Patents by Inventor Billi Marie Rogers

Billi Marie Rogers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Items made of wear resistant materials
    Patent number: 7459219
    Abstract: An item made of wear resistant material, the item, in certain aspects, made by a method including forming a mass of wear resistant material, the wear resistant material comprising at least one element from the group consisting of arsenic, antimony, cerium and bismuth, wherein the at least one element is present by weight as between 0.01% to 0.0001% of a total weight of the wear resistant material, wherein the wear resistant material includes by weight percent chromium 29.10-30.00%; nickel 5.00-6.00%; titanium 1.00-2.10%; boron 3.00-3.90%; silicon 1.00-2.10%; manganese 1.10-2.00%; iron-balance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Inventors: Jimmie Brooks Bolton, Billi Marie Rogers
  • Hardfacing materials & methods
    Patent number: 6888088
    Abstract: A method for applying wear resistant material to a substrate, the substrate comprised of material with a substrate coefficient of thermal expansion, the method including applying the wear resistant material to the substrate with application apparatus, the wear resistant material having a wear resistant material coefficient of thermal expansion, the substrate coefficient of thermal expansion within 15% of the wear resistant material coefficient of thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Inventors: Jimmie Brooks Bolton, Billi Marie Rogers
  • Methods for using a laser beam to apply wear-reducing material to tool joints
    Patent number: 6861612
    Abstract: A method for applying wear reducing material to a tool joint useful in a wellbore in drilling operations, the method, in at least certain aspects, including positioning the tool joint adjacent laser beam apparatus, delivering wear-reducing material to a location on the tool joint to which the wear-reducing material is to be applied, heating the wear-reducing material with the laser beam apparatus to a temperature not exceeding its melting temperature so that the wear-reducing material is welded to the tool joint; in one particular aspect, using a defocused laser beam to achieve desired heating temperatures; and, in one aspect, defocusing the laser so no plasma is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Inventors: Jimmie Brooks Bolton, Billi Marie Rogers
  • Hardfacing materials & methods
    Publication number: 20040084421
    Abstract: A method for applying wear resistant material to a substrate, the substrate comprised of material with a substrate coefficient of thermal expansion, the method including applying the wear resistant material to the substrate with application apparatus, the wear resistant material having a wear resistant material coefficient of thermal expansion, the substrate coefficient of thermal expansion within 15% of the wear resistant material coefficient of thermal expansion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: Jimmie Brooks Bolton, Billi Marie Rogers
  • Wire for thermal spraying system
    Patent number: 6428858
    Abstract: A wire for use in thermal spraying, the wire having sheath material—e.g. zinc, zinc alloy, aluminum and/or aluminum alloy, and core material, e.g. copper and/or copper alloy. A method for thermal spraying, the method including spraying a coating onto an object (e.g. but not limited to a vessel's hull with a thermal spray system, the thermal spray system using such wire or powder to produce the coating, the wire or powder including first material acting as a cathode and second material acting as a biocide for marine growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Inventors: Jimmie Brooks Bolton, Billi Marie Rogers
  • Methods for applying wear-reducing material to tool joints
    Publication number: 20020098298
    Abstract: A method for applying wear reducing material to a tool joint useful in a wellbore in drilling operations, the method, in at least certain aspects, including positioning the tool joint adjacent laser beam apparatus, delivering wear-reducing material to a location on the tool joint to which the wear-reducing material is to be applied, heating the wear-reducing material with the laser beam apparatus to a temperature not exceeding its melting temperature so that the wear-reducing material is welded to the tool joint; in one particular aspect, using a defocused laser beam to achieve desired heating temperatures; and, in one aspect, defocusing the laser so no plasma is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Jimmie Brooks Bolton, Billi Marie Rogers