Patents by Inventor Edward Bilson

Edward Bilson 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: 7789539
    Abstract: A compact luminaire which includes a housing, a ballast, and a first and second electrical component. The housing has a back and a perimeter wall which extends generally perpendicularly from the back. The perimeter wall has a top wall portion, a bottom wall portion disposed in a downward direction with respect to the top wall portion and sidewall portions connecting the top wall portion and the bottom wall portion. The ballast is mounted to the back adjacent the bottom wall portion and is substantially equidistant to the side wall portions and the first and second electrical components are mounted to the housing on opposite sides of the ballast in a balanced fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Howard Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick Kauffman, Edward Bilson, Barbara Bilson, legal representative, Jason Cook
  • Publication number: 20100073939
    Abstract: A roadway luminaire generally includes a housing and a door pivotably connected to the housing. The housing includes a rear wall having an opening sized and shaped to receive a mounting arm for mounting the luminaire thereto, a top wall extending from the rear wall and an arm receiving channel formed in the top wall adjacent the rear wall for receiving an end of the mounting arm. The channel is formed with a step arrangement having a plurality of steps ascending in order along a length of the channel. The steps permit angular mounting adjustment of the housing with respect to the mounting arm depending on which step the end of the mounting arm rests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Rick Kauffman, Edward Bilson, Barbara Bilson, Gerald Ballard
  • Publication number: 20090116247
    Abstract: A compact luminaire which includes a housing, a ballast, and a first and second electrical component. The housing has a back and a perimeter wall which extends generally perpendicularly from the back. The perimeter wall has a top wall portion, a bottom wall portion disposed in a downward direction with respect to the top wall portion and sidewall portions connecting the top wall portion and the bottom wall portion. The ballast is mounted to the back adjacent the bottom wall portion and is substantially equidistant to the side wall portions and the first and second electrical components are mounted to the housing on opposite sides of the ballast in a balanced fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Rick Kauffman, Edward Bilson, Jason Cook, Barbara Bilson
  • Publication number: 20080037259
    Abstract: A luminaire assembly generally includes a reflector having a center of symmetry and a lamp supported within the reflector, wherein the lamp is offset from the reflector center of symmetry, whereby light emitted from the lamp is reflected by the reflector in an asymmetric pattern. In a method of illuminating a roadway having traffic moving in a flow direction, a luminaire having a reflector and a lamp is mounted at a side of the roadway and light emitted from the lamp is reflected with the reflector whereby a greater portion of the reflected light is directed in the traffic flow direction than is directed against the traffic flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Chris Walker, Edward Bilson, Rick Kauffman
  • Patent number: 4104157
    Abstract: This invention relates to the process of flotation concentration of a sulfide mineral in which an aqueous pulp of an ore containing such mineral is subjected to a flotation operation to produce a final high-grade flotation concentrate of such mineral, the improvement comprising carrying out said flotation with a polyglycerol present in the aqueous pulp in an amount sufficient to increase recovery of such mineral in the final concentrate over that obtainable without the presence of said polyglycerol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1978
    Assignee: Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company
    Inventors: Gerald F. Fountain, Jaime Veloz, Edward A. Bilson, John A. Cronin
  • Patent number: 4076605
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the recovery of metal values from copper refinery anode slimes composed largely of copper, selenium, insolubles, and precious metals, including silver, comprising leaching the slimes with a solution containing from 20 to 200 g/l H.sub.2 SO.sub.4 and from 2 to 25 g/l hexavalent chromium at a temperature not exceeding about 80.degree. C., whereby copper dissolution is maximized and selenium and silver dissolution are minimized, separating the leach solution from the undissolved slimes residue, precipitating selenium from the separated leach solution by treatment with metallic copper, and electrowinning copper from the resulting purified solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1978
    Assignee: Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company
    Inventor: Edward A. Bilson
  • Patent number: 4032330
    Abstract: A process for the leaching and recovery of copper values from copper-containing material which comprises vat leaching a sulfidic copper-containing material with an aqueous acidic ferric sulfate leach solution initially containing at least 10 gpl ferric ion to form a copper pregnant leach solution containing substantially less than 10 gpl ferric ion and a corresponding increase in ferrous ion concentration, extracting said leach solution with an extractant selective to copper and non-selective to iron to strip the copper values from said leach solution, adjusting the acid content of the stripped leach solution to between about 10 to 20 gpl to form an acidic leach solution, passing said acidic stripped leach solution through at least one mineral dump containing oxidized copper for a time sufficient to cause reoxidation of ferrous ion to restore the concentration of ferric ion to at least about 10 gpl, adding sufficient sulfuric acid to the dump off-solution to cause said solution to have an acid concentration o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1977
    Assignee: Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company
    Inventors: Gerald F. Fountain, Jaime Veloz, Harry R. Dahlberg, Edward A. Bilson
  • Patent number: 4028235
    Abstract: The improvement in the process of concentrating a sulfide mineral by froth flotation from an aqueous pulp of an ore containing such mineral, comprising using as at least part of the aqueous phase of the pulp sewage treatment plant water effluent conditioned prior to use with at least about 3 parts per million of a polyglycerol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company
    Inventors: Gerald F. Fountain, Jaime Veloz, Edward A. Bilson, John A. Cronin
  • Patent number: D311966
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: FL Industries
    Inventors: Edward Bilson, Jack Seay
  • Patent number: D597693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Howard Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick Kauffman, Barbara Bilson, legal representative, Jason Cook, Edward Bilson
  • Patent number: D615238
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Howard Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick Kauffman, Edward Bilson, Barbara Bilson, legal representative, Gerald Ballard