Patents by Inventor Dale W. Brinker

Dale W. Brinker 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).

  • Apparatus for retrieving a slag sample during a steelmaking operation
    Patent number: 5131633
    Abstract: Apparatus for retrieving a sample of slag from the surface of molten steel contained in a ladle. A hoist positioned above the ladle lowers and raises an elongated metal rod which has cardboard and metal sleeves surrounding the lower portion of the elongated metal rod. A clean sample of molten slag tightly adheres to the metal sleeve as it is raised from the molten slag layer. The metal sleeve and slag sample are easily removed from the elongated metal rod for analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Assignee: Bethlehem Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Dale W. Brinker
  • Mixer block for use in rotary drums
    Patent number: 4136965
    Abstract: A mixer block used in rotary drums to improve the efficiency of mixing, drying, cooling, heating, or calcining of solid materials such as gravel, stone, fluxes and the like to produce a more uniform product with minimal production of fines and dust is described. The mixer block is especially useful when used as part of the refractory lining in a rotary kiln to calcine fluxstone such as limestone, dolomite, dolomitic limestone, magnesite and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Assignee: Bethlehem Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Carl E. Sunnergren, John K. Simms, Dale W. Brinker