Patents by Inventor Gordon R. Honeyman

Gordon R. Honeyman 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: 4585496
    Abstract: The pneumatic loading of essentially free-flowing slurry-bearing ammonium nitrate (AN) prills, i.e., AN prills which carry or support a water gel or water-in-oil emulsion, produces a high-density explosive consisting of the tightly packed whole and crushed slurry-bearing prills. The density of this explosive can be as much as 20% higher than the poured density of the mass of slurry-bearing prills.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Gordon R. Honeyman, James H. Owen, II
  • Patent number: 4585495
    Abstract: Explosives that are sensitized blends of inorganic nitrate, e.g., AN, particles, such as AN or ANFO prills, and an aqueous slurry comprising a thickened aqueous solution of an inorganic oxidizing salt, preferably AN, are rendered storage-stable by keeping the slurry's water content low enough, and its viscosity high enough, that the slurry is water-retentive. Water immobilization in the slurry, a requirement for storage stability, is achieved despite the slurry's flowable consistency at the time of blending. A blend containing about 25% slurry or less, is essentially in the form of a granular mass of free-flowing, high-density, slurry-bearing prills, and the slurry is sensitizable by the prills alone. As the slurry content exceeds about 25%, the blend takes on the characteristics of a thick slurry, requiring a supplemental sensitizer in the slurry per se.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignees: Du Pont of Canada, Inc., E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company
    Inventors: Gordon R. Honeyman, James H. Owen, II