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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7040735 | Slotted substrates and methods and systems for forming same Methods and systems for forming compound slots in a substrate are described. In one exemplary implementation, a method forms a plurality of slots in a substrate. The method also etches a trench in the substrate contiguous with the plurality of slots to form a compou... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6843832 | Compound/curvilinear immiscible liquid separator apparatus and method The compound/curvilinear immiscible liquid separator has a separator section with an outer, elongated, cylindrical shell aligned vertically opening into an upper transition section and vapor dome at the top and a lower transition section and solid/heavy crude contai... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6398850 | Gas extraction device for extracting gas from a microfluidics system A thermally-activated gas extraction device that comprises a bubble capture chamber, an exhaust manifold, a tapered extraction chamber and an extraction heater associated with the tapered extraction chamber. The tapered extraction chamber extends from the... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6299673 | Gas extraction device for extracting gas from a microfluidics system A thermally-activated gas extraction device that comprises a bubble capture chamber, an exhaust manifold, a tapered extraction chamber and an extraction heater associated with the tapered extraction chamber. The tapered extraction chamber extends from the... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6073685 | Fluid inlet/outlet chamber and corresponding fluid circulation apparatus Input/output chamber for a fluid, for part of a body (1) of an apparatus in which this fluid circulates, this part of the body including a face (3) for inlet or outlet of the said fluid, the chamber (6A) being intended to be connected with a leaktight joi... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5988283 | Vertical combined production facility A Vertical Combined Production Facility, or gas-well production system, in which the separation of each phase (hydrocarbon gas, hydrocarbon liquids, and produced water), dehydration of natural gas, removal of minute traces of water from the hydrocarbon li... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5928519 | Method for separating components in well fluids A system for separation of fluids and drill cuttings received from a borehole during an under-balanced drilling procedure. The system is designed to cope with significantly varied pressures and flow rates, particularly in relation to gas content of drill ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5900137 | Apparatus and method for separating components in well fluids A system for separation of fluids and drill cuttings received-from a borehole during an under-balanced drilling procedure. The system is designed to cope with significantly varied pressures and flow rates, particularly in relation to gas content of drill ... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5765631 | Fluid circulation apparatus A fluid circulation apparatus comprises a body part (2) in the shape of a dihedron with, on a first face of the dihedron, at least one opening for input/output of this fluid covering over the opening in a leaktight way. The bulb projects with respect to t... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5520723 | Method and system for reducing air pollution from natural gas dehydrators A method and system for reducing emissions from glycol dehydrators which employ a vapor-liquid contactor operated under ambient conditions to treat the organic vapors and liquids exiting from a condenser attached to the vapor vent of the glycol reboiler. ... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5346537 | Method and system for controlling emissions from glycol dehydrators Method and apparatus are disclosed which are improvements in the conventional method and apparatus for extracting water from a gas stream such as a natural gas stream by contacting the stream with a glycol to absorb the water, and then regenerating the gl... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5334239 | Passive gas separator and accumulator device A separation device employing a gas separation filter and swirler vanes for separating gas from a gasliquid mixture is provided. The cylindrical filter utilizes the principle that surface tension in the pores of the filter prevents gas bubbles from passin... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5132011 | Oil, water and gas mixture separator A treater apparatus for separating mixed oil, water and gas into these components and including an elongated tank having a first end and an opposite, second end. A horizontally extending partition plate extends across the first end portion of the tank bel... | 07/21/1992 |
| 4960443 | Process for separation of hydrocarbon vapors and apparatus therefor Separation of hydrocarbon vapors from an admixture of hydrocarbon gases and hydrocarbon liquid is achieved by passing the admixture into the upper portion of a vapor rfecovery zone comprising a vertical, elongated separation zone, withdrawing hydrocarbon ... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4824447 | Enhanced oil recovery system All energy resources available from a geopressured geothermal reservoir are used for the production of pipeline quality gas using a high pressure separator/heat exchanger and a membrane separator, and recovering waste gas from both the membrane separator ... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4533366 | Evaporation dehydrator A method and apparatus for the treatment of oilfield heavy oil emulsions is provided. The method utilizes, in combination, the steps of evaporation, vapor/liquid separation, and solids settling to dehydrate, degassify and remove solids from the heavy oil ... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4396404 | Flow control for oil, gas, water separation In separation of a stream of oil, gas and water into the constituents thereof in a horizontal heater-treater vessel having a gas separation chamber and an emulsion treating chamber, the stream is caused to flow downward into the gas separation chamber and... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4198214 | Method and apparatus for heating a separator An oil and gas separator having an internal heating coil for solution from a heater, and a thermostat controlled three way valve for either injecting supply gas into the solution from the heater, and or vent gas from the coil to the heater's burner depend... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4115084 | Combined separator vessel and gas absorber vessel A gas-liquid separator vessel has mounted within its internal volume the adsorber tower of a dehydrator for the separated gas. The connections between the internal volumes of the two vessels are kept to minimum length, and heat exchange between the separa... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4089662 | Oil treatment system An oil treatment system for reclaiming used oil including apparatus for feeding the oil first through a filter for removing solid contaminants therefrom then through a vaporizer unit wherein it is heated under a vacuum while in a flowing film form to remo... | 05/16/1978 |
