Patents by Inventor Frederick L. Shea, Jr.

Frederick L. Shea, 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).

  • Process for removal of solids from solvent refined coal solutions
    Patent number: 4312763
    Abstract: A method for separating solids from a liquefied coal slurry resulting from the SRC process utilizes an improved carbon filteraid material prepared by flash heating thermally expandable coal particles under controlled conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1982
    Assignee: Great Lakes Carbon Corporation
    Inventor: Frederick L. Shea, Jr.
  • Method and apparatus for neutralizing the effect of accelerating and decelerating forces
    Patent number: 4175723
    Abstract: A man-carrying vehicle modified with a device for alleviating accelerative forces particularly useful for space travel is provided with a personnel carrier which automatically orients its occupant, with an imaginary Z-axis parallel to the spinal column and through the centers of mass of cross sections of the body and of the head perpendicular to the Z-axis such that the Z-axis is in a position normal to the resultant of the forces of acceleration, and which rotates the occupant about the Z-axis to alleviate or counteract the effects of the forces of acceleration in the X and Y directions normal to the Z-axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1979
    Assignee: Great Lakes Carbon Corporation
    Inventor: Frederick L. Shea, Jr.