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A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8056254 | Tumble dryer with a lint filter A tumble dryer is provided having a heat exchanger through which a process-air stream flows in a first direction and a first duct which is arranged in fluid communication with the heat exchanger through which a process-air stream flows in a second direction and in w... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8001701 | Device for drying laundry by means of a current of air Device for drying laundry by means of a current of air comprises a drum to accommodate the laundry and a ducting system to direct said current of air. The ducting system has a section arranged downstream of the drum, in which the current of air is directed downwards... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7966743 | Micro-structured drying for inkjet printers A dryer operable in close proximity to and in series with an inkjet printhead comprises a heat source and an air bearing structure on one side of the predetermined path and having a pressurized air inlet and an air outlet adjacent to the drying position of the recei... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7913415 | Device for drying laundry by means of a current of air The device for drying laundry 1 by means of a current of air comprises a drum 2 to accommodate the laundry 1 and a ducting system 4, 5, 6, to direct said current of air. The ducting system 4, 5, 6 has a section 4 arranged do... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7802375 | Clothes dryer lint screen assembly with built in lint scraper blade A lint screen assembly for a clothes dryer has a scraper blade within an open frame which mounts a lint screen panel to enable scraping out accumulated lint therefrom. The scraper blade is pivotable from a stowed position to an on-edge operative position and guided ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7497030 | Integral lint filter for clothes dryers A lint filter assembly for removing lint and particulate matter from a clothes dryer exhaust system includes a conduit adapter and a filtering element. In a preferred embodiment the lint filter is a secondary filter removably connected inline between conduits substa... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7428785 | Hair dryer A hair dryer in which the direction of a palm of a user gripping the hair dryer is same as the direction of wind blown from the hair dryer. A blowing pipe is coupled to a case and has an air outlet at one end. A heater for heating air is provided inside the case. A ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7337553 | Lint detector methods and apparatuses Methods and apparatuses of for detecting lint are disclosed. In one embodiment, a light is directed to a plate. The light can be being emitted by a light source. A reflectometer is calibrated to a specific thermal emissivity of the plate. The thermal emission result... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7325699 | Lint-reducing container An electrostatically charged polymeric material, such as a polyolefin non-woven web, can be used in conjunction with a container, such as a tissue carton, for example, to attract lint and reduce the amount of lint that is deposited on the surface area surrounding th... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320185 | Drive device for a household appliance and method for mounting an electric motor A drive device for a household appliance, in which an electromotor is fixed by a fixing screw. An insulation layer of a material with a defined conductivity is located between the fixing screw and the electromotor. The fixing screw is tightened with a defined torque... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7305775 | Household clothes drying machine with improved lint filter Clothes drying machine comprising a rotating drum, an exhaust conduit into which flows the air issuing from the outlet aperture of the drum, a lint filter formed in the shape of a sector of a cylindrical surface, which is arranged in said exhaust conduit below said ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7300484 | Blower having a carrying frame A blower has a carrying frame provided with a base plate. A fan with a fan housing is mounted on the carrying frame. The fan housing has an intake opening that faces the base plate and is spaced from the base plate. An intake gap is formed between the base plate and... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7257905 | Laundry appliance A laundry drying machine includes a cabinet and a laundry holding drum rotatably supported within the cabinet for rotation. The drum includes a wall that is circumferential relative to the rotation and a drum hatch that is a section of the wall. The drum forms an en... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7228647 | Drying machine and drying machine with washing function and method of controlling the same Disclosed herein is a drying machine or a drying machine with washing function. The drying machine or the drying machine with washing function comprises a heater for heating air introduced into an inlet channel of a drum, an outlet channel for allowing air in the dr... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7213349 | Heat recovery system for clothes dryer While venting clothes dryer heat outside may be acceptable during the summer months, it is desirable to reuse such heat once the outside temperature starts to fall. The disclosed heat recovery unit for a clothes dryer works towards meeting this need. The heat recove... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7188434 | Molecular filter dehumidification apparatus and plant A dehumidification apparatus including an outer tubular container (2) closed at its ends, a first (5) and a second (9) transverse grids located inside the tubular container (2), one grid element being spaced from the other and from a resp... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7162781 | Tenter device A clip has a frame and a flapper. Two dry bearings are inserted into a hole formed in the flapper. Then an attaching shaft is inserted from one of the holes in the frame to the other through the dry bearings, so as to swingably attaching the flapper to the frame. DA... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159475 | Apparatus and method of sampling semivolatile compounds An apparatus and method for sampling semivolatile compounds is disclosed. A collection bag is placed around an air conditioning vent on an aircraft. An opening in the collection bag receives air from the air conditioning vent into the bag. An exit in the collection ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7152276 | Filter assembly for a cyclone-type dust collecting apparatus of vacuum cleaner A filter assembly for a cyclone-type dust collecting apparatus of a vacuum cleaner which filters dust included in the air current discharged from the outlet port of the cyclone-type dust collecting apparatus. The present filter assembly comprises a rotating filter r... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152277 | Filter assembly for cyclone type dust collecting apparatus of a vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner, centrifugally separates contaminates from air and collects them in a filter assembly that includes a rotary filter connected to an exhaust port. The filter is provided with a suction grill portion at the outer circumference and a discharge port tha... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152751 | Lightweight shipping container A shipping container following the teachings of the present invention is made by an insert molding process. The walls and bottom are each formed with structural portions that form a frame and any necessary cross bracing. A fabric covers any opening between structura... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154072 | Method of using open coil resistance heater in appliances with right and left hand installation capability An open coil resistance heater assembly is made for universal mounting between left and right hand installations in an appliance or other equipment. The heater assembly has its coils arranged symmetrically about a bisecting plane of the heater assembly and/or a cent... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7141101 | Filter assembly with noise attenuation A filter assembly configured for acoustic dampening for use with compressor assemblies such as oxygen concentrators including a compartmented housing member having an inlet opening, an outlet opening, a filter member, and a plurality of noise attenuating members pos... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7093374 | Clothes dryer and method of controlling the same A clothes dryer and a method of controlling the clothes dryer. The method detects conditions of clothes using a sensor, and performs at least one of: a complex drying function to perform a drying operation, a deodorizing operation, and a wrinkle removing operation; ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7051453 | Particulate trap cleaning system A system for cleaning a particulate trap comprises locating the trap in a chamber and forcing cleaning air through the trap. The air and removed particulates is extracted from the trap towards a filter. The expelled air essentially without the removed particulates f... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7045013 | Spray booth systems and methods for accelerating curing times One embodiment of the invention provides a spray booth that comprises a spray booth housing having a ceiling and side walls that define an interior for holding an object to be sprayed. A pressurized air plenum is disposed above the ceiling and is adapted to supply a... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7024801 | Drying apparatus having front support mounting assembly In a drying apparatus having a drum and a front support mounting assembly, a front support is fixed directly to a cabinet using fixing brackets, to maintain a consistent distance between opposing surfaces of the drum and the front support. The front support mounting... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7021088 | Combination drier and washer and aeration apparatus thereof An aeration apparatus for a combination drier and washer comprises an air circulation duct connected from one portion of a tub to the other portion for circulating air in the tub; an aeration tube connected from the air circulation duct to outside of the case for in... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7014693 | Filters employing both acidic polymers and physical-adsorption media A filter includes at least two different adsorptive media. First, chemisorptive media, which is porous and includes an acidic functional group, is used to remove molecular bases, including ammonia, organic amines, imides and aminoalchols, from the atmosphere used in... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7007408 | Method and apparatus for removing and/or preventing surface contamination of a probe To remove and/or prevent contamination of a probe, at least a portion of the probe is positioned in a chamber having an inlet passage and an outlet passage, with a distal end of the probe extending through the outlet passage and terminating on a side thereof opposit... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6997966 | Lint trap A lint trap having an enclosure with an interior surface, an open end, with an inlet spaced from an outlet on the interior surface. A cover is removably mountable to the open end of the enclosure with a filter secured to the cover, where side edges of the filter sli... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6971186 | Lint filter assembly for use in a dryer A filter assembly for collecting lint in use with a dryer having an interior compartment. The filter assembly includes a control unit, an input air pathway in communication with the interior compartment, an exhaust, and a micro-filter. The input air pathway carries ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6966126 | Laundry drier with removable filter A laundry drier includes a filter is disposed removably in the air duct carrying the process air and is held in an at least two-part foldable frame. To extend its functionality with a view to the binding of odors from the laundry items, the filter contains a charcoa... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6935050 | Method and apparatus reducing metal impurities in optical fiber soot preforms A method and apparatus for producing an optical fiber preform including a metal remover, which operates by adsorption, that removes gaseous transition metal impurities present in a process gas to be provided to a furnace for drying, doping or consolidation. The appa... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6928750 | Membrane dryer A system, method, and apparatus for supplying a gas-liquid vapor to a process tank for performing semiconductor manufacturing. In one aspect, the invention is a method of supplying a gas-liquid vapor to a process tank comprising: supplying a gas stream through at le... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6902597 | Floor standing treatment device The present invention relates to a floor standing treatment device that has a mainframe assembly and a back housing removably attachable to the mainframe assembly. The mainframe assembly comprises a fan and a fan scroll through which air is directed. The back housin... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6779279 | Dryer having a filter sensing system A dryer having a filter sensing system that warns a user that a filter requires servicing is provided. The dryer includes a drum that retains laundry. Hot air is drawn through the drum (for drying) and out an exhaust casing having a filter for removing lint and othe... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6767521 | System for hanging a dehumidifying and deodorizing pouch A system for dehumidifying and deodorizing, the system comprising a hanging, dehumidifying and deodorizing pouch comprising a housing having a impermeable membrane and a semi-permeable securely attached to the impermeable membrane. The housing enclosing moisture-abs... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6711831 | Process and an apparatus for spray drying In a compact combined spray drying and after-treatment apparatus having internal gas filters and an internal fluidized bed in the drying chamber and a fluidized bed in the after-treatment zone, pipe means are used for conducting a stream of particle-loaded gas forme... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6709499 | Air-routing household appliance with a washable filter An air-routing household appliance includes an improved removable and washable filter in that the filter is of a flexible fiber material and is finished such that it can bind and/or decompose odorous substances. Such a filter can be disposed, in particular, in the c... | 03/23/2004 |
