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...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7854608 | Method and apparatus for heat treatment in a fluidized bed The present invention relates to a method for the heat treatment of fine-grained solids, in particular gypsum, in which the solids are heated to a temperature of 50 to 1000° C. in a fluidized bed reactor (1), and to a corresponding plant. To improve the ener... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7316564 | Method and installation for regulating the quantity of circulating solids in a circulating fluidized bed reactor system A method for regulating the quantity of circulating solids in a circulating fluidized bed reactor system, whereby a solid flow/gas flow mixture leaving the fluidized bed reactor is fed tangentially into at least one cyclone separator for separation of the solid from... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7296994 | Cement clinker production comprising partial removal of a flow of rotary kiln exhaust gas containing harmful substances The aim of the invention is to create a bypass system for a cement clinker production line, which is characterized by particularly low investment costs and operating costs, thus being economically favorable. Said aim is achieved by installing the bypass system in su... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7201573 | Device for emptying of hot particle material from a chamber into a transport container A device for emptying hot particle material from a chamber into a transport container. The container is provided with a first pipe that can be inserted into the particle material in the chamber, and a second pipe that is connected to a vacuum source via a precipitat... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7175426 | High efficiency refractoryless kettle An apparatus for calcining gypsum including a housing having a bottom wall, open top, and a plurality of side walls extending therebetween. A fixture is located adjacent the open top for receiving gypsum from a source and transferring the gypsum into the housing. At... | 02/13/2007 |
| 6669470 | Method for operating manufacturing equipment including heating furnace A method for operating manufacturing equipment including a heating furnace is provided. The method comprises the step of spraying a blowdown water that has been in the manufacturing equipment into effluent gas discharged from the heating furnace so as to ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6666680 | Multi-train installation for the production of cement clinker from raw meal A dual-train or multi-train installation for the production of cement clinker from raw meal includes several cyclone suspension heat exchanger trains which provide substantially equal gas and meal loads of the following gas-solid suspensions through use o... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6551100 | Device for thermally treating a material The invention relates to an apparatus for treatment of material, especially for thermal and/or chemical treatment, having an ascending pipeline branch, a diversion chamber and at least one descending pipeline branch. In the diversion chamber there is prov... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6368884 | Die-based in-fab process monitoring and analysis system for semiconductor processing A method is provided for manufacturing, the method including processing a workpiece in a plurality of processing steps and measuring characteristics of the processing performed on the workpiece in at least two of the plurality of processing steps. The met... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6325620 | Method of reducing volatile pollutants in the exhaust gases from a heat exchanger system In the method according to the invention for reducing volatile pollutants in the exhaust gases of a heat exchanger system for heating of cement raw meal or the like, partially preheated raw meal is heated to a temperature for release of the pollutants con... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6322355 | Method and apparatus for disposing of waste dust generated in the manufacture of cement clinker A method of disposing of undesirable chemical compounds in waste dust generated in a first kiln in the manufacture of cement clinker by using the dust and slag as the feedstock material to a second kiln, heating the feedstock material in an oxidizing atmo... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6264465 | Combustion device A combustion apparatus for use as a boiler wherein RDF is burned as the fuel, or as an incinerator for burning municipal waste. The apparatus is diminished in the quantities of NOx produced, permits a dust collector to achieve an improved efficiency in se... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6109913 | Method and apparatus for disposing of waste dust generated in the manufacture of cement clinker A method of disposing of undesirable chemical compounds in waste dust generated in a first kiln in the manufacture of cement clinker by using the dust and slag as the feedstock material to a second kiln, heating the feedstock material in an oxidizing atmo... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6036484 | Process for reprocessing slag and/or ash from the thermal treatment of refuse In a process for reprocessing slag and/or ash from the thermal treatment of refuse, the refuse (1) is pyrolyzed, gasified or partially combusted in a first process step, heavy-metal-containing slag and/or ash (8) having a comparatively high carbon content... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5782973 | Cement dust recovery system A process of treating dust from a cement manufacturing operation. The process comprises adding carbon bearing material to the dust catch from a cement manufacturing operation to form a mixture, which is formed into nodules and sizing the nodules to obtain... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5578102 | Method for batch preheating and pollution abatement in glass manufacture A method and apparatus for glass manufacture is described having batch preheating and reduced pollution emission. The apparatus includes two modules containing pelletized glass and/or cullet. One module functions as a pelletized glass preheater, and the o... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5290334 | Apparatus for batch preheating and pollution abatement in glass manufacture A method and apparatus for glass manufacture is described having batch preheating and reduced pollution emission. The apparatus includes two modules containing pelletized glass and/or cullet. One module functions as a pelletized glass preheater, and the o... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5191723 | Apparatus and method for recovering spent lime for use as a nutritional flowing agent for poultry and animal feeds An apparatus and method to recover spent lime from various manufacturing processes, such as sugar manufacturing from sugar beets and sugar cane, for use as a nutritional flowing agent for poultry and animal feeds, comprises a first holding bin for receivi... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5131462 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger in the form of a vessel for heat exchange of a pulverulent solid material and a gas, e.g. for preheating raw materials prior to a burning process by use of the hot exit gases fed to the vessel consists of a hollow cylindrical central part... | 07/21/1992 |
| 4578877 | Process for controlling fines entrainment while drying solids A process is disclosed for reducing the evolution of fine particles during the removal of a solvent from a mass of solid particles containing the fines or which solid particles are attritable to produce the fines in the prior treating steps and/or the sol... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4545132 | Method for staged cooling of particulate solids An improved method for cooling particulate solids in an expanded bed by successively charging the particulate solids to a plurality of expanded beds with the exhaust gas from each of the plurality of expanded beds being discarded.... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4531907 | Fluidized bed combustor A fluidized bed combustor is adapted to deprive a combustion gas issuing therefrom of dust by bringing the combustion gas into contact with a filter medium which is a fluidizing solid discharged in conjunction with slagging ash out of the combustor.... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4514168 | Process for heating solids in a transfer line Oil shale, coal, inert heat transfer material and other carbon-containing solids of varying sizes are preheated with a gas in a transfer line by first separating the solids into a plurality of size fractions and then separately introducing the size fracti... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4470849 | Method and device for the calcination of finely grained to dust-form material, particularly of comminuted raw material to be used in the manufacture of cement A method and mechanism for heat treating a pulverulent comminuted raw material in the process of making cement including preheating the material, passing the material through a first reaction zone, supplying a first fuel supply to the first zone for suppl... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4453703 | Sintering machine The invention comprises a sinter belt and a collector, vacuum chambers, a gas cleaning device, an air purifying device, and an exhauster mounted adjacent the belt. Above the sinter belt are mounted assemblies for loading a bed and a charge, and an ignitio... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4451231 | Drying of particulate material A process for the removal of volatile liquid from particulate material employing indirect heating of the particulate material by means of combustion gases resulting from the combustion of sulfur-containing fuel, and further employing purging of the thus h... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4436589 | Method of pretreating coal for coking plant Coal is pretreated for a coking plant so that it is passed in two stages through two throughflow driers successively connected with one another, the driers are supplied with a heat carrier formed by a steam overheated to a temperature between 400° and 60... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4391207 | Method of conditioning exhaust gases from coal firing The present invention relates to operation of a rotary kiln plant utilizing electrostatic precipitators. Specifically, this invention is directed to a method for conditioning exhaust gases from a burning process in a rotary kiln in which mineral materials... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4354825 | Method and apparatus for drying coal A method and apparatus for drying coal in which the coal is dried by a hot gas and then quickly cooled with ambient air to reduce the oxidation rate and in which the air heated in the cooler is supplied to support the combustion that generates the hot gas... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4329180 | Method and apparatus for calcining fine-grained material and for generating coal dust Method and apparatus for calcining fine-grained material such as in the manufacture of cement in which the raw material is subjected to the sequential steps of pre-heating, calcining and sintering. At least one of the stages is fueled by coal dust which h... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4256451 | Upright kiln and attendant method for heating an aggregate material This invention relates to a kiln of a compact upright configuration which is constructed so as to successively preheat, heat, and then cool aggregate in a continuous operation while avoiding wasteful loss of heat from the walls of the kiln or in the efflu... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4255131 | Apparatus and method for heating an aggregate material Relatively coarse aggregate is preheated to a relatively high temperature prior to introduction into a rotary kiln by directing the aggregate downwardly along a predetermined path of travel while maintaining the aggregate in the form of a relatively thin ... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4236887 | Method and apparatus for handling and utilizing system off-gas in a pyro-processing system Preheat gas is recycled to a booster heater that communicates with the preheat chamber with excess gas being directed to a quench chamber. From the quench chamber gas passes to a dust separator with the cleansed gas being utilized in low- and high-tempera... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4215151 | Process for roasting an agro-food product in a fluidized bed of inert particles The invention concerns a process and a device for roasting an agro-food product in the form of grains. The process consists of fluidizing an auxiliary body in the form of fine solid particles in an enclosure 1, and putting the grains of the product to be ... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4178150 | Process and installation for drying and heating coal Coal is passed in a two-stage process through a drying and heating zone. The coal coming from the drying zone is separated from the heat carrier gas which is then passed into the atmosphere after going through an electrodust separator. The dried coal is d... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4146359 | Method for reacting nongaseous material with a gaseous reactant This invention relates to a new and novel method and apparatus for reacting nongaseous material with a gaseous reactant comprising introducing a first stream containing a nongaseous material into a reaction zone; simultaneously introducing a second stream... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4071309 | Method and apparatus for making cement with preheater, kiln and heat exchanger for heating combustion air A method and an apparatus is disclosed for producing such as Portland cement from pulverant raw material in a system having at least a preheater and a rotary kiln. The preheater may be of the type having a series of stages each provided by a cyclone dust ... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4063875 | Cement making apparatus including preheater, kiln, cooler and auxiliary furnace An apparatus is disclosed for producing such as Portland cement from pulverant raw material having a preheater, an auxiliary furnace 22, a rotary kiln 2, a cooler, and a single blower connected to the top of the preheater to draw air and combustion gases ... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4050882 | Dual variable orifice for reinforced preheater Variable dual orifices in the restricted portion of the flue between the kiln and the preheater provides a controlled bypass of 0 to 100% of the kiln gases around the preheater and prevents short circuiting of process materials from the precalciner and mi... | 09/27/1977 |
