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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:
Nov. 24, 1981
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Albert F Baker, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Eric W Blaustein, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Albert W Deurbrouck, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
John P Garvin, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Robert E McKeever, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10L / ; C10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
44 1 / ; 44 / ; 44 1 / ; 44 23 ;
Abstract
The specification discloses lignite pellets which are relatively hard, dust resistant, of generally uniform size and free from spontaneous ignition and general degradation. Also disclosed are methods for making such pellets which involve crushing as mined lignite, mixing said lignite with a binder such as asphalt, forming the lignite binder mixture into pellets, and drying the pellets.