Patents by Inventor Gregory E. Shapiro

Gregory E. Shapiro 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 scrapping steel structures
    Patent number: 6530325
    Abstract: A method of breaking up a structure for the recovery of steel as scrap. The structure has steel plates forming a compartment secured to framing in the compartment. The method includes at least partially filling the compartment with a substantially incompressible substance and placing explosive in the substance in the compartment. The explosive is sufficient and adapted on detonation thereof to pressurize the compartment to the extent of causing separation of the plates from the framing. The method further includes detonating the explosive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Shapiro Brothers, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory E. Shapiro, Paul Worsey
  • METHOD OF SCRAPPING STEEL STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20030010245
    Abstract: A method of breaking up a structure for the recovery of steel as scrap. The structure has steel plates forming a compartment secured to framing in the compartment. The method includes at least partially filling the compartment with a substantially incompressible substance and placing explosive in the substance in the compartment. The explosive is sufficient and adapted on detonation thereof to pressurize the compartment to the extent of causing separation of the plates from the framing. The method further includes detonating the explosive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Gregory E. Shapiro, Paul Worsey