Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6971188 | Brine shrimp egg processing apparatus and method An enhanced apparatus and method for cleaning, drying, and disinfecting brine shrimp eggs is provided. The apparatus may have a blower and a furnace that provide pressurized, dry air to a screening device. The screening device may include a vibrating screen designed... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6913214 | Powder bell purge tube In a powder atomizer for series coating of workpieces, additional air is led from a separate channel into the path of the powder-air mixture which exits from the powder channel of the atomizer, air which can be used during the coating to influence and change the mix... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6699369 | Apparatus and method for thermal desalination based on pressurized formation and evaporation of droplets A method for removing dissolved solids, particularly salts, from water. An apparatus for performing the inventive method is disclosed. The aqueous solution to be treated, for example sea water, is atomized using special non-pneumatic nozzles, and sprayed ... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6500216 | Method and apparatus for desalinating sea water, natural salt and fresh water A method and an apparatus of producing natural salt or fresh water by treating sea water in an extremely short period of time and with high efficiently. The distilled water and salt components are treated for expediting crystallization of the salt compone... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6200428 | Wastewater treatment apparatus and method Wastewater treatment apparatus having a fluid receiving vessel for collecting and heating wastewater to a temperature below boiling, a superheated vaporizing chamber and at least one spray head to spray wastewater into the vaporizing chamber for conversio... | 03/13/2001 |
| 5276977 | Ocean-chill drying of microalgae and microalgal products This is a method and apparatus for drying microalgae/microalgal products which have been harvested and strained of excess water by a spray drying process. The method comprises, obtaining drying gas from a burner in which metered input air for combustion i... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5248387 | Process for producing concentrated aqueous slurries and spray dried particulate products An improved process and apparatus for producing concentrated kaolin slurries and spray dried kaolin particulates through the use of an arrangement where an evaporation system for producing concentrated slurries is coupled with a spray dryer such that off ... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5223088 | Apparatus for producing concentrated aqueous slurries and spray dried particulate products An improved process and apparatus for producing concentrated kaolin slurries and spray dried kaolin particulates through the use of an arrangement where a system for producing concentrated slurries is coupled with a spray dryer such that off gases from th... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5135611 | Method and apparatus for combined spray drying and gas cleaning A combined spray dryer and gas filter vessel in which a solution containing sulphuric acid and solids, and a hot drying gas, are introduced vertically through the top of the vessel into a spray zone. Solids are removed at a single point at the bottom of t... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5032222 | Spray drier for the preparation of powders, agglomerates and the like A spray drier (1) for the preparation of powders, agglomerates or the like, by the drying of pumpable products, has at an inlet (6) of its exhaust discharge line or lines (7) for the drying gas used in its drying chamber (3), a wind sifter (9) with a rota... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4555390 | Method for removing sulfur oxides from hot flue gases Sulfur oxides and other acid gases are removed from hot flue gases by dispersing and suspending an absorption agent and water, preferably Ca(OH)2 suspended in water, in a rising stream of hot gas at the lower part of a reaction chamber, where t... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4274974 | Production of detergent compositions A process is provided for the production of detergent compositions in particulate or powder form containing anionic and nonionic active-detergent materials, which process comprises forming at least two aqueous slurries A and B of detergent ingredients. Sl... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4239588 | Method of effectively utilizing thermal energy in spray drying The thermal energy required for spray drying a solution of a solid product in a volatile, liquid solvent is effectively utilized by partly converting the solvent to a gaseous phase in a multiple-effect evaporator and by spray drying the resulting concentr... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4229249 | Production of a powder of polyvinylchloride or a vinylchloride copolymerizate suitable for producing plastisols An aqueous dispersion of polyvinylchloride or vinylchloride copolymerizate is spray dried in a flow of drying air in a drying tower which contains at least one two-fluid nozzle for atomizing the aqueous dispersion and an injection member for pressurized a... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4180471 | Production of blends of crystalline zeolite and sodium triphosphate Blends of crystalline zeolites and sodium triphosphate are made. To this end, a zeolite suspension is spray-dried jointly with an aqueous sodium orthophosphate solution or suspension, in which the molar ratio of Na to P necessary to produce zeolite-free s... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4064063 | Process for the manufacture of spray dried detergents containing nonionic tensides An improvement in the process for the production of spray dried detergents containing nonionic tensides where the aqueous detergent slurry containing from 50% to 90% by weight of the total solids of the final spray dried detergent and from 0 to 5% at the ... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4019951 | Magma cooling tower The invention is a method for removing dissolved solids from water by creating a condition of super-saturation of the solid material within a confined water circuit, propagating the formation of solids by a slurry process of evaporative crystallization wh... | 04/26/1977 |
| 3990938 | Recovery of polymer from solution This disclosure is for a solvent flashing process for recovering polymer from dilute solution in discrete, uniform granules substantially free of solvent. The process comprises pressurizing a dilute solution of a polymer dissolved in a solvent, preferably... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3933600 | Method and apparatus for desalinization of water Water containing dissolved salt, e.g., sea water, is desalinized by vaporng a part thereof by direct contact with a flame within a closed vessel, e.g., by introducing the water as a spray into a closed vessel onto the flame, removing a gaseous mixture of... | 01/20/1976 |
