Patents by Inventor Gerard Limeuil

Gerard Limeuil 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).

  • Method of drying metallic waste of pyrophoric tendencies that is to be compacted; apparatus and compacting canister associated with said method
    Patent number: 6968629
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a method of drying metallic waste having pyrophoric tendencies (liable to catch fire and/or explode), said waste being for compacting; an apparatus for drying said waste, the apparatus including a compacting canister and being suitable for implementing said drying method; and a canister for compacting said waste, the canister being particularly adapted to implementing said drying method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Matieres Nucleaires
    Inventors: Maurice Ladre, Serge Le Cocq, Gérard Limeuil
  • Method of drying metallic waste of pyrophoric tendencies that is to be compacted; apparatus and compacting canister associated with said method
    Publication number: 20050132597
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a method of drying metallic waste having pyrophoric tendencies (liable to catch fire and/or explode), said waste being for compacting; an apparatus for drying said waste, the apparatus including a compacting canister and being suitable for implementing said drying method; and a canister for compacting said waste, the canister being particularly adapted to implementing said drying method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Maurice Ladre, Serge Le Cocq, Gerard Limeuil
  • Method of drying metallic waste of pyrophoric tendencies that is to be compacted; apparatus and compacting canister associated with said method
    Patent number: 6880265
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a method of drying metallic waste having pyrophoric tendencies (liable to catch fire and/or explode), said waste being for compacting; an apparatus for drying said waste, the apparatus including a compacting canister and being suitable for implementing said drying method; and a canister for compacting said waste, the canister being particularly adapted to implementing said drying method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Matieres Nucleaires
    Inventors: Maurice Ladre, Serge Le Cocq, Gérard Limeuil
  • Method of drying metallic waste of pyrophoric tendencies that is to be compacted; apparatus and compacting canister associated with said method
    Publication number: 20040006887
    Abstract: The present invention provides:
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: Compagnie Generale Des Matieres Nucleaires
    Inventors: Maurice Ladre, Serge Le Cocq, Gerard Limeuil
  • Compacting process and compacting means and device suitable for the compacting of materials with a pyrophoric tendency
    Patent number: 6110307
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compacting process suitable particularly for the compacting of materials with a pyrophoric tendency and especially for the compacting of scrap metal generated in the nuclear industry: and compacting means (4), and a compacting device including said means (4), appropriate for the implementation of said process. In said process the blanketed materials are compacted with optimized complementary external blanketing. The inert gas used for said external blanketing is characteristically conveyed via the compacting means (4) and blown in through their lower end (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Matieres Nucleaires
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Guerin, deceased, by Robert Rene Armand Guerin, heir, by Christiane Guerin, heir, by Jean-Baptiste Guerin, heir, by Agnes Fernande Cano, heir, by Pierre Emmanuel Guerin, heir, Philippe Kerrien, Gerard Limeuil
  • Compacting means and device suitable for the compacting of materials with a pyrophoric tendency
    Patent number: 6048419
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compacting process suitable particularly for the compacting of materials with a pyrophoric tendency and especially for the compacting of scrap metal generated in the nuclear industry; and compacting means (4), and a compacting device including said means (4), appropriate for the implementation of said process. In said process the blanketed materials are compacted with optimized complementary external blanketing. The inert gas used for said external blanketing is characteristically conveyed via the compacting means (4) and blown in through their lower end (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Campagnie Generale des Matieres Nucleaires
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Guerin, deceased, by Robert Rene Guerin, legal representative, Philippe Kerrien, Gerard Limeuil