Patents by Inventor Rodney D. Cooke

Rodney D. Cooke 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).

  • Waste water treatment
    Patent number: 4744904
    Abstract: Waste water from fat rendering and meat processing plants is treated in a conventional clarifier to produce better separation of suspended solids and fat from waste water by the addition of a first solution of pH controlling agent in combination with a surfactant and a second solution of a flocculating agent into the waste water streams entering the clarifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Assignee: Birko Corporation
    Inventors: Terry L. McAninch, Rodney D. Cooke
  • Method of increasing sugar extraction efficiency from sugar-containing plant tissue with use of carbon dioxide
    Patent number: 4328043
    Abstract: Sugar extraction efficency from sugar-containing plant tissue, such as sugarbeet cossettes or the like, is increased by contacting the sugar-containing plant tissue near the juice end of a diffusion process with diffusion water in the presence of an effective amount of carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: Great Western Sugar Company
    Inventors: Arthur H. Freytag, Rodney D. Cooke