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Hydro Fuels, Inc.

Memphis State University

John W Smith

James J Russ

Henry B Steen

Edward A Corlew

Janet S Condra

Stephen K Simons

A weapons rest provided with a pair of sand filled bags having a hinged attachment to a flexible panel which closes upon itself when the bags are moved away from each other.

Weapons rest

A system for controlling one or more borehole pumps includes a receiver/separator tank. The receiver/separator tank includes a body having a sealable top cap, an electronics panel, a separator housing, a separator cap that divides the electronics panel from the separator housing, and an inlet base at a second end of the body and dimensioned to maintain entry pipes in appropriate positions. The tank further includes a fluid outlet pipe; a gas pipe; a safety line; a supply line; an exhaust line; a propellant line; a fluid return line; and a spiral diffuser. The spiral diffuser is connected to the fluid return line to disperse fluid received through the return line at an angle to separate gas contained in the fluid. Pressure from the fluid causes the spiral diffuser to spin within the separator housing, and thus, separating gas contained within the fluid from the fluid.

Multi-well computerized control of fluid pumping

A system for controlling one or more borehole pumps to enable pumping-on-demand is described. The system uses a computerized controller which, in combination with sensors, monitors and controls the activity of the pump, thereby controlling fluid in the borehole. The system is continually in one of three modes, the monitoring mode, the pump mode, and the recovery mode. Within each cycle of modes, the system performs multiple checks on the apparatus involved. The data obtained during the check is stored in appropriate databases as well as checked against predetermined norms. In the event of a malfunction within the apparatus, or other supervised and/or monitored functions, the system can activate a notification system, such as a centralized monitoring facility. A pump is disclosed with a fluid sensor to detect the presence of fluid and transmit this presence to the computerized monitoring system. A slug sensor notifies the computer of the beginning and end of a predetermined quantity of fluid. An exterior housing with a lightning protector can be placed over the borehole to contain the monitoring computer and associated read outs. At least one shunt valve is affixed along the propellant and return lines inline to accommodate accumulation of fluid. A receiver/separator tank has a separator member to separate the gas from the fluid.

An awl member having an elongate shank includes a shank first end spaced from a shank second end, the shank second end having a handle fixedly mounted thereto coaxially aligned with the shank, with the shank first end including an internally threaded bore threadedly receiving and engaging an insert, with the insert including a polymeric lock projection extending through an externally threaded portion of said insert.

Changeable tip awl

The carrier cage of the invention is dual compartmented, with an open-walled living compartment at one end and a closed-walled sanitation compartment at the opposite end divided by a position having a passageway therethrough for arrival movement between the two compartments. The sanitation compartment is provided with a removable litter box preferably located under an apertured floor with provision for moving the litter box as a drawer. Space under the floor of the living compartment may be used to store grooming and other useful articles.

Carrier cage for cats or other small animals

A method for recovering precious metals such as gold and silver from precious metal-bearing materials that include other solids comprises treating the precious metal-bearing materials with an aqueous, basic solution having a pH in the range of about 12 to about 14 for a time sufficient to suspend the precious metals in substantially free form in the solution, followed by recovery of precious metals from solids and from the solution by known methods.

Method for recovering precious metals from precious metal-bearing

A method for separating and recovering substantially pure aluminum, iron and silica from fly ash, a by-product of coal combustion, includes reacting the fly ash with aqueous fluosilicic acid and aqueous hydrogen fluoride at temperatures sufficiently high to form aqueous silicon fluoride vapor and fluorides and fluosilicate of aluminum and iron, separating the aluminum and iron fluorides and fluorosilicates from the aqueous silicon fluoride vapor, hydrolizing the silicon fluoride vapor to form silicon dioxide in substantially pure form and hydrogen fluoride, recovering and recycling the hydrogen fluoride for reuse in the process, and separating the aluminum and iron fluorides and fluosilicates from one another, and recovering substantially pure aluminum fluoride, substantially pure iron and other substantially pure metals, by electroplating or otherwise.

Method for separating and recovering silica, aluminum and iron from fly

A method for treating water or waste water to remove pollutants therefrom includes treating fly ash comprising aluminum, iron and silica with an aqueous base, recovering a base-treated, solid fly ash, washing the base-treated solid fly ash with water, recovering a rinsed, base-treated fly ash solid, reacting the rinsed, base-treated fly ash solid with mineral acid, and recovering an aqueous, solubilized acidic fly ash leachate, then mixing the aqueous, acidic solubilized fly ash leachate with water or waste water to remove pollutants therefrom, or with sludge to reduce its resistant to dewatering.

Methods for removing pollutants from water and waste water and for

A method of producing a source of rich (in the general range of 900 BTU per cubic foot) gaseous fuel, and a method of producing a rich gaseous fuel, both include reducing metallic manganese or a mixture of metals in which manganese predominates and carbonaceous material to a powder finer than 200 mesh, mixing the powders in a proportion by weight between 1 to 1 and 4 to 1 manganese to carbonaceous material (available carbon), and heating the mixture, in a reducing atmosphere, to a temperature of between 600.degree. and 950.degree. C. to substantial equilibrium by completion of reaction, generally for a period of about forty minutes. The production of gaseous fuel includes the step of treating the source material with a reactant taken from the group consisting of steam and a mildly acidic solution. The source material residue is then recycled.

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Germantown, TN, United States of America

John W Smith