Patents by Inventor Richard Schutte

Richard Schutte 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).

  • Process for recovering lead oxides from exhausted batteries
    Patent number: 7507496
    Abstract: A process for recovering lead oxides from the spent paste of exhausted lead acid batteries. The process provides heating the spent paste with an alkali hydroxide solution at elevated temperatures prior to calcinations. Calcination is at various temperatures so that either lead mono-oxide, lead dioxide or red lead is obtained as the principal product. There is also provided the use of the lead oxide to prepare the paste for positive and negative electrodes or other lead compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignees: Toxco, Inc, Kinsbursky Brothers Inc
    Inventors: Steven A. Kinsbursky, W. Novis Smith, Richard Schutte