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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7101582 | Dried honey enriched with volatile honey compounds A process for releasing a volatile honey components form a liquid honey is described wherein water is added to honey, extracting the volatile component and optionally adding the honey component to dried honey. The volatile honey product obtained by the process can b... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7024794 | Centrifugal pellet dryer with plastic wall panels A centrifugal pellet dryer including a stationary cylindrical screen, a driven elevating rotor in said screen elevating wet pellets inside the screen and imparting radial forces to the wet pellets to impact them against the interior of the screen to enable moisture ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6977066 | Method for producing chlorine A process for producing chlorine comprising the step of oxidizing hydrogen chloride in a gas containing hydrogen chloride with a gas containing oxygen in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the oxidation of hydrogen chloride is carried out in at least two reaction z... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6938357 | Forced air circulation for centrifugal pellet dryer An improved centrifugal pellet dryer that employs forced air in the direction opposite that of the pellet travel through the dryer. The air may be preheated depending on the particular product. The resulting airstream reduces water spray and lowers the humidity leve... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6901868 | Plant for the thermal treatment of material and operation process thereof The plant for the thermal treatment of material, in particular scrap material, comprises at least a reaction zone within a rotary kiln having the longitudinal axis inclined of an angle in the range 0°±45° with regard to an horizontal plane and provided of first h... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6868622 | Heat generating conveyor and tunnel oven This invention provides a conveyor and tunnel oven, where the conveyor is continuous, the tunnel oven is gas fired, having its ignited and heated gases passed through a tubular system, being attracted by one or more blowers, to generate by conduction infrared energy... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6412428 | Method and apparatus for drying and incineration of sewage sludge A system for drying sludge includes a shaftless spiral feed screw for moving sludge through a drying chamber. An high energy inductor is located at a output of the drying chamber for drawing hot gases through the chamber to dry the sludge as it advances f... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6367163 | Hot air dryer A hot air slurry dryer having a cylindrical housing with a central shaft rotatably mounted in the housing. Material to be dried moves from an upstream end of the housing to an outlet at a downstream end. A hot air inlet is connected to the upstream end of... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6237244 | Centrifugal pellet dryer for small applications A dryer for removing surface moisture from a pelletized product and more specifically a dryer which is constructed with dimensions enabling it to effectively centrifugally remove surface moisture from pellets of resin material received from an underwater ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6226889 | Continuous rotary vacuum retort apparatus and method of use The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for use in removing at least one volatile contaminant from contaminated material by using a rotary vacuum retort during high temperature and vacuum processing. The loading and unloading are performed... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6199299 | Feeding of comminuted fibrous material to a pulping process In a chisel-type convergence for a chip bin in a wood chip pulping process and system, an improvement in uniformity of discharge of the chips from a chips bin or the like is provided. The bin includes a conventional hollow substantially right circular cyl... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6163978 | Corn dryer A seed corn dryer capable of being switched between a single pass mode and a dual path mode of operation. The invention includes an air supply unit adapted to delivery drying air to only one dryer plenum in a dual path mode and to both dryer plenums in a ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6164220 | Rotary burner for solid fuel A device for combustion of granular material, for example wood flour pellets, chippings and the like, comprises a rotary solid fuel burner (1), air intake to the bumer, at least one conduit (18) for the supply of fuel and outlet (3) for combustion gases t... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6161307 | Fluid bed system for cooling hot spent anode butts The invention relates to a system for cooling and reducing fluoride emissions from a hot, spent anode butt removed from an electrolysis cell. The system comprises an elongated fluidised bed cooling chamber comprising particles of alumina and conveyor mean... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6128828 | Drying machine A drying machine includes a hot air blower, a housing divided horizontally into plural long chambers having an open upper side, a closed bottom and two longitudinal sides bored with through holes, a screw conveyor respectively positioned in each long cham... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6125549 | Radiant heater system for thermally processing flowable materials A system for the thermal processing of material in a housing having an inlet for receipt of the materials and an outlet for the discharge of the material after thermal treatment. The heating of the materials is accomplished, at least in part, by contact o... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6105275 | Continuous rotary vacuum retort apparatus and method of use The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for use in continuously loading material to be treated into a rotary vacuum retort and continuously unloading one or more vapors or similar volatile substances and treated material out of the rotary ... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6079118 | Continuous drying system A continuous drying system for flake-formed or granular solid, of which bottom inside surface is semi-cylindrical and arranged almost horizontally, comprises drying system main body having a supplying means of a drying object at one end thereof and having... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6061924 | Batch sludge dehydrator A dehydrating apparatus includes a chamber for receiving wet material to be dehydrated. A rotatably-mounted agitator is provided with the chamber. The agitator is adapted to agitate material in the chamber when the agitator rotates in a first direction an... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5966832 | Apparatus for drying wet porous bodies under subcritical temperatures and pressures An improved apparatus, and related method of operation, is described for rapidly drying large monoliths of glass, ceramic and/or composite material, under subcritical conditions, while minimizing the risk of cracking the monolith during the drying process... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5946815 | Apparatus for roasting legumes An apparatus and method for roasting legumes such as soybeans to enhance their nutritional properties. Raw legumes are introduced to a roaster having an oven section and a steeping section downstream of the oven section. The raw legumes are heated to a se... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5940982 | Particulate material dryer A continuous flow particulate material dryer includes a base and a heating chamber extending upwards from a central location of the base for providing heated air to the dryer. A perforated inner wall structure extends upwardly from the base and surrounds ... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5869810 | Impedance-heated furnace There is disclosed an impedance-heated furnace for processing a nonflowable but conveyable material at the processing temperature comprising a nonrotating shell having electrical-conducting properties, and heated to a processing temperature using electric... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5813138 | Aerated belt conveyor system for conveying hot expanded minerals An aerated belt conveyor system for conveying hot expanded minerals including a longitudinal power driven belt conveyor surrounded by an envelope is described herein. An exhauster creates an air flow in the envelope to aerate expanded mineral material con... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5709035 | Counter flow cooler A counter flow cooler in which feed material is fed into the top inlet of the cooler and dispersed into a plurality of cooling chambers. At the bottom of each cooling chamber is a discharge grid which will discharge feed material uniformly over the area o... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5697168 | Indirect heating screw conveyor Single or multi-screw indirect-heating screw conveyor desorbers having a heating gas guide enclosed by the screw shaft wall (single-wall screw shafts) or located between a screw shaft wall and an internal chamber wall (double-walled screw shafts). Predete... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5664338 | Inlet air seal for use with a cooler/dryer A horizontal cooler/dryer having a continuous traveling conveyor, the conveyor being a chain conveyor formed of a plurality of links adjoined in end-to-end relationship, each of the links being pivotally pinned at its ends to adjacent links; a housing abo... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5647142 | Apparatus and process for drying a moist material dispersed or dispersible in a stream of drying gas In an apparatus for drying a moist material in a stream of drying gas the residence time is increased by inserting one or more perforated plates, above which fluidized particle layers are created, and through which a portion of the drying gas and material... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5638606 | Spider and lifter assembly for centrifugal pellet dryer Improvements in centrifugal pellet dryers and more particularly to improvements in the rotor structure which includes a shaft, pellet lifter assemblies and supporting spiders which support the pellet lifter assemblies from the shaft. Each spider is made o... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5586396 | Drying apparatus having rotating vane assemblies and drying method using the same Disclosed is an improvement in a drying apparatus comprising a cylindrical drying vessel, the inner wall surface of which makes up a heat-transmitting surface, a heat-generating means encircling the cylindrical drying vessel, and at least one rotating van... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5566469 | Drying apparatus with rotatable housing A thermal vaporization apparatus includes a cylindrical tube having two ends. A base is provided, with the tube being rotatable with respect to the base. A first drive mechanism applies rotating force to the tube. An auger having two ends extends through ... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5531034 | Horizontal dryer having a screw conveyor and ring electrical heating elements A continuous dryer for minerals and ores which employs a single horizontal screw conveyor in a cylindrical drying chamber with a plurality of external electrical heating elements surrounding the drying chamber. The screw conveyor has cut and folded flight... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5505537 | Conical-bottom silo, particularly suitable for small-sized plastic material and rubber with high elasticity properties, having a discontinuous screw stirrer A conical-bottom silo, particularly suitable for small-sized pieces of plastic material with properties of high elasticity, includes a conical screw stirrer inserted axially in the conical bottom of the silo. The conical screw of the stirrer is discontinu... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5454176 | Large diameter wafer dryer with adjustable flighting A dryer for drying material carried along and dried by hot gases including a hollow rotatable drying drum with an inlet and a discharge end, means for driving the drum in rotation and a group of flights projecting into the gas flow stream to break up the ... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5433018 | Purge feeding means and method The present invention includes a purge chamber which includes a chamber holding the interlocking solid material. An entrance port apparatus passes the interlocking solid material into the chamber where it is purged by a purging gas. An exit port apparatus... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5375344 | Apparatus for removing moisture from a wet material using a radiant heat source An improved method and apparatus for removing moisture from a wet material. The apparatus is of the type having: an elongated trough having at least one level for containing the material, the trough having an upward open portion, a downward closed portion... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5375343 | Evaporator for drying sludges An evaporation device for drying sludges includes a heatable, hollow cylindrical, approximately horizontally oriented evaporator provided at one end with a product inlet and at the other end with a product outlet while in its product-charged interior an e... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5373647 | Method and a system for drying sludge A method and a system serve to completely or partially dehydrate sludge by evaporation which originates from e.g. sewage. The sludge is dried with addition of heat in a drying chamber (2), the sludge being transported on an endless travelling grate (3) fr... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5325610 | Drying apparatus The present invention provides a drying apparatus which has a conveying device, a drying-and-conveying device, a housing, a sealing device, an auxiliary cleaning device and an auxiliary drying device. The conveying device conveys pieces of plastic waste m... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5321898 | Centrifugal screen bowl dryer Rotary dryer having an enclosure surrounding a plurality of elongate blades positioned along an exterior portion of a fluid permeable sidewall. Rotation of the blades within the enclosure induces air to pass through the sidewall to improve drying characte... | 06/21/1994 |
