Patents by Inventor Brian Schofield

Brian Schofield 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).

  • Publication number: 20190139730
    Abstract: A Colored Circuit Breaker System for any existing and/or new circuit breaker panel structured and arranged to use specific, coded colors, at the point of manufacture, to identify individual circuits and breakers, easily identifying which breaker goes to which component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventor: Brian Schofield
  • Patent number: 6103944
    Abstract: Water present in a hot gaseous product stream from a reactor system A.B (FIG. 1) containing hydrogen fluoride is separated from the stream in order to eliminate a potentially corrosive combination of water and HF. The water is removed by contacting the gaseous product stream with liquid HF in a distillation column so as to obtain a bottoms product containing liquid HF and water and a top product containing dry HF and the product to be recovered. The invention encompasses the separation process, a vessel for carrying out the process (FIGS. 2 to 4), a control system for the liquid HF supply to the distillation column (FIGS. 5 and 6) and a recovery system for recovering HF employed during operation of the reactor system in different regimes employing HF as a fluorination agent, as a diluent during catalyst regeneration and/or catalyst prefluorination (FIG. 7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLC
    Inventors: Charles Brian Blake, James Malcolm Forsyth, Ann San Liow, Stephen John Adams, Ralph Jones Doy, Rowland John Porter Brierley, Jane Andrea Eileen Roberts, Brian Schofield, Neil David Shilling
  • Patent number: 5334784
    Abstract: Water present in a hot gaseous product stream from a reactor system A,B (FIG. 1 ) containing hydrogen fluoride is separated from the stream in order to eliminate a potentially corrosive combination of water and HF. The water is removed by contacting the gaseous product stream with liquid HF in a distillation column so as to obtain a bottoms product containing liquid HF and water and a top product containing dry HF and the product to be recovered. The invention encompasses the separation process, a vessel for carrying out the process (FIGS. 2 to 4), a control system for the liquid HF supply to the distillation column (FIGS. 5 and 6) and a recovery system for recovering HF employed during operation of the reactor system in different regimes employing HF as a fluorination agent, as a diluent during catalyst regeneration and/or catalyst prefluorination (FIG. 7 ).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLC
    Inventors: Charles B. Blake, James M. Forsyth, Ann S. Liow, Stephen J. Adams, Ralph J. Doy, Rowland J. P. Brierley, Jane A. E. Roberts, Brian Schofield, Neil D. Shilling
  • Patent number: 3994739
    Abstract: A mixture comprising at least one binder for a refractory aggregate which binder is a halogen-containing complex phosphate of aluminium containing one or more chemically-bound molecules of water and/or one or more chemically-bound oxygen-containing organic molecules, and at least one inhibitor which is an acetylenic alcohol having the structureHC.tbd.C - CR.sub.1 R.sub.2 - (Y).sub.n OH 1.where R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, are selected from hydrogen atoms and organic groups, Y is a divalent organic group, and n is an integer in the range 2 to 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1976
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventors: John Edward Cassidy, Brian Schofield