Patents by Inventor Rudolf Buttiker

Rudolf Buttiker 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: 5423288
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing seed crystals in melts has a vertically oriented, closed vessel having a vessel base and having at least one inlet for the melt and having at least one outlet opening for the inoculated melt provided with seed crystals. A preferably annular region of the vessel wall is constructed as a cooling surface. In the interior of the vessel there is arranged a scraping unit which comprises a motor-driven rotating shaft which extends axially through the vessel as far as a point just short of the vessel base. At its end towards the vessel base, the shaft is provided with at least one scraping arm which, starting from the lower end of the shaft close to the vessel base, extends first in the direction towards the vessel wall and thence substantially parallel to the annular cooling surface and axially parallel to the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1995
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Ricardo Schneeberger, Hans Horisberger, Rudolf Buttiker
  • Patent number: 5417937
    Abstract: The apparatus (1) for wet oxidation is pre-assembled with its individual units, namely a high-pressure pump (2), a heat exchanger (3), a reactor (4) for the actual wet oxidation and a compressor (5) for feeding an oxygen/gas mixture, in one or two supporting flames and is accommodated in such a manner that its dimensions and its overall weight allow it to be transported on a road and/or rail vehicle, there advantageously being provided two such supporting flames in the form of standard containers (8 and 9), of which one may contain the reactor (4), divided into individual tube sections (6), and the heat exchanger (3), and the other may contain the remaining units, so that the entire apparatus can be pre-assembled into virtually operational condition and the two containers simply have to be set up, joined together and connected on site. Wet oxidation can thus be carried out even where relatively small quantities of medium are to be purified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Joachim Voigt, Rudolf Buttiker, Rolf Strub
  • Patent number: 4744959
    Abstract: A process and an apparatus used to produce a suspension of cyanuric chloride in water, or to react cyanuric chloride with ammonia or with amines. It is possible to produce cyanuric chloride suspensions in water which have a mean particle size of below 20 .mu.m, and a concentration of higher than 20% by weight of cyanuric chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy AG
    Inventors: Marianne Punzar, Franz Marti, Robert Mercier, Paul Tobler, Rudolf Buttiker
  • Patent number: 4678852
    Abstract: The process and the apparatus according to the invention are used to produce a suspension of cyanuric chloride in water, or to react cyanuric chloride with ammonia or with amines. It is possible to produce cyanuric chloride suspensions in water which have a mean particle size of below 20 .mu.m, and a concentration of higher than 20% by weight of cyanuric chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1987
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy AG
    Inventors: Marianne Punzar, Franz Marti, Robert Mercier, Paul Tobler, Rudolf Buttiker
  • Patent number: 4552959
    Abstract: The process and the apparatus according to the invention are used to produce a suspension of cyanuric chloride in water, or to react cyanuric chloride with ammonia or with amines. It is possible to produce cyanuric chloride suspensions in water which have a mean particle size of below 20 .mu.m, and a concentration of higher than 20% by weight of cyanuric chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1985
    Assignee: Ciba Geigy AG
    Inventors: Marianne Punzar, Franz Marti, Robert Mercier, Paul Tobler, Rudolf Buttiker