Patents by Inventor Roger L. Roundy

Roger L. Roundy 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).

  • Metal Surfaces to Inhibit Ethylenically Unsaturated Monomer Polymerization
    Publication number: 20080228002
    Abstract: Materials for making apparatus and a method of inhibiting polymerization during manufacture, purification, handling and storage of subject ethylenically unsaturated monomers are disclosed. In particular, copper or metals containing copper, in the presence of oxygen, have inhibit undesired polymerization resulting in polymer fouling in apparatus used during the manufacture, purification, handling and storage of the monomers, such as acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, acrylic acid esters and methacrylic acid esters. The copper or copper alloys as described herein, in the presence of an oxygen-containing gas, exhibit self-inhibiting surface characteristics when used to make at least a portion of the apparatus to inhibit polymerization of the monomers in contact with the portion of the apparatus including such copper-containing metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Salvador Aldrett-Lee, Diane E. Allen, Olan Stanley Fruchey, Roger L. Roundy, Tao Wang
  • Acrylic acid recovery utilizing ethyl acrylate and selected co-solvents
    Publication number: 20030150705
    Abstract: A method of recovering acrylic acid from a mixture comprising acrylic acid, water and acetic acid is disclosed, which includes:
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Sanjeev D. Deshpande, Tao Wang, Olan Stanley Fruchey, Roger L. Roundy, Nathan K. Powell, Rafael G. Morales, Joseph E. Goins