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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7422719 | Process for removing oil-based components and forming ceramic bodies An improvement in a process of forming ceramic articles comprising oil-based components or extrusion aids, the improvement including removing the oil-based components after drying and prior to firing by flowing a heated gas through the green ceramic honeycomb articl... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7089686 | Apparatus for curing radiation-curable coatings The present invention relates to an apparatus (20, 30) for curing radiation-curable coatings, which has at least one irradiation chamber (22, 32) provided with a plurality of UV radiation sources (18). It is provided according to the invention t... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6871418 | Apparatus and related method for rapid cure of sol-gel coatings This invention resides in an apparatus and related method for rapidly curing thin film sol-gel coatings, particularly such coatings adhered to low melting temperature plastic substrates, whether rigid or flexible, without deforming the substrate. The curing is achie... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6505419 | Drying compartment for a printed web A drying compartment for drying a printed web, consisting of a housing with intake and outlet openings for the web and with at least one infrared radiator directed at the web and/or with blower nozzles which blow hot air onto the web. In order to remove l... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6451714 | System and method for selectively increasing surface temperature of an object A system and method for selectively increasing the thermal effect of a radiant energy source to the surface of an object relative to the substrate is described in the context of rapid thermal processing of semiconductor wafers, and apparatus produced ther... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6412190 | Infrared and hot air dryer combination A combined infrared and hot air dryer includes a pressurized hood which is fed with combustion air through an air delivery duct. Each cross-direction zone of the hood includes a mixer. The air enters the mixer without any direct connection between the del... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6313444 | Radiant oven A radiant oven for treating a web of material has oven chambers, electric radiant heaters and buffer plates. The material treated in the oven chamber is isolated from the heaters by the buffer plates. The buffer plates also prevent solvent vapors from rea... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6289603 | Combined blowing and suction system with integral energy exchange for a drying installation A dryer for drying continuous strips of paper uses blowing and suction airflows. The temperature of the suction airflow is higher than the temperature of the blowing airflow. The dryer exchanges energy between the blowing and suction airflows.... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6170172 | Device and method for curing an adhesive between two layers of an information carrier A device and method cures an adhesive by means of UV radiation in an inert-gas atmosphere. The adhesive is interposed as an adhesive layer between two superposed layers of a disc-shaped optical information carrier. The device includes a UV source, a suppl... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6169848 | Cross-direction dryer for a machine producing sheet material moving in a machine direction having both gas powered and electric heating portions A cross-direction dryer for typically drying a continuous web of paper or paper to which coating has just been applied provides both for baseline drying and a linear moisture profile by the use of respectively gas and electric heating portions of the heat... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6088930 | Convection-radiation system for heat treatment of a continuous strip In a heat treatment installation a strip moves continuously past infrared radiant elements and elements for blowing air onto the strip. The installation comprises a succession of blower elements separated from each other by at least one infrared radiant e... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088932 | Efficiency clothes dryer A clothes dryer has a plurality of high energy lamps. The high energy lamps are mounted so as to emit high energy radiation toward a drying chamber. A blower is arranged to move air to the plurality of high energy lamps so as cool the high energy lamps. T... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088931 | Interstation infrared heating unit A dryer is disclosed in a compact design for interstation use on printing presses, particularly lithographic presses. High velocity air is combined with intense infrared radiation to heat, evaporate and scrub vapor from freshly printed substrates. Air und... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6035548 | UV dryer with improved reflector This invention relates to UV dryers and provides an ultraviolet dryer wherein a UV lamp (2) is supported in a reflector housing (1), said housing including a reflector body member (10) having a reflective surface adjacent the lamp (2) and other surfaces s... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5901462 | Coating dryer system The present invention relates to heating systems for drying wet coatings such as printing inks, paint, sealants, etc. applied to a substrate. In particular, the invention relates to a drying system in which a blower having an inlet directs a current of he... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5840187 | Device for filtering, washing and drying a solid material-liquid mixture In a device for filtering, washing and drying a solid material-liquid mixture, using a liquid permeable filter cloth the mixture is first subjected to a pressure difference above and below the filter cloth, whereafter liquid is supplied to the mixture. Th... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5732477 | Process for ultraviolet curing The disclosed invention is an ultraviolet curing process that causes a wrinkle pattern to appear on the surface of a curing layer. Initially, the primary stage of the process is generated by irradiating a photopolymerizable layer with far ultraviolet ligh... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5713138 | Coating dryer system A dryer system for drying a coating applied to a substrate includes a thermally conductive roll having a length and a peripheral surface for supporting the substrate, and a plurality of energy emitters disposed within the conductive roll along the length ... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5634402 | Coating heater system A system for applying heat to wet coatings applied to selected areas on a front surface of a continuous substrate includes an energy emitter for applying energy to the substrate to heat the substrate, a metallic roll contacting a back surface of the subst... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5537925 | Infra-red forced air dryer and extractor An infra-red dryer utilizes high velocity air jets which scrub and break up the moist air layer which clings to the surface of a freshly printed and/or coated sheet. The high velocity air jets are directed through multiple air flow apertures across an arr... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5502788 | Radiant-heat drier strip with cooling air distributor element A radiant-heat drier for printing presses or the like has a plurality of spaced radiant-heat drier strips (22) which extend transversely with respect to the conveyance direction and which each have in turn a radiator bar (44) and a cooling air distributor... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5377708 | Multi-station semiconductor processor with volatilization Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for improved processing of semiconductor wafers and the like using vapor phase processing chemicals, particularly aqueous hydrofluoric acid etchants. Homogeneous vapor mixtures are generated from homogeneous liquid mi... | 01/03/1995 |
| 4697355 | Method and installation for drying a continuous material impregnated with a hardenable synthetic resin The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for drying a continuous material impregnated with a hardenable synthetic resin. The material is moved through at least one treating chamber within which radiant heat is applied onto the material and ... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4206553 | Method of curing strip coating A method for drying or curing a coating on a strip passing through an oven having a number of oven zones comprises continuously moving such a strip sequentially through the oven zones, in each of which oven gases are continuously circulated about the stri... | 06/10/1980 |
