IP Library Granted Patent US 5,842,500
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US 5,842,500 · App. 08/905,419

Overfill preventing valve

Inventors: JAMES MICHAEL ROCKWOOD, Paul Joseph Smith, David Earl Nitchke, John M. Janak, Steven Francis Hawkes
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Granted: Dec 1, 1998 Filed: Aug 4, 1997
Inventors
JAMES MICHAEL ROCKWOOD
Paul Joseph Smith
David Earl Nitchke
John M. Janak
Steven Francis Hawkes
Assignee (at issue)
HARSCO TECHNOLOGIES LLC

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Patent No.
US 5,842,500
App. No.
08/905,419
Filed
1997-08-04
Granted
1998-12-01
Kind
A