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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7879123 | Inertial separator An inertial separator comprising a tubular body, the tubular body comprises a composition comprising a polymer selected from the group consisting of a cyclic olefin polymer and a cyclic olefin copolymer, and, a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane and/or a flame ret... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7364601 | Precleaner arrangement for use in air filtration; method; and, air cleaner using same A precleaner arrangement for use in separating a portion of entrained material in air from air entering an air cleaner, is provided. The precleaner arrangement includes a vane structure positioned to direct air into a circular or cyclonic pattern, to facilitate mate... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7338545 | Apparatus for separating liquid from a process gas stream of an electrochemical cell stack A liquid separator includes a housing, a separation chamber disposed within the housing, a drain, an inlet channel, a swirler disposed within the inlet channel, and an outlet channel. The drain has a drain passageway for draining liquid from the separation chamber. ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7320718 | Device for a cyclone scrubber A device for an axial cyclone (1) of the kind which is used for separating a fluid from a gas, where the gas flowing through the axial cyclone (1), primarily in the axial direction of the axial cyclone (1) assigns a rotation around the centre ax... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7311765 | Energy and/or mass exchange apparatus having an integrated fluid separator A liquid separator configured to separate liquid from a fluid stream. The separator includes a housing, a separation chamber disposed within the housing, a drain having a drain passageway for draining liquid from the separation chamber, an inlet chamber configured t... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7258727 | Apparatus for separating particles from a flowing medium A separating apparatus which enables particles to be separated from a flowing medium by a preliminary separator which avoids the undesirably high pressure losses due to the flow resistance of known preliminary separators. The separating apparatus has a housing with ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7192462 | Engine air filter and sealing system An air induction system for an engine to remove contaminants from intake air prior to delivery to the engine. The system includes an assembly for filtering air which is mounted in advance of the engine, and a duct for delivering air from the assembly to the engine. ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7163626 | Device for treating a gas/liquid mixture The present invention relates to a device for treating a gas/liquid mixture, comprising: an inlet opening for the mixture; an outlet for the mixture located downstream; rotating means arranged in the tube for setting the mixture into rotating movement; one or more o... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7160348 | Mist elimination hood A mist elimination device in the form of a hood for the removal of moisture from a gas stream treated by a WESP includes a series of gutters on the outer surface of the hood to trap liquid droplets and direct the moisture to channels to drain to the lower region of ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7077885 | Gas/liquid phase separator and the fuel cell-based power production unit equipped with one such separator A gas and liquid phase separator apparatus and an apparatus for energy production based on fuel cells within the phase separator. ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6977004 | Vapor-liquid separator A vapor-liquid separator includes an outer tube, an introduction tube, a delivery tube, and a discharge tube. The introduction tube allows passage of a vapor-liquid two-phase fluid in a swirling state. The delivery tube allows passage of the vapor phase separated fr... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6936085 | Vacuum loader A specially arranged vacuum loader and industrial dust collector with a perforated plate tangential cyclone separator is provided to efficiently remove, readily collect, effectively separate and safely dispose of wet, dry and fibrous materials, including liquids and... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6630014 | Mist eliminator Improved mist eliminator (50) for use in pulp washers, deinking cells and the like, and methods of use are disclosed. A cyclonic gas/liquid separator (50) is provided that includes an elongated housing (100) with a cyclonic flow inducing vane assembly (10... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6589322 | Oil seal liquid separator A separator that uses both centrifugal force and gravity can effect the near-complete separation of liquid particles entrained in a gaseous stream having a high flow rate and velocity. The separator includes a conduit disposed in a vertical orientation, a... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6540917 | Cyclonic inertial fluid cleaning apparatus An apparatus is disclosed for the cyclonic inertial separation of particles from a fluid stream, wherein a generator and an outlet tube are disposed within a housing, a scavenge port is disposed about the housing, and the outlet tube has a plurality of sl... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6332239 | Vacuum cleaner with tangential separation of trash The invention concerns a device for separating and collecting trash for a trash collecting apparatus such as a vacuum cleaner, said device comprising a first tube with an air intake (13) capable of receiving the air sucked in and an air delivery outlet, a... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6331195 | Coanda water extractor A water extractor of an environmental control system includes a swirl section and a water collector downstream the swirl section. The water collector includes an upstream sump having an inlet positioned to capture the bulk of water droplets leaving the sw... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6280502 | Removing solids from a fluid A method and apparatus are provided for removing solid particles from a particle containing stream of fluid, the method including the steps of: inducing the stream to flow at supersonic velocity through a conduit; inducing a swirling motion to the superso... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6280493 | Air pre-cleaner An air pre-cleaner for centrifugally ejecting heavier than air particulates from an air stream for use in an apparatus having an air intake includes a hood having an opening through which air enters the pre-cleaner. A vane assembly includes a centrally po... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6264712 | Low intake restriction air precleaner An air precleaner includes a base assembly, a hood mounted to the base assembly and spaced from the base assembly to define a circumferential gap, and a rotor assembly mounted for rotation within the air space between the hood and base assembly. The base ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6190438 | Mist eliminator Improved mist eliminator for use in pulp washers and the like, and method of use of such is disclosed. A cyclonic gas/liquid separator for a gas/liquid mixture flowing vertically upward therethrough includes a cylindrical housing, a top wall having a gas ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6174339 | Multiple separator arrangement for fluid-particle separation An apparatus for the recovery of fine particulate material of the type that uses a tube sheet arrangement and a multiplicity of centrifugal separation devices provides improved separation by extending a skirt to confine a particle outlet stream and raise ... | 01/16/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6083291 | Gas transfer pipe arrangement A gas transfer pipe arrangement includes a pipe in which gas containing droplets flows. A centrifugal force type separation unit is provided in the pipe for applying a radial centrifugal force to the gas flowing in the pipe so that the droplets in the gas... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6080217 | Device for separating excess powder oversprayed when powder coating workpieces A means for separating excess powder oversprayed when powder coating workpieces and sucked off in a gas/powder stream, including powder discharge via a lower collector (12, 13, 14) and clean gas discharge into an upwardly disposed clean gas channel (7) vi... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6019825 | Hydrocyclone gas separator A hydrocyclone for separating a combined phase input stream has two nesting truncated, downwardly tapering conical members having an annular space therebetween. A tangential inlet leads to the annular space between the conical members. Alternate embodimen... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5961675 | High efficiency compact Cybagfilter A high efficiency compact gas-particulate separator is provided comprising: a bag filter disposed above and a cyclone disposed below, the bag filter including: a casing, a compressed air header into the casing; a diaphragm valve on the header; a blow tube conn... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5904756 | Mist recovering method and apparatus In a mist recovering apparatus for recovering a mist contained in a gas, provided with a filter having pores of pore size increasing from a gas inlet side toward a gas outlet side, the gas containing the mist is passed from the gas inlet side of the filte... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5885333 | Low pressure drop steam separators The steam/water separator includes a lower standpipe for receiving a two-phase mixture of water and steam at its lower end. Internal threads or elements spaced about the interior wall of the standpipe impart a swirl to the incoming mixture, producing a th... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5853443 | Moisture separator for fluid compressor A moisture separator including a separator tank that defines a separation chamber, the separator tank having an inlet; and a separation element located at the separator tank inlet, the separation element including an outer ring having a first side and a s... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5746790 | Trap for collecting solid A trap for collecting solid is connected to either an exhaust port or a suction port of a vacuum pump for trapping a solid material separated from a sublimed gas discharged by the vacuum pump. The trap includes a casing, a passage defining member disposed... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5746791 | Moisture and contaminant separator for compressed air A moisture and contaminant separator for compressed air includes: an outer cylinder having an upper mist accumulator and a lower water collector; and an inner cylinder secured in a central portion of the outer cylinder having an impinging condenser formed... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5743926 | Apparatus for separation of liquid and vapor in distillation/flashing process A portion of the feed line to a distilling column/flasher (or the like apparatus) is used as a flow-through cyclone to separate vapor and liquid components of the feed. Vortex flow is induced in the flasher feed line with a swirl vane assembly having drai... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5698014 | Liquid carryover control for spiral gas liquid separator A spiral or auger type gas-liquid separator, particularly for well production fluid flow, includes a vertically oriented conduit section having a spiral separator element disposed therein and around a central gas discharge conduit. The inlet to the gas di... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5554209 | Device for removing contaminants from a gas stream A gas contaminant separator includes a pressure tube and a concentric and axially aligned down pipe mounted within the pressure tube. The pressure tube and down pipe define an annular space having a helical rib extending therein. A plurality of magnets ar... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5510017 | Pipe liquid/gas separator having vane sets A liquid/gas separator has a pipe section receiving a liquid/gas mixture to be separated and discharging gas that is substantially free of liquid. A first drain (8) is coupled to the upstream end of the pipe section for draining liquid that has undergone ... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5505756 | Ramp discharge outlet air precleaner A ramp outlet air precleaner has a base assembly, a dome shaped hood, and a rotor assembly. The base assembly includes an inner circumferential wall and an outer circumferential wall, the inner circumferential wall defining an air outlet port. Angled web ... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5498273 | Particle separation A vortex tube including an annular downstream scavenge duct is provided with a number of occluding members spaced circumferentially around the upstream entrance to the scavenge duct so as to restrict the entrance area of the duct. The occluding members ar... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5466384 | Device and process for carrying out phase separation by filtration and centrifugation A device for separating a mixture comprised of at least a continuous phase I and at least a disperse phase II, one of the phases being a light phase and the other being a heavy phase, comprising canalization means for canalizing a current of the mixture a... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5449391 | Air precleaner A high efficiency air precleaner has a base assembly, a hood, and a rotor assembly. The base assembly includes an inner circumferential wall and an outer circumferential wall, the inner circumferential wall defining an air outlet port. Angled web supports... | 09/12/1995 |
