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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1981
Filed:
May. 14, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dean T Morgan, Sudbury, MA (US);
Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis, Cambridge, MA (US);
George J LaRue, Wayland, MA (US);
Assignee:
Thermo Electron Corporation, Waltham, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
423-6 ; 210675 ; 210682 ; 210170 ; 210241 ;
Abstract
A method and system for continuously extracting metals from sea water by deploying adsorber sheets in a suitable current of sea water, recovering the adsorber sheets after they become loaded with metal and eluting the metal from the recovered sheets. The system involves the use of hollow, perforated bobbins on which the sheets are rolled as they are recovered and through which elutant is introduced.