Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7320750 | Centrifuge with controlled discharge of dense material A centrifuge with controlled discharge of dense materials disclosed. A centrifuge includes a fluid separation wall placed within a sleeve to form a containment zone therebetween. The fluid separation wall aligns and rotates parallel to an axis of rotation. A recepta... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7204795 | Deviation ring for a self-distributing centrifuge The invention relates to a deviation ring for paste comprising an annular rebound wall (2) for a self-distributing centrifuge (1). The invention also relates to a corresponding self-distributing centrifuge (1). In the deviation ring, the angle o... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7101418 | Method and device for degassing a suspension, specifically a fiber stock suspension The invention relates to a method and a device for degassing of suspension, specifically fiber stock suspension. The method according to the invention is characterized in that separated excess suspension is discharged sideways through an overflow having an overflow ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6705248 | Device and method for milking animals, and a contamination meter The invention relates to a device and method for milking animals, in which the milk is removed is conveyed though a filter element. Any material which is deposited on the filter element is detected and, if appropriate, identified. After detection is complete, the di... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6578516 | Device and method for milking animals, and a contamination meter The invention relates to a device and method for milking animals, in which the milk which is removed is conveyed through a filter element. Any material which is deposited on the filter element is detected and, if appropriate, identified. After detection i... | 06/17/2003 |
| 5944649 | Method and device for the supply of control liquid to a centrifugal separator Method and device (21) for the supply of control liquid to a rotor of a centrifugal separator, which device (21) includes a cylinder (25), in which a movable wall element (26) is arranged, which axially delimits a storing chamber (29) in the cylinder (25)... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5616245 | High gravity separator A separator includes a housing, a basket rotatably mounted in the housing and a movable weir member. The basket has an upstream end portion, a downstream end portion and an intermediate tubular portion that includes or forms a screen deck. The weir member... | 04/01/1997 |
| 4806252 | Plasma collection set and method An apparatus and method of separating a component from a collected quantity of fluid. The apparatus includes a dual member centrifuge and an associated fluid flow transfer set. The transfer set has a collection container in which a quantity of fluid can b... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4749486 | Automatic lateral filtration-type centrifuge An automatic centrifugal machine with lateral filtration used for realizing a highly effective separation of hardly separable fine sticky solid particles. It is equipped with a rotatable sediment drum having a radial filter plate, infrared fluid level mon... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4689157 | Method of and device for centrifugally purifying used mineral oils The method is carried out with a self-emptying separator. Used mineral oil is supplied to its centrifuge drum through a central intake. Purified oil is extracted through a run-off. The separator also has another run-off for liquid extracted from the perip... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4636319 | Maintaining closing-liquid level in centrifuges, for operating slide valves In order to subject a valve within the rotor of a centrifugal separator to a certain liquid pressure, the rotor being supported by a vertical drive shaft (13), a liquid surface is maintained during operation of the rotor very close to the axis of the roto... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4634536 | Separating systems A method of separating solid particles from the liquid constituent of a slurry, containing solids having a "wide" particle size distribution, that is, a size distribution wherein the equivalent diameter of particles in the slurry ranges between at least 1... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4522718 | Mechanism for latching an axially displaceable rotary part to a concentric rotary part An axially displaceable rotary part is latched securely in a certain axial position relative to a concentric rotary part by a mechanism which includes latch means that are rotated with the concentric part and are displaceable radially relative to it by mo... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4510052 | Operating system for centrifugal separators In an operating system for a centrifuge rotor having valve means being operable by means of so called operating liquid for opening and closing peripheral outlets in the rotor, an injector device for supplying operating liquid to the rotor is used which co... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4325825 | Separator A separator for separating liquids immiscible with each other and containing solids heavier than the heavier liquid, includes a rotating conic drum into which the liquids are injected. The drum has a circumferential wall formed of two oppositely-directed ... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4305817 | Self-emptying clarifying drum A self-emptying clarifying drum has a first paring disk disposed in a first paring chamber for the removal of the clarified liquid and an automatically operating apparatus for sensing the solids level in the separating chamber of the drum. The apparatus i... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4292051 | Apparatus and method for centrifugal fluid separator A method and apparatus for the ce ntrifugal separation of a fluid having heavier and lighter fractions into a first portion having an increased concentration of the heavier fraction and a second portion having an increased concentration of the lighter fra... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4244823 | Centrifugal basket valve mechanism A centrifugal apparatus includes a centrifugal basket having a supporting base structure spaced below its bottom wall and fixed to the lower end of a vertical spindle to rotate the basket inside a casing surrounding the basket. The bottom wall of the bask... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4175040 | Centrifugal water oil separator A centrifugal oil-water separator comprising an inner spinning bowl having openings near the lower outer periphery for passage of water therefrom into an outer bowl which remains stationary. The oil-water mixture is passed to the upper center of the spinn... | 11/20/1979 |
