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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7024797 | Horizontally extending hose cleaning and drying apparatus A horizontally extending hose cleaning and drying apparatus includes a plurality of rack sections connected at ends thereof to create an elongated rack having a slope. Each rack section includes an upper plate having apertures or mesh material to allow water to fall... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7000333 | Animal byproduct conversion system and method A system for recovering nutrients from animal byproducts includes a grinder, a separator, and a dehydrator. The grinder is adapted to reduce the animal byproduct into smaller particles. The separator is adapted to separate the animal byproduct into water, oil and so... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6901684 | Method for producing cerium-based abrasive and cerium-based abrasive produced thereby This invention is a method for producing a cerium-based abrasive which includes: a step of grinding raw material for the cerium-based abrasive; a step of roasting the ground raw material; and a step of subjecting the roasted raw material to wet processing, the metho... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6560895 | Chicken manure processing apparatus A manure processing apparatus is defined which has a processing bin and a plurality of augers, with the augers arranged vertically and adapted to move back and forth along the length and width of the processing bin. The apparatus further comprises an air ... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6502326 | Method and apparatus for dewatering fiber cells A method and apparatus for reducing the moisture content bound by capillarity in fiber cells of solid materials containing carbon. The material is ground and screened to form a loose sheet of the solid materials and/or sludges. The material is processed b... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6499232 | Method and apparatus for reducing the moisture bound by capillary action in fiber cells A method and an apparatus for reducing the moisture content bound by capillary action in fiber cells. To include fine material economically and easily in the process, coarse material is sandwiched on top of fine material and then pressed and dried. The ma... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6470592 | Method and apparatus for freeze-drying of foods, medicaments, etc. A process is provided for freeze-drying medicaments and foodstuffs comprising dissolving the foodstuffs or medicaments in a solvent, introducing the solution formed into a shell comprising a desiccating chamber of a shell-tube freeze-drying device to caus... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6470595 | Process and device for continuously drying protein-containing sludge A process and a device for continuously drying protein-containing sludge, in particular sewage sludge, in a fluidised bed (20) inside a drying container (13). A drying gas flows through the fluidised bed (20) while partially de-watered sludge (6) in granu... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6311906 | Apparatus and method for recycling waste paint There is disclosed apparatus and method for recycling waste paint, for completely removing a bad smell generated in the course of drying up the waste paint and extracting a bad smell from a filler. The method for recycling waste paint comprises the steps ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6266893 | Inverted bonnet hair dryer The inverted bonnet hair dryer is comprised of a bowl with a closed end and an open end. The bowl is pivotally supported on a stand and is rotatable to a position with its open end facing upward. The bowl is comprised of a hemispherical concave inner wall... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6256902 | Apparatus and method for desiccating and deagglomerating wet, particulate materials An apparatus and method for drying and deagglomerating substances of finely-divided solids suspended in a fluid medium. The apparatus includes the basic components of a phenumatic friction dryer, a flash dryer and a ring dryer.... | 07/10/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6151799 | Citrus peel processing system A system and method is described for processing waste citrus peel to remove oil from the peel in a highly efficient manner for subsequent processing, where the temperature of the peel is elevated, the peel is then finely fragmented to create a slurry, the... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6052919 | Process for making granulate of polymeric material In a process for making plastic granulate, a polymeric material is plastifyed into a plastic mass which is divided into single plastic strands. After pressing the plastic strands in a stream of cooling liquid, the plastic strands are shredded in the cooli... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5787604 | Plastic strand granulation plant having a draining and drying module An apparatus for cooling, drying and granulating plastic strands emerging from a nozzle in molten form includes a discharge channel washed with cooling water through which the plastic strands are conducted. A draining and drying device forms a separate un... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5561917 | Sludge drier A paper sludge drier includes a somewhat attrition style mill discharging to a horizontal, rotary drum drier. The mill has two mill plates facing each other. As one rotates relative to the other, sludge is broken down as it passes between the plates. The ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5557873 | Method of treating sludge containing fibrous material A method of converting industrial, domestic or other sludge, into a pelletized or granular fertilizer, as well as a sludge converter for practicing the method. The sludge is dewatered to form sludge cake solids which are dried in a dryer, and then sorted ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5191724 | Method and a system for grinding and drying a solid fuel An adjustable temperature gas feed is available that feeds firstly the grinder and secondly pre-drying means. At the outlet from the grinder, the gas that has passed through the grinder is combined with the gas that has passed through the pre-drying means... | 03/09/1993 |
| 4067119 | Method of drying blood Animal and poultry blood from slaughter houses and poultryprocessing plants is efficiently dried without loss or destruction of the desirable protein and amino acids content thereof and without creating pollution problems. In one embodiment, the raw blood... | 01/10/1978 |
