Patents by Inventor Thomas W. Smoot

Thomas W. Smoot 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).

  • Method of preparing magnesium oxide spheroids
    Patent number: 3943211
    Abstract: A method of making sized refractory spheroids of magnesium oxide having consistent electrical resistance properties directly from particulate magnesium ore without crust and substantially free from contaminates by feeding particulate magnesium ore from a supply reservoir into a plasma zone of a plasma generator capable of melting particulate solids from the outside inwardly. The melted particles of the refractory magnesium ore are collected directly from the plasma zone in individual particulate and substantially spherical forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1973
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1976
    Assignee: Glasrock Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence A. Dickey, Thomas W. Smoot