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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4732345 | Hose reel A hose reel is described which permits hoses to be reeled in sections and removed from the apparatus for storage, testing, etc., in the rolled condition, the reel is designed to reel hoses, be they of a flattened nature when not in use, as for example a f... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4702199 | Calf trim chute There is disclosed a collapsible calf trim chute, also called a grooming chute, having a rectangular base fitted with a floor and a pair of upright pivoting rectangular members, one a head-stall-end and the other a tail-end member, each of which are pivot... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4701892 | Downhole casing inspection system A 60 to 100% coverage of downhole casing condition is obtainable by the improved system comprising, a sufficient number of piezoelectric transducers 1/4 inch in diameter about a probe head, preferably, 40 or more and usually 60-120 piezoelectric transduce... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4645617 | Stripping compositions with reduced vapor containing MeCl2, a wax and ethylene or propylene carbonate There is disclosed a composition of matter useful for stripping paint and varnish from substrates comprised of the conventional industrial chlorinated solvents, e.g. methylene chloride (dichloromethane) solvent and a wax, such as paraffin wax, which compo... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4643953 | Electromagnetic shielded body An electromagnetic shielded body comprising laminating or adhering to the surface of the body or incorporating as an internal lamina of a multiple laminar body a layer of film or powder of an electroconductive material which consists of a dehydrohalogenat... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4643931 | Method and materials for manufacture of anti-static carpet having tufts containing electroconductive carbonized filaments or fibers An electroconductive tow or yarn, made from continuous filaments or staple fibers, respectively, prepared from stabilized petroleum pitch, coal tar pitch or polyacrylonitrile is preferably knit and heat treated to a carbonizing temperature and thereafter ... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4633930 | Molten metal shot size and delivery mechanism for continuous casting operations There is described a device and process for delivering a predetermined quantity of molten metal to a metal casting operation via metal transfer members, such as thermally heated pipes under a positive head to the shot size and delivery system wherein the ... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4624839 | Process for the recovery of CO2 from flue gases There is disclosed a procedure for removing copper inhibitor from a circulating fluid which contains the same, which copper may be lost on the cool side of a gas conditioning system by plating out under certain conditions, by contacting a portion of the c... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4617200 | Process for making salt coated magnesium granules There is disclosed a process for the preparation of substantially uniform granules of magnesium coated with a mixed salt composition from a eutectic melt. The process comprises the steps of forming globules of magnesium by shear action in a molten eutecti... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4606774 | Process for removing contaminants from soils There is described a process in which a contaminated soil is freed of its contaminants and the solvent used to free and wash the contaminated soil is collected and reused and/or it is combusted and removed from the system in a form which will not contamin... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4589963 | Process for the conversion of salts of carboxylic acid to their corresponding free acids There is described a process for converting salts of monobasic amino acids to their free acids by treatment under electrolytic methods wherein electrical power requirements are reduced, contamination of the electrolytes with undesired products of the elec... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4579650 | Coal enhancement process and equipment A process for enhancing coal by removing the gangue (rock, shale, iron pyrites and the like) associated with the mined coal as it comes from the crushers before further treatment. The process described slurries the crushed run of the mine (ROM) coal with ... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578877 | Process for controlling fines entrainment while drying solids A process is disclosed for reducing the evolution of fine particles during the removal of a solvent from a mass of solid particles containing the fines or which solid particles are attritable to produce the fines in the prior treating steps and/or the sol... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4530704 | Selective absorption of SO2 from gases containing the same There is disclosed a process for selectively removing and recovering sulfur dioxide from a gas stream containing the same by contacting the gas with an absorbent (an aqueous solution of a piperazine, piperazinone or a morpholinone) and thermally regenerat... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4126746 | Halohydrin thioethers and method of preparation Compounds of the structure R(SCH2 CHOHCH2 X)n when n = 1 to 4 and R is a hydrocarbon, ether, ester, acetal, hydroxy aliphatic, hydroxy aromatic, imide or amide group or halogenated derivatives thereof are prepared by react... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4118344 | Drycleaning detergent solution The detergent action and antiredeposition properties of a drycleaning solvent containing sodium petroleum sulfonate are improved by the addition of a small amount of high molecular weight polyglycol. Perchloroethylene solutions of the anionic detergent an... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4115461 | Stabilized 1,1,1-trichloroethane composition 1,1,1-Trichloroethane is stabilized for use as a replacement for trichloroethylene in vapor degreasing applications by employing from about 3.6 to about 7.6 volume percent based on the total composition of the following components in 1,1,1-trichloroethane... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4110279 | High temperature polymers from methoxy functional ether aromatic monomers A polymer derived by heating in the presence of an acid catalyst at between about 65° C. and 260° C. I. a reaction product, a cogeneric mixture of alkoxy functional compounds, having average equivalent weights in the range from about 220 to about 1200, ... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4105702 | Method for preparing halogenated alkanes and alkenes A method for preparing halogenated alkanes and alkenes which comprises reacting by contacting, for 0.005 to 0.1 second at a temperature of 675° C. to 850° C., a halogenating agent of the formula CClx Br4-x, wherein x is an integer ... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4104283 | Polythioetheralkyleneoxide epoxides New compounds of the structure ##STR1## WHERE R is an aromatic, alicyclic or aliphatic group of at least 2 C atoms and up to 18 C atoms, x is an integer from 1 to 9, R' is H, a lower alkyl grup of 1-4 C atoms or --CH2 Cl, y is an integer o... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4102804 | Inhibitor for gas conditioning solutions The corrosion of iron and steel by an aqueous sour gas conditioning solution used to remove CO2 from a gas stream is effectively inhibited by a combination of a quaternary pyridinium salt and an organic thioamide, a water-soluble sulfide or a w... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4100256 | Hydrolysis of carbon oxysulfide The hydrolysis of carbon oxysulfide is catalyzed by piperazinone and alkyl-substituted piperazinones at ambient or below ambient temperatures. The hydrolysis step can be combined with a sour gas purification process in the treatment of refinery gases, coa... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4100099 | Quaternary salt-polyamine inhibitor for sour gas conditioning solutions The corrosion of iron and steel by an aqueous sour gas conditioning solution used to remove CO2 and H2 S from a gas stream is effectively inhibited by a combination of a quaternary pyridinium salt and a lower alkylenepolyamine or cor... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4100100 | Cobalt-containing inhibitor for sour gas conditioning solutions The corrosion of iron and steel by an aqueous sour gas conditioning solution used to remove CO2 from a gas stream is effectively inhibited by a combination of a quaternary pyridinium salt and an organic thioamide or water-soluble thiocyanate. T... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4096085 | Gas scrubbing system An aqueous organic amine acid gas scrubbing system, particularly an aqueous N-methyldiethanolamine or diethanolamine acid gas scrubbing system having incorporated therein (1) a compound or mixture of compounds having the formula ##STR1## wherein... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4082748 | Process for production of oxazine diones N-substituted cyclic imides of diacids such as oxydiacetic acid and N-substituted iminodiacetic acid are produced by contacting a hydroxy amide of the formula HOCH2 CH2 -A-CH2 -CONHR with a reduced copper dehydrogenation cataly... | 04/04/1978 |
| 4079087 | Three phase crystallization of bisphenol A A process for purifying a crude crystalline or crystallizable water-immiscible aromatic compound contaminated with one or more related congeneric impurities which cannot be readily separated by distillation, said process comprising: 1. forming a dispersio... | 03/14/1978 |
| 4076629 | Solvent soluble warp size In the sizing of textile yarns with a chlorinated solvent solution of a low crystallinity chlorinated polyolefin, undesirable tackiness of the resin size is avoided by combining the chlorinated resin with a minor proportion of a high molecular weight arom... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4075122 | Catalyst and method of oxydehydrogenation of alkyl aromatic compounds Magnesium nickel pyrophosphate is a superior catalyst for oxydehydrogenating alkyl aromatic compounds including nitrogen heterocyclics which have at least one C2 -C6 alkyl side chain to form derivatives having side chain unsaturation... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4071602 | Selective separation of sulfur oxides from carbon dioxide in an effluent gas stream A method for selectively separating sulfur oxides from carbon dioxide in an effluent gas stream by contacting the stream with solutions of alkanolamines at from 200°-230° F. At these temperatures the carbon dioxide is not absorbed to any degree by the a... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4071470 | Method and composition for inhibiting the corrosion of metals A method and composition for inhibiting the corrosion of metals in contact with an acid-gas absorbing medium comprising adding a product of the reaction of (1) copper or a copper salt, a copper oxide or a copper sulfide and (2) sulfur or a sulfide and an ... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4066684 | Preparation of peptides The preparation of the azide of a carboxylic acid by reacting the hydrazide of the acid with nitrous acid is facilitated by using the organic solvent-soluble complex of an alkali metal nitrite with an ethylene oxide or propylene oxide cyclic polymer as th... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4064187 | Dehydrogenation catalysts Self-regenerative dehydrogenation catalysts containing major proportions of Fe2 O3 and ZnO and lesser amounts of alkali metal chromate and, optionally, cuprous oxide promoters together with a basic potassium-water-gas reaction promot... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4048241 | Process for preparing 1,1,1-trichloroethane A process for preparing 1,1,1-trichloroethane from ethylene and chlorine by hydrochlorinating the ethylene in the presence of aluminum chloride in a liquid phase reaction zone followed by chlorination of the resulting reaction product and finally by hydro... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4043948 | Insoluble polyalkyl phosphonium salt resins having carbon-carbon crosslinked backbone Novel resins having a carbon-to-carbon backbone, cross-linked with carbon-to-carbon linkages and having a plurality of ##STR1## pendant groups, wherein m is an integer from 1 to 6, preferably 3, each R is an alkyl group of from 1 to 10 C atoms, prefe... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4039601 | Process and apparatus for continuous catalyst activation Self-regenerative catalysts for dehydrogenating an alkylaromatic hydrocarbon to the corresponding alkenylaromatic hydrocarbon are continuously activated by steaming successive small portions of the catalyst bed during normal operation. Each small portion ... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4039636 | Magnesium dialkyl phosphates and their preparation Magnesium dialkyl phosphates capable of thickening or gelling nonpolar organic solvents are prepared by reacting a dialkyl acid phosphate with a magnesium oxide, hydroxide, or carbonate in organic solvent solution in the presence of a small amount of wate... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4036854 | Method for preparing coumarin A filter having a peripheral skirt extending above and below the filter element, provides a gaseous cushion which prevents clogging the filter. The peripheral edges of the filter may have means for preventing entry of solid in the narrow space between the... | 07/19/1977 |
| 4018837 | Stabilized methylchloroform A stable 1,1,1-trichloroethane composition containing 1,1,1-trichloroethane and, as the essential acid acceptor, 0.25 to 1 weight percent of a C4-8 monoepoxide, epichlorohydrin or a mixture of such epoxides and, as the essential stabilizer agai... | 04/19/1977 |
| 4011268 | Method of preparing monoethers of alkylene glycols The reaction of an organic monohydroxy compound with a monomeric epoxide is catalyzed by insoluble, polymeric composition having tetraalkyl phosphonium alkoxide, aryloxide or hydroxide containing pendant groups. These groups have the structure ##STR1... | 03/08/1977 |