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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5496541 | Tasteful toothpaste and other dental products Dental products employing a ternary surfactant system of poloxamers, anionic polysaccharides, and nonionic cellulose ethers. This ternary surfactant system has greatly enhanced foaming power relative to poloxamers alone or to poloxamers plus anionic polys... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5147640 | Strains of Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal compositions containing the same The present invention provides novel strains of Bacillus thuringiensis containing genes that code for P1 endotoxin proteins. The invention also provides methods and compositions for controlling insects or protecting plants from insect attack with a novel ... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5080897 | Novel bacillus thuringiensis strains, and related insecticidal compositions The present invention relates to novel Bacillus thuringiensis transconjugant strains having improved insecticidal activity. The novel strains are produced by a combination of plasmid curing and conjugation of active strains.... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5073632 | CryIIB crystal protein gene from Bacillus thuringiensis The present invention relates to a purified and isolated gene having a nucleotide sequence coding for the amino acid sequence for the CryIIB protein (the nucleotide coding sequence being illustrated in FIG. 6 extending from nucleotides 874 through 2775).... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5071654 | Ion channel properties of delta endotoxins The present invention relates to an in vitro method for measuring the toxicity of a delta-endotoxin of Bacillus thuringiensis by evaluating the ability of said endotoxin to form an ion channel in a phospholipid vesicle.... | 12/10/1991 |
| 4781899 | Purification of crystallized solids made via continuous crystallization Crystal solids made via the continuous crystallization of a crude, concentrated aqueous feed solution are recovered as a crystalline solid product that is relatively free of impurities present in the crystallizer liquor. A portion of the withdrawn crystal... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4774093 | Polysaccharide compositions, preparation and uses Novel beta-1,3-glucan polysaccharide gels characterized by (a) coherent, uniform, non-particulate structure, and (b) substantially uniform pH throughout. The gels are prepared by dissolving a beta-1,3-glucan polysaccharide in an aqueous alkaline medium at... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4744987 | Coprocessed microcrystalline cellulose and calcium carbonate composition and its preparation A particulate coprocessed microcrystalline cellulose and calcium carbonate composition having the respective components present in a weight ratio of from about 75:25 to 35:65. The composition is useful as a pharmaceutical excipient. The coprocessed compos... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4698172 | Aircraft anti-icing fluid containing carrageenan An anti-icing fluid suitable for ground treatment of aircraft, being a glycol-based solution containing a gel-forming carrageenan, in an amount of less than 5 wt %. The carrageenan is present in the glycol-based solution in an amount sufficient to thicken... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4693896 | Ethylcellulose-coated, gastric-disintegrable aspirin tablet A coated aspirin tablet, which is capable of being disintegrated quickly in gastric fluid, containing a thin film of plasticized ethylcellulose. The ethylcellulose thin film coating represents less than about 2 wt % of the coated tablet weight and is the ... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4687648 | Sodium-limestone double alkali flue gas desulfurization process with improved limestone utilization A method for improving utilization of limestone in a sodium-limestone double alkali flue gas desulfurization process. Spent alkaline absorber solution, containing sodium sulfite and sodium bisulfite, is diverted for regeneration treatment in a series of s... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4659672 | Colony replicating device A device for replicating microbial or other cell colonies or aggregates comprises a layer of moisture absorbent material either in the form of a coherent film or comprising individual particles or a combination of film and particles, said layer being secu... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4654204 | Production of sodium bicarbonate by reversion of soda-type feed salt Sodium bicarbonate is produced by introducing solid sodium carbonate, sodium sesquicarbonate, and/or Wegscheider's salt into a reversion slurry, saturated with respect to bicarbonate and containing at least 10 wt. % solids, to effect rapid and complete co... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4652054 | Solution mining of trona or nahcolite ore with electrodialytically-produced aqueous sodium hydroxide A cyclic solution mining method that uses aqueous sodium hydroxide for recovering valuable alkali values, preferably as soda ash, from subterranean deposits of trona or nahcolite, even when such deposits are NaCl-contaminated. The aqueous sodium hydroxide... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4588569 | Dry injection flue gas desulfurization process using absorptive soda ash sorbent Hot flue gas containing sulfur oxides is treated in a dry injection desulfurization process by injecting a dry particulate soda ash sorbent into the SO2 -contaminated gas stream, which must contain 0.5-10 wt % water and be at a temperature of 1... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4519806 | Enhanced recovery of soda ash from aqueous sodium carbonate solutions containing Na2 SO4 - and NaCl A method for enhancing the recovery of dense soda ash from Na2 SO4 - and NaCl-containing aqueous sodium carbonate solutions by first co-crystallizing anhydrous sodium carbonate and burkeite and next introducing the co-crystallized so... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4498706 | Solution mining of trona or nahcolite ore with aqueous NaOH and HCl solvents Separate deposits of trona or nahcolite ore are solution mined with two solvents, aqueous sodium hydroxide and aqueous hydrogen chloride. Aqueous sodium carbonate solution is withdrawn from the region of the NaOH-treated ore deposit, for recovery of soda ... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4476001 | Device for collecting alkaline cell liquor from an electrolytic cell Device for attachment to the overflow line of an electrolytic cell, for collection of alkaline cell liquor and for concurrent interruption of electrical current flow from cell in such liquor. The device consists of a closed container having a liquor inlet... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4462794 | Method of operating a rotary calciner retrofitted to coal-firing Method of operating a rotary calciner retrofitted from oil- or natural gas-firing to coal-firing, in which coal is burned in a coal furnace and the coal combustion gases are then heated further in a booster burner utilizing oil or natural gas, to raise th... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4439411 | Production of sodium hydrosulfide Sodium hydrosulfide is continuously produced from the reaction of hydrogen sulfide and with sodium sulfide by continuously introducing an aqueous sodium sulfide solution into an unvented reaction chamber, which may be a tower or tank, while maintaining a ... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4431618 | Process control of continuous sodium-limestone flue gas desulfurization system A method of controlling the continuous operation of the absorption and regeneration processes of a sodium-limestone double alkali flue gas desulfurization system, in which measurements of absorber effluent solution pH or flow diverted for regeneration are... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4430454 | Polymeric foam derived from polymaleic anhydride and its preparation Polymeric foam compositions, useful as insulating material are obtained from the reaction of polymaleic anhydride with a hydroxyl-containing compound like ethylene glycol or its derivatives, in the presence of an organic isocyanate. Hydroxyl-containing co... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4421729 | Preparation of strontium carbonate Strontium carbonate is prepared by the process of reacting strontium nitrate in an aqueous reaction medium with carbon dioxide to precipitate strontium carbonate product, the nitric acid byproduct that forms being neutralized by the introduction of lime t... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4410500 | Sodium-limestone double alkali flue gas desulfurization method A flue gas desulfurization method for efficiently removing sulfur oxides from a gas stream with an aqueous sodium sulfite- and sodium bisulfite-containing absorption solution, in which absorber effluent solution at a pH of from 5.8 to 6.6 and having an ac... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4401635 | Recovery of alkali values from salt-containing trona deposits A method for recovering alkali values from subterranean deposits of trona ore associated with sodium chloride by contacting the trona with an aqueous mining solution containing sodium hydroxide and subsequently utilizing the alkali values contained in the... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4375454 | Electrostatic enrichment of trona and nahcolite ores Calcined trona and/or nahcolite bearing ore particles are separated into a plurality of fractions of relatively uniform particle size. Those calcined particles smaller than about 6.7 mm in size and larger than about 0.2 mm in size are passed through an el... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4367212 | Control of thiosulfate in wet desulfurization process solutions A method for controlling the concentration of dissolved thiosulfate byproduct which forms in a wet desulfurization process, by introducing a peroxygen chemical into its recirculating aqueous absorption medium. A peroxygen chemical such as aqueous hydrogen... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4347231 | Preparation of hydrogen peroxide from its elements Hydrogen peroxide is prepared by the homogeneously catalyzed reaction of hydrogen and oxygen in an inert organic solvent, by employing an iridium complex as the catalyst in the presence of a quinone reaction promoter.... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4347232 | Preparation of hydrogen peroxide from its elements Hydrogen peroxide is prepared by the homogeneously catalyzed reaction of hydrogen and oxygen in an inert organic solvent, by employing a palladium complex, selected from palladium(O) complexes of dibenzylidene acetone, as the catalyst.... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4344650 | Recovery of alkali values from trona deposits A cyclic method for recovering alkali values from subterranean trona deposits. The ore is contacted via solution mining with an aqueous mining solvent containing sodium hydroxide, the resulting Na2 CO3 -containing solution is withdra... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4342666 | Enhancement of trilithium phosphate catalyst activity A method for enhancing the activity of a trilithium phosphate catalyst, useful for isomerizing alkylene oxides to the corresponding alcohols, in which dry catalyst is contacted with an aqueous solution containing a mineral acid such as phosphoric acid, an... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4341596 | Method of preparing reinforced asbestos diaphragms for chlorine-caustic cells A resin modified asbestos diaphragm is prepared by diluting a heat curable polyvinylidene fluoride homopolymer resin latex containing no more than about 5% resin solids with an aqueous solution containing about 4% to 5% sodium hydroxide. From about 6 to a... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4337233 | Preparation of strontium nitrate from celestite and calcium nitrate Strontium nitrate is prepared by reacting celestite (strontium sulfate) with excess calcium nitrate in limited amounts of water, quickly extracting strontium nitrate from the reaction mixture by vigorous agitation with additional water, and recovering str... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4316879 | Stabilized sodium carbonate peroxide preparation method Sodium carbonate peroxide stabilized against loss of its active oxygen content is prepared by incorporating into sodium carbonate peroxide an ethylene oxide-derivative stabilizing agent selected from the group consisting of polyethylene glycol, polyethoxy... | 02/23/1982 |
| 4299799 | Carbon treatment of monohydrate crystallizer liquor Improved process for preparing sodium carbonate from crude trona without carbon column scaling by evaporating a portion of water from a clarified sodium carbonate solution to crystallize sodium carbonate crystals therefrom, separating the sodium carbonate... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4298764 | Preparation of alkyl glyceryl ether alcohols This invention relates to a process for preparing nonionic glycidol-derived surfactants. Specifically C10 -C20 n-alkyl glyceryl ether alcohols containing from 1 to about 10 glyceryl units, are prepared by reacting crude glycidol and ... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4288419 | Enhanced recovery of sodium carbonate from NaCl-containing sodium carbonate solutions A method for enhancing recovery of sodium carbonate from sodium carbonate solutions which contain sodium chloride. Anhydrous sodium carbonate is recovered in good yields from aqueous sodium carbonate solutions containing sodium chloride by evaporative cry... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4283372 | Recovery of alkali values from sodium bicarbonate-containing ore with ammonia A method for recovering alkali value from sodium bicarbonate-containing ore by utilizing an aqueous solvent containing ammonia. The aqueous ammonia solvent is contacted with the ore to solubilize the sodium bicarbonate-containing ore. The alkali values in... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4181702 | Apparatus for controlled chlorination of water with an alkali metal dichloroisocyanurate An apparatus and method for the controlled chlorination of a water supply in which an alkali metal salt of dichloroisocyanuric acid is dissolved to form a concentrated chlorine solution that is slowly released into the water supply. The apparatus contains... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4131562 | Stabilized particulate peroxygen compounds A particulate peroxygen compound having improved storage stability against loss of its active oxygen, the peroxygen compound being coated with 0.1 to 3.0 weight percent of an ethylene oxide-derivative stabilizing material.... | 12/26/1978 |
