Patents Examined by S. V. Howard
  • Patent number: 4207078
    Abstract: The amount of soot and invisible particulates emitted with the exhaust of engines run on diesel fuel is reduced by incorporating therein an additive consisting of a mixture of an oxygenated compound and an alkyl cyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl.Also disclosed is a method of operating a diesel engine using the fuel of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1980
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: William M. Sweeney, Kenneth L. Dille
  • Patent number: 4049463
    Abstract: The brightness of a cerium oxide is improved by adding a boron compound to a cerium salt or a mixture of cerium salts, and the calcining the mixture in the presence of air in a conventional manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1977
    Assignee: Treibacher Chemische Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Leo Hafner
  • Patent number: 3992217
    Abstract: A calcium-alumino composition formed by carbonating at a temperature between about 20.degree. to 100.degree. C, a hydrate of a water paste of an anhydrous calcium-alumino binder and an anhydrous calcium-silico binder formed at a temperature between about 5.degree. and 100.degree. C, said paste having a dry extract of about 5 to 70% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1976
    Assignee: Lafarge (Societe Anonyme)
    Inventors: Jacques Baudouin, Jean-Pierre Caspar