Amos W Broughton

54641535, Nov 7, 1995

May 2, 1994

8/236377

Amos W. Broughton - Temple City CA

E01B 300

238117

A railroad rail support includes a first and second horizontally oriented rubber tire having a circumferential tread, a top sidewall including a top rim bead and a bottom sidewall having a bottom rim bead, said-bottom sidewall and bottom rim bead being adjacent to a railroad roadbed. First and second rail support members within each tire have a top surface in the plane of the top rim bead and a bottom surface in the plane of the bottom rim bead, and include a top plate and a plurality of tubular channels extending downwards from said top plate to the bottom surface. A concrete matrix fills each rubber tire and retains the rail support within the rubber tire. Railroad spikes are installed into the tubular channels have heads overlapping the opposed edges of the bottom flange of a first and a second railroad rail. Each spike is locked into its respective tubular channel by extending downwards in a generally vertical direction with a second contiguous portion at an angle of at least 30. degree. from the vertical direction to said first portion.

43965083, Aug 2, 1983

Aug 27, 1981

6/296961

Amos W. Broughton - Temple City CA

B01D 2110

210187

A separator of multi-phase combinations of oil (low density) liquid phase, water phase, and solid sludge (high density) has an inlet low velocity liquid spreader disposed across and near the inside base of a closed separator tank. At least one inclined separator baffle is disposed and sealed completely across the tank interior, inclined from a baffle base terminus adjacent the tank base to a top baffle terminus adjacent the top of the tank and having a narrow oil volume phase collector continuing from the top baffle terminus to the interior tank top. The oil phase outlet of the separator tank connects to the narrow oil volume phase and is disposed adjacent to the top of the collector tank. The oil outlet is substantially elevated above the corresponding water phase outlet disposed on and connecting to the separator tank on the opposed side of the separator baffle. A tank solid sludge outlet provides for removal of the collected sludge from the tank bottom.

58267913, Oct 27, 1998

Nov 3, 1995

8/553020

Amos W. Broughton - Temple City CA

E01B 346

238 35

A railroad rail support includes a first and second horizontally oriented rubber tire having a circumferential tread, a top sidewall including a top rim bead and a bottom sidewall having a bottom rim bead, said bottom sidewall and bottom rim bead being adjacent to a railroad roadbed. First and second rail support members within each tire have a top surface in the plane of the top rim bead and a bottom surface in the plane of the bottom rim bead, and include a top plate and a plurality of tubular channels extending downwards from said top plate to the bottom surface. A concrete matrix fills each rubber tire and retains the rail support within the rubber tire. Railroad spikes are installed into the tubular channels have heads overlapping the opposed edges of the bottom flange of a first and a second railroad rail. Each spike is locked into its respective tubular channel by extending downwards in a generally vertical direction, with a second contiguous portion at an angle of at least 30. degree. from the vertical direction to said first portion.

45540748, Nov 19, 1985

Jul 20, 1984

6/633049

Amos W. Broughton - Temple City CA

C02F 140

210519

A separator for multiple phase fluids has a unitary fluid separator box formed as a single metal plenary chamber, and alternatively as a simple fluid distribution box of a single plastic form. Each of the single plenum chamber branching channel box has a top fluid constricting support plate and a bottom support plate, with an inlet fluid channel which branches to a first pair of channels having each channel cross section equal to the single inlet channel, the first pair of channels each branching to a second pair of channels, also each having the inlet channel cross section, the second pair of channels can also each have a third pair of channels of outlet channel cross section, and so on. The inlet channel turbulent fluid flow is transformed by multiple dual channel splitting and flow into a substantially laminar fluid flow, allowing phase separations. A wide mouth inlet inverted funnel baffle is secured and disposed above the unitary separator box to collect and channel the oil and the like low density fluids from the multiphase inlet fluid to outside use, while allowing the high density fluids to exit under and around its base or wide mouth inlet to separate fluid discharge.

48348872, May 30, 1989

Mar 10, 1988

7/166462

Amos W. Broughton - Temple City CA

B01D 2126

2105121

A coaxial centrifugal separator device has a linear pipe fixed diameter exterior, with a coaxial pipe entrance with multiple internal helical spiraling vanes disposed and secured to the interior wall of the pipe length, the interior helical spiraling vanes providing a centrifugal motion to the fluid multi-phase input flow into the centrifugal device. The centrifugal motion imparted to the multi-phase input fluid finally separates the total input fluid into flowing concentric streams in the device, the fluid stream having the lowest density being centered along the centrifugal device pipe centerline. The highest density particulates stream is disposed along the interior wall of the centrifugal device in a generally laminar flow. Thus, in an application to a three phase fluid stream pumped into the centrifugal separator device, the coaxial centrifugal separator device produces a central axially disposed lower density stream which can be removed from the downstream output by a centrally coaxially disposed probe tube in the device, and which exits to a low density phase tank collector. The denser-than water solid phase which forms as a laminar exterior phase of the multi-phase fluid is collected in an exteriorily disposed in-line collar of the centrifugal device disposed coplanarly with the probe tube collecting the centrally disposed phase.

62136879, Apr 10, 2001

Jul 30, 1999

9/364437

Amos Washington Broughton - Temple City CA
Robert Steven Broughton - Newbury Park CA

E02B 312
E02D 1900

405258

A system for preventing erosion and release of chemicals from exposed soil, the system including a pattern of horizontally-disposed, closely-spaced tires substantially filled and surrounded by inorganic fill material for limiting efflux of the exposed soil surface. In a first preferred embodiment, the system comprises the array of tires with an underlayment of open-weave lyophobic textile covering the soil surface. In a second preferred embodiment, the system comprises the array of tires with an underlayment of open-weave lyophobic textile and a fixated fill material for the individual tires with the top of the horizontally-disposed area of exposed fixated fill material containing a surface layer of water-soluble inorganic aggregate.