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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322124 | Spray-drying device The invention relates to a spray-drying device (1) having a vertical drying chamber (2), material-atomization means (4) and drying-gas feed (6) means. Filter elements (11) are present in order to filter the fine particles out of th... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7309379 | Moving bed adsorber/desorber and low flow (high yield) desorber devices and their methods of use Moving bed adsorber and desorber apparatus and methods, wherein adsorbent material (e.g., beads of resin) moves over a series of vane members and a fluid flow passes between the vane members and through the flowing bed of adsorbent. An adsorbent depth regulator is p... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7100301 | Combustible grain drying system for producing energy byproduct A system for drying grain includes a receiving bin defining a cavity therein and further includes intake and outlet ports. A conduit is operably connected to the receiving bin that includes a plurality of check valves and a stop valve. The system further includes a ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6918760 | Shaft pre-heater A shaft preheater to achieve an improved adaptation of layer height to particle size spectrum of material to be preheated. The shaft preheater includes a plurality of shafts for receiving lumpy material, an arrangement for filling the individual shafts with the lump... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6829840 | Circular vibratory fluid bed dryer A two-deck apparatus, one deck above the other, is provided for enabling drying of approximately twice as much material with very little increase in heat used to dry the material, when compared to a single deck dryer. The fan usually provided with dryers of this typ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6499232 | Method and apparatus for reducing the moisture bound by capillary action in fiber cells A method and an apparatus for reducing the moisture content bound by capillary action in fiber cells. To include fine material economically and easily in the process, coarse material is sandwiched on top of fine material and then pressed and dried. The ma... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6457256 | Grain flow regulator for a grain dryer An apparatus for controlling grain flow within a column of a grain dryer is disclosed. The grain dryer includes a metering roll positioned to contact grain advancing out of a discharge opening of the column. The grain dryer further includes a regulator me... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6393720 | Spreader apparatus for pellet dryer/cooler A spreader apparatus (10) designed to evenly spread pellets or the like across an inlet deck (20) of a dryer or cooler is provided which includes a plurality of elongated, telescoping, pivotally supported delivery tubes (12) arranged in side-by-side relat... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6360451 | Crossover grain conduits for stack dryers The grain dryer of the present invention has upper and lower heat plenums, with first and second grain conduits, with each conduit having an upper section and a lower section, and a central crossover section between the upper and lower sections. The upper... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6328099 | Moving bed dryer Free-flowing solid particles are dried in a moving bed dryer by passing the particles adjacent to a heat exchanger plate containing a heated fluid while passing a dehumidified gas into the solid particles from a gas flow manifold in the heat exchanger pla... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6266895 | Apparatus for the drying of moist particulate material in superheated steam An apparatus for the drying of particulate material in superheated steam in a closed vessel (1) has a number of upwardly open, elongated and substantially vertical processing cells (2) which are placed around a central part with a heat exchanger (3). The ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6230421 | Method and apparatus for drying grain A method and apparatus for drying grain in which a plurality of conveyors are mounted one above the other. The discharge end of one conveyor feeds the input end of the next lower conveyor. The conveyors have a porous top surface and are vibrated to move t... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6209223 | Grain drying system with high efficiency dehumidifier and modular drying bin This invention is a new, energy efficient, environmentally clean grain drying system which consists of two main parts: a hot drying air generator and a modular, portable drying bin. One novel aspect of the air generator is the introduction of a heat pipe ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6189235 | Grain flow regulator for a grain dryer An apparatus for controlling grain flow within a column of a grain dryer is disclosed. The grain dryer includes a metering roll positioned to contact grain advancing out of a discharge opening of the column. The grain dryer further includes a regulator me... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6158143 | Grain dryer in cross oblique flow A grain dryer has three levels of modulated air chambers; a multi-perforated chamber holding grains which surround all three levels of the modulated air chambers; an intermediate air passage; partition walls and a set of central fans to direct airflow cro... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6154979 | Method and apparatus for the removal of liquid from particulate material Method and apparatus for the removal of liquid from particulate material by evaporation through the supply of heat, said heat being transferred substantially by superheated vapours or steam of the liquids existing in the particulate material, and where sa... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6133549 | Heat treatment furnace and conveyor with multi-conveyance A heat treatment furnace and conveyor with multi-conveyance, wherein the top of the furnace has a feeder and the bottom of which has a disposal. The inside of the furnace has a number of conveying units, each unit is in circular status lined up and move w... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6122838 | Method and apparatus for drying grain A method and apparatus for drying grain which includes a method and apparatus for unloading the grain from a grain dryer of a type including spaced apart first and second walls for defining a passageway or grain column for directing grain flowing downward... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6122841 | Apparatus for the drying of moist particulate material in superheated steam Apparatus for the drying of particulate material in superheated steam in a closed vessel (1). The vessel consists of a number of upwardly open, elongated and substantially vertical processing cells (2) which are placed around a central part with a heat ex... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6101742 | Apparatus and method for metering grain in a grain dryer which utilizes a grain flow regulator An apparatus and method for controlling grain flow within a column of a grain dryer is disclosed. The grain dryer includes a metering roll positioned to contact grain advancing out of a discharge opening of the column. The grain dryer further includes a r... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6098305 | Grain metering system for a grain dryer which includes a pivotable grain support member positioned between a metering roll and a discharge opening of a grain column A grain dryer which includes a grain column through which grain may flow is disclosed. The grain column has a discharge opening. The grain dryer further includes a metering roll positioned to contact grain advancing out of the discharge opening of the gra... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6088929 | Grain metering system for a grain dryer having improved grain column discharge opening and metering roll configuration A grain dryer which includes a grain column through which grain may flow is disclosed. The grain column includes a left lateral discharge sidewall, a right lateral discharge sidewall, a lower discharge surface and an upper discharge surface which collecti... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6035544 | Grain turner for tower grain dryer and method A grain turner (101)of the present invention is adapted for use with a grain dryer having an inner dryer wall (7) and an outer dryer wall (9) spaced therefrom and defining a vertically extending grain path (11) therebetween. A grain turner (101) of the pr... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5992044 | Method and apparatus for drying grain A grain dryer has a horizontal plenum connected to a source of heated forced air and has at least one generally perforated wall. A substantially enclosed grain conduit extends along the plenum and has one of its sidewalls being the perforated wall of the ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5987769 | Centrifugal dryer There is provided an improved centrifugal dryer that includes a motor section or portion, a dryer section or portion disposed therebelow, and a reservoir section or portion disposed below the dryer portion, the dryer portion being hingedly attached to the... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5860221 | Metering grain unloader A metering unloader (101) for unloading a fluent material from a flow path (11) is disclosed. The flow path has a fluent material outlet (27). The metering unloader comprises an unloader body (103) having an outer cylindric wall (105) and an inner cylindr... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5819430 | Bead dewatering apparatus and method Apparatus and a method for de-watering a bead suspension of fragile beads having a high water content suspended in a liquid includes a staging vat, a metering vat, and a de-watering vat. The application of pressurized gas to the staging vat causes the bea... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5709035 | Counter flow cooler A counter flow cooler in which feed material is fed into the top inlet of the cooler and dispersed into a plurality of cooling chambers. At the bottom of each cooling chamber is a discharge grid which will discharge feed material uniformly over the area o... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5671550 | Proportioning particulate conveying apparatus The invention relates to a particulate conveying apparatus for evenly drying particulate material. The apparatus comprises a plurality of spatially separate, essentially parallel, vertically oriented proportioning plates, disposed between a first end and ... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5611150 | Centrifugal pellet dryer A centrifugal pellet dryer is provided which has a housing, a generally cylindrical mesh member vertically disposed within the housing and a rotor that is coaxial with the mesh member. The rotor has lifters which tend to move a slurry of pellets and water... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5566470 | Metering grain unloader for tower dryer A metering unloader (29) of the present invention is for use in a tower grain dryer (T). The tower dryer has a grain drying path (11) and the latter has a grain outlet (27) at the lower end thereof, and the tower has at least one discharge outlet (15) in ... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5566467 | Cyclone heat exchanger A cyclone heat exchanger including a plurality of arranged one above another cylone separators forming, respectively, a plurality of heat exchange stages, a first inlet for delivering raw meal to the heat exchanger, a first outlet for delivering the heate... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5487226 | Manure drying system and related method A manure drying system for reducing the moisture content in manure collected in an animal husbandry operation, and a method of carrying out the manure drying process. The system and method include providing an animal confinement facility having a ventilat... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5483752 | Device for heating or cooling bulk materials, particularly for lignite preheating A device for heating or cooling of bulk material including two pairs of vibrating chutes, with each pair being formed of two oppositely inclined chutes mounted one above the other and with each pair being equipped with a unidirectional vibrator, and with ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5330726 | Device for the separation of undesired exhaust gas components A device for separating undesired exhaust gas components from a fluid comprises a reactor with a reaction chamber and having a top and a bottom. The top has a device for introducing a granular adsorption medium. The bottom comprises first and second oppos... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5177876 | Reactor installation for countercurrent treatment of gases and bulk solids The invention relates in general to a reactor installation for countercurrent treatment of gases and bulk solids and, in particular, to a moving bed reactor installation with at least one reaction chamber which latter has at least one inlet and at least o... | 01/12/1993 |
| 4840651 | Gas/solids contacting device A gas/solids contacting device provides a light-weight, easily installed unit for contacting gases with particulate solids and permits the removal of spent solids and introduction of replacement solids. A solids contacting chamber is maintained between a ... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4837423 | Low temperature kiln A static kiln includes an annular heating zone, the inner wall of which is defined by an approximately cylindrical core. The core and the outer wall of the heating zone are suspended to permit movement due to thermal expansion and contraction. Both the in... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4809886 | Apparatus for controlling a flow of granular material Apparatus for controlling a flow of granular material wherein a first member has a first conical side wall and a second member has a second conical side wall arranged adjacent to the first conical side wall so that a passage is defined between the wall of... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4619606 | Vertical maltdrying kiln A vertical maltdrying kiln is described whereby several flow zones for the drying air are provided within a vertical malt compartment. At least in the uppermost flow zone at least one airduct with perforated sidewalls is provided, which extends in the tra... | 10/28/1986 |
