Bizarre Patents
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.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6093287 | Magnetic treatment of water supply to increase activity of chemical spray solutions A magnetic processing treatment facility is disclosed for subjecting a fluid flow to magnetic energy. The facility is integrated into agricultural spray apparatus and is effective in increasing the water solubility of chemical agents such as herbicides, p... | 07/25/2000 |
| 5587060 | Method of removing metal contained in solution Disclosed herein is a technique of removing metal contained in a solution through chelation, which makes it possible to preclude undesired aggregation and permit effective aggregation through an aggregating process. A surface active agent containing a hyd... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5458752 | Apparatus and method for the desulfurization of petroleum by bacteria A method for treating petroleum with anaerobic microorganisms acting as biocatalysts that can remove sulfur atoms from hydrocarbon molecules, under anaerobic conditions, and then convert the sulfur atoms to hydrogen sulfide. The microorganisms utilized ar... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5421972 | Process and apparatus for removing soluble contaminants from hydrocarbon streams A method for removing soluble contaminants, such as acetonitrile, from a non-polar hydrocarbon stream into a polar water stream by countercurrent flow between an electrostatic field generated by a pair of parallel electrodes. The electrostatic field is mo... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5411651 | Method for electrostatic liquid/liquid contactor The present invention is a method utilizing a liquid-liquid contactor which employs an electrostatic field to mix an organic phase with an aqueous phase and to coalesce the aqueous phase in order to accomplish extraction of a component present in the aque... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5385658 | Electric field controlled emulsion phase contactor A system for contacting liquid phases comprising a column for transporting a liquid phase contacting system, the column having upper and lower regions. The upper region has a nozzle for introducing a dispersed phase and means for applying thereto a vertic... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5384023 | Solvent extraction method and apparatus for recovering analytes An improved liquid/liquid solvent extraction method and apparatus utilizes an external electrode for creating an electric field within an extraction cell to shatter aqueous sample droplets flowing within a non-conductive solvent. The external electrode is... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5326441 | Process for separating and concentrating gallium from an aqueous solution containing gallium, together with aluminum, zinc and copper Process for separating and concentrating gallium from an aqueous solution containing gallium, together with aluminium, zinc and/or copper, charactrized by the following combination of features: (a) preparation of a water-in-oil emulsion consisting of a ne... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5262027 | Method of using an electric field controlled emulsion phase contactor A system for contacting liquid phases comprising a column for transporting a liquid phase contacting system, the column having upper and lower regions. The upper region has a nozzle for introducing a dispersed phase and means for applying thereto a vertic... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5219471 | Removal of metals and water-insoluble materials from desalter emulsions A process for measuring and treating oil-water stable emulsions derived from crude oil desalters is provided. Emulsion volume is measured, the emulsion is withdrawn, blended with aromatic-rich hydrocarbon, heated and three phases--water, oil and solids--a... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5022973 | Method of electrostatically enhanced solvent extraction and apparatus therefor A solvent extraction column in which a disperse phase in the form of electrostatically charged droplets contacts a fluid continuous phase. The disperse phase is received in a number of trays having radial nozzles, so that the disperse phase is discharged ... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4941959 | Electric field-driven, magnetically-stabilized ferro-emulsion phase contactor Methods and systems for interfacial surface area contact between a dispersed phase liquid and a continuous phase liquid in counter-current flow for purposes such as solvent extraction. Initial droplets of a dispersed phase liquid material containing ferro... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4767515 | Surface area generation and droplet size control in solvent extraction systems utilizing high intensity electric fields A method and system for solvent extraction where droplets are shattered by a high intensity electric field. These shattered droplets form a plurality of smaller droplets which have a greater combined surface area than the original droplet. Dispersion, coa... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4747921 | Liquid-liquid contacting A method for effecting enhanced contact between two immiscible liquid of different electrical conductivities comprises applying both intense mechanical agitation (1) and, in an immediately adjacent zone, a varying electrostatic field (2), in order to effe... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4686089 | Sieve-plate column for counterflow extraction The invention relates to a sieve-plate column for liquid-liquid counterflow extraction of two phases which are of different weights and which are not soluble one in the other. A mixing arrangement is disposed between two sieve plates. In order to further ... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4636290 | Liquid-liquid exchangers and process of using Liquid-liquid exchanger where a dispersed phase circulates also in a continuous phase, wherein an electrocoalescer is placed in that part of the exchanger located between the dispersed phase inlet and the continuous phase outlet. Application to the separa... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4208263 | Solvent extraction production of lube oil fractions An improved solvent extraction process is described for the preparation of lube oil products, the improvement whereby the extract phase is subjected to a voltage gradient.... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4204934 | Process for application of electrostatic fields to mixing and separating fluids Flow paths for liquids are disclosed in vessels, the paths oriented with electrodes which are electrically energized to establish electrostatic fields through the paths, one of the liquids is more polar than the other liquids in the paths, one of the fiel... | 05/27/1980 |
| 4193856 | Use of electrofilter as an extraction column The use of an electrofilter as an extraction column and/or as an extraction column-filter combination is disclosed. Solvent-extractible solids positioned in an electrically activated electrofilter are subjected to solvent extraction. The solids positioned... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4120769 | Process for mixing and separation in a solvent extraction system An ion exchange compound in a fluid organic carrier is cycled between mixing and separating from a weak acid stream and a strong acid stream. The weak acid stream is cycled between directly contacting ore to chemically dissolve metal and exchanging the me... | 10/17/1978 |
