Patents by Inventor Jim Ramey

Jim Ramey 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).

  • Publication number: 20130252479
    Abstract: A terminal block holder is provided for securing a terminal block assembly having at least three conductive bus bars enclosed within corresponding individual insulating columns passing through a housing of an electric machine, the terminal block holder including a plate defining at least three openings therein, and including first and second dividers extending from the plate and respectively separating different adjacent ones of the openings, where the plate is adapted to abut the terminal block assembly in a first direction, where the plate is adapted to abut the housing in a second direction, where the dividers are adapted to abut the terminal block assembly in a third direction, and where the first, second and third directions are substantially perpendicular to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Cary Ramey, Colin Hamer, Jim Ramey
  • Patent number: 7691346
    Abstract: A method is shown for raising the pH of a cyanide leach solution of the type used in a heap leaching mining operation. Lime slurry is mixed with a side stream of barren cyanide solution in a reactor vessel in order to remove carbonate hardness, to regenerate the hydroxide alkalinity and to raise the pH of the resulting recausticized leach solution. A portion of the calcium carbonate precipitate formed in the reactor vessel is retained in order to encourage further crystal growth. Overflow from the reactor vessel passes through one or more cyclone separation stages in order to remove particulate solids. A cyclone overflow stream is directed back to the process to upwardly adjust the pH of the bulk of the barren cyanide solution. A cyclone underflow stream is directed back to the reactor vessel to provide seed crystal nuclei for precipitate growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Chemical Lime Company
    Inventors: Starr Curtis, Jeff DiGulio, Jim Ramey
  • Publication number: 20080317649
    Abstract: A method is shown for raising the pH of a cyanide leach solution of the type used in a heap leaching mining operation. Lime slurry is mixed with a side stream of barren cyanide solution in a reactor vessel in order to remove carbonate hardness, to regenerate the hydroxide alkalinity and to raise the pH of the resulting recausticized leach solution. A portion of the calcium carbonate precipitate formed in the reactor vessel is retained in order to encourage further crystal growth. Overflow from the reactor vessel passes through one or more cyclone separation stages in order to remove particulate solids. A cyclone overflow stream is directed back to the process to upwardly adjust the pH of the bulk of the barren cyanide solution. A cyclone underflow stream is directed back to the reactor vessel to provide seed crystal nuclei for precipitate growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Starr Curtis, Jeff DiGulio, Jim Ramey