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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6902067 | In-shell nut sorting and debris removal assembly An in-shell nut sorting and debris removal assembly for removing debris including empty shells and sorting out unacceptable in-shell nuts includes multiple spaced belt sorting assemblies to removed materials having desired size characteristics and send them into a c... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6595369 | Particulate material dedusting apparatus A compact dedusting apparatus is mounted on the machine utilizing particulate material requiring contaminant cleansing to provide an economical and effective decontamination of particulate material immediately before utilization of the material. The dedus... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6206202 | Cyclone separator A cyclone separator (1) has an elongated vertical housing (2), whose upper section (3) is equipped with a carrier gas/product inlet (4), a separating wheel (6), and a carrier gas/fine product discharge (7). A lower section (9) of the housing defines an ov... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6032803 | Bulk material separator A bulk material separator having an at least substantially coaxial arrangement, includes an essentially rotationally symmetric, vertically oriented separator jacket (1) having in the upper section (11) an exit port (12) for air and light bulk material fra... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5788083 | Elbow/countercurrent classifier The invention proposes an elbow/countercurrent classifier by means of which a pneumatically introduced bulk-material stream can be separated into coarse fractions and fine materials. In order to increase the efficiency of the classifier as regards the sep... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5294002 | Air separator with spiral staves Apparatus (10) for separating intermixed particulate materials. The apparatus (10) includes a housing (12) having a coaxial core (14) disposed therewithin to define an annular space (24) between the core (14) and the wall of the housing (12). A recirculat... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5201422 | Classifier for powdery material A classifier for powdery material has a cylindrical casing formed at an upper portion thereof with an inlet port for introducing the material to be classified into the casing in a tangential direction of an inner wall thereof. The casing has a conical por... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5165549 | Gas current classifying separator A separator for classifying powder with air current comprises at least a classifying chamber and an introducing section for introducing powder into the classifying chamber, a powder feeding inlet for feeding powder formed at the upper portion of the class... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5120431 | Pneumatic centrifugal separator A pneumatic centrifugal separator comprises guide vanes disposed along the generatrices of a fictitious cylinder having a vertical axis, the guide vanes being adapted to impart to a gas stream entering the fictitious cylinder a rotary motion about the ver... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5032222 | Spray drier for the preparation of powders, agglomerates and the like A spray drier (1) for the preparation of powders, agglomerates or the like, by the drying of pumpable products, has at an inlet (6) of its exhaust discharge line or lines (7) for the drying gas used in its drying chamber (3), a wind sifter (9) with a rota... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4935123 | Apparatus for the classification or separation of solid materials The invention relates to an apparatus for the classification of solid materials, preferably that of hard and highly pure materials, comprising a housing provided with an inlet stub, fine fraction outlet stub and a coarse fraction outlet stub as well as va... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4882042 | Floss separating apparatus and method An apparatus and method for separating floss from particles conveyed in a primary gas. The primary gas strikes a plate in a closed hopper so that the primary gas, particles and floss are deflected downwardly through an annular passageway to an annular sep... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4872972 | Apparatus for classifying particles An apparatus for classifying particles entrained by a solid-gas jet stream includes a feed nozzle, a cyclonic wall having an inner arcuate wall, and an auxiliary inner arcuate wall provided at an outlet port of the nozzle. The solid-gas stream is prelimin... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4756428 | Method and turbo-separator for dispersion air separation, particularly of cement A method and mechanism for the separation of materials from a stream of pulverulent material such as cement including a rotatable plate onto which the material is fed with the material being centrifugally discharged in a bell shaped flow pattern, a radial... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4742919 | Rotating separator Fines are separated from pin chips and a system in which a mixture of fines and pin chips is introduced onto a rotating disk which imparts centrifugal forces thereto for separation. In a first embodiment, the fines and the pin chips are propelled over dif... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4670135 | High volume virtual impactor A high volume virtual impactor for sampling atmospheric aerosols has a plurality of inlet nozzles and associated receiving tubes mounted in a common frame or housing having passageways which divide the airflow through the inlet nozzles into a major flow a... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4604192 | Powder classifier In a powder classifier of the kind having a turbine-like horizontally rotating classifying rotor which is arranged to have air diametrically flow into radial passages and to cause the coarse powder portion of a powder material supplied to the inside of th... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4560471 | Powder classifier A powder classifier having two stages of classification blades which are arranged to intersect the radial directions of the powder classifier.... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4526678 | Apparatus and method for separating large from small particles suspended in a gas stream The present invention is directed to apparatus and a process for separating large from small particles suspended in a moving stream of gas by centrifugal forces which in a preferred embodiment includes sifting of large particles in a stream of gas to stri... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4523990 | Particulate classifying apparatus Apparatus for classifying carrier gas borne particulates including a chamber having a classifying rotor suspended therewithin fed by a jet pump induced transport path of carrier gas in the periphery of said chamber.... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4486300 | Specific gravity grain grader In a grader device grain is fed down a slide which ejects the grain outwardly and forwardly into an airstream. The slide is provided by a resilient flexible sheet, the contour and inclination of which is adjusted by a plurality of support rods against whi... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4365389 | Apparatus for cleaning textile fiber tufts In apparatus for cleaning and removing dust from textile fiber tufts, which apparatus includes a channel for the passage of fiber tufts and including a member for introducing air into the channel, components defining an air separation zone having aperture... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4242197 | Method of and apparatus for classifying refuse Raw and uncomminuted refuse is introduced through an entrance port into a substantially closed chamber as a horizontally flowing stream so that the refuse drops in the chamber along a path. A current of air is circulated in a closed circuit through the ch... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4236997 | Air separator apparatus The invention relates to an air separator having a rotor provided with feed passages for the material to be separated which extend radially outward and between which extraction openings are arranged. The space between adjacent feed passages which exists b... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4235707 | Method and apparatus for treating solid municipal refuse and other cellulose containing material Solid Municipal Waste is loaded, or loaded and compacted, into a pressure vessel which has means for very fast opening for discharging the contents. The pressure vessel is pressurized, with steam, or a compressed gas such as compressed air. The pressure v... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4132634 | Method of an apparatus for sifting particulate material in a cross-current In a method and apparatus for sifting particulate material in a cross current, the method and apparatus being of the type wherein all particles of the same size are propelled transversely at the same velocity of at least approximately 5 m/sec and with the... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4071441 | Bypass separator A separator for the particles of a particle-air stream is provided which is capable of varying the composition of the particles obtained from the stream by providing typical swirling-air type separators with a by-pass whereby a portion of the original par... | 01/31/1978 |
| 3985526 | Dust collector with spaced volutes In this application there is presented a mechanical dust collector which includes an elongated cylindrical housing at the bottom of which a dirty gas stream enters through a primary volute which directs the incoming stream to a cup shroud mounted in the h... | 10/12/1976 |
