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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7270743 | Products produced form rapid thermal processing of heavy hydrocarbon feedstocks The present invention is directed to the upgrading of heavy hydrocarbon feedstock that utilizes a short residence pyrolytic reactor operating under conditions that cracks and chemically upgrades the feedstock. The process of the present invention provides for the pr... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7241377 | Salt bath refining A process for heating thermally unstable or difficult to heat liquid feeds, e.g., used lubricating oil (ULO) to dehydrate and/or recover distillable components therefrom, is disclosed. The liquid feed is heated by direct contact heat exchange with molten salt, prefe... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7204660 | Humic mineral reagent and method for the production thereof, method for rehabilitating polluted soils, method for detoxification of wastes of extracted and processed mineral products and recultivating rock dumps and tailing storages, method for sewage water treatment and method for sludge utilisation The humic-mineral agent from naturally occurring carbon-series humites and caustobioliths comprises humic acids and salts thereof, naturally hydrated humic acids, hydrolyzed humic acids, hydrated and hydrolyzed humic-mineral and mineral complexes of parent carbon-se... | 04/17/2007 |
| 6258988 | Method for reforming organics into shorter-chain unsaturated organic compounds A method is disclosed for reforming organics into shorter-chain unsaturated organic compounds. A molten metal bath is provided which can cause homolytic cleavage of an organic component of an organic-containing feed. The feed is directed into the molten m... | 07/10/2001 |
| 5458659 | Desulfurization of carbonaceous fuels First, nitrogen oxides are reduced by firing coal in substoichiometric air conditions in a first stage oxidation unit of a combustor to reduce NOx from fuel bound nitrogen. Hydrated lime, Ca(OH)2, is introduced into the first stage o... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5085764 | Process for upgrading coal In a process for reducing the sulfur and ash contents of coal, coal is sequentially contacted with fused alkali metal caustic, wash water, and acid. Contacting the coal with the caustic produces water-soluble compounds. Sufficient wash water is used to re... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5061363 | Method for co-processing waste rubber and carbonaceous material In a process for the co-processing of waste rubber and carbonaceous material to form a useful liquid product, the rubber and the carbonaceous material are combined and heated to the depolymerization temperature of the rubber in the presence of a source of... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5059307 | Process for upgrading coal In a process for reducing the sulfur and ash contents of coal, coal is sequentially contacted with fused alkali metal caustic, water, carbonic acid, and a strong acid. Caustic removed from the coal by the water and the carbonic acid is recovered as anhydr... | 10/22/1991 |
| 4545891 | Extraction and upgrading of fossil fuels using fused caustic and acid solutions A crushed hydrocarbon-bearing material containing hydrocarbon and foreign mineral constituents is dispersed in fused alkali metal caustic to remove the sulfur content and release the foreign mineral matter from the hydrocarbon material for recovery and/or... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4495054 | Method of operating a blast furnace to extract carbonaceous oil and gas from bituminous materials A blast furnace is employed to process a natural material selected from the group consisting of oil shale, oil sandstone, asphalt rock or mixtures thereof. A first carbonaceous material selected from the group consisting of oil shale, oil sandstone, aspha... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4437974 | Coal liquefaction process A coal liquefaction process and apparatus therefor are disclosed. According to this invention, a finely divided coal and a solvent are contacted with molecular hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst to provide a slurry, the slurry is separated into a gase... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4427527 | Coal hydrogenation in a liquid metallic medium A process for the hydrogenation of coal which comprises introducing a hydrogen containing gas into a substantially saturated solution of carbon in a metallic medium at a temperature below 900° K. to convert C and H to hydrocarbon compounds within the med... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4421631 | Hydrocarbon treatment process The present invention provides a process for upgrading a hydrocarbon material in the presence of a molten salt in a manner which reduces the requirements for expensive ceramic materials to withstand the corrosive nature of the salt. A molten salt containi... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4357231 | Method for extracting hydrocarbons from oil shale A method and apparatus for thermally treating shale rock which holds an amount of hydrocarbon. The shale, preferably in a reduced size and form, is contacted by a hot molten metal bath at a sufficiently high temperature to release the hydrocarbon segment.... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4345990 | Method for recovering oil and/or gas from carbonaceous materials Disclosed is a method for recovering oil and gas from carbonaceous materials utilizing two molten baths. In the first molten bath reaction vessel, the carbonaceous material is thermally devolatilized. Part of the first melt from the first reaction vessel ... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4191628 | Process for removal of mineral particulates from coal-derived liquids Suspended mineral solids are separated from a coal-derived liquid containing the solids by a process comprising the steps of: (a) contacting said coal-derived liquid containing solids with a molten additive having a melting point of 100°-500° C. in an a... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4161442 | Processing of tar sands Petroliferous material of tar sands is processed to recover material boiling below 850° F. with higher boiling material converted to high BTU fuel gas and with heat developed transported to improve the thermal efficiency of the combination operation.... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4092236 | Molten salt hydroconversion process Hydrocarbonaceous materials such as petroleum residuums, coal, lignite or the like are introduced into a molten salt bath maintained in a reaction zone at elevated temperature and pressure. Hydrogen also is introduced into the reaction zone in an amount s... | 05/30/1978 |
| 3977960 | Hydrocarbon recovery system A system for the recovery of the vaporizable constituents of a particulate, hydrocarbon-containing composite. A suitable source material is continuously conveyed into the system through an air entry prevention means and submitted to at least one heating b... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3966583 | Coal treatment process and apparatus A heat transfer-integrated hydrocarbon and heat energy producing system for coal treatment or like carbonaceous solid fuel reactant for the co-production of hydrocarbons and heat energy, this system including introducing a single phase molten salt solutio... | 06/29/1976 |
| 3966582 | Solubilization and reaction of coal and like carbonaceous feedstocks to hydrocarbons and apparatus therefor Coal of the subanthracite type and like carbonaceous feedstocks of high molecular weight are soluble in molten inorganic salts while their hydrocarbon vapor hydrogenation products are not. The process and apparatus described utilizes these phenomena to ef... | 06/29/1976 |
