Patents by Inventor Robert Eugene Stratton

Robert Eugene Stratton 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).

  • Patent number: 4099574
    Abstract: Concentrates suitable for making fire-fighting liquids upon sixteen-fold dilution are described comprising particular perfluoro ampholytic surfactants, solvents and fluorine-free surfactants. The ampholytic surfactants are of the general formula ##STR1## wherein n represents an integer of from 1 to 20, a represents an integer of from 2 to 10, q represents an integer of from 0 to 10, p represents an integer from 0 to 10 and each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, are hydrogen, C.sub.1-6 alkyl orC.sub.n F.sub.2n+1 --(CH.sub.2).sub.a --SO.sub.2the solvent is a glycol or glycol ether preferably butyldigol or butyl cellosolve. When the preferred fluorine-free surfactants are used the solutions obtainable on dilution will form a film on n-hexane. The concentrates contain less than 2% of the perfluoro surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Assignee: Chubb Fire Security Limited
    Inventors: Gerald Edward Cooper, Robert Eugene Stratton