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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8069582 | Dryer A dryer includes a cabinet; a drum rotatably mounted inside the cabinet; a front panel provided between the cabinet and the drum; a valve provided inside the cabinet to control supply and cutoff of gas and an amount of the supplied gas; a fixing piece for mounting t... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7299665 | Lift for drum-type washing machine A drum-type washing machine, having a plurality of lifts installed on an inner circumferential surface of a drum, enables improved washing performance by providing friction plates on the inclined sides of each lift to increase a frictional force between the lift and... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299809 | Dishwasher having a lock with an elastic coupling Disclosed is a dishwasher, by which the dishwasher is simply configured as well as the door is facilitated to open/close. The present invention includes a cabinet having an open front side, a door opening/closing the front side of the cabinet, a locker at the door, ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7155841 | Rotary impinging stream dryer An improved rotary shell or drum dryer (10) is provided having an elongated, horizontally disposed, axially rotatable shell (12) with product and air inlets (14, 18) and an outlet (16) at opposite ends of the shell. Internally, the dryer ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7143686 | Coffee roasting apparatus and method A coffee roaster that includes a combustion chamber and a connected roasting oven in which the heating gases for roasting the coffee beans are recirculated to the combustion chamber wherein the coffee bean chaff is separated from the recirculating heating gases prio... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7096695 | Washing machine Washing machines having improved frictional forces with laundry. Those machines include a cabinet with a door, a tub inside for retaining wash water, and an internal vessel, inside the tub that is coupled with a motor that rotates the internal vessel. A friction mem... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7055262 | Heat pump clothes dryer A drying apparatus for drying articles such as clothing is provided. The drying apparatus includes a chamber for containing articles to be dried and a system for supplying heated dry air at a first temperature to the chamber. The air supplying system comprises an ai... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7024794 | Centrifugal pellet dryer with plastic wall panels A centrifugal pellet dryer including a stationary cylindrical screen, a driven elevating rotor in said screen elevating wet pellets inside the screen and imparting radial forces to the wet pellets to impact them against the interior of the screen to enable moisture ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7010942 | Drum type washing machine A drum type washing machine includes a cabinet which defines an outer appearance of the washing machine, a water tub set inside the cabinet to contain wash water therein, a rotary tub having spin drying perforations and rotatably set in the water tub, and a water tu... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7003897 | Coffee roaster drum rocker arm roller bearing system A coffee roaster is an oven with a roasting drum. The roasting drum turns on a horizontal axis within the oven to tumble coffee beans while roasting and to even out differences in heating. The roasting drum is fitted with a bearing journal at each end and just fits ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6954992 | Dryer Disclosed is an apparatus for opening/closing a door of a dryer, by which the door is opened/closed more simply and swiftly. The present invention includes a housing, a drum rotatably installed in the housing, a heating apparatus for supplying hot air to the drum, a... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6892471 | Sludge dryer A material drying apparatus for substantially eliminating the liquid content of a sludge, the apparatus including a first stage operating at ambient pressure for heating the sludge; a second stage operating with partial vacuum for receiving heated sludge from the fi... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6877979 | Process and apparatus for indirect-fired heating and drying A method for heating flat or curved surfaces comprising injecting fuel and oxidant along the length, width or longitudinal side of a combustion space formed between two flat or curved plates, transferring heat from the combustion products via convection and radiatio... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6807748 | Centrifugal pellet dryer A centrifugal dryer (10) for removing surface moisture from pellets of resin material having a diameter generally ranging between approximately 0.015 to approximately 0.25 inches received from an underwater pelletizer. In one embodiment of the present inventi... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6754977 | Method and apparatus for drying long fibre hay A method and apparatus for drying long fiber hay. A first step involves providing round bales of long fiber hay. A second step involves separating the bales to form a loose mass of long fiber hay. A third step involves feeding the loose mass of long fiber hay into a... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6698107 | Drum for clothes drier In a drum for a clothes drier having a plurality of baffles projected from the inner circumference of the drum, lifting and moving clothes, a drum for a clothes drier comprises a cylindrical body housing clothes and rotating and a plurality of baffles pro... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6694638 | Dryer vent check strip A vent check strip for checking a dryer or a vent pipe connected to a dryer. The vent check strip has a temperature sensitive area that changes its color at a threshold temperature within a working temperature range of the dryer when the dryer functions n... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6691720 | Multi-process system with pivoting process chamber A system for processing a workpiece includes an inner chamber pivotably supported within an outer chamber. The inner chamber has an opening to allow liquid to drain out. A motor pivots the inner chamber to bring the opening at or below the level of liquid... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6678969 | Clothes dryer A clothes dryer is disclosed, in which the clothes dryer comprising a first and second connecting ducts communicating with a drum, respectively, a first flow passage control device to communicate a heating duct with the first connecting duct or with the s... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6584699 | Three stage single pass high density drying apparatus for particulate materials A single pass, multiple stage, rotary drum heat exchange dryer (22) is provided for drying products such as distillers grains and includes a tubular shell (64) with a moist product inlet (66), an opposed dried product outlet (70), and an internal drying c... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6585861 | Device for producing an extensible paper having a three-dimensional pattern Device for producing a paper having a three dimensional pattern which has been given the paper web in connection with drying the paper web. The device comprises at least one press nip (12) comprising a rotatable heated roll (13) and a counter means (11,14... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6449876 | Clothes dryer A drum made from a wire mesh is axially rotatable whereby wet clothes in the drum tumble when the drum is rotated. A motor is mounted on a platform beneath the drum. The motor has fan blades mounted on its shaft that provide a flow of air to the drum when... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6110361 | Integrated soil and fluid decontamination system A method for decontaminating both soil and mixed waste water polluted by hydrocarbons in a single integrated process is disclosed. Contaminated mixed waste fluid is separated into water and hydrocarbons which are then used in the thermal decontamination o... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5997288 | Apparatus for thermal removal of surface and inherent moisture and limiting rehydration in high moisture coals A flighted, horizontally inclined rotary retort, heated externally by flame, hot gases, steam or other sources of heat. The retort shall have sufficient flight area to transport the coal through the retort in the predetermined time. The coal being process... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5964225 | Tobacco treatment cylinder and method A tobacco treatment system comprising a rotatable cylinder and a plurality of axially directed flights, with each flight having a forward side and a back side relative to the rotational motion of the cylinder, with both the forward and back sides being co... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5890814 | Support ring mount for rotating drum A rotatable drum arrangement, wherein the drum is mounted on support rings such that circumferential expansion and contraction of the drum relative to said support rings does not adversely affect the mounting. In a preferred embodiment, drum blocks are mo... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5842285 | Gas-fired drying apparatus A drying apparatus comprising a cylindrical drum (1) for drying, on the outside surface of the drum (1), pulp-shaped and viscous substances, such as for instance coffee milk powder, or band-shaped products, such as for instance paper, cardboard or textile... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5733115 | Rotary drum suspended within live-ring A description is given of a rotary drum, as for example a rotary kiln, which is suspended within a live-ring by means of axially extending brackets which are retained by the live-ring and bearing, at their free ends, against retaining elements fixed to th... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5730591 | Method and apparatus for aggregate treatment A treatment system and method is disclosed for heat treating aggregate, for example, an aggregate dryer of the type which uses a burner and rotating drum for veiling aggregate into a thermal flow path. The invention provides a plurality of mixers which sa... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5655313 | Apparatus for fluidized, vacuum drying and gas treatment for powdered, granular, or flaked material Apparatus for drying and/or treating powdered, granular, or flaked material in combination with a containment room or glove box under controlled atmospheric conditions, which may have an oven in the room with a chamber with a vessel therein to carry mater... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5636453 | Plastic bearing dryer idler An idler pulley assembly for tensioning a belt drive for a clothes dryer or other belt driven appliance. The idler pulley assembly provides a spring steel support anchored to a base of the clothes dryer, a Y-shaped bracket connected to the spring steel su... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5564196 | Roll with composite coats A roll used for tensioning a canvas belt used to hold paper against a dryer. The roll includes a main cylindrical body formed of steel. A layer formed of a metal harder than steel is disposed over the outer surface of the main body. The metal layer is for... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5551870 | Rotating kiln seal A rotating seal device for a rotary drum kiln. A rotating seal member is welded about the drum near each of its ends, each sealing against a rotationally stationary seal member joined with the associated kiln end hood through a flexible gas tight bellows.... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5421431 | Automatic powdered graphite applicator The present invention is a graphite lubrication apparatus for lubricating the support rollers of a drying kiln, dryer or the like by dispensing graphite powder across the surface of the rollers. It has a graphite storage means for storing the graphite pow... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5305533 | Combined direct and indirect rotary dryer with reclaimer Both indirect and counterflow direct heating are utilized in a dryer to achieve improved efficiency with a reduced tendency to char or damage the treated material. A horizontal drum has a first segment of aluminum and a second section of stainless steel a... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5243771 | Latching for side swing dryer door An improved latching configuration for a side swing door includes a cabinet enclosure with at least one side wall. An opening is formed in the side wall to provide access to an interior of the cabinet. A door is pivotably attached to the side wall to sele... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5154009 | Journal for a hollow roll body, specifically for a drying cylinder of a paper machine A hollow shaft bearing for a drying cylinder of a paper machine. The hollow shaft bearing is provided with thermal insulation between the interior of the hollow shaft and the surface of the journal on which a bearing is supported. The insulation is formed... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5044786 | Bearing arrangement for a rotary drum In a bearing arrangement for a rotary drum, the ends of two cradles are attached to load-carrying rollers which rotate freely over a surface area of a race of the rotary drum. The cradles run in self-aligning bearings in a load-bearing structure via inter... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4964226 | High turndown rotary dryer flights A dryer drum for drying bulk material including a rotating drum having an inlet for material to be dried at one end and an outlet for dried material at the other end, a center shaft extending therethrough, vanes mounted on the shaft circumferentially spac... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4934559 | Door bar handle for glass door of clothes dryer A door bar handle for a clothes dryer having a front loading glass door. The door bar attaches to opposite sides of the door frame and spans across in front of the glass to prevent it from being struck by laundry carts and the like. A portion of the door ... | 06/19/1990 |
