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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8079575 | Steam tube connection for steam humidifier A twist locking connector for a steam humidifier. The steam humidifier includes a tank for heating water to generate steam and a steam tube receiver structure in fluid communication with the tank. The steam tube receiver structure has an opening configured to receiv... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8047509 | Vapor-liquid contacting apparatuses with vortex contacting stages Vapor-liquid contacting apparatuses, for example reactors and distillation columns (as well as reactive distillation apparatuses), comprising a vessel with one or more vortex contacting stages, are described. The one or more stages provide high interfacial area for ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7673859 | Twist locking connection for steam humidifier A twist locking connector for a steam humidifier. The steam humidifier includes a tank for heating water to generate steam and a steam tube receiver structure in fluid communication with the tank. The steam tube receiver structure has an opening configured to receiv... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7673858 | Low pressure steam humidifier A humidifier for direct low pressure injection of steam into a duct. A source of steam is provided, and a steam tube is in fluid communication with the source of steam. A distal end segment of the steam tube is inclined with respect to the horizontal when the system... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7419142 | Variable fuel admission carburetor A variable fuel admission carburetor is provided including a piston and cylinder that are mated concentrically, and coexist in a carburetor chamber. The cylinder includes a longitudinal slot which allows varying amount of fuel into the carburetor. Through the relati... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7410152 | Gaseous fuel and air mixing venturi device and method for carburetor A gaseous fuel and air mixing venturi device adapted for retrofitting in a carburetor has a venturi body with a passage for air flow through the body, the passage having a throat of reduced cross-sectional area. The body has an axial fuel inlet port at a first end a... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7383861 | Gaseous fuel device A fuel conversion device comprises a restriction in a carburetion system configured to draw a gaseous fuel and air into the carburetion system. The fuel conversion device comprises an air inlet and a fuel air outlet coupled within the restriction. The fuel conversio... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7370845 | Throttle body for two-wheeled vehicle To shorten a side mounting pitch of adjacent throttle bodies, in a multiple throttle body, thereby improving a mounting property to a two-wheeled vehicle, a discharge open hole (5) and a fuel spray escaping hole (7) are continuously provided toward a s... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7322283 | Apparatus in an infuser for a liquid food product The invention relates to an apparatus in an infuser for a liquid food product. The infuser is of the type which includes a pressure vessel (1) with an inlet (2) for the product located in its upper region and an outlet (6) for the product locate... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7270313 | Carburetor fuel metering apparatus having an elongate spray nozzle and V-shaped deflector A fuel metering apparatus provides a carburetor; a fuel float control, a fuel metering assembly and a rocker arm assembly. The rocker arm is mechanically linked to and is operated by an accelerator pedal. Its position determines the size of a gap between a fuel mete... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7237943 | Dynamic fluid mixer A dynamic mixer in which two elements are rotatable relative to each other about a predetermined axis and between which is defined a flow path extending between an inlet for materials to be mixed and an outlet. The flow path is defined between surfaces of the elemen... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7214356 | Wet scrubbing apparatus and method for controlling NOx emissions An apparatus for controlling NOx emissions which includes a chamber having a wall surface and an interior, a flue gas entrance and a flue gas exit for a flue gas to enter and exit the interior of the chamber, a gas quenching zone in which the temperature of the gas ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7185736 | Aerodynamic noise abatement device and method for air-cooled condensing systems The noise abatement device and method described herein makes known an apparatus and method for reducing the aerodynamic resistance presented by a fluid pressure reduction device in a large duct. More specifically, a noise abatement device is disclosed having at leas... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7182840 | Method and device for exploiting heat resulting from the production of 1,2-dichloroethane The invention relates to a method and a device for the optimal use of reaction heat resulting from the production of 1,2-dichloroethane from ethene and chlorine. The aim of the invention is achieved by extracting reaction heat liberated during the reaction of chlori... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7135058 | Polluted air treatment method and system A system for removing at least one pollutant from an air stream exhaust, the system including a plurality of enclosures through which the air stream exhaust is directed to cool the air stream exhaust, a plurality of barriers within each respective enclosure to imped... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7131639 | Water distribution system for an evaporative cooler An evaporative cooler, including one or more media modules, distributes water from a source of water to each module through a constant flow valve. A distribution unit at each media module includes a spray bar for spraying water through a plurality of uniformly space... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7090203 | Carburetor for internal combustion engine A carburetor for an internal combustion engine has an intake pipe having a throttle valve plate therein. An annular venturi tube is disposed upstream or downstream of the throttle valve plate inside the intake pipe. The annular venturi tube is located at a predeterm... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7028994 | Pressure blast pre-filming spray nozzle Disclosed is a nozzle assembly having a nozzle housing and a valve element axially slidable therewithin between a closed and an open position. The nozzle housing has a housing inlet and a housing outlet fluidly interconnected by a plurality of housing passages. The ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6964699 | Rocket motor exhaust scrubber A wet scrubber having a series of chambers for capturing and cooling exhaust gases generated during static test firing of rocket motors. Exhaust gas enters an inlet to a first chamber and is cooled and slowed by a spray solution. HCL gas is condensed and absorbed by... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6938434 | Cooling system A system is disclosed that incorporates a generator for generating a liquid coolant. This invention provides a self-contained water (or similar liquid coolant) chilling system of suitable capacity to cool small to medium size structures, such as private residences a... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6824127 | Thimble-type stream injection humidifier and quick response steam generator A humidifier and quick response steam generator for supplying steam to the humidifier in a humidification system is disclosed. The humidifier has a modified geometry to reduce resistance, and is multi-passage structured to uniformly arrange humidifying nozzles in an... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6814788 | Vacuum cleaner with water filter Vacuum cleaner with water filter constituted by an aspirator connected to an air inlet conduit controllable by an operator, and by a filtering chamber interposed between the conduit and the aspirator. The filtering chamber has in its own lower portion a tank for con... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6746001 | Desuperheater nozzle An improved nozzle assembly for spraying cooling water into superheated steam flowing through a steam pipe of a steam desuperheater includes a nozzle housing, a nozzle barrel, a valve element, and at least one valve spring. A nozzle barrel disposed within the nozzle... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6726187 | Humidifier The present Invention relates to a humidifier that has a housing defining a chamber having at least one open end. The housing is provided with a gas inlet connectable in fluid communication with a source of gas having a first moisture content, and a gas outlet conne... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6626424 | Quench nozzle A quench nozzle design introduces quench oil tangentially into the quench tube which cools the hot gaseous pyrolysis products coming out of the hot radiant tubes in a pyrolysis furnace (in ethylene manufacture). Besides cooling the hot gases, the quench o... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6523604 | Indirect evaporative cooling apparatus The present invention is an indirect evaporative cooling module preferably made from extruded, twin-walled, corrugated, fluted plastic sheeting. Sheets of this corrugated material are cut into plates which are preferably laminated together to form the pri... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6513422 | Apparatus for evaporative cooling of a liquiform product The present invention relates to an apparatus for the evaporative cooling, or flash cooling, of a liquiform product. The apparatus includes a vacuum vessel (1) which is divided into a first (6) and a second (7) space. The two spaces (6, 7) are concentrica... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6378512 | Discharge nitrous oxide and fuel injection plate Anoxidizer and fuel plate is disclosed which discharges nitrous oxide and fuel into an intake manifold.The plated between a carburetor and an intake manifold and it provides a construction which slow the flow of the nitrous oxide so that the nitrous oxide... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6369998 | Electrostatic discharge protection clamp for nominal-voltage power supply or I/O with high-voltage reference An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection technique protects a semiconductor device against electrostatic discharge events. The semiconductor device has a pad for receiving a signal. The technique uses an ESD protection circuit that includes a voltage l... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6284019 | Scrubber and method for removing pollutants from a gas with intermediate sump for collecting filtering agent A scrubber for removing pollutants from a gas comprising a housing for conducting the gas therethrough, a mechanism for introducing pollutant-reactive filtering agent into the housing, a sump for collecting the filtering agent and having a first volume, a... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6231648 | Wet scrubber unit A wet electrostatic scrubber unit for extracting from a polluted air stream particulate matter entrained therein, whereby emerging from the unit is an environmentally acceptable air stream. The unit includes a treatment station having a cylindrical duct t... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6189871 | Steam introduction device in a power plant In a steam power plant, a bypass line (2), which serves for diverting steam during the startup or rundown of the power plant, is arranged between the boiler and condenser (9). Arranged in the bypass line (2), upstream of the condenser (9), is a steam intr... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6168141 | Apparatus for treatment of fluent materials An apparatus and method of the heat treatment of a fluent food product with steam includes a pressure vessel having a steam inlet at one end and an a product outlet at the opposite end; an inner partition wall having an open end defines the product introd... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6164631 | Carburetor with elliptical venturi A twin jet carburetor includes a venturi having an elliptical cross section. Two needle jets and jet needles supply fuel to the airstream, allowing the system to operate as two carburetors in one body, but its overall size is much smaller. The elliptical ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6102990 | Multistep gas scrubber apparatus A multiphase scrubber for the wet scrubbing of gases in several different phases comprises at least three separate basic scrubbing units so that the scrubbing of the gas is carried out in at least three, advantageously six, successive steps. The droplet s... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6068686 | Scrubber system and method of removing pollutants from a fluid A scrubber for removing pollutants from a fluid and having an inlet for receiving the fluid and an outlet for emitting the fluid, the scrubber comprising a first scrubber coupled with the fluid intermediate the inlet and the outlet for removing a first me... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6051071 | Device for extracting gas from an oven for chemical vapor deposition or infiltration in an installation for fabricating composite material parts A dry pump (32) has an inlet connected to the oven (10) for the purpose of establishing the desired low pressure conditions inside the oven and for extracting residual gas therefrom, a hydrolysis reactor (50) is connected to an outlet of the dry pump in o... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6032932 | Packing grates for wet gas scrubber and other applications A contacting grate or panel for mass transfer or heat exchange comprising a substantially rectangular supporting framework having two connecting frame members extending along opposite side edges and a number of elongate supporting frame members extending ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6014790 | Ductwork cleaning system A system for cleaning building ductwork utilizing the equipment generally used to clean carpets. The system utilizes the vacuum unit and liquid waste tank from a carpet cleaning system. A flexible hose runs between the waste tank and the building ductwork... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6001155 | Polyphasic pressurized homogenizer A polyphasic pressurized homogenizer for removing substances, particularly contaminants from a gas environment, the homogenizer having a pressurized gas stream drawing gas from the gas environment and a pressurized liquid stream from a liquid source with ... | 12/14/1999 |
