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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. 10, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald Scott Rogers, Lafayette, LA (US);
Assignee:
Soloco, L.L.C., Lafayette, LA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K 5/102 ; F04F 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K 5/102 ; F04F 3/00 ;
Abstract
A system for transporting a quantity of highly viscous material comprising a vacuum chamber, a blower for creating a vacuum in the vacuum chamber, and a plurality of material suction lines for suctioning the viscous material to the chamber. A progressive cavity pump mounted to the vacuum chamber provides a continuous delivery of the viscous material from the vacuum chamber to a desired location at atmospheric pressure while the vacuum chamber is in a vacuum state. The system is skid mounted for portability.