Patents by Inventor Peter Francis Nicks

Peter Francis Nicks 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).

  • Coating compositions
    Patent number: 4081412
    Abstract: A method of producing a paint composition. The composition comprises a pigmented solution of a water-insoluble film-forming base resin in a water-immiscible liquid, the solution of the base resin being emulsifiable in an aqueous synthetic detergent solution. The method of making the paint composition includes the step of treating at least a portion of the pigment in dispersion in water-immiscible liquid with an auxiliary resin which (a) is co-emulsifiable in the aqueous detergent solution with the pigment when dissolved in the water-immiscible liquid of the paint composition and (b) is preferentially adsorbed by the pigment from a solution of both the base resin and the auxiliary resin in the water-immiscible liquid of the paint composition. The pigment of the paint composition comprises a pigment having an acidic surface. The final paint composition is satisfactorily emulsifiable in a 5% by weight solution of a synthetic detergent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1978
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Doroszkowski, Peter Francis Nicks
  • Photocurable pigmented coating compositions
    Patent number: 3998979
    Abstract: Pigmented coating compositions cureable in visible light which comprise as film former an unsaturated oil-modified alkyd resin, a polyurethane oil, polybutadiene or allyl ether-containing unsaturated polyester and a photosensitizer of structure ##STR1## wherein A is benzenoid or heterocyclic of benzenoid character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventors: Colin Armstrong, Peter Francis Nicks, Derek John Walbridge
  • Method of dispersing oil in water
    Patent number: 3996134
    Abstract: A method of dispersing oil in water, particularly useful in oil slick dispersion, secondary oil recovery and tar-sand oil recovery comprises contacting the oil and water with an alkyd resin in which one component of the resin is the residue of a water-soluble polyalkylene glycol such as a polyethylene glycol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1974
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1976
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventors: Peter George Osborn, Peter Francis Nicks, Michael George Norton
  • Process for the production of a dispersion of condensation polymer particles containing a modifying agent
    Patent number: 3985700
    Abstract: A process is described for producing a dispersion of a condensation polymer in a hydrocarbon or chlorinated hydrocarbon liquid in which the polymer is insoluble, the disperse particles of polymer incorporating a pigment, filler or like modifying agent. At least one of the reactants from which the polymer is to be derived is heated in the liquid in the form of the liquid disperse phase of an emulsion in that liquid, made with the aid of a specified emulsifying agent, and the modifying agent is dispersed in that liquid disperse phase prior to completion of the polymer-forming reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1974
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1976
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventors: Peter Francis Nicks, Peter George Osborn, Morice William Thompson, Patricia Lesley James