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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7254969 | Ribbed washing machine basket A basket for a washing machine includes a body comprising an outer wall and at least one rib extending radially inward from said wall, said rib comprising at least a first portion having a first cross section and a second portion having a second cross section, said ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7163622 | Filter The invention refers to a filter 1 with several rotating filter discs 3 mounted on a shaft 2 and which are provided with a porous filter medium. It is characterized by elastomer elements (8, 8′) being mounted on the shaft (2) as ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7124895 | Device for continuous filtration of material blends A device for the continuous filtration of material blends, in particular for separating impurities from plastic melts. A housing has a hollow cylindrical filter disposed inside. An inside chamber is disposed inside the filter. An annular chamber is defined by the ou... | 10/24/2006 |
| 6796435 | Solid-liquid separating apparatus A solid-liquid separating apparatus comprising a cylindrical strainer formed by circular ring members with gaps in between, a casing having the strainer therein, and scrapers disposed in the respective gaps between the circular ring members for removing solid matter... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6793809 | Pipe system for receiving and transporting lime sludge from a white liquor filter The pipe system is for receiving and transporting lime sludge from a filter medium in a continuously operating pressurized filter 1 in a causticizing process, where lime sludge is scraped off from the filter medium 2 and falls down into receiving chute... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6739458 | Device for dehydrating sludge The invention is relative to a device for dehydrating sludge such as occurs in sewage treatment plants in the form of dilute sludge. The receptacle for the sludge contains a sieve surface comprising openings for the passage of liquid. The sieve surface, for its part... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6666976 | Self cleaning water filter A self-cleaning water filter, coupled to a water flow having particulates therein, that includes a pair of canisters, each having a cylindrical wedge wire water filter screen. An elongated brush running the length of the screen is disposed between two con... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6581783 | Fine solids separator A fine solids separator 10 including a hollow housing 12 having a generally cylindrical wall 11. Located within the housing 12 is a cylindrical screen member 15 that is preferably formed of expanded metal mesh. The screen member 15 encloses a chamber 22 t... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6378705 | Apparatus for filtering plasticized thermoplastics An apparatus for filtering plasticized thermoplastic synthetic plastic material is provided. The apparatus provides increased transport of thickened material toward the discharge channel. The apparatus includes at least one filter element having an inflow... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6311850 | Pressure screening apparatus for screening a paper stock suspension and screen clearer for such a screening apparatus A pressure screening apparatus for screening a stock suspension and screen clearer for a pressure screening apparatus. The pressure screening apparatus includes an inflow chamber, a suspension inflow connected to one end of the inflow chamber, a reject ou... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6241879 | Filtering machine and filter cloth therefor A filter cloth comprising at least a base layer and a filtering layer, characterized in that the ratio T/L of the thickness (T) of the filtering layer to the length (L) of fibers of fiber bundles constituting the filtering layer is 0.02 to 0.7 and the sum... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6177022 | Self-cleaning fuel oil strainer A self-cleaning fuel oil strainer, coupled to a continuous fuel flow, that includes a pair of canisters, each having a cylindrical wedge wire fuel oil filter screen. An elongated brush running the length of the screen is disposed between two confining wal... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6110388 | Sludge filtration device comprising a filter piston, and sludge treatment plant and sludge filtration process thereof The sludge filtration device comprises: a filter (1) placed over an approximately horizontal box (4), this filter (1) constituting, in its filtration position, the bottom of a filter chamber (8) of essentially vertical axis; a piston (10) suitable for clo... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6103110 | Screening apparatus for sewage A screening apparatus (1) for sewage (13) including liquid (4) and debris and flowing in an oncoming tube (23) includes a conveyor assembly (6) and a separation area (2). The conveyor assembly (6) has a tube-like housing (7), an axle (8) driven by a motor... | 08/15/2000 |
| 5510030 | Filter apparatus for flowable material A filter apparatus for synthetic plastics material melts containing impurities comprises a housing (1) in which a cylindrical or conical filter element (3) is bearingly supported for rotation around its longitudinal axis (4) by a drive means (8). The oute... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5490928 | Tandem waterwheel trommel A tandem waterwheel type trommel apparatus having a laterally-disposed drain-off drum and a laterally-disposed classifying drum combined through a short pipe to form a main body, which is rotatably disposed on a base and is connected to a drive unit. A fr... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5332499 | Self-cleaning filter A self-cleaning filter includes two cleaning blades spaced from about 75° to about 115° about the circumference of a rotatable tubular filter screen. The tubular filter screen is rotated relative to the two cleaning blades whereby particles in the slurr... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5330645 | Apparatus for continuously separating solid and liquid fractions of a mixture of solid and liquid fractions Apparatus for continuously separating a solid fraction from a liquid fraction in a mixture of such fractions has a stationary cylindrical vessel which is filled with the mixture and confines a rotary carrier as well as a battery of parallel disc-shaped fi... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5277809 | Centrifuge with an eccentrically mounted worm for transporting solids The invention relates to a process and a centrifuge for removing solids located on a cylindrical casing wall (3) of a rotating centrifuge, in particular solids precipitated in the centrifuge from a liquid-solid mixture, to a solids exit opening (6) by swe... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5268100 | Manure separator A manure separating apparatus includes a trough with angularly bottom surfaces that converge downwardly to a discharge opening. A drain screen is located above the bottom trough surfaces and includes somewhat similarly angled downward converging infeed an... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5217613 | Filter apparatus A filter apparatus includes a mesh filter consisting of a flexible sheet having a smooth surface and a multiplicity of through-holes and formed into a cylindrical configuration. The leading edge of a scraper is brought into abutting contact with the outer... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5185048 | Method of manufacturing a separator frame for a stack in an exchanger device Each separator frame constitutes a single part. It is made by assembling two thermoplastic films having the shape of the seal plane and sandwiched over two different types of thermoplastic expanded structure, e.g. polyethylene grids, a first one of these ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5176826 | Purge construction for a vibrating sieve filter A vibrating sieving unit for insertion into a housing to form a sieving filter. The vibrator directly vibrates the sieving cylinder reducing the buildup of filter cake for improved performance. A unique cleaning-in-place system is presented utilizing the ... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5143631 | Filtering device, especially for the separation of coarse particles from a lubricant suspension, and process for its use The housing (2, 3, 4) of the filtering device has a cover (4), provided with a filtrate outlet (9), a cover that is detachable applied to a housing part (3) exhibiting an intake (7) for the suspension (8) to be filtered. A filter (11) is placed between ho... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5128032 | Vibrating sieve filter with bars A vibrating sieving unit for insertion into a housing to form a sieving filter. An air pressure operated vibrator directly vibrates the sieving cylinder to reduce the buildup of filter cake for improved performance. Tuning bars connected between the cover... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5024763 | Filtering apparatus The filtering apparatus of the invention comprises a filter housing having a water inlet and a water outlet as well as a filter bell dome connected to the housing. A main filter member and thereabove a reversing flow filter member are coaxially arranged o... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4999104 | Disk-type decker In a disk-type decker that is employed to drain suspensions and that has axially distributed suspension chambers and filtrate chambers that are separated by rotating screen disks and open into a stationary tub, the filtrate chambers are evacuated to incre... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4867879 | Pipeline sieve with a suction removal device A device for mechanically purifying liquids in a pipeline includes a rotation-symmetrical sieve chamber forming a section of the pipeline and having an inlet with a central axis, a rotation-symmetrical sieve body having an inner surface and being disposed... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4814076 | Self-cleaning filter for insertion into a pressurized pipe A filter that can be inserted into a pressurized pipe comprises a filter body designed to be connected to each of two consecutive section of the pipe. Inside the filter body is a generally circular filter member which is rotatable about an axis of the fil... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4802928 | Doctoring apparatus and method employing prestressed doctor blade A doctor blade assembly has a doctor blade supported in a blade holder. The blade has a projecting front edge adapted to be placed in contact with a moving surface to be doctored, and a rear edge adapted to be received in the blade holder. The blade is pr... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4684444 | Sorter for paper pulp suspensions including a damping chamber A sorter for paper pulp suspension including a rotationally symmetrical wire cage and a rotor supporting a plurality of vanes for rotating about the interior of the cage for moving suspension through the wire cage, the vanes being non-uniformly spaced. An... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4521314 | Method and device for filtering yeast and other plant cell material on rotary vacuum filter A method and device for filtering a suspension (14), for example of yeast or other plant cell material, on a rotary vacuum filter (10), beneath which a trough (4) containing the suspension (14) is located. In order to improve the balance between dipping z... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4498988 | Scraping mechanism A scraping mechanism for scraping off deposit material from a surface of a moving body, including a scraper having a bladed edge at the fore end thereof, a mechanism for pressing the scraper against the surface of the moving body, and a mechanism for reci... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4417980 | Filtration apparatus A filtration apparatus comprises a tiltably mounted container having a liquid permeable filter bottom, a wall opposite such bottom, and an inverted neck extending inwardly from that opposite wall. A power shaft extends through the inverted neck into the c... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4379056 | Filtering scraper cleaning devices An improved filtering system that includes a cleaning assembly and a filter element in the form of a plate or drum with a plurality of long, narrow through openings or slits in each of a plurality of rows. The improved cleaning assembly and filter element... | 04/05/1983 |
| 4303522 | Continuous separation system A continuous separation system intended for the recovery of solids and/or liquid contained in slurries comprises an enclosed low speed rotary screen assembly mounted between a stationary casing under vacuum and a cover provided with a fixed scraper and in... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4283938 | Method and apparatus for dynamic concentration of a suspension In the dynamic concentration of a suspension, in which the suspension is fed into a filter which has a driven stirring device, and in which the suspension forms a filter cake which is continually remixed by stirring with the suspension being dehydrated an... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4256582 | Continuous separation system A continuous separation system which continuously purges, washes, dries, and removes solids with a minimum amount of mechanical handling and consequential crystal breakage. A separator within the continuous separation system of the present invention compr... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4243527 | Particulate material separator and method A device and method for separating particulate material from earth drilling fluids is disclosed, wherein the earth drilling fluids containing such particulate material is introduced into a container. A major portion of the particulate material separates o... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4139467 | Disc press for continuous pressing of aqueous or suspended pulp A disc press for continuous pressing of aqueous or suspended pulp for fractionating the pulp in a liquid fraction and a dry substance fraction, comprises two plane parallel pressing discs mounted for rotation about a shaft and having strainer plates which... | 02/13/1979 |