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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. 09, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Toshifumi Sugama, Wading River, NY (US);
Leon Petrakis, Port Jefferson, NY (US);
Assignee:
Associated Universities, Inc., Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A62D / ; B09B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
588236 ; 588242 ; 588901 ; 423659 ; 523132 ; 524401 ; 524404 ; 524415 ; 524421 ;
Abstract
A composition and methods for converting a chrysotile asbestos-containing material to a non-regulated environmentally benign solid which comprises a fluoro acid decomposing agent capable of dissociating the chrysotile asbestos to non-regulated components, wherein non-regulated components are non-reactive with the environment, and a binding agent which binds the non-regulated components to form an environmentally benign solid.