Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7553111 | Fluidizing gravity conveyor with high temperature multi-layered fluid distributor member An apparatus for conveying fluidized high temperature finely divided dry material by gravity utilizes a multi-layered, gas permeable gas distributor member comprising (i) an upper layer a flat, rigid gas permeable, porous medium capable of withstanding temperatures ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7448831 | Fluidising mat, container and container liner with such a mat A fluidizing mat has an upper, micro-perforated sheet and a lower gas impermeable sheet. The upper and lower sheets are maintained in spaced apart superimposed relationship by a plurality of spaced-apart load bearing means, e.g. encapsulated air bubbles, which defin... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7284934 | Method for supplying a component and a component supplying device A method is provided for supplying a component to a pick-up position located near a stop by means of a component supplying device. The component supplying device includes a guide provided with the stop, at least one air inlet connected to the guide, and at least one... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7150585 | Process and equipment for the conveyance of powdered material The invention concerns a process and a device (2) for the pneumatic conveyance of powdered material (4), in which a cylindrical chamber (10, 12), which can be connected with a reservoir (6) by a sealable inlet (14, 16) and with a d... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7144204 | Pneumatic conveyor device and method The invention relates to a device for the pneumatic conveyance of bulk material, including a conveying pipe which defines a conveying path for the bulk material and in portions has a fluidizing pipe segment and a propellant gas source which is connected to the conve... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7114638 | Bin partitions to improve material flow An insert in the form of a bin partition improves flow of powder or particulate material once installed into an existing bin. The insert has a triangular shape with a baffle on top of it covering a portion of the partition. The partition changes the shape of the exi... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7104385 | Railroad hopper car unloader A system unloads material, such as bulk quantities of dry product, from a container, such as a railroad hopper car, in a fast and efficient manner. The container defines an interior adapted to contain a product and includes a product discharge section adapted to all... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7063486 | Reservoir for powdery media A reservoir for powdery media, in particular powder coating, comprises a housing having at least one inlet and at least one outlet for the powdery medium. A fluidising floor of porous, air-permeable material is located in the interior of the housing at a distance fr... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7048488 | Apparatus for transferring wafer and ring For wafer processing, wafers are transferred between a thermal treatment chamber and a thermal treatment installation. The treatment chamber has a top section and a bottom section between which the wafer is accommodated during treatment. The thermal treatment instal... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6986625 | Maintaining fluidized beds of cohesive particles using vibrating fluids This invention is a method for operating fluidized beds, such as used to convey powdered material, wherein the fluidizing gas flows are pulsed or vibrated to help initiate and maintain fluidization. The invention maintains the fluidization effects by preventing chan... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6948888 | Reservoir for powdery media A reservoir for powdery media, in particular powder coating, comprises a housing having at least one inlet and an outlet. A fluidising floor of porous, air-permeable material is located in the interior of the housing at a distance from its base. In this way a pressu... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6719499 | Device for positioning a wafer Device for the floating accommodation of a wafer. This device comprises two mutually opposite parts which delimit a chamber in which the wafer is placed. By gas being supplied from opposite sides, the wafer is held in a floating position. To prevent the wafer from t... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6666628 | Pneumatic tank for storage and high volume discharge of pulverulent materials A pneumatic storage tank for storing, transporting, and discharging pulverulent or powdered material or the like including a tank having a cylindrical side wall and upper and lower concave heads enclosing and sealing opposite ends of the cylindrical side ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6053668 | Water slide for transferring semiconductor wafers A water slide for semiconductor wafer processing minimizes water usage by confining water to flow within spaced-apart grooves in the absence of a wafer. When a wafer passes down the water slide, a meniscus of water formed above the grooves is spread out t... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6017180 | Air assisted gravity sweep conveyor A device for removing residual deposits from storage vessels by moving the deposits radially inwardly to a central outlet in the floor of the vessel. The device includes a sweep arm pivotably connected about the central outlet at its inner end and extendi... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5562369 | Container liner A floor mat and a container liner which incorporates the floor mat are used in shipping containers that are used to transport compactible powders. The floor mat comprises an upper planar non-flexible sheet and a lower gas impermeable planar sheet held in ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5547331 | Method for loading bulk material into a cargo container with an aeration/vacuum liner pad system An air permeable pad to help load a bulk cargo into or unload a bulk cargo from a cargo container including a body and a hose. The body, in turn, includes a first, gas permeable layer and a second, gas impermeable layer. The two layers of the body are con... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5524768 | Separator for the separation of fluidizable from non-fluidizable materials A separator for separating two or more materials of which one or more consist(s) of a particulate, fluidisable material such as aluminum oxide, from a material which can not be fluidised such as nails, tools, coke, pieces of wood, and lumps of oxide. The ... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5478172 | Apparatus for feeding ultrafine powder in quantitative batch operation Ultrafine powder is stored in a pneumatic transportation tank (20), and is discharged to a transporting conduit (23) while being fluidized by the pressurized air fed through a fluidizing air port (24). The ultrafine powder is fed to a weigher (30) provide... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5287586 | Material collecting/removal apparatus A waste collecting/removal apparatus having a bin with a forward waste outlet opening, a rearward air flow inlet, a plurality of adjustable inclined louvres spaced from the bottom of the bin and an air flow plenum below the louvres to cause air flow betwe... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5143486 | Flow promoter for fluidized solids A device for promoting the flow rate of solid particulates from a fluidized bed of solids into a downcomer extending from a discharge outlet in a wall or the bed includes a hollow, funnel-like, horn element having a lower end connected upstream of the dis... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5127772 | Method and apparatus for the control of suspension density by use of a radiation source The suspension density and mass flow rate of a particular solids and gas mixture transported to a reactor is controlled by using a radiation source and detector. The suspension density is measured and compared to a preselected value. The result is convert... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5106240 | Aerated discharge device The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for establishing and maintaining a uniform mass flow rate of particulate solids and gas mixture from a container to a receiving reactor. A preferred embodiment utilizes a plurality of porous inserts in t... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5030037 | Porous filter pad for fluid pressure conveying systems A porous filter pad for use in conjunction with a fluid pressure conveying system is disclosed. The porous filter pad includes a rigid, self-supporting molded plastic body having a predetermined elongated shape with opposed walls. Openings of a predetermi... | 07/09/1991 |
| 4948013 | Method and apparatus for dispensing powdered pesticide Disclosed is a method and apparatus (10) for dispensing powdered pesticide (13). A housing (11) is separated into an upper chamber (12) and lower chamber (51) by a porous media layer (19). The powdered pesticide (13) is contained within the upper chamber ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4941779 | Compartmented gas injection device Injection of gas into a bed of solids contained in a hopper is compartmentalized to allow independent control of gas to be vented upward and gas and solids to be discharged.... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4930943 | Silo for storing and discharging bulk material and method of operating such silo The invention relates to a bulk material silo and method operating such silo, the silo being provided with a central discharge chamber from which a venting channel leads to the peripheral wall of the silo, the side walls of the channel having openings of ... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4880148 | Fluidization kit for pneumatic discharge outlet A fluidation kit for retrofit installation on a pneumatic outlet for a railway covered hopper car is disclosed. The outlet includes an outlet pan having downwardly sloping walls. The kit includes at least one air permeable fluidizing membrane on the insid... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4793529 | Emptying device for a bulk silo The emptying device for a bulk silo (1) with flat or slightly inclined silo bottom (8) comprises an outer slope (2) and open air transport grooves (7) distributed over the silo bottom (8). The air driven conveying chutes (7) extend radially to a ventilate... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4735241 | Bag-filling machine A bag-filling machine, in which the material to be filled is conveyed by compressed air through a filling tube, has a storage cylinder which is closed at its underside by a grid-like floor having ventilation apertures. The filling tube is fitted above the... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4591075 | Activator for fluidizing slow-moving material in containers Activator for fluidizing slow-moving material in fluid containers (10). The activator comprises a flat activator hose (15) which is suspended on a support member (16) arranged like a coat-hanger, a conduit (17) projecting into the activator hose between t... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4583883 | Pneumatic conveyor for grain The pneumatic conveyor for grain consists of a horizontal conveying space, which accepts the falling grain at one end and whose discharge end terminates in an upward-narrowing vertical conveyor tube adjacent to the horizontal conveyor line, the grain bein... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4568224 | Fluidizing outlet assembly including internal trough A hopper is provided having longitudinally spaced tapered end walls and transversely spaced tapered side walls. An opening is provided in one of the end walls and a discharge conduit is attached to the external surface of this end wall. On the internal su... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4489862 | Device for the controllable removal of bulk materials from containers For the controllable removal of bulk materials from containers, a device is provided with a gas-permeable lining facing the bulk material, which lining is mounted on a support under the container outlet, with a gas connection mounted on the support, and w... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4470704 | Process and appliance for mixing materials in bulk A process for mixing materials in bulk comprises the continuous and simultaneous withdrawal, through discharge openings distributed about the periphery of a mixing silo, of the material in such a manner that the vertical velocity of the descending materia... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4459070 | Pneumatic tank system for storage and transfer of pulverulent material An improved vertical cylindrical pneumatic tank for storage and transfer of pulverulent material of the type having inclined slope sheets, air slides, and an air inlet line, which improvement comprises an air manifold coupling the air inlet line to the ai... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4440528 | Container for pulverulent material A railway car for transporting pulverulent lading includes a fluid-tight container, slope sheets mounted within the container defining two troughs leading to a sump in the lower portion of the container, two aligned permeable conveyors in the bottom of ea... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4439072 | Fluidized bed discharge bin with aerating blower A fluidized bed discharge bin comprises a removable closure covering an opening in the bottom of the bin. The interior surface of the closure is covered by an air-permeable sheet whose outer perimeter is held between the bin opening and the closure. Spaci... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4417832 | Silo for bulk material A silo for bulk material in which a cover defines at least one de-aerated space constituting a conveyor area accessible to the material to be conveyed, with at least one pneumatic conveyor chute extending at least partially in the conveyor area and toward... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4411674 | Continuous clean bag filter apparatus and method A continuously cleaned bag filter provides a second filter stage for removing dust from air discharged from a cyclone or other primary separator. The primary separator removes the majority of particulate matter from air delivered thereto. In the bag filte... | 10/25/1983 |
