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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7396390 | Oxygen enrichment apparatus An oxygen enrichment apparatus includes an oxygen enriching unit for generating oxygen-enriched air and a discharge unit for discharging the oxygen-enriched air transferred from the suction unit. The oxygen-enriched air generated by the oxygen enriching unit has an ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7354469 | Vacuum conveyor device with a multi-stage filter system A Vacuum conveyor device (10) with a multi-stage filter system, has at least one inner filter (10A), one outer filter (10B), and one filter adapter (20) especially for air-tight and/or fluid-tight insertion of at least one of the filters,... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7309365 | Vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner including an electric blower for generating suction air, a collecting unit for collecting dust contained in the suction air, a dust removing unit for removing dust adhered to the collecting unit, and a dust removing stop unit for stopping an operati... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7147683 | Back-flow valve and trigger for a cleaning machine A valve and trigger cyclically connect a vacuum and a blower to a filter. The valve box has three openings, the first connectable to the vacuum, the second connectable to the blower and the third connectable to the filter. A gate inside the box, biased by the blower... | 12/12/2006 |
| 6902592 | Apparatus and method for cleaning an air filter unit Shown is an apparatus and method for cleaning filter units of an air filtering system using a reverse flow pulse of pressurized air. The filter cleaning system includes a venturi element (36) with a narrowed throat portion (56). A blowpipe (46) ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6887290 | Debris separation and filtration systems The invention provides a debris separation-filtration unit comprising a housing; an inlet that receives debris-laden air delivers the air in a tangential, centrifugal airflow-forming manner to the interior of housing; an inner shell that includes a number of airflow... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6830599 | Back-flow valve and trigger for cleaning machine A valve and trigger cyclically connect a vacuum and a blower to a filter. The valve box has three openings, the first connectable to the vacuum, the second connectable to the blower and the third connectable to the filter. A gate inside the box, biased by the blower... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6322618 | Adjustable duct assembly for fume and dust removal and filter cleaner An adjustable duct assembly for the collection of fumes, dust and the like comprises two duct sections connected end to end by a duct support system comprising two elongate arms pivotally connected, the arms attached to the adjacent ends of the ducts, ext... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6074448 | Device for use in filtering separators A device adapted to indicate the degree to which a filter is soiled is prded, for use in filtering separators of the type having bag-, pouch-, or cartridge-shaped filters. The device has a hose- or tube-shaped air conveyance section. The air conveyance s... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6056797 | Dust collector filter cleaning control system A dust collector filter cleaning control system employing high-pressure compressed air pulses, wherein the dislodged dust particulate is prevented from returning to the filters after the high-pressure compressed air cleaning thereof by briefly maintaining... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5843206 | Device for and method of unclogging filters A device for unblocking filters by means of bursts of gas. The gas is kept in a tank (7) and supplied to filter-unclogging lances by lines (8). Each line (8) accommodates several valves (11 & 12) parallel with respect to their intakes and outlets. Control... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5711785 | Method and apparatus for controlling the cleaning cycle of air filter elements and for predicting the useful life thereof A method and apparatus are disclosed for cleaning filter elements, such as filter bags in a plurality of baghouses and for predicting the useful life of such filter elements in individual baghouses. The volumetric flow rate of air from each baghouse is co... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5695534 | Air filtration installation with recycling of filtered air A filtration installation including a time delay device which, at the time of a filter sleeve cleaning operation, establishes a cycle to exhaust filtered air towards the outside atmosphere instead of recycling it. The installation also includes a device f... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5531798 | Eliminating ash bridging in ceramic filters In the filtering of high temperature (e.g. greater than 400° C.) and high pressure (e.g. greater than 5 bar) gas--such as produced by pressurized fluidized bed combustion or gasification of coal--there is often a buildup of particles on the supporting el... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5498328 | Apparatus for selectively sampling filter backwash fluid This invention relates to monitoring apparatus and, in particular, but not exclusively to such apparatus for use in association with mains water supply facilities. A water works 10 has a water main 12, in which is located a filtration unit 13 having a fil... | 03/12/1996 |
| 4875335 | Apparatus and method for treating an exhaust gas from a diesel engine In an apparatus for treating an exhaust gas from a diesel engine, including a filter unit in an exhaust gas passage for the diesel engine, the filter unit having a honeycomb structure wherein a plurality of cells are divided by cell walls having a filtrat... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4786293 | Smart controller for reverse pulse air filter A control device for an air filter or dust collector equipped with a reverse pulse air cleaning system wherein the pressure differential across the air filter is continuously monitored and compared to a reference set point pressure differential. When the ... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4433986 | Pneumatic duct extraction In pneumatic low pressure dust extraction apparatus, filter bags are cleaned by reverse flow of air. Each cleaning operation includes a first shock phase of short duration (not longer than 0.05 sec) but at high flow intensity by which accumulated layers o... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4359330 | Self-cleaning pulsed air cleaner with integral precleaner An air cleaning method and apparatus is disclosed in several embodiments. In one set of embodiments, there is described an air cleaning method and apparatus in which air to be cleaned is drawn toward and through a filter in a particular direction. Periodi... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4306890 | Apparatus for cleaning of filter elements An apparatus is provided for the cleaning by compressed air of a plurality of separate filter elements, e.g. compact filter cells, grouped around a common center, which have their clean gas outlets situated in the bottom of a clean gas chamber common to t... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4180390 | Textile machine including air cleaning apparatus The air used in the various operations of a general textile machine is cleaned prior to being returned to the factory space containing the machine by two sequential mechanisms, the first of which is a fiber separator which removes from the air relatively ... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4157899 | Pulsed backflush air filter A cleaning system for sleeve-type air filters featuring top removal of sleeves of the filtering media and increased filtering capacity, using sharply pulsed backflushing air of short duration from a single source for cleaning the sleeves which requires su... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4083607 | Gas transport system for powders A gas transport system for powder has a delivery pipe having an end portion of porous material having a pore size smaller than the particles of the powder. The porous end portion is surrounded by a jacket in which a vacuum is drawn to draw off transport g... | 04/11/1978 |
