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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7566353 | Modular air purification system The invention discloses a modular air purification system comprising a basic purification unit having an inlet and an outlet wherein the basic purification unit comprises a motor, a fan actuated by the motor and a controller. The purification system further comprise... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7419533 | Separable air purifying apparatus A separable air purifying apparatus is provided, in which a number of purifiers whose purifying capabilities for particular pollutants are reinforced by each purifier are disposed in a space meeting each purifying characteristic in order to enable an independent ope... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7361214 | Disposable cartridge for air/gas dryer A disposable dryer cartridge for an air/gas dryer apparatus for installation in an air/gas line delivering compressed air or gas to an air/gas-driven tool. The cartridge includes a flexible elongated casing having a drying composition therein. The casing has an air/... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7332013 | Compressed air/gas-driven tool with integrated dryness indicator An air/gas-driven tool with an integrated air/gas dryness indicator. The tool includes a housing that defines a cavity. An air/gas dryness detector is disposed in the cavity. An air/gas flow passage is situated to provide a stream of compressed air/gas to the drynes... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7320725 | Disposable cartridge air/gas dryer A disposable cartridge air/gas dryer apparatus for installation in an air/gas line delivering compressed air or gas to an air/gas-driven tool. The dryer includes a pressure vessel having first and second ends, an inlet port, and an outlet port. A disposable dryer ca... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7306640 | Vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner includes a first dirt separation unit and a second dirt separation unit. The first dirt separation unit has a first inlet port through which a suction air stream including dirt particles is introduced thereinto, and the second dirt separation unit h... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7303683 | Microorganism-removing filter medium having high isoelectric material and low melt index binder A filter medium capable of removing microorganisms from a fluid such as water. The filter medium includes particles of activated carbon, particles of a substantially insoluble inorganic material having an isoelectric point greater than the fluid being filtered. A lo... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7294160 | Air cleaner The present invention comprises concerns a novel air cleaner having an inner mesh barrier. This inner mesh barrier has a plurality of openings, and is generally cylindrical, having an inner mesh barrier liner surface, and an inner mesh barrier outer surface. Further... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7198659 | Gas buster exhaust stack liquid containment apparatus and method A containment apparatus for collecting liquids including oil and water emitted from a gas buster exhaust stack. The containment includes baffling and a liquid float and discharge line for returning the liquids to a reservoir. Multiple containments may be connected t... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7094269 | Air pre-cleaner The air pre-cleaner includes a housing, a drain valve, and an air exhaust pipe. The housing is provided with an air inlet. The drain valve is disposed in the housing and is configured to drain impurities separated from intake air entering the housing through the air... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7090711 | Multistage air cleaner including pulse cleaning system A V-pack filter includes a frame construction having a first frame structure and a second frame structure. The V-pack filter also includes first and second panel sections mounted in extension between the first and second frame structures. The first panel section has... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7077740 | Paint spray booth A paint spray booth is provided containing a plenum packed with a contact material for treatment of paint overspray generated during operation of the paint spray booth. The contact material is packed to provide a relatively large surface area and a relatively large ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6960241 | Paper trap A paper trap includes a trap chamber. An outlet of the trap chamber is preferably connected to an inlet of the exhaust bypass damper. An inlet of the trap chamber is coupled to dust capture hoods and an outlet of the bypass chamber is coupled to a dust collector. A ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6723145 | Open powder booth collection design An under booth paint collection apparatus is positioned beneath a paint application booth that includes an air circulation system for painting a product with particulate paint. A plurality of discrete powder reclamation collectors are arranged in aligned rows beneat... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6681648 | Meniscus membranes for separations Gas separation membranes, especially meniscus-shaped membranes for gas separations are disclosed together with the use of such meniscus-shaped membranes for applications such as thermal gas valves, pre-concentration of a gas stream, and selective pre-scre... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6656242 | Hot mix asphalt facility A hot mix asphalt batching plant has two separate air handling systems--one for the dryer and another for handling the fugitive dust. These two systems are separate, so that variations in operating conditions for the dryer do not affect the performance of... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6569217 | Industrial dust collector with multiple filter compartments A specially arranged industrial dust collector with multiple filtering compartments is provided which is efficient, effective, and economical. The special industrial dust collector has a solids-gas separation compartment which is positioned generally alon... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6444001 | Separator and separator system A separator for separating a first fluidized component from a second fluidized component, the separator having a monolithic body with first and second, generally vertically disposed, elongate chambers, each of the chambers having a lower end and an upper ... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6383263 | Device intended for mechanical separation of high-temperature sand present in a gas stream A process for separation of solid particles of wide grain size distribution present in a turbulent gas stream includes, first, removal of the coarser particles in a separation chamber (1) with a high efficiency, then removal, with a high efficiency, of th... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6299667 | Method and device for removing dust from areas with high dust loading A method and device for removing dust from spaces having a high dust loading utilizing a blast jet chamber having a cartridge filter (2) for the exhaust volume flow and a cyclone dust separator (4) as well and an associated exhaust stack (3) for the recir... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6238451 | Vacuum cleaner A method for filtering a dirty air stream in a vacuum cleaner to obtain a clean air stream has subjecting the dirty air stream to a first cyclonic separation stage to obtain a partially cleaned air stream and subjecting the partially cleaned air stream to... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6231648 | Wet scrubber unit A wet electrostatic scrubber unit for extracting from a polluted air stream particulate matter entrained therein, whereby emerging from the unit is an environmentally acceptable air stream. The unit includes a treatment station having a cylindrical duct t... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6183609 | Sintered laminated structures, electrochemical cells and process for producing such sintered laminated structures A sintered laminated structure including a plurality of ceramic layers made of ceramic materials different from one another, wherein each of the ceramic layers is provided with through-holes passing each of the ceramic layers.... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6152997 | Water/air treatment system A water/air treatment system consisting of at least one water/air treatment unit, each water/air treatment unit including a water trough, a water pipe having a top end connected to a water source and a bottom end dipped in the water trough, and an expansi... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6132693 | Process and device for reducing pollutants, especially nitrogen oxides in combustion exhaust gases A process for reducing pollutants, particularly nitrogen oxides from combustion gases during a combustion process that takes place while oxygen is supplied, includes providing oxygen needed for the combustion process by separating oxygen from a gas mixtur... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6117201 | Easily storable dust collecting container A dust collecting container includes an annular lower portion and an annular upper portion having a first circumferential wall interposed between first annular upper and lower ends to define a first columnar chamber of a first length in a first axial dire... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6083292 | Domestic vacuum cleaner with axial cyclone Domestic vacuum cleaner with multiple cyclones arranged in cascade, in which a first tangential cyclone supplied with a flow of dust-laden air captures the coarser particles in a first container arranged below said first cyclone and discharges the air flo... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6062547 | Quench vessel for recovering chemicals and energy from spent liquors Provided is a quench vessel containing at least two separate internal vessels. A receiving liquor is contained in the first internal vessel and a washing liquid bath is contained in a second internal vessel.... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6010571 | Exhaust systems for powder spray booth A paint spray booth with capability to separately exhaust clean powder paint overspray by a clean overspray upper exhaust system at floor level, and the additional exhaust air and paint overspray passing through a grated floor and conveyor system is exhau... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5964991 | Sintered laminated structures, electrochemical cells and process for producing such sintered laminated structures A sintered laminated structure including a plurality of ceramic layers made of ceramic materials different from one another, wherein each of the ceramic layers is provided with through-holes passing each of the ceramic layers.... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5858072 | Gas suction filtration apparatus A gas suction filtration apparatus in which a liquid filter medium is contained in a closed container. A gas intake pipe is positioned so as to introduce the gas to be filtered into the bottom of the container and a suction device applies a suction force ... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5840102 | Mobile pneumatic material transfer machine A material transfer apparatus and method, the apparatus having a material separating container, a filter unit, a vacuum unit and an exhaust unit, all mounted on a mobile conveyance. Air, carrying the materials to be transferred, is drawn through pneumatic... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5676753 | Exhaust systems for powder spray booth A paint spray booth with capability to separately exhaust clean powder paint overspray by a clean overspray upper exhaust system at floor level, and the additional exhaust air and paint overspray passing through a grated floor and conveyor system is exhau... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5669947 | Latch for modular air handling system A substantially sealed modular air handling system that has a plurality of modules enclosing a plurality of air handling units. Each of the modules has generally parallelpiped shaped cabinetry having two opposed sides and opposed front and rear faces. The... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5637124 | Modular air cleaning system A modular air-cleaning apparatus for the treatment of contaminated air. The apparatus includes a plurality of modular units cooperatively interconnected, wherein the plurality of units includes at least one separator unit functioning on non-collisional pr... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5525396 | Lid for a particle collector A molded plastic lid adapted to generally close off the upper open end of a container and adapted to enable separation of entrained particles from a stream of air for collection of the particles in the container. The lid is formed with circumferentially e... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5431706 | Disposable particulate filter A gas permeable filter element formed solely from filter material defines a substantially cylindrical inner filter element and a substantially cylindrical outer filter element joined together by an end filter element. The outer filter element is radially ... | 07/11/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5141537 | Waste gas-purifying device A waste gas-purifying device including a primary dust-collecting assembly, a first stage fan assembly, a second stage fan assembly, a filtering means and a water tank, wherein the waste gas discharged from a plant is sucked by the rotating fans and flows ... | 08/25/1992 |
| 4962270 | Multi-stage pervaporation process run at progressively higher vacuum, higher temperature or both at each successive retentate stage Improved separation of feed streams containing multiple components is effected by means of a multi membrane staged pervaporation process wherein each membrane stage is series is run as progressively higher temperature, stronger vacuum or both than the pre... | 10/09/1990 |
