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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:
Apr. 29, 1986
Filed:
Apr. 05, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary L Funk, Bartlesville, OK (US);
James D Voelkers, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Assignee:
Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364172 ; 364166 ; 364510 ; 364176 ; 137-2 ;
Abstract
In a process in which it is desired to provide P units of feed during a time period ending at time T and in which the available feed has been limited for a part of such time period, method and apparatus is provided for increasing the feed rate when additional feed becomes available so as to provide the total feed P to the process during such time period without subjecting the process to more rapid changes in feed rate than are necessary and without violating process constraints.