Patents by Inventor Giovanni Giovannozzi Sermanni

Giovanni Giovannozzi Sermanni 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: 6958110
    Abstract: Apparatus for the production of cellulose paper pulps from vegetative masses, comprising: a tower for sterilizing the mass to form a culture medium; a first screw for mixing the sterilized mass with an inoculum and handling the same in a sterile environment; a first conditioning and reaction chamber for mixing and handling the inoculated mass in a sterile environment and controlled atmosphere of CO2 and O2, with controlled temperature and pH; a hydraulic pulper for the elementarization of the mass and its soaking up with suspensions of enzyme mixes; a hammer mill for the elementarization of vegetative material, to break up knots of stems and to pulverize leaves, detach bast from wood; a rotating tumbler having reels and counter reels for separating various fractions; a rotor compactor to reduce the volume of the vegetable mass and to remove air contained in the same; a second screw for mixing the compacted vegetetative mass with extracts containing enzymes and with water for handling in a sterile environment;
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignees: Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Universita' Degli Studi Della Tuscia
    Inventors: Giovanni Giovannozzi Sermanni, Pier Luigi Cappelletto, Ruggero Baldo, Antonio Porri, Alessandro D'Annibale, Claudio Perani
  • Publication number: 20020100570
    Abstract: Apparatus for the production of cellulose paper pulps from vegetative masses, comprising: a tower for sterilizing the mass to form a culture medium; a first screw for mixing the sterilized mass with an inoculum and handling the same in a sterile environment; a first conditioning and reaction chamber for mixing and handling the inoculated mass in a sterile environment and controlled atmosphere of CO2 and O2, with controlled temperature and pH; a hydraulic pulper for the elementarization of the mass and its soaking up with suspensions of enzyme mixes; a hammer mill for the elementarization of vegetative material, to break up knots of stems and to pulverize leaves, detach bast from wood; a rotating tumbler having reels and counter reels for separating various fractions; a rotor compactor to reduce the volume of the vegetable mass and to remove air contained in the same; a second screw for mixing the compacted vegetetative mass with extracts containing enzymes and with water for handling in a sterile environment;
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche
    Inventors: Giovanni Giovannozzi Sermanni, Pier Luigi Cappelletto, Ruggero Baldo, Claudio Perani, Antonio Porri, Alessandro D'Annibale
  • Patent number: 6379495
    Abstract: Process for the production of cellulose paper pulps from vegetable masses, comprising the steps of mixing and conditioning a vegetative mass suitable to form a culture medium with an inoculum constituted of edible ligninolythic mushrooms, such as Lentinus edodes, Pleurotis Peryngii, Psajor-caju, and the like; extracting the so-obtained enzyme and adding it to the vegetative material for the production of paper pulp, mainly constituted of cultivated annual plants such as kenaf, hemp, flax, cotton and various stems and/or agricultural-industrial residues, such as cereal straws, maize stalks, and the like; conditioning and causing the mass to react; and lastly washing the mass after the biological attack, obtaining in this way a cellulose pulp to be submitted to possible mild final cooking and bleaching treatment. Apparatus for the realiztion of the process, and cellulose pulps obtained by biodelignification of cultivated annual plants and/or agricultural-industrial residues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignees: Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Universita' Studi Della Tuscia
    Inventors: Giovanni Giovannozzi Sermanni, Pier Luigi Cappellletto, Ruggero Baldo, Antonio Porri, Alessandro D'Annibale, Claudio Perani