Patents Examined by Winston A. Douglas
  • Patent number: 4336033
    Abstract: An improved fuel composition comprising a major amount of hydrocarbons boiling in the gasoline boiling range, and a minor amount of iron pentacarbonyl capable of improving the octane number rating of the composition but insufficient to cause excessive wear in engine parts when the fuel composition is burned in an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1982
    Assignee: Ethyl Corporation
    Inventor: James B. Hinkamp
  • Patent number: 4336032
    Abstract: A process for stabilizing mixtures of gasoline and methanol containing at least 30% by volume of methanol is disclosed wherein a primary, linear or branched chain monohydroxylated aliphatic saturated alcohol containing from 8 to 15 carbon atoms or a mixture of such alcohols, is added to the gasoline/methanol mixture. The stabilized mixtures described herein are useful as a fuel for automobiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1982
    Assignee: PCUK Produits Chimiques Ugine Kuhlmann
    Inventors: Genevieve L. Kupka, Mehdi Zar-Ayan
  • Patent number: 4334890
    Abstract: A gasoline blending stock is produced by the simultaneous reaction of a hydrocarbon feed containing at least one tertiary olefin, at least one aliphatic alcohol, and water over a suitable catalyst. In a typical embodiment, a mixed C.sub.4 stream containing isobutylene is reacted with aqueous ethanol to form a mixture of ethyl tertiary butyl ether and tertiary butanol, with minimal formation of secondary alcohols from any normal butenes present in the hydrocarbon feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1982
    Assignee: The Halcon SD Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Nand K. Kochar, Richard L. Marcell
  • Patent number: 4334889
    Abstract: A method of improving in the combustibility of gasoline by injecting oxygen gas into gasoline in the stationary or flowing state under a magnetic field. The gasoline treated by the method has an ability to prolong the running time of an internal combustion engine 3% to 4% longer under the same conditions than the untreated gasoline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1982
    Inventor: Toshiaki Takabayashi
  • Patent number: 4334891
    Abstract: Specified copolymers of tert-butylstyrene are dissolved in a liquid aliphatic hydrocarbon fuel, especially an aircraft fuel, by the steps of (i) blending the finely-divided copolymer with a non-solvent hydroxylic liquid miscible with the fuel, (ii) mixing the blend into the fuel so as to give a copolymer concentration of 01.-1% by weight, and (iii) dissolving in the fuel so treated an amino compound in an amount of 0.01-0.6 mole per 100 g of copolymer present. The copolymers thus dissolved impart to the fuel a resistance towards mist formation when the fuel is subjected to conditions of shock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1982
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventors: Herbert Brooks, Frederick A. Waite
  • Patent number: 4333741
    Abstract: This invention relates to .alpha.-olefin-acrylonitrile copolymers and uses thereof, particularly as antistatic agents in organic liquids such as hydrocarbon fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1982
    Assignee: Petrolite Corporation
    Inventors: Michael I. Naiman, Rudolf S. Buriks
  • Patent number: 4333840
    Abstract: A lubricant especially adapted to meet the requirements of firearms, the lubricant being constituted by a dispersion of microfine PTFE particles in an oil carrier diluted with a major amount of synthetic lubricant having a low viscosity and a high viscosity index, whereby the resultant hybrid lubricant not only reduces wear and friction, but also affords a protective coating for the treated metal surfaces which resists the adhesion thereto of grime, powder, lead and all other contaminants that otherwise make it necessary to frequently clean the weapon to maintain it in proper working order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1982
    Assignee: Michael Ebert
    Inventor: Franklin G. Reick
  • Patent number: 4332593
    Abstract: Mine run coal is pulverized and the extended surfaces of the coal particles are rendered hydrophobic and oilophilic by a chemical bonding and graft polymerization reaction with a water insoluble organic polymerizable monomer under peroxidation influence in a predominantly water reaction medium.The mineral ash present in the coal and particularly the iron pyrites remains hydrophilic and is separated from the polymeric organic surface bonded coal product in a water washing step wherein the washed coal floats on and is recovered from the water phase and the ash is removed with the separated wash water in a critical wash step.Excess water is removed from the beneficiated hydrophobic surface-altered coal product mechanically. The hydrophobic and oilophilic organic polymeric surface bonded coating about the coal particles is fortified by inclusion of additional unbound free fatty acids by further small additions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1982
    Assignee: Gulf & Western Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Lester E. Burgess, Karl M. Fox, Phillip E. McGarry, David E. Herman
  • Patent number: 4332594
    Abstract: An oxygenated hydrocarbon based fuel for use in internal combustion engines is composed by volume of alcohol (40-80%), ketone (0-30%) ether (15-40%), a dimethyl siloxane (0.01-1.0%) a surfactant (0.25-1.0%) and a fuel-soluble corrosion inhibitor (0.02-0.1%). The resulting fuel has excellent storage life and performance characteristics superior to gasoline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1982
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventor: David M. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 4332595
    Abstract: A detergent additive represented by the formula:R--[O--CH.sub.2 --CH(CH.sub.3)].sub.y --NH--(CH.sub.2).sub.3 --NH.sub.2in which R is a hydrocarbyl radical having from 8 to 18 carbon atoms and y is about 2 to 6, and a gasoline motor fuel composition containing same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1982
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Sheldon Herbstman, Joseph B. Biasotti, Michael E. Brennan
  • Patent number: 4330303
    Abstract: A motor fuel composition comprising a mixture of hydrocarbons boiling in the gasoline boiling range and a detergent additive comprising an ethylenediamine reaction product of a hydrocarbyl-substituted acid lactone reaction product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1982
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: William M. Cummings, Justin C. Powell
  • Patent number: 4330304
    Abstract: A fuel additive to improve liquid fuel combustion efficiency which includes a nitroparaffin, a hydroperoxide, and propylene oxide. Ordinarily the nitroparaffin is between 3% and 65%, by weight, of the entire additive and the hydroperoxide is between 1/2% and 15%, by weight, of the entire additive and has a pH between 7.0 and 8.5. The propylene oxide ordinarily is between 1% and 20%, by weight, of the total weight of the additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1982
    Inventor: Jeremy W. Gorman
  • Patent number: 4330301
    Abstract: A dispersant for forming an aqueous slurry of coal powder having a good flowability, which comprises as the active ingredient at least one member selected from sulfonation products of polycyclic aromatic compounds which may have a hydrocarbon group as a substituent, salts thereof and formaldehyde condensates thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1982
    Assignee: Kao Soap Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Yamamura, Noboru Moriyama, Shin-ichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4329510
    Abstract: In a process for recovering a purified ketone substantially free from aldehydes which comprises contacting a crude ketone containing small amounts of aldehydes with an alkali and then distilling the treated crude ketone, the improvement wherein said alkali is a solid alkali composition composed of an alkali metal compound selected from alkali metal oxides and hydroxides, an alkaline earth metal compound selected from alkaline earth metal oxides and hydroxides and silicon dioxide in which the mole ratio of the alkali metal to the alkaline earth metal is in the range of from 1:1 to 1:15, and the mole ratio of the alkali metal to silicon is in the range of from 1:0.25 to 1:5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1982
    Assignee: Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutoyo Uno, Hisaya Miki
  • Patent number: 4329283
    Abstract: Disperse dyestuffs of the formula ##STR1## in which R, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 denotes alkyl,E denotes A or B,A denotes alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl or aralkyl,B denotes aryl,m denotes the numbers 2-4,Y and Z denotes R, Cl, Br or O--E andX denotes R, Cl, Br, CHO, CO--E, COO--A, CONR--E, SO.sub.2 --E, SO.sub.2 O--B,SO.sub.2 NR--E, CN, NO.sub.2, CF.sub.3 or Y--C.sub.6 H.sub.4 --N.dbd.N-- with the proviso that Y and Z represent H, Cl, Br or O--E if X denotes 4-nitro, are especially suitable for the dyeing of polyester material since they give deep dyeings with high fastness to sublimation and interesting greenish-tinged yellow shade on that material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1982
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Henning Reel, Klaus Leverenz
  • Patent number: 4328124
    Abstract: Olefin polymerization catalysts comprised of a supported adduct of a trialkyl-dialkylphosphato-titanate and chromium trioxide, processes for their preparation and polymerization processes employing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: National Petro Chemicals Corp.
    Inventors: Anthony N. Speca, Stanley J. Katzen, Louis J. Rekers
  • Patent number: 4328003
    Abstract: An alkanol fuel, particularly ethanol, for internal combustion engines is modified by the addition of at least a corrosion-inhibiting amount of a metal passivating fuel additive whereby the corrosion-inhibition and if desired carburetor-detergency activities of said fuel is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: Exxon Research & Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Jack Ryer, Stanley J. Brois, Elbert D. Nostrand
  • Patent number: 4328160
    Abstract: A selective process for the preparation of 1-aminoanthraquinones from the corresponding 1-aminoanthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid by decarboxylation in basic solution in the presence of iron, tin or zinc as a catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: BASF Wyandotte Corporation
    Inventor: Rack H. Chung
  • Patent number: 4328159
    Abstract: There are described new anthraquinone compounds, and mixtures thereof, of the formula ##STR1## in which X is a halogen atom which is in the 6- or 7-position of the anthraquinone molecule, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 independently of one another are each an alkyl group, R.sub.3 is hydrogen or an alkyl group, and the Z's independently of one another are each hydrogen, a fibre-reactive group bound by way of an amino group, or they are each a water-solubilising group, or the group --CH.sub.2 NH--CO--Y in which Y is an alkyl or alkenyl group which is unsubstituted or is mono- or disubstituted by halogen, or it is an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group, with the proviso that if one Z is a fibre-reactive group bound by way of an amino group, the other Z is a water-solubilising group; processes for producing these compounds; and their use as dyes for dyeing or printing natural or synthetic textile materials dyeable with acid dyes or with fibre-reactive dyes, such as polyamide materials, wool and cellulose materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventor: Jean-Marie Adam
  • Patent number: 4328161
    Abstract: A selective process for the preparation of 1-aminoanthraquinones from the corresponding 1-aminoanthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid by decarboxylation in an acid solution in the presence of iron or zinc as a catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: BASF Wyandotte Corporation
    Inventor: Rack H. Chung