Patents by Inventor Gale A. Byrnes

Gale A. Byrnes 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).

  • General purpose aqueous cleaner
    Patent number: 6140291
    Abstract: An aqueous metal cleaning composition is provided which comprises an alkalinity providing agent such as alkali metal carbonate and/or bicarbonate salts and a low foaming surfactant. The aqueous cleaning solution has specific foam height and foam collapse characteristics, and provides for substantially complete phase separation of a contaminant phase from the aqueous cleaning composition such that there is substantially no aqueous phase drag out into the contaminant phase; and the contaminant phase can be removed easily, and the aqueous cleaning solution can be recovered and reused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Bolkan, Gale A. Byrnes, Steven Dunn, Alfredo Vinci, Antony E. Winston, Patricia L. Phillips
  • Aqueous sodium salt metal cleaner and method of using same
    Patent number: 5902415
    Abstract: An alkali metal cleaning composition for cleaning metal and for inhibiting corrosion of metal. The composition is composed of an alkali carbonate salt, a surfactant, and a corrosion inhibitor. A preferred corrosion inhibitor is an alkali metal silicate. Additional metal corrosion inhibitors such as a combination of a triazole compound and an alkali metal borate also can be employed. Such alkali carbonate compositions are readily water soluble and remain in solution over prolonged storage periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Dunn, Gale A. Byrnes
  • General purpose aqueous cleaner
    Patent number: 5834411
    Abstract: An aqueous metal cleaning composition is provided which comprises an alkalinity providing agent such as alkali metal carbonate and/or bicarbonate salts and a low foaming surfactant. The aqueous cleaning solution has specific foam height and foam collapse characteristics, and provides for substantially complete phase separation of a contaminant phase from the aqueous cleaning composition such that there is substantially no aqueous phase drag out into the contaminant phase; and the contaminant phase can be removed easily, and the aqueous cleaning solution can be recovered and reused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Church & Dwight Co., Inc
    Inventors: Steven A. Bolkan, Gale A. Byrnes, Steven Dunn, Alfredo Vinci, Antony E. Winston, Patricia L. Phillips
  • Aqueous sodium salt metal cleaner
    Patent number: 5747439
    Abstract: An alkali metal cleaning composition for cleaning metal and for inhibiting corrosion of metal. The composition is composed of an alkali carbonate salt, a surfactant, and a corrosion inhibitor. A preferred corrosion inhibitor is an alkali metal silicate. Additional metal corrosion inhibitors such as a combination of a triazole compound and an alkali metal borate also can be employed. Such alkali carbonate compositions are readily water soluble and remain in solution over prolonged storage periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Church & Dwight Co, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Dunn, Gale A. Byrnes
  • Alkali metal cleaner with zinc phosphate anti-corrosion system
    Patent number: 5712236
    Abstract: A metal cleaning composition useful in an aqueous solution comprises an alkali metal salt and a corrosion inhibitor. The corrosion inhibitor is provided in the form of zinc phosphate compounds such as zinc orthophosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Bolkan, Steve Dunn, Gale Byrnes