Patents by Inventor Bruce Adams

Bruce Adams 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).

  • Patent number: 5000967
    Abstract: An improved process for preparing individual fruit sections from fresh citrus fruit, with improved ease of peeling and sectioning and with reduced amounts of adhering albedo. The fresh citrus fruit are initially scored so as to penetrate the albedo layer, but not the underlying juice sections, and the scored fruit is then immersed in an aqueous solution of a pectinase enzyme. A series of positive pressure pulses is applied to the immersed fruit, to infuse the enzyme solution into the albedo and, after storing the infusion-treated fruit for a prescribed time period, the peel and other membrane material can be readily removed from the fruit and the individual fruit segments readily separated from each other. Infusing the pectinase enzyme solution under pressure, rather than vacuum, and maintaining the solution at approximately room temperature, rather than an elevated temperature, significantly improves the ease of peeling and sectioning and reduces the amount of adhering albedo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Sunkist Growers, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Adams, William Kirk
  • Patent number: 4832406
    Abstract: A chair arm is pivotally movable from a normal raised position to a collapsed position. The chair back is vertically slidably mounted on a support to permit a connection between the forward portion of the arm and the upper end of an arm support to be moved to a position at the rear of the chair seat and the lower end of the backrest, wherein the arm is vertical adjacent the edge of the back, and the strut is horizontal adjacent the edge of the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: MT Design
    Inventors: Bruce Adams, Marta Tornero
  • Patent number: 4064266
    Abstract: A compound of the general formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is halogen, R.sup.4 is a highly branched alkyl group, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 which may be the same or different are hydrogen or halogen atoms or lower alkyl groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1977
    Assignee: ICI Australia Limited
    Inventors: George Richard Birchall, Donald William Gerald Harney, Bruce Adam Forsyth
  • Patent number: 4031249
    Abstract: A composition of matter for treating warm-blooded animals to eradicate internal parasites comprising a compound chosen from the group consisting of2,4-dibromo-6-nitrophenol2,4-dichloro-6-nitrophenol2-chloro-4-fluoro-6-nitrophenol2-bromo-4-fluoro-6-nitrophenol2-iodo-4-fluoro-6-nitrophenol2-bromo-4-chloro-6-nitrophenolAnd phenolic derivatives thereof and an inert carrier therefor. The composition is particularly useful in killing trematodes or nematodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Assignee: ICI Australia Limited
    Inventors: Bruce Adam Forsyth, David Ernest Pryor, Errol James McGarry, Donald William Gerald Harney
  • Patent number: 4020466
    Abstract: This hierarchical memory system has two memory units on each level. One of the units called the data store contains all the data at that level of the memory. The other unit called the copy back store contains all the changes that have been made in that data either by addition or modification. While the data store is interfaced with the next higher level in the hierarchical memory system or with the processing units for the data processing system, the second or copy back store can transfer the changes made in the data into the next lower level in the memory hierarchy system if the copy back store is free and the data store in the next lower level is not involved in transferring data up the hierarchy. The data store and the copy back data store in each level are on two different power systems and transfers of the changes to the next lower level are done in the order in which the change entered in the copy back store with the oldest entry being the first to be copied back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent Anthony Cordi, Bruce Adam Edson
  • Patent number: 3991209
    Abstract: A method of treating warm blooded animals to eradicate certain internal parasites; which method comprises administering to said warm blooded animals a therapeutic dose of a composition comprising as active ingredient a compound of formula I. ##EQU1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 which may be the same or different are hydrogen, or halogen and at least two of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 are halogen, and R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 which may be the same or different are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, --NHR.sup.6 where R.sup.6 is hydrogen or an alkyl group containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and when either R.sup.4 or R.sup.5 is --NHR.sup.6 then R.sup.5 or R.sup.4 respectively is hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1976
    Assignee: ICI Australia Limited
    Inventors: Bruce Adam Forsyth, Richard Burridge Warner
  • Patent number: 3989826
    Abstract: A method of killing internal parasites in warm blooded animals comprising administering orally or parenterally to an infected animal an effective amount of a compound of the formula: ##SPC1##Where R.sup.1 is hydrogen or acetyl, R.sup.2 is hydrogen, acetyl or lower alkyl, X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 are iodine atoms; X.sup.3, X.sup.4, X.sup.5 and X.sup.6 which may be the same or different are chlorine, bromine, iodine, trifluoromethyl or hydrogen; at least two and not more than two of X.sup.3, X.sup.4, X.sup.5 and X.sup.6 are hydrogen; when X.sup.3 is chlorine, bromine, iodine or trifluoromethyl, then X.sup.4 and X.sup.6 are both hydrogen; and at least one of X.sup.3, X.sup.4, X.sup.5 and X.sup.6 is trifluoromethyl, said compound being administered in a dosage amount of from 1 to 50 mg active ingredient/Kg animal bodyweight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: ICI Australia Limited
    Inventors: Bruce Adam Forsyth, David Ernest Pryor
  • Patent number: 3978060
    Abstract: A method of treating warm blooded animals to eradicate certain internal parasites; which method comprises administering to said warm blooded animals a therapeutic dose of a composition comprising as active ingredient a compound of formula I ##EQU1## wherein X is halogen, and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 which may be the same or different are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, -- NHR.sup.3 where R.sup.3 is hydrogen or an alkyl group containing from 1 to 6 carbons atoms; and when either R.sup.1 or R.sup.2 is -- NHR.sup.3 then R.sup.2 or R.sup.1 respectively is hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1976
    Assignee: ICI Australia Limited
    Inventors: Bruce Adam Forsyth, Richard Burridge Warner
  • Patent number: D315066
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1991
    Assignee: MT Designs
    Inventors: Bruce Adams, Marta Tornero