Patents by Inventor Robert L. Ocheltree

Robert L. Ocheltree 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: 5347027
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electroless process for making a catalyst in a liquid or gaseous medium comprising contacting a base metal with a chemical cleaning agent and simultaneously or sequentially treating said base metal under reducing conditions with a noble metal-containing material, the catalyst prepared using the process, and a method of using the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: OSi Specialties, Inc.
    Inventors: James S. Ritscher, Wei T. Yang, George M. Omietanski, Robert L. Ocheltree, Earl E. Malson
  • Patent number: 5250490
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electroless process for making a catalyst in a liquid or gaseous medium comprising contacting a base metal with a chemical cleaning agent and simultaneously or sequentially treating said base metal under reducing conditions with a noble metal-containing material, the catalyst prepared using the process, and a method of using the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation
    Inventors: James S. Ritscher, Wei T. Yang, George M. Omietanski, Robert L. Ocheltree, Earl E. Malson
  • Patent number: 5166384
    Abstract: In a trimethoxysilane preparation from silicon metal and methanol which preparation uses a solvent, a method for removing a siloxane dissolved in the solvent, which method comprises contacting the solvent with a boron-oxygen compound, and optionally an alkali metal alkoxide such as sodium methoxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Donald L. Bailey, Thomas E. Childress, Robert L. Ocheltree, James S. Ritscher
  • Patent number: 5084588
    Abstract: A method for reducing the level of acidic halide contamination in alkoxy silanes, particularly amino alkoxy silanes, by contacting said silane with a salt of an acid having a dissociation constant of greater than about 10.sup.-15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Robert L. Ocheltree, James S. Ritscher, Scot M. Turner, Renate I. Warren
  • Patent number: RE36330
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electroless process for making a catalyst in a liquid or gaseous medium comprising contacting a base metal with a chemical cleaning agent and simultaneously or sequentially treating said base metal under reducing conditions with a noble metal-containing material, the catalyst prepared using the process, and a method of using the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Witco Corporation
    Inventors: James S. Ritscher, Wei T. Yang, George M. Omietanski, Robert L. Ocheltree, Earl E. Malson