Patents by Inventor Charles L. Reinhold

Charles L. Reinhold 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: 4292055
    Abstract: A gaseous fluid purifier comprising at least two disks having a common axis of symmetry or of rotation and spaced apart from each other; the disks are comprised of a roughened material adapted to adsorb impurities from the fluid being purified; the disks may be additionally impregnated with neutralizing, or the like, chemical substance; at least one of the disks is of conical shape; in some embodiments, the distance between the two disks at the peripheries of the disks is smaller than the distance between them at the center; a central aspiration opening of circular shape is provided in at least one of the two disks; rotation of at least one, and more usually both, of the two disks aspirates fluid to be purified through the aspiration opening and between the disks and the purified fluid exits radially from between the disks; in other embodiments, the disks are not conically shaped, but the disk surfaces are shaped to produce discontinuities in the fluid flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1981
    Inventors: Pierre M. T. De Castella, Charles L. Reinhold