Patents by Inventor Phineas Davies

Phineas Davies 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).

  • Catalyst, catalyst support and oxychlorination process
    Patent number: 4451683
    Abstract: An oxychlorination catalyst contains a copper compound, magnesium oxide and aluminium oxide, and the copper compound is present as a distinct phase on a support in which at least part of the magnesium oxide is in combined form with alumina.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1984
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLC
    Inventors: Phineas Davies, James R. Jennings, Jack Wolstenholme
  • Process for forming hydrogen and carbon dioxide using a catalyst consisting essentially of oxides of copper, zinc and aluminum or magnesium
    Patent number: 3961037
    Abstract: A process for reacting carbon monoxide with steam at temperatures below 300.degree.C. over a catalyst comprising the product of reducing partly the co-precipitated oxides of copper and zinc and at least one further metal selected from the metals of Groups II to V of the Periodic Table whose oxides are usable as catalyst supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1973
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1976
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventors: Phineas Davies, Alan James Hall
  • Method of making a catalyst
    Patent number: 3947381
    Abstract: A catalyst comprising a metal from Group VIII of the Periodic Table, a hydraulic binding agent and alumina in the form of sheets of fine crystallites is suitable for the removal, by methanation, of carbon oxides from hydrogen-containing gases or of hydrogen from synthetic methane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1973
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1976
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventors: John Stewart Campbell, Phineas Davies, John Russell Richmond