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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. 05, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
R. Andrew Lowe, Milledgeville, GA (US);
Prakash B. Malla, Dublin, GA (US);
William M. McClarin III, Tennille, GA (US);
Don R. Black, Avera, GA (US);
Assignee:
Thiele Kaolin Company, Sandersville, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09C 1/42 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C09C 1/42 ;
Abstract
Fine-grained Tertiary kaolin clay pigments providing improved opacity, sheet gloss and print gloss to paper coated with these pigments are produced by removing fine and coarse particles to produce pigments having a narrow particle size distribution.