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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7426891 | System for converting animal waste into an environmentally friendly energy source A simplified energy producing system that utilizes natural animal waste and/or by-products and converts such waste into a usable clean energy source. The system incorporates a grinder/dehydration system, waste transport, a holding container, fuel air regulator, and ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7318431 | Biomass fuel burning stove and method A biomass pellet burning stove has a hopper storing biomass pellets which are transported from the hopper to a feeder tube with a rotating disc having slots for holding biomass pellets and allowing the biomass pellets to move from the slots into a feeder tube which ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 6722294 | Method and apparatus for feeding a pulverized material An apparatus and method are provided for feeding a pulverized material which includes a first storage container for receiving and for discharging a flow of the pulverized material. The apparatus includes a separation chamber attached to the first storage container, ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6085672 | Apparatus for blowing synthetic resin into furnace An apparatus for blowing synthetic resin into a furnace including a first processing line for processing film-shaped synthetic resins into a granular synthetic resin material; a second processing line for processing non-film-shaped synthetic resins into a... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5979340 | Pole inserting robotic mechanism for accessing the interior of a harsh enclosure A robotic mechanism which can be attached to a furnace hopper and includes a frame which supports a pole insertion mechanism for inserting a pole into a furnace hopper. The pole insertion mechanism is supported from the Fame by a gimbal and moves the pole... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5967062 | Rotating tire combuster An apparatus burns tires in a horizontally rotating combuster. The tires are loaded into a rotating combustion chamber through a traveling air lock and burned until they are reduced to ash. Combustion is enhanced by tumbling the burning tires in the rotat... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5829368 | Fuel and sorbent feed for circulating fluidized bed steam generator The fuel is fed into a circulating fluidized bed steam generator using a feed system involving an air swept chute using secondary combustion air to suspend and carry the fuel into the fluidized bed combustor. The fuel is fed to the air swept chute through... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5775237 | Dry bottom ash handling system A dry bottom ash handling system contemplates a plurality of hoppers disposed beneath a solid fuel-fired steam boiler. Each hopper includes angled walls converging at a generally rectangular opening controlled by a grate door. Air inlets are provided at i... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5630368 | Coal feed and injection system for a coal-fired firetube boiler This invention relates to an improved coal injection and coal feed system for use with a coal-fired firetube boiler. More specifically, the coal injection system of the present invention comprises an educator and a coal delivery tube. The coal feed system... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5406747 | Device for regeneration and sterilization of earth, sand or the like A device for regeneration and sterilization of earth, in particular compost earth, sand, especially playground sand or the like with steam in which a screw conveyor is located in an elongated treatment chamber for continuously moving the material to be tr... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5030054 | Combination mechanical/pneumatic coal feeder A combination mechanical/pneumatic fuel feeder for feeding particulate fuel into a furnace and having a closely coupled hopper, fuel metering device, rotor and air swept delivery plate.... | 07/09/1991 |
| 4905613 | Fuel feeder An air swept fuel feeder for feeding particulate fuel into a furnace and having a closely coupled hopper, fuel metering device and air swept delivery plate. An alternate embodiment is disclosed in which a second fuel is delivered to the furnace by an air ... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4867078 | Burner A burner including a cyclone shaped housing divided by a baffle plate into an upper cyclone chamber and lower chamber, the walls of the chambers are formed to resist heat and corrosion, the baffle plate extends across a major portion of the width of the c... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4693189 | Fluidized bed feeder A method and apparatus for fluidizing combustible material and feeding it to the burner of a furnace is disclosed. The apparatus includes a conventional hopper with a tubular element coupled to the lower most portion of a conical portion thereof. A fluidi... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4348968 | Method and apparatus for burning solid fuel Solid fuel such as coal is fed into an inlet shaft of the furnace through a rotary feeder constructed to prevent the admission of air. Primary air channels supply the major part of the air required for combustion of the fuel in a region in which the fuel ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4311102 | Burning system An improved burning system for automatically controllably charging a wood-waste burning steam boiler utilizes a fuel bin unloader having a gravity fed screw metering device for feeding fuel into the system in response to steam demand and pollution output ... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4283170 | Method of firing a tunnel kiln with coal, and coal firing installation for tunnel kilns PCT No. PCT/DE78/00042 Sec. 371 Date Sept. 10, 1979 Sec. 102(e) Date Sept. 10, 1979 PCT Filed Dec. 22, 1978 PCT Pub. No. WO79/00492 PCT Pub. Date July 26, 1979 To fire a tunnel kiln with coal, the coal is stored in a preferably airtight bunker, and transp... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4242972 | Combustion system with partial recirculation of exhaust gases and feed mechanism therefor A combustion system for particulate wood waste, coal, peat and other combustible materials is disclosed. The system comprises means for feeding combustion material into the combustion chamber of a furnace and means for recirculating a portion of the exhau... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4102278 | Furnace hogged fuel disperser using modulated airflow Combustion air under pressure directed horizontally in a fan shaped jet against hogged fuel dropping in a free fall trajectory from a feed chute toward the furnace grate spreads the fuel across the length and width of the grate more effectively than in pr... | 07/25/1978 |
| 3994701 | Method and apparatus for feeding comminuted solid fuel into plenum chambers Charges of finely comminuted solid fuel particles are admitted into an oxygen-containing gasification chamber through a system of locks having an uppermost bunker which is maintained at atmospheric pressure, an intermediate bunker wherein the pressure alt... | 11/30/1976 |
