Patents by Inventor Charles E. Miller, Jr.

Charles E. Miller, Jr. 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).

  • Shaped wood-based active carbon
    Patent number: 4677086
    Abstract: A shaped activated wood-based carbon with essentially no pore volume in pores greater than one micron in diameter and a higher apparent density is prepared from an active granular wood-based carbon with a significant pore volume in pores greater than one micron in diameter and a lower apparent density by the invention process of grinding the active granular wood-based carbon to a fine powder, mixing the ground carbon with a liquid selected from water or other polar molecule and a bentonite clay binder, shaping the mixture, drying the shaped active carbon to remove the liquid, and heat-treating the dried product to calcine, or fix, the clay binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: Westvaco Corporation
    Inventors: John C. McCue, Albert J. Repik, Charles E. Miller, Jr.