicator, preferably a roller coater, with excess composition being recirculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventor: Richard W. Jahnke
  • Patent number: 4315968
    Abstract: Silicon carbide filament is produced by overcoating a carbon monofilament core using continuous process vapor deposition. The deposition takes place by passing the carbon monofilament through a reactor into which gaseous sources of silicon and carbon are injected. At a deposition temperature of about 1300 C., a deposit of fine grained beta crystals of silicon carbide are formed. Application of a thin coating of silicon-rich silicon carbide on the surface of the filament both adds strength and provides a surface which is readily bonded to metals, glass and resin matrix materials during the forming of composite structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1982
    Assignee: Avco Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond J. Suplinskas, Thomas W. Henze
  • Patent number: 4309300
    Abstract: The surfaces of organic polymeric coatings applied to detail parts or components are subject to contamination and ultraviolet degradation prior to final overcoating procedures. The sources of ultraviolet exposure are light transmission through windows, artificial lighting, or temporary exterior exposure of the detail part coated surface. The ultraviolet light altered surface layer is effectively removed by treatment with a mixture of a glycol ether, an alcohol, a ketone and deionized water, without removing the main body of the coating. This results in good adhesion of a subsequently applied touch-up coating or overcoating. The process can also be used for cleaning metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1982
    Assignee: McDonnell Douglas Corporation
    Inventors: Mervin A. Danforth, Julian Giles, Saburo Nakahara
  • Patent number: 4308318
    Abstract: A ribbon for non-impact printing comprising an electrically conductive substrate and a transfer layer which comprises a polymerized fatty acid polyamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1981
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: William J. Weiche
  • Patent number: 4294704
    Abstract: Aqueous latex base binder of a synthetic polymer for preparing aqueous compositions for coating paper and board for printing, having improved wet and dry tear strength. The content in the latex of hydrosoluble compounds dissolved in the aqueous phase is less than 0.5% by weight in relation to the polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1981
    Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Industries
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Daniel, Jacques Grossoleil, Robert Roullet
  • Patent number: 4293596
    Abstract: A method of coating which involves applying to a surface a dispersion containing a main bonding agent and a temporary bonding agent. The main bonding agent is not film forming at room temperature. Next the continuous phase of the dispersion is permitted to evaporate or is driven off, followed by precipitation of the main bonding agent and the temporary bonding agent to form a porous powder layer on the surface. The temporary bonding agent bonds the main bonding agent to the surface. The porous layer is then exposed to a solvent which causes the particles of the bonding agents to flow together, and any excess solvent is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1981
    Assignee: AB Bofors
    Inventors: Allan R. B. Furendal, Bernt Larsson, Erik R. Nilsson