Patents by Inventor Jerry B. Roach

Jerry B. Roach 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).

  • Portable apparatus and method for venting a storage vessel
    Patent number: 5513680
    Abstract: A mobile method and apparatus for venting volatile organic compound vapors from a liquid storage vessel which includes the steps of introducing a purge medium to a liquid storage vessel containing volatile organic compound vapors and establishing an uniform and continuous stratified interface between the purge medium and the volatile organic compound vapors. The introduction of the purge medium is continued causing the continuous stratified interface to move within the vessel purging the virtually undiluted volatile organic compound vapors from the vessel and into a vapor recovery line which delivers the volatile organic compound vapors to a vapor control device. Preferably, the purge medium comprises carbon dioxide or nitrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1996
    Assignee: Henry T. Hilliard, Jr.
    Inventors: Henry T. Hilliard, Jr., Jerry B. Roach, Gary N. Lawrence
  • Method and apparatus for venting a storage vessel
    Patent number: 5476126
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for venting volatile organic compound vapors from a liquid storage vessel which includes the steps of introducing a purge medium to a liquid storage vessel containing volatile organic compound vapors and establishing an uniform and continuous stratified interface between the purge medium and the volatile organic compound vapors. The introduction of the purge medium is continued causing the continuous stratified interface to move within the vessel purging the undiluted volatile organic compound vapors from the vessel and into a vapor recovery line which delivers the volatile organic compound vapors to a vapor handling device. Preferably, the purge medium comprises carbon dioxide or nitrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Henry T. Hilliard
    Inventors: Henry T. Hilliard, Jr., Jerry B. Roach, Gary N. Lawrence
  • Method and apparatus for venting a storage vessel
    Patent number: 5377723
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for venting volatile organic compound vapors from a liquid storage vessel which includes the steps of introducing a purge medium to a liquid storage vessel containing volatile organic compound vapors and establishing an uniform and continuous stratified interface between the purge medium and the volatile organic compound vapors. The introduction of the purge medium is continued causing the continuous stratified interface to move within the vessel purging the undiluted volatile organic compound vapors from the vessel and into a vapor recovery line which delivers the volatile organic compound vapors to a vapor handling device. Preferably, the purge medium comprises carbon dioxide or nitrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: Henry T. Hilliard, Jr.
    Inventors: Henry T. Hilliard, Jr., Jerry B. Roach, Gary N. Lawrence