Patents by Inventor Olivier Citti

Olivier Citti 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).

  • Glassmaking furnace regenerator
    Patent number: 6554058
    Abstract: The invention relates to a glassmaking furnace regenerator including a stack of several rows of refractory members defining a plurality of channels, characterized in that the stack comprises, in the hot gas flow direction, a first zone at the hot gas inlet, for rapidly cooling the hot gases, a second zone, or central zone, for condensing and trapping chemical species liable to generate dust, and a third zone, at the cooled gas outlet, for evacuating condensates, the rows of stacked refractory members constituting said central zone including at least two adjacent rows whose channels have a projected surface area at least 20% less than those of the channels of the first and third zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Europeen
    Inventors: Alain Zanoli, Yves Boussant-Roux, Olivier Citti
  • Glassmaking furnace regenerator
    Publication number: 20020053417
    Abstract: The invention relates to a glassmaking furnace regenerator including a stack of several rows of refractory members defining a plurality of channels, characterized in that the stack comprises, in the hot gas flow direction, a first zone at the hot gas inlet, for rapidly cooling the hot gases, a second zone, or central zone, for condensing and trapping chemical species liable to generate dust, and a third zone, at the cooled gas outlet, for evacuating condensates, the rows of stacked refractory members constituting said central zone including at least two adjacent rows whose channels have a projected surface area at least 20% less than those of the channels of the first and third zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D' ESTUDES EUROPEEN
    Inventors: Alain Zanoli, Yves Boussant-Roux, Olivier Citti