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Armor With Rollers

An armor with rollers is provided that enables a user to move in all positions by rolling on a hard and smooth surface while constantly varying his bearing points on the ground.

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Assignee: Foote Mineral Company


Location: Exton, PA
No. of patents: 21

NumberTitleIssue Date
4568388Magnesium-titanium-ferrosilicon alloys for producing compacted graphite iron in the mold and process using same
Compacted graphite (CG) cast iron is obtained in the inmold casting process employing as an additive an alloy comprising 1.5-3 percent magnesium, 10-20 percent titanium, 40-80 percent silicon, 0-2 percent rare earth, 0-0.5 percent calcium, 0-2 percent alu...
02/04/1986
4543525Method for determining a leak in a pond liner of electrically insulating sheet material
The location of a leak in a pond liner made of a sheet of electrically insulating material, such a polyvinyl chloride, supported by an electrically conductive medium, an example of which is a salar, is determined by immersing a power electrode in an elect...
09/24/1985
4505747Stabilizing inoculent for gray iron
A stabilizing inoculant for gray iron which increases the tensile strength thereof while reducing chill containing as essential elements chromium, silicon, and rare earths (primarily cerium)....
03/19/1985
4440568Boron alloying additive for continuously casting boron steel
A boron alloying additive for continuous casting of boron steel having the desired hardenability without tundish nozzle blockage. The additive comprises 0.25-3.0% boron, 2.5-40% rare earth metals (RE), 6-60% titanium, and the balance iron. The additive ma...
04/03/1984
4385030Magnesium ferrosilicon alloy and use thereof in manufacture of modular cast iron
A magnesium ferrosilicon alloy for in-mold nodulization of ductile iron consisting of 5-15%, by weight of magnesium, 60-80% silicon, 0.1-1.5% calcium, 0.1-3.0% aluminum, 0-2.5% rare earth, and balance iron....
05/24/1983
4341566Eutectic mixture as a flux for glass melts
A novel flux for glass compositions which is an eutectic mixture of lithium carbonate and sodium sulfate (liquidus temperature 496° C.) is used in fiberizable glass compositions to improve fluidity and reduce the temperature of fusion of the raw material...
07/27/1982
4274834Process for purification of lithium chloride
Lithium chloride containing small amounts of inorganic and/or organic impurities is purified by heating the lithium chloride above about 200° C., cooling the compound to ambient temperatures and extracting it with isopropanol, separating the liquid and s...
06/23/1981
4271131Production of highly pure lithium chloride from impure brines
Highly pure lithium chloride suitable for use in production of lithium metal by electrolysis is obtained directly from impure natural or other lithium chloride brines by an integrated process in which the brine is first concentrated by solar energy to a l...
06/02/1981
4261960Removal of boron from lithium chloride brine
Boron, as well as magnesium and sulfate impurities, are removed from or at least substantially reduced in a lithium containing brine to minimize lithium losses on further concentration of the brine by adding to the brine an aqueous slurry of slaked lime a...
04/14/1981
4243392Process for solar concentration of lithium chloride brine
By evaporation employing solar energy, a brine having a lithium chloride concentration greater than that of a brine whose vapor pressure under ambient conditions is substantially equal to the partial pressure of moisture in the atmosphere above the brine ...
01/06/1981
4233065Effective boron alloying additive for continuous casting fine grain boron steels
An effective alloying additive for adding small (5-30 ppm) quantities of boron to steel which is continuously cast, said additive containing 0.5-1.5% boron, 8-15% calcium, 8.5-20% titanium, 40-60% silicon, up to 1.5% of aluminum, and balance iron. The add...
11/11/1980
4207297Process for producing high purity lithium carbonate
A continuous integrated process for the production of lithium hyroxide monohydrate and high purity lithium carbonate of large average particle size comprising converting impure lithium carbonate to lithium hydroxide by a causticization step, separating pr...
06/10/1980
4171215Alloying addition for alloying manganese to aluminum
Manganese is alloyed into aluminum using a solid compact prepared by blending finely divided particles comprising beta manganese with aluminum particles and then compacting the mixture into a readily useable form such as a briquette. The resultant briquet...
10/16/1979
4126666Process for producing high purity lithium sulfide
Lithium sulfide in the form of a finely divided, free-flowing powder of high purity is produced by reacting lithium carbonate powder in which the diameter of the particles is in the range of 1 to 10 microns with hydrogen sulfide at 500° to 700° C. Initi...
11/21/1978
4076794Process for the production of high purity alkali metal tetrahaloaluminates and products produced thereby
A process is described for the production of sodium, potassium or lithium tetrahaloaluminates, in which the halogen may be chlorine, bromine or iodine, by the reaction of an aluminum halide with at least the stoichiometric amount of an alkali metal halide...
02/28/1978
4071355Recovery of vanadium from pig iron
An improved method is described for processing pig iron containing vanadium to obtain a slag containing at least 8 percent vanadium and having a vanadium to iron ratio of at least 0.5 which is directly useful as a refining agent for producing ferrovanadiu...
01/31/1978
4036713Process for the production of high purity lithium hydroxide
A process is described in which a brine from natural or other sources, containing lithium and other alkali and alkaline earth metals primarily as the halides, is preliminarily concentrated to a lithium content of about 2 to 7% to separate most of the alka...
07/19/1977
4018597Rare earth metal silicide alloys
Rare earth metal silicide alloys comprising about 25 to about 40% rare earth metals, about 35 to about 50% Si, about 5 to about 25% Fe, about 2 to about 8% Ca, about 2 to about 4% Ba and about 1 to about 3% Sr, the proportions based on the weight of the a...
04/19/1977
3975453Process for preparing butynyllithium
Butynyllithium is prepared by passing a gaseous unsaturated hydrocarbon selected from the group consisting of 1,2-butadiene or a mixture of 1,2-butadiene, 1,3-butadiene, 1-butyne and 2-butyne into a slurry of lithium metal dispersed in a strong coordinati...
08/17/1976
3942977Process for making iron or steel utilizing lithium containing material as auxiliary slag formers
A process for the manufacture of iron or steel utilizing lime as a flux improved through use of a lithium containing material as an auxiliary flux....
03/09/1976
3941588Compositions for alloying metal
A method, compositions and articles are described for the direct addition of alloying metal to a molten metal to be alloyed, which provide more rapid dissolution of the alloying metal in the molten metal than has been possible heretofore. The alloying met...
03/02/1976
 
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