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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7047894 | Method and apparatus for combustion of residual carbon in fly ash A system for combustion and removal of residual carbon within fly ash particles in which the fly ash particles are fed into an array of process units for combustion. The fly ash particles are subjected to heat and motive air such that as the fly ash particles pass t... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6941878 | Advanced vitrification system 2 A melter for the vitrification of waste, and method of using the melter, in the form of a disposal canister, wherein the melter is capable of filling multiple disposal canisters of waste and subsequently of being filled with vitrified waste and disposed of in like m... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6830000 | Automatic firepot cleaning system Embodiments are shown of a floor opening and/or closing system for pellet stoves and other solid-fuel combustion devices with ash-dumping floors. The system uses a cam system wherein a cam member automatically moves to urge the ash-dumping floor open and/or closed, ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6802268 | Device for discharging dust from a dry dust collector of a blast furnace A device for discharging dust from a dry dust collector of a blast furnace includes a dust discharge vent located downstream of a dust discharge opening of the dry dust collector. A fully enclosed dust conveying system is located downstream of the dust discharge val... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6481360 | Ultra fine fly ash and a system for collecting the same A system for collecting ultra fine fly ash from a dry fly ash removal system includes providing a bagfilter transport conduit for each bagfilter of the system. A vacuum shutoff valve is positioned in each bagfilter transport conduit The bagfilter transpor... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6338306 | Ash handling system An apparatus and method is provided for discharging ash from a plurality of fossil-fuel boiler hoppers through actuator opened gate valves by opening only selected gate valves during a given discharge cycle and bypassing other hoppers. The time required t... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6276286 | Compression device for feeding a waste material to a reactor A compression device for feeding a waste material to a reactor includes a waste material feed assembly having a hopper, a supply tube and a compression tube. Each of the supply and compression tubes includes feed-inlet and feed-outlet ends. A feed-dischar... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6138585 | Clinker grinder seal in coal-burning utility electrical power generation plant A coal-burning utility electrical power generation plant includes a mill pulverizing coal and supplying same to a boiler for combustion. The boiler has a bottom ash hopper for receiving combustion products including clinkers, and a clinker grinder for gri... | 10/31/2000 |
| 5954000 | Fluid bed ash cooler Apparatus for cooling ash exiting from circulating fluidized bed equipment includes an enclosure having a floor, a plurality of walls disposed around the floor and a ceiling. The enclosure also has an inlet and an outlet. The outlet is disposed in one of ... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5752451 | Ash control valve for a circulating fluidized bed combustor An ash control valve apparatus, for use in a system that includes a fluidized-bed system, including a housing, a seat in the housing for passage of particulate material, a plug dimensioned and configured for mating engagement with the seat; and apparatus ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5642676 | Ash control valve for a circulating fluidized bed combustor An ash control valve apparatus for use in a system that includes a fluidized-bed system which includes a housing, a seat in the housing for passage of particulate material, a plug dimensioned and configured for mating engagement with the seat, and apparat... | 07/01/1997 |
| 4884515 | Furnance hearth ashbox with extractor chamber that is easy to unjam An ashbox for the hearth of a furnace adapted to burn solid fuel, descending along in inclined grate as it burns. The ashbox comprises an extractor chamber having a concave bottom which is part-cylindrical with horizontal generatrices. This chamber is nor... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4520737 | Process and reactor for the combustion of carbon-containing fuel A process and apparatus for the combustion of carbon-containing fuel in a reaction zone, with the products of combustion being removed from the top of the reaction zone and the slag from the bottom of the reaction zone. The reaction zone is separated from... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4387651 | Removable seal plates Apparatus for handling ash and slag produced in the combustion of coal or other ash-bearing fuel in the furnace (10) (not shown) of a steam generator, including a submerged scraper conveyor (20) beneath the furnace, and a water seal including plate means ... | 06/14/1983 |
