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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:
Jun. 11, 1991
Filed:
May. 10, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
James F Kneller, LaGrange Park, IL (US);
Barbara E Fair, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Gianfranco F Mazzani, Roma, IT;
I Sergio Di Simone, Roma, IT;
Assignee:
Nalco Chemical Company, Naperville, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
210697 ; 210699 ; 252180 ; 252181 ;
Abstract
Calcium carbonate scale is controlled by treating calcium carbonate containing waters with a predominantly phosphinate containing composition where has as its major ingredient more than 32 mole percent of a phosphinicosuccinic acid oligomer having the probable structural formula . ##STR1## M is H, Na, K, NH.sub.4, or mixtures thereof; and m and n are either 0 or a small whole number with proviso that either m or n is a small whole number and the sum of m plus n is greater than 2.